Talk:EP005

Latest comment: 9 April 2025 by SeafoamCastaway in topic Number of Brock's siblings

Brock's mom

When talking to Ash, Flint says "...Brock's heartbroken mother tried her best to hold things together but sadly she passed away..." but on the page about her it says she wandered away to train pokemon, leaving Brock in charge of his many siblings. Also she appears in HS01. Kulj (talk) 23:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Yes, and that's already mentioned in the Trivia sections on both this and Lola's page. What's your question? Pumpkinking0192 (talk) 01:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

oh, I should have checked that. I figured it could be used as an error for this episode. Kulj (talk) 01:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Ash's Red Eyes

Um... They're not red. They're a reddish brown. Which is Ash's eye-colour anyway. Me, Hurray! 11:05, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thunderbolt

Shouldn't we put that Pikachu learned Thunderbolt in this episode?? If I remember it correctly, he only used it after he was powered up by Brock's dad's machine.RBK (talk) 04:42, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

It's already on the page, both in the synopsis and under "Major events." Pumpkinking0192 (talk) 05:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Actually it states that Pikachu is revealed to know the move, not that he learns it,RBK (talk) 05:43, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Number of Brock's siblings

"Flint says that Brock has ten little brothers and sisters when he only has nine" is listed as an English dub-specific error. I heard about this while listening to episode 5 of Michael Haigney's Original Pokéman podcast, but when I checked the original Japanese, Flint/Munō unmistakably says

タケシには10人もの幼い兄弟がおってのう

Takeshi ni wa juu-nin mo no osanai kyoudai ga otte nou

Takeshi has ten younger siblings.

I'm not fluent in Japanese, but my understanding is that mo is simply emphasizing the large number here, which would mean Munō is literally saying that Brock has 10 siblings. If that's the case, this would be an error in the original script that propagated to the dub rather than an error introduced in the dub. Can anyone confirm this interpretation? SeafoamCastaway (talk) 19:35, 9 April 2025 (UTC)Reply