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← EP006 : Clefairy and the Moon Stone
Original series
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The Water Flowers of Cerulean City
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ハナダシティのすいちゅうか
The Suichūka of Hanada City
First broadcast
Japan May 13, 1997
United States September 16, 1998
English themes
Opening Pokémon Theme
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening めざせポケモンマスター
Ending ひゃくごじゅういち
Credits
Animation Team Ota
Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue
Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue
Animation director 藤田宗克 Munekatsu Fujita
Additional credits
  • Screenshots on Filb.de
  • 水中花 suichūka are a type of artificial flower which "blossoms" when placed in water.

The Water Flowers of Cerulean City (Japanese: ハナダシティのすいちゅうか The Suichūka of Hanada City) is the seventh episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 13, 1997 and in United States on September 16, 1998.

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Blurb

Ash seeks the Cascade badge in Cerulean City—but for some reason, Misty doesn't want to join them. When Ash and Brock show up, the city is buzzing about a break-in that just took place—and are initially accused of the crime! (We see Team Rocket commit the robbery, but no one else knows about their involvement yet.)

Ash and Pikachu arrive at the Cerulean City gym, which resembles an aquarium with an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They see a water show performed by the Sensational Cerulean City Synchronized Swimming Sisters. Later on, Ash learns that the sisters are actually the Gym Leaders. He challenges them, but they don't feel like battling and instead offer him the Cascade Badge without a fight.

It looks like Ash will have his Cascade Badge without breaking a sweat...but then a fourth Gym Leader step up! Who is this mysterious Gym Leader? What does Team Rocket plan to do with the stuff they stole? And where's Misty?

Plot

Excited about winning his Boulder Badge, Ash is extremely excited to get to Cerulean City to battle for his Cascade Badge. For some reason, though, Misty seems to be trying to avoid entering Cerulean, and tries, unsuccessfully, to convince the others to go to Vermilion City instead. She leaves Ash and Brock as they enter the city.

When Ash and Brock enter Cerulean City, they see a big crowd of people in a circle surrounding a building. When they get to the front, they see Officer Jenny, and she accuses Ash and Brock of being criminals. When they prove their innocence, she lets them go, and sends the rest of the crowd away. After that, they sit on a bench and Ash asks Brock for inside information on the Gym Leader. Brock tells him that as a Gym Leader, he cannot give out that information. Then Brock decides to check something out that he has been meaning to look at. They split up, and Ash heads to the Cerulean Gym alone.

When Ash reaches the Gym, he finds three sisters performing an underwater show for a crowd of people. Ash meets the girls backstage, finds out that they are the Gym Leaders, and challenges them to a battle. The girls, Lily, Daisy, and Violet, explain that their Pokémon are too tired to battle, and offer to give Ash the Cascade Badge without a proper match. Misty, who has been spying on the entire scene, interferes at the last minute and challenges Ash to a battle.

As it turns out, Misty is herself a Cerulean Gym Leader as well, and also the youngest of The Sensational Sisters, but because she is so much younger than her three sisters, they call her a runt and refuse to acknowledge her as being just as good as they are. After Misty argues with her sisters, she challenges Ash to an official Cerulean Gym battle, two Pokémon per side. Ash tries to send out Pikachu, but Pikachu refuses to go into battle because he does not want to hurt Misty or her Pokémon. Instead, Ash sends out Butterfree to battle Misty's Staryu. After a quick battle, Butterfree gets knocked into the water, causing him to lose the battle. After that, Misty sends out Starmie and Ash sends out Pidgeotto. Pidgeotto uses Whirlwind on Starmie, but it jumps into the water and attacks Pidgeotto. Pidgeotto uses Gust, causing Starmie to hit the wall. Just as Ash is about to win the battle, Team Rocket interrupts and tries to steal all of the Water-type Pokémon and the water from the Gym using a giant vacuum machine.

