EP081

Pallet Party Panic
マサラタウン！あらたなるたびだち Masara Town! Setting off on a New Journey!
Broadcast dates
Japan	January 28, 1999
USA	December 4, 1999
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon Theme
Japanese theme songs
Opening	ライバル！
Ending	タイプ・ワイルド
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
Storyboard	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Assistant director	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Animation director	岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane

Pallet Party Panic (Japanese: マサラタウン！あらたなるたびだち Masara Town! Setting off on a New Journey!) is episode 81 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 28, 1999 and in the United States on December 4, 1999.

Synopsis

Ash, Misty, and Brock attend a party at Professor Oak's lab to celebrate Ash’s performance in the Pokémon League. The three decide to let out their Pokémon to join the party, but Misty and Brock stop Ash from releasing Charizard. Team Rocket is also in attendance, masquerading as cooks and coating their food with hot mustard and wasabi. As Ash and his Pokémon react to the spicy food, Team Rocket grabs Pikachu and sends down blaster balls from their balloon to destroy the party. Ash finally releases Charizard, who flings the blasters back at Team Rocket, causing them to blast off again. Ash then receives his next mission from Professor Oak: to retrieve a mysterious Poké Ball from Professor Ivy in the Orange Archipelago. As they leave through the forest, Ash and his friends are attacked by a flock of Spearow. The flock’s leader is a Fearow, evolved from the Spearow that Ash hit with a rock in EP001. Ash climbs a tree to escape and finds Team Rocket with a flock of Pidgey and Pidgeotto who are in a turf war with the flock of Spearow. Ash sends out his Pidgeotto to lead the Pidgey flock against the Spearow flock. In the course of the battle, Ash’s Pidgeotto evolves into Pidgeot. Pidgeot and Pikachu team up to defeat the Fearow. Ash then decides to leave Pidgeot in the forest to look after the Pidgey and Pidgeotto.

Major events

• Ash's Pidgeotto evolves into Pidgeot.
• The Spearow from the first episode returns as a Fearow.
• Ash releases his Pidgeot to protect other Pidgey and Pidgeotto from the Spearow and Fearow flock.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Prof. Oak
• Delia Ketchum
• Various of Unnamed people (Possibly Ash's Supporters)
• Prof. Ivy (Mentioned)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Pidgeot (US and international), Pigeon (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's; evolves)
• Pidgeot (Ash's; newly evolved, leaves)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Goldeen (Misty's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Zubat (Brock's)
• Vulpix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Pidgey
• Pidgeotto
• Spearow
• Fearow (anime)

Other Pokémon seen at the party:

• Butterfree
• Oddish
• Diglett
• Mankey
• Poliwag
• Bellsprout
• Voltorb

Trivia

• Rival! replaces Aim to Be a Pokémon Master as the opening.

Errors

• The first time Professor Oak talks about Professor Ivy, he refers to her as a man.
• Jessie's gloves disappear when she falls out of the tree.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Alerte au Bourg Palette
• Italian: Una festa movimentata
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Fiesta de pánico en en pueblo Paleta!
• Spanish: Pánico en la fiesta de Paleta

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