EP192

The Wayward Wobbuffet

EP192   ソーナンス！そうなんす? Sonans! Is That So?

First broadcast Japan April 5, 2001 United States March 2, 2002

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター (Whiteberry) Ending 前向きロケット団！

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

The Wayward Wobbuffet (Japanese: ソーナンス！そうなんす? Sonans! Is That So?) is the 192nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 5, 2001 and in the United States on March 2, 2002.

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Synopsis

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Knowing our heroes are still en-route to Olivine City, Team Rocket lies in wait. Dressed as scientists, they explain they’ve just repaired the amazing “Poké Pod.” To test it out, Pikachu is placed in the pod and locked in tight. When Team Rocket reveals their true identity and runs, Ash and Co. are in hot pursuit. When our heroes catch up to Team Rocket, there isn’t a Poké Pod or Pikachu in site! Realizing Wobbuffet was hiding for the handoff, Ash chases after it. In Wobbuffet’s rash retreat, it trips dropping the Pikachu containing Poké Pod and falls into the rapids of a nearby river. Since the only way to release Pikachu from the Poké Pod is to possess the key around Wobbuffet’s neck, it’s an all-out race to reach Team Rocket’s blue bad-boy first. This proves problematic as Wobbuffet plummets over waterfalls, wanders through forests, gets taken for a ride on the roof of a run-away truck, blows for miles in a hot-air balloon and falls helpless to the helm of a speedboat! Who will reach Wobbuffet and the key first?...

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Police Officers
• Goneff

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Teddiursa

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Golem (Goneff's)
• Quagsire

Trivia

Pocket Monster TV featuring Pikachu. This episode featured Wobbuffet, number 202.

• The episode's title is read by Team Rocket.
• Aim to Be a Pokémon Master (Whiteberry Version) replaces OK! as the opening.
• Face Forward Team Rocket! replaces To My Best Friend as the ending.
• In the Japanese version, Pocket Monster TV replaces Dare Da? (Who's this?) as a commercial break transition/eyecatch. Pocket Monster TV essentially serves the same purpose as "Dare Da?" except that it features a computerized voice, the featured Pokémon's number, and a different background.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: La poursuite infernale
• German. Woingenau und der magische Schlüssel
• Hebrew: המרדף אחרי וובאפט hamirdaf akhar Wobbuffet
• Italian: Pokémon in gabbia
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Redelde Wobbuffet
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Wobbuffet y la llave secreta
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Wobbuffet, el Pokémon descarado!

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