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The Kecleon Caper

EP205   カクレオンはどこにいる！？みえないポケモンにだいこんらん！ Where's Kakureon!? Huge Chaos Created By the Invisible Pokémon!

First broadcast Japan July 5, 2001 United States August 17, 2002

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター (Whiteberry) Ending 前向きロケット団！

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi 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

Screenshots on Filb.de

The Kecleon Caper (Japanese: カクレオンはどこにいる！？みえないポケモンにだいこんらん！ Where's Kakureon!? Huge Chaos Created By the Invisible Pokémon!) is the 205th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 5, 2001 and in the United States on August 17, 2002.

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

Blurb

Ash and his friends stop at an air station to get a closer look at the Leviathan 2, a luxury dirigible taking passengers on a flight around the world. The ship has landed to refuel and the crew needs medical assistance for some passengers' Pokémon, so Brock volunteers to help. The passengers are two wealthy young ladies, Madison and Alexa, whose two Kecleon are suffering from a little airsickness. Brock's remedies make sure the Kecleon, called Greenie and Reddie, are back to normal in no time flat.

Greenie and Reddie are taken back to their stateroom, which Team Rocket then tries to rob of valuables. Greenie snatches a jewelry box back from Team Rocket and the Kecleon flee the room. As reports come in that the Kecleon are running around the ship, our heroes pitch in to help find them—Team Rocket is on the trail too, hoping to get their hands on that jewelry box. The chase leads everyone out of the dirigible, into the air station terminal, and then right back out again.

As Greenie and Reddie exit the terminal, they're surrounded by our heroes and the dirigible's crew. Team Rocket catches up to everyone and tries to grab them. Now it's clear that Greenie and Reddie weren't being mischievous, they were trying to keep the jewelry away from Team Rocket! Their owners join Ash in battling Team Rocket and soon Team Rocket goes blasting off, the jewelry box is recovered, and the dirigible can finish refueling and leave.

Plot

As Ash and his friends are walking along a road towards the next town, a blimp flies over them. They follow it to the airstrip where a lot of other people have already gathered around. A man explains that the blimp, the Blue May, is a luxury cruise and is two hundred meters in length. The captain then suddenly walks out and asks for anyone who knows how to apply medical treatment, prompting Ash and his friends to volunteer.

They board the blimp and are introduced to two women, Madison and Alexa, whose Kecleon, Greeny and Reddy, are being rather odd. They reveal themselves, seemingly tired, and lazily hop off the vase to the ground. Brock gives a quick examination and then gets out some medicine. After giving one each to the Kecleon, he provides a piece of homemade Pokémon food; this combination restores their health. Meanwhile, Team Rocket plans to hijack the blimp for their own recreational use, but when they breach the cockpit, they are unable to drive it. As a result, they change their plan and decide to loot the blimp.

As Ash and Misty show their Pokémon to Madison and Alexa, Team Rocket finds Madison and Alexa's room and starts rummaging through it, with Meowth eventually finding the women's jewelry box. Greeny suddenly snatches it with his tongue and keeps it in his mouth, prompting Team Rocket to attack him. However, both Greeny and Reddy escape after an attendant accidentally stumbles upon the scene. Soon, Ash's group learns that the Kecleon are missing, whilst Team Rocket disguises themselves as attendants to sneak by the blimp.

Ash and the others are walking down a metallic hallway when Pikachu notices a red zigzag shape on the wall. They search a dining hall, where Pikachu notices another red zigzag that is moving slightly. It turns out to be Greeny, who flees.

Team Rocket finds a storage room and looks inside, finding Reddy. Greeny then runs by, followed by the gang. Reddy and Greeny both run off and Team Rocket is forced to hide into a crate. Eventually, Wobbuffet unintentionally gets released, breaking the box.

Then, Ash's group heads outside the blimp and sees Greeny up on the balloon. Brock goes after him and gets to the top of the blimp, but Greeny crawls away from his reach. Frustrated, Brock jumps onto the balloon itself. Greeny simply continues climbing up, but Team Rocket catches sight of him and it runs off. Greeny eventually stops at a steep part of the blimp, which makes Team Rocket slip off the balloon.

The two Kecleon soon meet, climb down, and run into the airport terminal, with the group, Madison, and Alexa giving chase. They soon decide to split up to cover more ground. Meanwhile, Greeny and Reddy run into Team Rocket in another storage room. In response, they start tossing their contents in their mouths back and forth very fast, with Reddy ending up with the box. Brock also finds both Kecleon, and he chases after them for a while before meeting up with Ash and Misty. They chase them back outside and both Kecleon get cornered. However, Team Rocket attacks before Greeny and Reddy could be captured.

Ash sends out Bayleef against Jessie's Arbok. Bayleef misses with Vine Whip and Arbok counters with Headbutt. Poliwhirl then comes out and uses its own Headbutt on Arbok. James sends out Victreebel, which uses Razor Leaf. Greeny and Reddy join the battle and deflects the leaves with their tails. Arbok goes for a Wrap, but Reddy uses a Lick attack to stop Arbok, which also releases the jewelry box. Meowth goes after it, but Poliwhirl attacks him with Double Slap. Victreebel moves in, but Greeny uses a Lick attack on Victreebel. Then, both Kecleon use Psybeam to push the two Pokémon back to their owners. Bayleef next uses another Vine Whip and tosses Team Rocket out into the sky.

The blimp takes off soon afterward and the group heads off to Olivine City for their next destination.

Major events

• Misty's Poliwhirl is revealed to know Headbutt.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Kecleon

Characters

Humans

Pocket Monster TV

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Madison and Alexa

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Vaporeon (US and international), Pineco (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's; Shiny)
• Poliwhirl (Misty's)
• Pineco (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Kecleon (Madison's; Reddy; debut)
• Kecleon (Alexa's; Greeny; debut)

Trivia

• This episode marks the first anime appearance of a Generation III Pokémon.
• This is also the first episode to feature Abilities.
• The purple Kecleon shown in this episode is not a normally colored Pokémon. However, its color is also not that of a Shiny Pokémon.
  • The Kecleon featured in this episode are the same colors as those that run the Kecleon shops in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. However, the purple Kecleon in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series has green-colored outlines on its face, while the purple Kecleon in the anime retains the same colored outlines as normal Kecleon.
• This was the last episode to air before Celebi: The Voice of the Forest debuted in Japanese theaters.
  • Incidentally, a Kecleon would appear in that movie's Pikachu short, Pikachu's PikaBoo, narrowly failing to make Kecleon one of the few Pokémon introduced in the movies or the side series before the main series.

Errors

• After Noctowl blows Weezing's Smokescreen away, Pikachu disappears.
• When Team Rocket discusses their plans before deciding to go steal things, they think of the idea of stealing the whole blimp. However, when they are in the cockpit, Meowth says "I don't know how to drive a blimp, do you?" and they discard that idea. This contradicts the events of A Scare in the Air and Poké Ball Peril, in which they do just that.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Bulgarian		Лудориите на Кеклеон
Mandarin Chinese		變隱龍在哪裡？看不見的神奇寶貝，大混亂！
Czech		Kecleoní schovávaná
Dutch		De Kecleon Kaper
European French		Kecleon kleptomane
German		Das Luxus Luftschiff
Hebrew		פרשיית הקקלאוןparshiyat haKecleon
Hindi		Kecleon की शरारत Kecleon ki shararat *
Italian		Guai sul dirigibile
Polish		Zabawa w chowanego
Brazilian Portuguese		Cadê os Kecleons?
Spanish	Latin America	¡Los Kecleon saltarines!
	Spain	Buscando a los Kecleon

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