EP062

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Clefairy Tales

EP062   ピッピVSプリン Pippi VS Purin

First broadcast Japan September 10, 1998 United States September 25, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケモン音頭

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Clefairy Tales (Japanese: ピッピVSプリン Pippi VS Purin) is the 62nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 10, 1998 and in the United States on September 25, 1999.

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

Synopsis

Jigglypuff sings its song in the woods, putting a Pidgey and a Caterpie to sleep. After scribbling on their faces, it sees a UFO land. Jigglypuff walks over to it to see some Clefairy get out.

Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Togepi are eating ice cream when a Clefairy walks up to them. They chase Clefairy, but while they are gone, more Clefairy steal their ice cream and backpacks. When Ash and his friends go to Officer Jenny, they discover that many others have been robbed as well. A man named Oswald believes this to be the work of aliens.

While searching for the aliens, they see a UFO land in front of them. Two aliens come out and abduct Pikachu, but they are really Jessie and James in disguise. They put Pikachu in a glass container that absorbs electricity into a lightbulb. The UFO is really being operated by Meowth, using a crane. Ash summons his Pidgeotto, which brings down the UFO. Before the battle with Team Rocket can continue, Clefairy appears, and Oswald's scanner says that it is an alien. It says the same thing about Jigglypuff when it shows up. When the scanner says Misty is an alien, she knocks it out of his hand, breaking it.

A Clefairy grabs Pikachu and runs off with it, still trapped in its shockproof container. Ash, Misty, Brock, Oswald, Togepi, and Jigglypuff chase after it and go down a hole into an underground cave. There they see the Clefairy have been using their stolen items to build a spaceship attached to a rocket, and they plan to use Pikachu's electricity to power it and make it blast off. Ash, Misty, Oswald, Togepi, and Jigglypuff enter while Brock goes back to tell Officer Jenny. Team Rocket also enters, intending to steal Pikachu and all the Clefairy.

Inside the ship, Jigglypuff defeats all the Clefairy except for the leader, in the cockpit, where Oswald tries to pull a lever, but it breaks off. It turns out to be Jigglypuff's microphone/marker, which Jigglypuff takes and then sings its song, putting everyone inside the ship to sleep. The ship is timed to take off, and does. The stolen items are all lost during takeoff, and are returned to their rightful owners. The rocket, with Team Rocket still aboard, detaches from the ship and falls. Ash finds Pikachu, whose electric attacks are too powerful for its prison, shattering the glass. Ash, Misty, Pikachu, and Togepi escape from the ship, using Ash's Bulbasaur's Vine Whip to grab onto a skyscraper as the ship goes into space.

Later, the Clefairy's UFO returns and lands in a small village, where Oswald gets out, inside cardboard box with a helmet, as he believes himself to be on the Clefairy's home planet. The Clefairy come out, and take more items from the inhabitants.

Ash and his friends continue their Pokémon journey, unaware that Jigglypuff is following them.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Oswald

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Arcanine (US and international), Pippi (leader) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Caterpie
• Pidgey
• Clefairy
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Dugtrio
• Slowpoke

Trivia

• The episode's title is a straight parody of Fairy Tales.
• This episode title is almost identical to that of a chapter in the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, Clefairy Tale.
• Near the end of this episode, a chef said he was going to cook chicken. This leads reason to believe that animals may exist in the Pokémon world.
• This episode raised many theories on which Pokémon are indeed aliens. Many believe that alien Pokémon are in fact Pokémon in the Fairy Egg Group. The evidence backing this theory is the fact that the scanner beeped when near Clefairy, Jigglypuff, and Misty (holding Togepi, which evolves into Togetic). In addition, some could say that when Oswald's scanner beeps when detecting Team Rocket's "aliens", it was actually beeping when Ash approached it with Pikachu, another member of the Fairy egg group.
• Team Rocket, disguised as aliens, mutter something that is heard as "nomékop," which happens to be the word "Pokémon" said backwards.

Errors

• The box for the VHS tape of this episode has Oswald's name as "Orville".
• When the gang falls out of the rocket ship on to the skyscraper, they don't have Brock's backpack, but later he is seen wearing it.

In other languages

• Finnish: Clefairyjen raketti
• French: Les envahisseurs
• German: Die Piepi Legende
• Italian: Arrivano gli alieni!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Una historia de Clefairy!
• Iberian Spanish: Cuentos de Clefairy
• Brazilian Portuguese: Contos Clefairy

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Original series

EP063 : The Battle of the Badge →

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