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A Tents Situation
かえってきたマサラタウン！ Return to Masara Town
Broadcast dates
Japan	September 30, 1999
USA	October 7, 2000
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon World
Japanese theme songs
Opening	ライバル！
Ending	ラプラスにのって
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard	横田和 Kazu Yokota
Assistant director	大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi
Animation director	たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda

A Tents Situation (Japanese: かえってきたマサラタウン！ Return to Masara Town) is episode 115 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 30, 1999 and in the United States on October 7, 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

• Brock returns.
• Gary returns.
• Ash and Gary start a battle.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Delia Ketchum
• Professor Oak
• Gary
• Professor Ivy (flashback)

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Omastar

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Meowth)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Kingler (Ash's)
• Muk (Ash's)
• Tauros (Ash's)
• Snorlax (Ash's)
• Onix (Brock's; flashback)
• Geodude (Brock's; flashback)
• Zubat (Brock's; flashback)
• Vulpix (Brock's; flashback)
• Lickitung (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Nidoqueen (Gary's)
• Mr. Mime (Mimey)
• Jigglypuff (anime)

Other Pokémon seen at Oak's lab:

• Butterfree
• Nidorina
• Nidorino
• Vileplume
• Dodrio
• Rhyhorn

Trivia

• When Ash shows his mom his Orange League trophy, she jokes that now she finally has a full set of dumbbells. (She is then shown lifting a dumbbell with one hand and the trophy with the other.)
• This episode's dub title is a reference to the phrase, "A Tense Situation."

Errors

• This episode claims that this is the first time that Tracey has ever met Professor Oak or Delia. However this contradicts The Power of One movie where Professor Oak, Delia, and Professor Ivy travel to Shamouti Island and met up with Ash, Misty, and himself at the end of the movie.

Dub edits

• In the scene where Delia is accidentally trampling Brock she does not recognize him until he looks up. In the original she recognizes Brock before he looks up.

In other languages

• French: Le plus lamentable chapiteau du monde
• Italian: Ritorno a casa
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Reencuentros!
• Spanish: Metidos en una carpa