AG065

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AG065   EP339 ゴクリン撃退大作戦!! The Great Gokulin Repelling Strategy!

First broadcast Japan February 26, 2004 United States February 12, 2005

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending スマイル ②

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

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Gulpin it Down! (Japanese: ゴクリン撃退大作戦!! The Great Gokulin Repelling Strategy!) is the 65th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 339th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 26, 2004 and in the United States on February 12, 2005.

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

Synopsis

Ash and friends are in a town close to Petalburg City, when their picnic is gobbled up by a passing Gulpin. They hear an emergency announcement instructing everyone to evacuate.

The kids and a local shopkeeper are accosted by a large group of Gulpin. Officer Jenny saves them, bringing the friends back to the Pokémon Center. They meet Nurse Joy and Professor Jacuzzi, who are working to stop the Gulpin from eating all of the town's food supplies.

The professor's first plan involves a giant Pokéblocks to lead the Gulpin away. Team Rocket tries to steal the Pokéblocks, but their balloon is shot down by the Gulpin. The Gulpin follow the Pokéblocks out of town.

The Gulpin try to return through the sewer, but Jenny and Joy block the way. The Gulpin emerge onto the street. Professor Jacuzzi arrives with a device that beams them up and shoots them away, but it breaks down with one Gulpin left to go. Ash sends Treecko out to battle and the machine restarts, grabbing both Pokémon. It explodes when Gulpin uses Spit Up, and the two of them become building sized.

To avoid destroying the town, Treecko leads Gulpin to a lake, but is too tired to battle and returns to normal size. May suggests capturing Gulpin in a Poké Ball. Nurse Joy gives the professor a Heavy Ball, and he captures the Gulpin, vowing to restore it to its normal size.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Gulpin

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Professor Jacuzzi

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Treecko

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Tangela (Officer Jenny's)
• Parasect (Officer Jenny's)
• Meganium (Officer Jenny's)
• Gulpin (Professor Jacuzzi's; debut, giant-sized)
• Gulpin (debut)

Trivia

• This is the first episode of the Pokémon anime in which a trainer's Pokémon becomes enlarged, though this is not the first time a super-sized Pokémon is shown.
• The episode is reminiscent of the Godzilla franchise. Godzilla: Final Wars, the last film in the series as of writing was 10 months after this episode aired.
• This is the first episode which Jamie Davyous Owens takes over the role of Officer Jenny who had been previously voiced by Megan Hollingshead who left after the previous season.

In other languages

• French: L'invasion des Gloupti
• Italian: Piccoli invasori
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Gulpin al ataque!
• Portuguese: Engula Isso!
• Iberian Spanish: Gulpin el tragón

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