EP115

A Tent Situation

EP115   かえってきたマサラタウン！ Return to Masara Town

First broadcast Japan September 30, 1999 United States October 7, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon World

Japanese themes 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 No additional credits are available at this time.

A Tent Situation (Japanese: かえってきたマサラタウン！ Return to Masara Town) is the 115th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 30, 1999 and in the United States on October 7, 2000.

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Synopsis

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Ash returns home, where he is pleasantly surprised by an old friend. Unfortunately he faces a new trial, as Team Rocket has besieged the famous Oak Laboratory and captures all the Poké Balls there.

Major events

• Ash and friends arrive in Pallet Town.
• Brock returns and meets Tracey.
• Tracey also meets Professor Oak in person.
• Ash returns Tauros to its herd at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
• Gary returns and he and Ash decide to have a battle.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

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

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Omastar (US and international); Barrierd (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• 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; new)
• Mr. Mime (Mimey)
• Jigglypuff (anime)

Other Pokémon seen at Oak's lab:

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

Trivia

• 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 Tracey himself at the end of the movie. This also contradicts The Lost Lapras since Tracey saw Oak on the phone monitor, and even went as far as to introduce himself as "Tracey Sketchit", and had a full conversation with him about Scyther in Tracey Gets Bugged.
• Ash commanded Muk to use Poison Gas in the English dub, which is a dubbing error. In the original Japanese version, Ash said "Betbeton!" (Muk's Japanese name).

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
• German: Zirkus in Alabastia
• Hebrew: יריבות מבית yerivut mibayit
• Italian: Ritorno a casa
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Circo Está Armado
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Metidos en una carpa
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Reencuentros!

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