EP248

One Trick Phony!

EP248   バトルパーク！ＶＳカメックス・リザードン・フシギバナ！ Battle Park! VS Kamex - Lizardon - Fushigibana!

First broadcast Japan May 16, 2002 United States May 17, 2003

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

One Trick Phony! (Japanese: バトルパーク！ＶＳカメックス・リザードン・フシギバナ！ Battle Park! VS Kamex - Lizardon - Fushigibana!) is the 248th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 16, 2002 and in the United States on May 17, 2003.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis After defeating a girl who has a Smoochum, Ash is determined to beat Clair, as he is getting close to Blackthorn City. Seeing that Ash just can’t get enough battling, the trainer suggests as she leaves that he give a local Pokémon battle park a try. Ash and his friends visits the battle park where he trains against a powerful Pokémon Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise. Will Ash manage to defeat the three of them?...

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Female Trainer
• Park Warden

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Tauros

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Politoed (Misty's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Smoochum (Female trainer's; nicknamed Josephine)
• Venusaur
• Charizard
• Blastoise

Trivia

• This episode aired in the US exactly one year and one day from its Japanese airing.
• The English title to this episode is based on the saying One Trick Pony.
• This is the first time Jessie uses a Charizard in a battle. The other is in Grating Spaces.
• When Blastoise gets attacked by Pikachu's Thunderbolt, Jessie commands it to use Withdraw and this move protects Blastoise from being hurt. However, Thunderbolt is a special move in all generations and using a Defense-raising move could not protect it from Thunderbolt.
• Misty remarks that Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise are the fully evolved forms of Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle, all Pokémon he has owned. To be more specific, Ash has even owned a Charizard itself, as his Charmander eventually evolved into Charizard.

Errors

• In the beginning of the episode, Ash battled a female trainer with a Smoochum with the nickname Josephine. Later, when Pikachu attacks the Smoochum, it can be heard saying "Jo", part of its nickname, rather than its name.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Tel est pris qui croyait prendre
• German. Abenteuer im Park!
• Hebrew: תעלול מזוייף ta'alul mezuyaf
• Italian: Uno strano parco
• Mandarin: 競技公園VS水箭龜、噴火龍、妙蛙花
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Um Truque Falso!
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Pilla un Pokémon sorpresa
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Un gran enfrentamiento!

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