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Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon

EP046   ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!

First broadcast Japan May 28, 1998 United States February 27, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケットにファンタジー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura Additional credits

Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon (Japanese: ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!) is the 46th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 28, 1998, and in the United States on February 27, 1999.

At a "fossil rush" at a canyon, Team Rocket take the easy route by simply blowing it up. They end up awakening fossil Pokémon including an Aerodactyl that wants to eat Ash for its dinner.

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

Synopsis

Ash and friends arrived at a place where they saw many people digging for fossils. They bumped into Gary. Soon after walking around, they discovered Team Rocket and their plan to blow up the place where the people are digging. Ash refused to let them do that and sent out Squirtle to put the flame out. However, the flame kept going away and Ash had a hard time catching it. As the dynamite was about to blow up, Pikachu used ThunderShock, causing the dynamite to blow. Ash, Pikachu, Meowth, Jessie, and James were trapped in the rubble, and only Squirtle escaped. Down where they are trapped, the four humans and two Pokémon tried to find a way to get out, but they were cornered by some Pokémon that were long extinct. They guessed the explosion awakened them. They looked angry and they attack but suddenly stop and run off. Then the trio realized what had happened. An Aerodactyl appeared and swooped up Ash. At the same time, Brock's Geodude had finally dug a hole in the rubble. They looked inside to see Aerodactyl swooping out with Ash. Charmeleon decided to battle Aerodactyl as Aerodactyl had earlier annoyed him. In the process, Charmeleon evolved into Charizard. Ash is happy as he thought that Charmeleon evolved to rescue him, but then realized it is because Charizard wants to battle Aerodactyl and had no thought of rescuing Ash. Soon after, Misty saw Jigglypuff and told it to use Sing to make Aerodactyl fall asleep. Jigglypuff agreed and sang immediately and everyone fell asleep. Aerodactyl fell into the rubble and the prehistoric Pokémon went to their slumber again. As Ash and the gang leave, Ash revealed that he had found an egg at the site. Then, it showed Team Rocket still stucked in the rubbie.

Major events

• Ash's Charmeleon evolves into a Charizard.
• Ash finds a Pokémon egg and Brock decides to be in charge of taking care of it.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Charizard (Ash's)
• Omanyte
• Omastar
• Kabuto
• Kabutops
• Aerodactyl

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Gary
• Gary's cheerleaders
• Fossil hunters

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Kabutops

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Charmeleon (Ash's; evolves)
• Charizard (Ash's; newly evolved; debut)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Omanyte (debut)
• Omastar (debut)
• Kabuto (debut)
• Kabutops (debut)
• Aerodactyl (debut)

Trivia

• This episode hints that Pokémon need to defecate upon mention of fossilized Pokémon manure.
• There are two possible Indiana Jones references in this episode; Gary Oak's digging clothes are very similar to Indiana Jones's clothes and when Ash is attempting to put out the fuse lit by Team Rocket, they roll into a boulder, similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• The events of this episode will be referred to in Pokémon Paparazzi.

Errors

• When the camera is panning over all of the Pokémon to show their red eyes, Kabuto has the colors of its claws and shell swapped.
• When Charizard fires his Flamethrower at Aerodactyl, the part of his wings that were previously blue turn yellow.
• When Ash falls, asleep, and rolls to the Togepi egg, all of the shapes are red, instead of half red and half blue.
• When Jigglypuff wrote on the cheerleader's faces, the alphabet was used. However, the letters on their faces went in this order: ABCDFE, instead of ABCDEF.

Dub edits

• The sign at the beginning of the episode states the name of the canyon in the Japanese version. In the dub, the sign is a picture of a pick-axe and shovel.
• The point where Meowth actually lights the fuse is cut in KidsWB! version of the dub. Instead, the camera zooms in to Meowth's face so the lighter isn't seen visibly. This scene aired uncut on the VHS and DVD versions.
• When digging through the rocks, Misty says Ash had better not die on her. In the dub, she reminds him that he still owes her a bike.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Ataque dos Pokémons Pré-Históricos
• Finnish: Muinaisten Pokémonien hyökkäys
• French: L'attaque des Pokémon préhistoriques
• German: Angreifer aus der Urzeit
• Italian: Avventure preistoriche
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos!
• Iberian Spanish: El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos
• Swedish: Förhistoriska Pokémon
• Mandarin: 复活？化石神奇宝贝

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