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'''Takin' It on the Chinchou''' (Japanese: '''たびだてうみへ！チョンチーぎょうれつ！！''' ''Set Out to the Sea! Line of {{tt|Chonchie|Chinchou}}!!''), is the 212th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 23, 2001 and in the United States on September 28, 2002.

==Blurb==

<i>On their way to the Whirl Cup competition, Ash and friends are fortunate enough to pass a small mountain village just as an annual Chinchou migration is about to occur. Long ago seismological forces had combined to lift the mountain out of the depths of the sea, bringing along with it the undersea nesting ground of these Chinchou. Guided by instinct, these sea Pokémon continue to lay eggs there even though the land is now above water. Ash and friends join a father and son appointed this year by the village to protect the Chinchou on their journey—and it's a good thing these Pokémon Trainers were along because it turns out Team Rocket has designs on the migrating Chinchou as well.</i>

At Blue Lagoon, it looks like a festival is going on. Ash is at the [[Pokémon Center]] calling {{an|Professor Oak}} to get any information about this place. It appears that the island was made when an underwater mountain came up, its crater trapping the water. The festival going on is when the Chinchou make their journey from Blue Lagoon to the ocean. Ash offers to help out with the journey, after all, it's a long ways down.

Seeing there's no way to get across the river, the two parties decide they should go a separate way to the ocean. After a while, Bright gets tired and stops, all the other Chinchou feel tired for some reason. Dayton thinks maybe they should get some water, it helped them before. So Ash gets out Totodile and says to use {{m|Water Gun}}, but Totodile thinks it's an attack, so he aims directly, Ash stops him just before the attack. Totodile now gets the idea and shoots the water straight up. The rain effect energizes all the Chinchou and it seems everything is good to go. They come across a mountain pass as the night passes on. Dayton steps on a loose rock and falls down, way down into the valley below. Ash tries calling a few times to see if he's still there, but no answer.

Dayton wakes up at the bottom, now feeling lost as there's no other way back up. Ash continues to call as he walks by, but Bright senses something and makes his way down a path into the valley. Dayton starts to hear the Chinchou and then he sees the light they produce and finally meets up with Ash. They make one last walk through the forest and finally come up to the beach, where Brock, Misty, and the others are already there. The Chinchou start to run towards each other but as soon as they meet up, they get caught in a pitfall! When the dust clears, Team Rocket in their balloon has caught the Chinchou! [[James]] sends out {{TP|James|Weezing}} and it does {{m|SmokeScreen}}, creating a thick cover for their escape. Pikachu tries using {{m|ThunderShock}} but can't manage to hit them. Seeing that they can't find them, Dayton yells to Bright to shine his light so they can see where they might be. The Chinchou start to make a bright light and it seeps through the smoke. Ash sends out {{AP|Bayleef}} and Totodile. Totodile makes a hole in the smoke with Water Gun, followed by Bayleef using {{m|Razor Leaf}} to cut the cages. It doesn't seem to work. There might be still a chance, so Dayton yells to the Chinchou to use Thunder Wave. The Chinchou start to build up electricity and soon enough, the cage breaks and they land in the ocean. Pikachu gives them a Thunderbolt followed by all the Chinchou using an amplified Spark, sending the Rockets sky high.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket float in the ocean, waiting for something to help them. They see a bunch of yellowish bulbs and think rescue has come. When they jump on it, it was really the Chinchou, and they give them the last shock.

==Major events==

* {{an|Professor Oak}}

* [[Dayton]]

===Pokémon===

* Like in previous episodes, Wobbuffet can be heard when Team Rocket blasts off, even though it was not seen, and was most likely still in its Poké Ball.

* {{Ash}} pluralises {{p|Chinchou}} as "Chinchous". However, names of Pokémon are never pluralized with an S, so the correct term would simply be "Chinchou".

===Dub edits===

|es_eu={{tt|Acompañando a los Chinchou|Traveling with the Chinchou}}

|pl={{tt|Prowadź nas, Chinchou!|Lead us, Chinchou!}}

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[[Category:Episodes written by Hideki Sonoda|212]]

[[Category:Episodes storyboarded and directed by Yūji Asada|212]]

[[Category:Episodes animated by Masaaki Iwane|212]]

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[[ja:無印編第212話]]

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