EP242

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EP241 : Hocus Pokémon
Original series
EP243 : Same Old Song and Dance
As Clear as Crystal
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  EP242  
サンダーとクリスタル!みずうみのひみつ!
Thunder and the Crystal! Secret of the Lake!
First broadcast
Japan March 28, 2002
United States April 12, 2003
English themes
Opening Believe in Me
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening Ready Go!
Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ
Credits
Animation Team Ota
Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director 酒井啓史 Keishi Sakai
Additional credits

As Clear as Crystal (Japanese: サンダーとクリスタル!みずうみのひみつ! Thunder and the Crystal! Secret of the Lake!) is the 242nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 28, 2002 and in the United States on April 12, 2003.

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Synopsis

As Ash and friends continue to Blackthorn City, we see them still in the forest looking for a way out. Ash is still under Lily's Ashachu spell. But soon the spell wears off and Ash becomes human again, and everyone is relieved. Now, however, they still have a small problem; they are completely lost in the woods. Of course, Misty blames it on Ash as usual and insults him by saying she liked him a whole lot better when he was still a Pikachu.

While walking through the woods, Ash and friends meet up with Jessie, James and Meowth in disguise. They proceed to tell Ash that his Pikachu loses energy because it’s lost and they can recharge it with their new invention, the PikaPower Mach III. Jessie then rips Pikachu off Ash’s shoulder and straps it in and radios to Meowth who swoops down in their balloon and takes Pikachu, Jessie, and James into the sky. Jessie then tells Ash to command Pikachu to use Thunderbolt. But what Ash and friends don’t know is that, as opposed to recharging Pikachu, the chair actually saps Pikachu of its energy. Ash tells Pikachu to give it all he’s got and eventually the chair releases Pikachu and Team Rocket goes blasting off again.

Just then a girl named Krystal meets up with Ash and friends. Brock, of course, falls in love with her at first sight. However, Ash goes on telling her that Pikachu is badly hurt and that there isn’t a Pokémon Center for miles around. She asks them to keep a very big secret for her if she helps them out.

Krystal takes our heroes up a large hill where they soon notice that Template:Type2 Pokémon are also climbing up the hill. Krystal tells them that they’re all going there for a special reason. When they get to the top of the hill they come to a big lake and Krystal tells them that Electric-type Pokémon come to rest in there if they’re worn out and tells them that the water has magical healing powers. She then orders Ash to put Pikachu into the water.

After Pikachu was healed Krystal took Ash and friends out to the middle of the lake in a speedboat to show them the secret to the lake’s power. When they look down from the bottom of the boat they see what looks like an underwater temple with a crystal at the bottom. Krystal tells them how the electric Pokémon have been coming to the lake for years and how they are healed by the lake’s power. Jessie and James are eavesdropping in on the conversation and plot to steal the crystal.

Meanwhile, Ash and friends are talking about how the lake needs to be kept secret and how bad it would be if the wrong people got a hold of the crystal.

Then Team Rocket goes underwater in a giant mechanical Tentacruel and get a hold of the crystal. At first they’re happy, but then unbeknownst to them the crystal stops glowing. Ash and friends notice that the glowing where the crystal once stood is gone and they panic. Team Rocket reveal themselves, recite their motto, and then float away in their balloon. Our heroes are furious about this occurrence. However the Electric Pokémon start to follow Team Rocket in attempt to get the crystal back. Ash orders Pikachu to Thunderbolt them and the other Electric Pokémon join in the attack. However, Team Rocket sucks in their energy with the PikaPower Mach III. They then make the machine forcibly draw energy from the Electric Pokémon to drain their power. Just then a scream and black clouds appears in the sky and a huge bolt of lightning breaks the circuit between the electric Pokémon and the machine.

Everyone wonders what this was. The sky suddenly gets dark and the clouds part to reveal the legendary bird Zapdos! Zapdos is extremely angry and flies toward Team Rocket and zaps their PikaPower Mach III. However, even Zapdos loses energy and the heroes start to wonder why it doesn’t seem to have much power in the first place. Zapdos turns it up to full power and overloads the PikaPower Mach III and sends Team Rocket blasting off again. But then Zapdos falls out of the sky to the ground. Still angry and flailing about it finally faints because of its weakness and the process of healing.

