EP106

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EP107 : Pokémon Food Fight! →

The Pokémon Water War

EP106   ひけしたいけつ！ゼニガメＶＳカメール Firefighting Showdown! Zenigame VS Kameil

First broadcast Japan July 29, 1999 United States August 26, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon World Ending

Japanese themes Opening ライバル！ Ending ラプラスにのって

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

The Pokémon Water War (Japanese: ひけしたいけつ！ゼニガメＶＳカメール Firefighting Showdown! Zenigame VS Kameil) is the 106th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 29, 1999 and in the United States on August 26, 2000.

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

Synopsis

Arriving at the next port (Ascorbia Island), Ash and friends are eager to get something to eat. However, their plans are shelved when they approach a warehouse on fire. Ash and Misty send out Squirtle and Staryu to douse the flames, but their efforts are in vain, as the fire begins to spread. Just when some debris begins to fall on the group, a team of Wartortle appear to save them, and proceed to douse the flames. Still, Squirtle is none too pleased.

Later that day, the team's Trainer, Captain Aidan, introduces Ash and company to his firefighting force: Teams Squirtle, Wartortle, and Blastoise. Team Blastoise is used for large-scale fires, Team Squirtle for tight-space rescues, while Team Wartortle is used in more general-purpose scenarios. Ash (after recalling to Tracey Squirtle's past as part of the Squirtle Squad) quickly notices Squirtle's attention to the proceedings, and quickly realizes that its firefighting confidence had been shot when Squirtle itself had to be rescued. Ash begs Captain Aidan to have Squirtle join Team Wartortle for a day of training, which Captain Aidan reluctantly accepts.

Squirtle proves to be every bit as capable as the head of Team Wartortle: in a running exercise, the two were able to outpace the rest of the team, though Squirtle had tripped over a pebble and rolled its way to the finish (setting a new turtle Pokémon speed record in the process). In a shooting exercise, Squirtle and Wartortle were able to shoot down moving targets with equal precision. However, one stray target leads the team apart from Captain Aidan, and soon the team finds themselves falling into a Team Rocket pitfall trap. Team Rocket takes the captured Squirtle, as well as Pikachu away, using Weezing as a cover, while Ash and Captain Aidan are forced to chase them.

However, their timing could not have been worse: an apartment fire has broken out, and an overturned truck has delayed Team Blastoise. Team Squirtle is on the scene, but is easily overwhelmed. At a loss and without Team Wartortle, Misty offers Staryu as a stopgap measure, and Tracey is also ready to pitch in with Marill and Scyther, while Venonat continues to search for the missing Pokémon. Back with Team Rocket, infighting amongst themselves over the matter of whether someone should take a Wartortle for themselves and give the rest to the boss gives Squirtle and the head Wartortle the opportunity to plan their escape.

Squirtle and Team Wartortle flood Team Rocket's cabin, and, while still trapped in their nets, manage to bunny-hop over each other to slowly inch their way out of the cabin. Now outside, they lure Meowth into having him scratch them free from their net (withdrawing into their shells to avoid getting hurt). As if on cue, Ash and Captain Aidan arrive on the scene, and a last-ditch effort to claim Squirtle and Team Wartortle by Team Rocket is met with Water Guns and a Pikachu Thunderbolt, sending Team Rocket flying.

At the fire, even Misty is to her limit — Scyther has worn itself out, while Staryu, Marill, and Team Squirtle are unable to contain the fire. However, Squirtle and Team Wartortle arrive in time (just as Team Blastoise also clear the overturned truck), but their troubles are not over, as a child is found trapped in the building. Squirtle and the head Wartortle (with help from a Blastoise) manage to save the child, and each other (Wartortle from a crumbling floor and Squirtle from a falling door), while the fire is slowly brought to control.

In the end, Ash and Captain Aidan part ways, but not without a final salute to the fine firefighters in Squirtle and Team Wartortle.

Major events

• Ash and friends meet Captain Aidan and Team Wartortle.
• Tracey's Venonat is revealed to know Tackle.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

• Captain Aidan

Pokémon debuts

• Team Wartortle

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Captain Aidan
• Little boy
• Mother

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Tangela (U.S. and international); Wartortle (The leader of Team Wartortle) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Venonat (Tracey's)
• Marill (Tracey's)
• Scyther (Tracey's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Wartortle (Team Wartortle)
• Blastoise (Team Blastoise)
• Squirtle (Team Squirtle)
• Squirtle (Squirtle Squad; flashback)

Trivia

• This is the first episode to be apart of dub season 3 in broadcast order. However, the Pokémon: The Adventures In The Orange Islands title remains for this and the remaining ten episodes of the Orange Archipelago saga.
• When this episode first aired in the United States, the Japanese version of Meowth's Party played. However, in repeats, it was replaced with Pikachu's Jukebox.

Errors

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The scene where Togepi's face is missing and Tracey's arm has turned green.

• When Team Wartortle lined up to put out the first fire, the leader of the team is missing its signature yellow bandana.
• In the scene of the final fire, Tracey is holding Togepi. However, Togepi's face is missing and Tracey's arm is painted the same color as his shirt.
• In one scene where Misty is seen trying to put out the fire with her Staryu and Tracey's Marill and Scyther, Ash and Tracey are seen next to her but in the next seen they are shown running to meet up with her.

Dub edits

• The scene in the log cabin with Team Rocket was slightly edited for the dub. The scene where Jessie, James and Meowth are fighting over who gets to pick a Wartortle first; Meowth scratches Jessie and James's faces and they have a brawl. In the original Japanese version, Meowth is actually seen to be violently scratching Jessie and James's faces with an almost perfect and fluid scratching animation, with the resulting bloody scratch marks on their faces. In the English dub, the scratching shot was cut, and was replaced with two shots of colored stars with a black background, as it was very violent for this type of show.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		滅火大賽，傑尼龜對抗卡咪龜
Czech		Vodní dobrodružství
Dutch		Het Pokémon Watergevecht
European French		La guerre aquatique Pokémon
German		Wasser Marsch!
Hebrew		מלחמת המים milchemet hamayim
Hungarian		A vízi csata
Italian		Brigate antincendio
Portuguese	Brazil	A Guerra de Água Pokémon
	Portugal	A Guerra dos Pokémon de Água
Spanish	Latin America	¡La guerra de agua Pokémon!
	Spain	La guerra de los Pokémon de agua

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Original series

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