EP051

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Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden (Japanese: フシギダネのふしぎのはなぞの Fushigidane's Mysterious Flower Garden) is episode 51 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 2, 1998 and in the United States on April 3, 1999.

A mysterious evolution festival is about to begin and Ash's Bulbasaur is capable of evolving. The festival is disrupted with Bulbasaur's refusal to evolve and Team Rocket stealing all the newly evolved Ivysaur.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash's Bulbasaur refuses to evolve into Ivysaur.
• Ash's Bulbasaur learns SolarBeam.

Debuts

Ivysaur

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Unnamed hiker

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Ivysaur

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Rhyhorn (unnamed hiker's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Bulbasaur (many; evolve)
• Ivysaur (many; newly evolved)
• Venusaur

Trivia

• Bulbagarden itself was named after this episode.
• Team Rocket blasts off twice.
• The episode's name is a pun on Bulbasaur's Japanese name, Fushigidane; where fushigi means "mysterious".
• Although it was never aired in syndicated form on Cartoon Network in 2003, it made its debut on September 13, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET
• This episode is followed by different episodes between the original Japanese version and dubbed versions. The episode is followed by Princess Versus Princess in the original Japanese version and by The Case of the K-9 Caper in the dub.

Errors

• When Cartoon Network aired this episode on September 13 and September 15, a brief scene of Pikachu with a Poké Ball on its head from the original Japanese credits with the words "Now Back To The Show!" is in the fade between the two parts of Who's That Pokémon.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: O jardim misterioso de Bulbasauro
• French: Le jardin mystérieux
• Italian: Il giardino dei misteri
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El jardín secreto de Bulbasaur!
• Spanish: El jardín misterioso de Bulbasaur
• Swedish: Den mystiska trädgården

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