Krystal tells them this is the real secret. But without the crystal in the water Zapdos can’t get healed so our heroes set off to find Team Rocket and the crystal. Pikachu senses the crystal is nearby so they follow Pikachu to where Team Rocket had crashed. Jessie sends out her Arbok to stop Ash and friends as soon as they arrive in attempt to keep the crystal in Team Rocket's possession; James sends out his Victreebel at this time, too, but of course Victreebel is more interested in eating James rather than attacking Ash. Jessie orders Arbok to use Poison Sting and Ash orders Pikachu to dodge and use Quick Attack. Arbok is then thrown into Jessie and James orders Victreebel to use Razor Leaf and Ash tells Pikachu to use Quick Attack again. Pikachu hits Victreebel and it lands on James. Ash tells Team Rocket to hand over the crystal and Jessie throws Ash a Wobbuffet balloon which inflates and bursts causing a lot of dust to fly in the air. Team Rocket now gets away in a new Wobbuffet balloon. Ash throws Bayleef's Poké Ball and orders it to use its Vine Whip to get back the crystal. It gets it back. However, James orders Victreebel to use Vine Whip, too, to get the crystal back and they both struggle to get it and Jessie orders Arbok to use Poison Sting but Pikachu uses Thunderbolt and makes Team Rocket blast off again. But the crystal is dropped so Ash runs off after it to catch it and runs off a cliff but Bayleef used its vine whip to catch Ash just before he crashed in the trees below.

Ash and friends now go back to the lake with the crystal. Ash dives underwater with it and puts it back in its rightful place. He rises to the surface but the crystal doesn’t glow anymore. The electric Pokémon swim over to the crystal and they all use their ThunderShock attacks on the crystal which causes it to glow. They then put the injured Zapdos into the lake where it sinks to the bottom but in the midst of it the crystal stops glowing again. The electric Pokémon use ThunderShock on the crystal again which helps power up Zapdos as well. Zapdos recharges and flies out of the water, then gives the crystal full power with its Thunderbolt attack, causing the crystal to glow again. The lake is now back to normal like before, and Zapdos flies off into the clearing as everyone waves goodbye.

Ash and co. are then shown ready to leave, promising Krystal that they won’t tell anyone about the lake or Zapdos. Once again Brock tries to score with her but Misty pulls him away by the ear and the episode ends with everyone waving goodbye to each other.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kingdra

Trivia

  • When James says, "Time to say ado!" Meowth sings, "To you, and you, and you and you and you!" to the tune of the song So Long, Farewell from The Sound of Music.
  • The concept of this episode, as well as the appearance of the Template:Type2 member of a legendary trio, is somewhat similar to the special episode The Legend of Thunder, which focused on Raikou.
  • When Ash saw Zapdos he said "What's that?" as if he has never seen one before. He should have remembered that he saw a Zapdos during the events of the second movie.
  • Surprisingly, the Pokédex entry failed to mention that Zapdos is a legendary Pokémon but James is the one that did.
  • At one point Krystal says "But without the crystal my poor Zapdos may not make it". By saying this it sounds like Krystal has ownership over the Zapdos.

Errors

  • Voltorb is one of the Pokémon seen in the water, but throughout the episode, it says "Electrode".
  • When the electric Pokémon go underwater to recharge the crystal Ash should have been shocked as well because he was still in the water.

Dub edits

In other languages

  • French: Le lac magique
  • German. Kristallklare Sache
  • Hebrew: בהיר כבדולח bahir kabdolakh
  • Italian: Il cristallo magico
  • Portuguese (Brazilian): Tão Claro quanto um Cristal
  • Spanish:
    • Iberian Spanish: El cristal poderoso
    • Latin American Spanish: ¡Tan claro como el cristal!


EP241 : Hocus Pokémon
Original series
EP243 : Same Old Song and Dance
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