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| Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon
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ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！
Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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May 28, 1998
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| United States
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February 27, 1999
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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武上純希 Junki Takegami
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| Storyboard
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井上修 Osamu Inoue
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| Assistant director
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井上修 Osamu Inoue
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| Animation director
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梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura
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| Additional credits
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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.
Synopsis
Ash and friends arrive at a place where they see many people digging for fossils. They bump into Gary. Soon after walking around, they discover Team Rocket and their plan to blow up the place where the people are digging. Ash refuses to let them do that and sends out Squirtle to put the flame out. However, the flame keeps going away and Ash has a hard time catching it. As the dynamite is about to blow up, Pikachu uses ThunderShock, causing the dynamite to blow. Ash, Pikachu, Meowth, Jessie, and James are trapped in the rubble, and only Squirtle escapes. Down where they are trapped, the four humans and two Pokémon try to find a way to get out, but they are cornered by some Pokémon that were long extinct. They guessed the explosion awakened them. They look angry and attack but suddenly stop and run off. Then the trio sees why. An Aerodactyl appears and swoops up Ash. At the same time, Brock's Geodude has finally dug a hole in the rubble. They look inside to see Aerodactyl swooping out with Ash. Charmeleon decides to battle Aerodactyl as Aerodactyl had earlier annoyed him. In the process, Charmeleon evolves into Charizard. Ash is happy as he thinks that Charmeleon evolved to rescue him, but then realizes it is because Charizard wants to battle Aerodactyl and has no thought of rescuing Ash. Soon after, Misty sees Jigglypuff and tells it to use Sing to make Aerodactyl fall asleep. Jigglypuff agrees and sings immediately and everyone falls asleep. Aerodactyl falls into the rubble and the prehistoric Pokémon go to their slumber again.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Kabutops
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
- Italian: Avventure preistoriche
- Latin American Spanish: ¡El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos!
- Iberian Spanish: El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos
- Swedish: Förhistoriska Pokémon
