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| Hour of the Houndour
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ダークポケモン・デルビル
Dark Pokémon - Delvil
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First broadcast
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June 1, 2000
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| United States
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April 14, 2001
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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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米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
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| Storyboard
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椎名ひさし Hisashi Shiina
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| Assistant director
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岩崎太郎 Tarō Iwasaki
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| Animation director
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はしもとかつみ Katsumi Hashimoto
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| Additional credits
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Hour of the Houndour (Japanese: ダークポケモン・デルビル Dark Pokémon - Delvil) is the 150th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 1, 2000 and in the United States on April 14, 2001.
Synopsis
Misty, Togepi, and Brock are setting the table, getting ready for lunch. Eyes are staring out of the bushes as Ash and Pikachu walk out of the bushes with the water, but they suddenly disappear. When Brock and Misty ask about the bread they had entrusted to Ash, he remarks that it is in his backpack, which seems to have vanished remarkably. Ash is shocked and begins to look for it and they all wonder where it went. Brock then spots footprints in the ground and they all follow them.
In the town, a Nurse Joy and her Chansey are walking with groceries, when an ice cream truck pulls up. They set the groceries down to go and get some ice cream as Team Rocket appears and look down at the food. Wobbuffet pops out of its Poké Ball and they decide to lower Meowth down on a fishing pole. Meowth pulls out the ham and Team Rocket run off. Jessie, James and Meowth are excitedly looking at the ham as red eyes appear in the bushes ominously. They begin to fight over the ham when it rolls away and then seems to disappear. Meowth blames Wobbuffet for eating the ham as Wobbuffet protests that it did not eat it. Just then Nurse Joy appears around the corner and Team Rocket has to hide in an alleyway while Joy checks out the empty ham bag. Ash and company show up asking if Nurse Joy has a problem with which they can help, and discover that she has been stolen from as well. Misty expresses her suspicion (which happens to be correct) that Team Rocket is to blame for the nurse's lack of ham, but Joy didn't see who the culprit was. Noticing more of the same footprints, the three trainers run off to find the mystery thief and Joy wishes them luck and stays behind. In the alley Team Rocket plans to follow the "twerps" and outthieve the secret Pokémon.
After chasing behind the unknown Pokémon through the woods to the tracks' end, Brock states that this particular spot has good wind direction and decides to camp here. After cooking some sausages - one of which happens to be made of wood - the gang place their decoy on a plate and waits for the Pokémon to be drawn by the scent, when The wood sausage is whisked away by a black shadow. Misty is distressed because it escaped their grasp and it is too dark to find it again, but Brock says that since it has fake food, it must return for the real thing if it is hungry. Ash, Brock, and Misty wait patiently but fearfully for the return of the yet unknown Pokémon and eventually the scary red eyes appear in the bushes once again. At a taunt from Ash, several black dog Pokémon walk out of the bushes, one of which angrily holds the decoy in its menacing jaws. After Ash's (will continue)
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Hitmontop (U.S. and international), Houndour (Japan)
Trivia
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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Italian
Brazil
Portugal
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