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A Chip Off the Old Brock

AG148   EP422 ミズゴロウとモココ！恋の特効薬!? Mizugorou and Mokoko! Wonder Drug of Love!?

First broadcast Japan October 20, 2005 United States September 16, 2006

English themes Opening Battle Frontier Ending

Japanese themes Opening バトルフロンティア Ending ポケモンかぞえうた

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Assistant director 中村圭三 Keizō Nakamura Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

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A Chip Off the Old Brock (Japanese: ミズゴロウとモココ！恋の特効薬!? Mizugorou and Mokoko! Wonder Drug of Love!?) is the 148th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 422nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 20, 2005 and in the United States on September 16, 2006.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

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The episode starts with Ash training his Grovyle together with Brock and his Mudkip. Grovyle starts using Bullet Seed, but Mudkip dodges it. Ash attacks with Leaf Blade, which makes a direct hit on Mudkip and it starts to evolve into Marshtomp. Then, Marshtomp attacks Grovyle with Mud Shot but Grovyle dodge it and it hits a Flaaffy.

Brock offers help but Mariah the owner of the Flaaffy did not accept it and instead she ran to her Grandma Cadee's drugstore. Grandma Cadee gives Flaaffy a medicine and all its wounds were healed. Ash and Brock immediately apologize and introduced themselves. Then, Brock and Marshtomp hold Mariah and Flaaffy's hands and showed attraction. Then, a guy named McCauley and his Ampharos came and showed his energy medicine to Cadee but McCauley didn't mix the Cheri Berry well, and Cadee said that she can't sell it. McCauley was very disappointed hearing that from Grandma Cadee. Then, Team Rocket plans to steal the medicines in the drugstore.

Cadee told McCauley to mind the drugstore while she make medicine. May, Max and Brock go with Cadee and Mariah, while Ash and Pikachu train for their next Frontier battle. Then, Cadee mixed some ingredients and Brock took some notes as they watched Cadee make medicine. When all the ingredients were mixed Cadee put it into a bottle and used her Mareep's electricity to purify the medicine.

Back at the drugstore, Jessie and James disguised themselves as an old man and a lady, while Wobbuffet and Meowth are inside a Snorlax costume. Then, Team Rocket stole and put all the medicine in the Snorlax costume, but McCauley saw that Meowth and Wobbuffet were inside and it's not a real Snorlax. Team Rocket ran away with the medicines, but Ash sees them and commands Grovyle to use Bullet Seed to stop them. Team Rocket don't give the medicine to McCauley, so Brock told Marshtomp to use Mud Shot, and Team Rocket fell to a boat and was carried to a waterfall.

During the night, Brock combs Marshtomp and telling him that together with Mariah and Flaaffy they will be good couples. Then, Ash saw an electricity on the drugstore so they went there. Inside was Ampharos and McCauley practicing to make medicine but the bottle burst because of too much electricity. May told him that it is too late to practice, but McCauley said that he want to be as good as Cadee. Then, he told everyone a story when Mariah and him were just little kids and watching Cadee make medicine. He wants to be good in making medicine but he always fail. Doctor Cadee came and told him that he lacks self confidence and resulted failure.

Major events

• Brock's Mudkip evolves into a Marshtomp.
• Marshtomp learns Mud Shot.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Brock's Marshtomp

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• McCauley
• Cadee
• Mariah

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Grovyle (Ash's)
• Mudkip (Brock's, evolves)
• Marshtomp (Brock's, newly evolved)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Mareep (Cadee's) (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Flaaffy (Mariah's) (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*, Michele Knotz in the dub)
• Ampharos (McCauley's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Pokémon Symphonic Medley plays when Mariah and McCauley create medicine for Pikachu and Mareep, who had been injured by Mud Shot.
• The dub title is a spoof of the old saying "A Chip Off the Old Block."
• Marshtomp and Flaaffy are both in the Monster Egg Group, meaning that they can indeed breed.
• This is the first episode to include Mime Jr. in Team Rocket's motto, replacing Chimecho.

Errors

• Max incorrectly calls Mud Shot an Earth-type attack. However, this error was corrected for all subsequent airings.
• In one of the scenes shortly after Flaaffy was healed, Ash's gloves were skin-toned, making it appear as if he only had green wristbands on.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Les remèdes Pokémon
• European Portuguese:Remédio para Pokémons
• German: Der Zauberlehrling
• Italian: La farmacia
• Latin American Spanish: De tal Brock, tal astilla
• Iberian Spanish: Un palo para el pobre Brock
• Mandarin: 水精灵和羊咩咩 爱的特效药

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