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Remember That Episode?: Sparks Fly for Magnemite

• Sparks Fly for Magnemite (Japanese: コイルはでんきネズミのユメをみるか！？ Do Coil Dream of Electric Mice!?) is the 30th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 21, 1997 and in the United States on October 16, 1998.
• In this episode, Ash, Misty, and Brock arrive in Gringey City a polluted city. Ash notices then that his Pikachu is acting weird as its face is red. They then go to Pokémon Center to treat it when the local Nurse Joy dismisses it as as a cold. She then suggests that they leave Pikachu there for the night. As she is treating Pikachu the power to goes out.
• This episode marks the debut of the following Pokémon: Muk, Magnemite, Magneton, Fearow, Growlithe andNidoran♀.
• The Japanese title is a reference to a book by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The next time the franchise would refer to the book is the creation of Mareep and its evolution family.
• This is the first episode to reveal the problem that an Electric-typePokémon that has too much stored electricity has. It would later be expanded upon in Hoenn Alone! and subsequent episodes.
• Near the end of the episode, when the group is talking to Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, there is a bunch of Pokémon beside them. Of them, there are two Pokémon, Raticate and Fearow, that appear very small for their size.