While Team Rocket's vacuum is sucking up the Water Pokémon, it sucks in Pikachu as well. He releases a Thunderbolt attack, which explodes the machine, sending Team Rocket flying. After Team Rocket is gone, Daisy gives Ash the Cascade Badge. Misty tries to argue, but her sisters convince her that if Ash had used Pikachu from the start, he would have easily beaten all of her Water-type Pokémon. Misty agrees with her sisters and claims that when she comes back from her journey with Ash, she will be a great Trainer. Brock then meets Ash outside of the Gym, and together they all head for Vermilion City.

Major events

Ash holding the Cascade Badge
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Debuts

Humans

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Seel

Trivia

  • This is Ted Lewis's last full episode voicing James. He will be replaced by Eric Stuart towards the end of the next episode.
  • This episode has led many fans to believe that Misty's last name is Waterflower. In actuality, the words "water flowers" used in the title are merely a metaphor used to describe the three sisters' grace and beauty, and their own names come from flower species.
  • It's implied in this episode that a Gym Badge serves as a secondary ID for a Trainer, or a primary ID for a Gym Leader, as Brock used his Boulder Badge to clear his name in regards to accusations of being a criminal, whereas Ash used his Pokédex as his method of clearing his name.
  • This episode begins the gag where Brock becomes immediately infatuated by almost every girl he sees, as he asks Officer Jenny out.
    • This episode is also the first episode where Brock is turned down by a girl.
  • Brock's absence during the episode is never explained, fueling much fan speculation.
  • This is the second time real animals are shown. Fish are seen behind the glass when Ash walks into the aquarium.
  • During this episode, the Cerulean Gym initially offers Ash a Cascade Badge without a fight. This is the first time the Cerulean Gym was shown surrendering a Badge without a fight, the second being when Jimmy challenges the Cerulean Gym in Judgment Day!. Instead of a battle, his Badge was awarded by Daisy for cleaning the pool. The sisters imply situations like these were very common when the Gym was under their leadership in Gotta Catch Ya Later!.
  • The book Splashdown in Cerulean City is partially based on this episode.
  • This episode is tied for the shortest time ever between two episodes where Ash has obtained a Badge, having earned his previous Badge only two episodes earlier. The next time this happens is between Haunter versus Kadabra and Pokémon Scent-sation!
  • This is the first Gym where Ash doesn't use a starter Pokémon. The second time wouldn't occur until Fairy-Type Trickery!, 866 episodes later.
  • What Violet sings to Ash after he asks them to battle him is a parody of a Japanese folk song, "Agarime Sagarime".

Errors

  • In the Spanish dub, when Misty's sister calls for Seel, she said "See-al".
  • In one scene, a part of Pikachu's right ear is missing, making his left ear look longer than his right.
  • When Team Rocket is coming out of their tank, the front part of Ash's hat is white.
  • When Pikachu electrocutes Team Rocket the edge of Meowth's ears are shown to be white when in fact they should be black.
  • When the recap of the last episode is shown, in the dub, the sign is shown to be written in Japanese.
  • When Team Rocket is coming out of their tank, James is holding a light blue rose instead of red.

Dub edits

  • PokéRap: Day 2
  • The outside of the store Team Rocket looted simply says "マシーン" (machine) in the Japanese version, while it says "MACHINE SHOP INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES ALL MAKES AND MODELS" in the dub. The next shot replaces "ルーム" (room) with "LS".
  • Like the Pewter Gym, the "Hanada Gym" sign is changed to "Cerulean Gym".
  • When Ash's Pokédex reads Staryu, it classifies the Pokémon as a hermaphrodite. Ash calls this strange, and Misty tells him it shouldn't matter who someone falls in love with. In the English dub, the Pokédex makes no mention of Staryu's gender and instead comments on its shining core, which is sold as a type of jewelry. Ash now remarks that it's typical of a girl to "show off her jewelry", to which Misty responds by telling him to "quit stalling".

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