AG036

The Spheal of Approval
海の博物館を守れ！マグマ団の襲撃!! Protect the Ocean Museum! Attack of Team Magma!
Broadcast dates
Japan	July 31, 2003
USA	May 29, 2004
Theme songs
Opening	I Wanna Be A Hero
Japanese theme songs
Opening	アドバンス・アドベンチャー
Ending	ポルカ・オ・ドルカ
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita
Storyboard	木村竜二 Ryūji Kimura
Assistant director	大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi
Animation director	たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
Screenshots on Filb.de

The Spheal of Approval (Japanese: 海の博物館を守れ！マグマ団の襲撃!! Protect the Ocean Museum! Attack of Team Magma!) is episode 36 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 31, 2003 and in the United States on May 29, 2004.

Ash and Max visit the Oceanic Museum and meet Captain Stern who is analysing a rock sample from the ocean's surface. However, Team Magma also wants the rock and will stop at nothing to get it.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Spheal
• Sealeo

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Captain Stern
• Marius
• Team Magma agents (several)

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Nuzleaf

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket}
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Spheal (Marius's; debut)
• Sealeo (Captain Stern's; debut)
• Mightyena (Team Magma's; multiple)
• Growlithe (Officer Jenny's)
• Groudon

Trivia

• Team Magma uses the object much later to get the Groudon.

Errors

• Tabitha is referred to as Harland again. This error was corrected in Fight For The Meteorite.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: L'Obalie qui approuve
• Italian: Guai al museo
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La roca misteriosa!
• Portuguese: A Pedra Misteriosa
• Spanish: La palmada de Spheal

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