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Fit to be Tide
オレンジリーグ！ナツカンジム！ Orange League! Natsukan Gym!
Broadcast dates
Japan	February 25, 1999
USA	February 5, 2000
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon World
Japanese theme songs
Opening	ライバル！
Ending	タイプ・ワイルド
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Assistant director	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Animation director	梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura

Fit to be Tide (Japanese: オレンジリーグ！ナツカンジム！ Orange League! Natsukan Gym!) is episode 85 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 25, 1999 and in the United States on February 5, 2000.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash defeats Cissy and earns his first Orange League Gym Badge.

Debuts

• Cissy
• Senta

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Cissy, the Mikan Island Gym Leader
• Senta, Cissy's younger brother

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Primeape

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Muk (Ash's; at Oak's lab)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Chansey (Joy's)
• Seadra (Cissy's)
• Blastoise (Cissy's)

Trivia

• The Mikan Gym is shaped like a giant soda can.
• This episode's dub title is a reference to the popular saying, "Fit to be Tied."

Errors

Dub edits

• The character of Senta is left nameless in the dub. Additionally, his relation to Cissy is left ambiguous. For the record, he is her younger brother.

In other languages

• French: Un match très serré
• Italian: Una nuova Medaglia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Duelo en la marea!
• Spanish: Nacido para navegar