EP019
Tentacool & Tentacruel
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Tentacool & Tentacruel (Japanese: メノクラゲドククラゲ Menokurage Dokukurage) is the 19th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 5, 1997 and in the United States on October 1, 1998.
Synopsis
Misty spots an injured Horsea in the water as she, Ash, and Brock wait for the next boat to the mainland. The Horsea seems to be communicating a warning, but Misty doesn't understand it and tries to capture it. Before she captures the Horsea, though, there's an explosion and a boat is destroyed. Misty immediately sends her Template:Type2 Pokémon - Staryu, Starmie, and Goldeen to rescue the sailors that have been flung into the ocean. Brock grabs a nearby boat and heads out to assist in the rescue effort. The sailors are mum about what caused their ship to explode.
Later, Ash and his friends meet Nastina, who is the spitting image of Brutella from the previous episode. She explains her plans of building an exclusive hotel on the ocean (literally, perched on a coral reef) for wealthy tourists. However, her building plans are upsetting the local Tentacool and Tentacruel, who've been attacking her construction site recently. She wants the Pokémon exterminated and offers a million dollar reward, which Ash and Brock are eager to accept. Misty angrily rejects Nastina's offer. She then explains her love of Water Pokémon to Ash and Brock, who don't quite understand her. Nastina then makes a public announcement offering a million dollars to anyone who exterminates the Tentacool and Tentacruel. The gang are nearly run over by the town's citizens, rushing to the beach to carry out Nastina's orders.
Team Rocket, who are always nearby, offer to help Nastina. They plan on using their "Super Secret Stun Sauce" on the Pokémon and then selling them at a fish market for more money. However, their submarine is soon surrounded by angry Tentacool, one of whom blasts the stun sauce with a ray gun-type attack. The sauce lands on another Tentacool, which then morphs into a gigantic Tentacruel and begins a citywide rampage. Meowth is captured by the large Tentacruel and is used as its mouthpiece. It explains that it's destroying the city in much the same way Nastina has been destroying its coral home. The Horsea that Misty saw earlier pleads with the Tentacruel to stop, but is swatted away by a tentacle. Ash, Misty and Brock thus send out their Pokémon to stop the Tentacruel.
The Tentacruel doesn't understand why the Pokémon would fight on the side of the humans, but then Misty stops it in its tracks. She's managed to get to the roof of a building and pleads with it to stop its rampage. She tells the Tentacruel that the humans now understand that what they were doing was wrong, and that the hotel won't be built on the coral reef. Tentacruel replies that if their homes are attacked again they will not stop the destruction, then drops Meowth onto a nearby Ferris Wheel, which then collapses, and then slowly goes into the ocean, followed by the other Tentacool. Nastina attempts once again to destroy the Tentacruel, but is blasted out of her tank by Horsea's attack and by the Tentacruel's tentacle. She is thrown into the air and finally lands on Brutella, destroying Brutella's restaurant in the process.
Ash, Misty and Brock finally board a boat to the mainland. The Horsea decides to be a new member of Misty's team and so, Misty captures it. She declares that "Horsea's the cutest!" and does Ash's victory pose, which annoys him. The sun sets on another adventure.
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- The hotel that Nastina plans to build atop a coral reef strongly resembles the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the Bahamas.
- This episode marks the first time that a Pokémon speaks through Meowth. The second time was with Haunter and Gastly in A Shipful of Shivers and the third was by Deoxys in the one-hour special Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis!.
- This episode was banned for a few years following the September 11th terrorist attacks. Kids' WB! refused to air this episode due to the destruction of buildings. However, it was once again aired when Cartoon Network began airing the series. It was also included with the release of the Pokémon: Indigo League DVD pack.
- This is one of the few where Zubat does not keep its Japanese voice.
- This is the first episode with Yūsaku Takeda as animation director.
- This is the first episode where Pikachu rides another one of Ash's Pokémon.
- It is said that Tentacruel speaks through Meowth using telepathy. However, Tentacruel is not a psychic Pokémon and the only psychic moves it can learn are Barrier, Rest, and Mirror Coat.
Errors
Dub edits
- Due to Beauty and the Beach being skipped over in the dub, certain things have been changed.
- The dub implies that they were still in Porta Vista, when in the original, it's actually revealed that they are in a completely different town (Porta Vista is Acapulco, and the town they are at was Hatoba Port.)
- The scene involving Nastina's appearance was rewritten. Firstly, they replaced her baba speech impediment, then the scene where she tells Ash about her new resort is changed completely. Originally, Ash apologizes to Nastina for wrecking the restaurant (referencing what happened in the prior episode), but she gets upset at Ash for being mistaken for Brutella.
- On a semi-related note, in the same scene, Nastina's handmen had a Kanji sign on the fans originally, but was removed from the dub.
- James and Jessie's meeting with Nastina had been rewritten. In the original version, Jessie and James asked if she was Brutella from "Acapulco", and she fires the cannon as she was offended at being mistaken for her. In the dub, Jessie and James say "Look at that hair!" and "Disaster!", respectively, and Nastina shoots the cannon at them, telling them that she doesn't need their beauty tips.
- Moe's restaurant's sign was erased in the dub.
- The reward for stopping the tentacool is $1,000,000 in the dub, and 1,000,000 yen in the original.
- Virtually all of the Japanese characters (save for シーフード) are removed from the dub.
- The sign on Team Rocket's barrel was changed to a Tentacool under a "do not" sign.
- The lettering for the Tentacool stand is translated to Tentacool on the top, and replaced with three Tentacool on the bottom), and to R's on the left and right side.
- In the scene where Ash tells Misty not to try and protect the Tentacool because there's a tidal wave coming in had Ash calling Misty an idiot in the Japanese version.
- Misty calls Horsea a "he" in the dub.
- Meowth has a similar voice to Giovanni in the dub, and an echoing voice in the original.
In other languages
- Dutch: Tentacool en Tentacruel
- European and Brazillian Portuguese: Tentacool e Tentacruel
- Finnish: Paha saa palkkansa
- French: Tentacool et Tentacruel
- Italian: Le creature marine
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Tentacool y Tentacruel!
- Russian: Тентакул и Тентакруэль
- Spanish: Tentacool y Tentacruel
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