EP130

A Bout With Sprout (Japanese: だいピンチ！マダツボミのとう！ Big Pinch! Tower of Madatsubomi!) is the 130th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 13, 2000 and in the United States on December 16, 2000.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis As Ash, Misty and Brock are walking through town looking for the Violet City gym, a little girl and boy are seen fighting over Pikachu. The kids, by continually grabbing and poking Pikachu, make him launch an all-out Thunderbolt attack. Ash quickly picks him up, but although saving the kids from Pikachu’s attack, he takes the full brunt of it. A rather attractive woman then comes running out, calling for Zackie and Lizy (the boy and girl fighting over Pikachu). Upon learning that our friends were on their way to the Violet City gym, she introduces herself as Miss Priscilla, a teacher from the Pokémon Academy.

Major events

• Ash, Misty and Brock arrive in Violet City.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Miss Priscilla
• Earl
• Zackie
• Schoolchildren

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Cleffa

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Goldeen (Misty's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Poliwag (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Zubat (Brock's)
• Vulpix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Lickitung (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Bellsprout (Zackie's)

Trivia

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Une jeune pousse à la rescousse
• German: Überraschung im Knofensa-Turm
• Italian: La torre
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Batalla en la torre Bellsprout!
• Iberian Spanish: Un combate con Bellsprout
• Brazilian Portuguese: Pequenos Brotos, Grandes Encrencas

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