AG146
Fear Factor Phony
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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Fear Factor Phony (Japanese: エスパーVSゴースト！真夜中の決闘!? Psychic VS Ghost! Midnight Duel!?) is episode 146 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 6, 2005.
Synopsis
Having lost their way again, Max looks at his Pokenavi for the nearest Pokemon Center. Pikachu seems to notice something in the distance and dashs off while Ash tells Pikachu to wait up.
Pikachu has found an abandoned city while May is already frightened by the looks of the surroundings. Walking through the city, they arrive at a mine shaft inside of the city. A Haunter appears from within the cave as everyone runs away in fright. Nearby, Team Rocket is sitting atop a platform as Meowth notices everyone running away from the mine shaft. Meowth suggests that they should go inside of the mine shaft themselves. Reaching the bottom of the ground, Team Rocket venture into the same mine shaft. The same Haunter appears again as it seems to have no effect on them. When Haunter sticks its tounge out then Team Rocket runs off in fright. Ash and everyone have successfully escaped into a nearby building. Everyone is still highly upset from the sighting as Ash stands up slowly to see outside of a nearby window. Everything seems to be desolate as a soft shower envelops the city.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket never escaped the mine shaft and just fell to the ground falling unconscious. Jessie wakes noticing that they are still inside of the shaft and starts to wake up James. They begin to exit the mine but notice the rain outside and decide to adventure further within the mine. With Jessie in such a frightened state, Wobbuffet easily frightens her with his usual "greeting". Another strange sound emits from the shaft as the Haunter appears again. Frightening everyone, Wobbuffet scourches out of the shaft leaving everyone else behind. Still in a frightened state, Jessie and James still manage to release their pokemon in an effort to combat Haunter. Both Seviper and Cacnea are frightened by the Haunter and dash back to their masters.
Cacnea then launches a barrage of spikes at Haunter but they prove to be effect towards Haunter. Seviper then launches a devasting Iron Tail but easily goes through Haunter and makes contact with the shaft ceiling. Jessie then throws Meowth in one last effort and manages to hit the electrical box above which lights up the shaft and sends Haunter away. Jessie seems to be surprises that the light drove Haunter away. Further ahead in the shaft, a few ghost pokemon are hiding behind a barrel. Meowth releases his claws in effort to attack as the Haunter tries to reason with him.
Ash and everyone are still inside of the building now sleeping as May is still frightened from the Haunter event. A mysterious sound starts to emit from the nearby room which sends May into a further state of fright. May then goes to wake Ash but he is in a deep sleep. May then shouts waking everyone up. Waking up from their slumber, everyone continues down a hall until they reach a door where the music is coming from. Ash opens the door and discovers many psychic pokemon including Abra, Kirlia, Abra, and Hypno.
May then presses her hands on top of Max and Ash sending them falling into the room and alerting the nearby pokemon. The Abra hasn't escaped and is in a state of hynposis with a powerful psychic field around its body. As Ash starts to touch the Abra, his hand is forced back by the field. Max notices a picture underneath a couch the Abra is sitting on, which is a picture of the psychic pokemon and the miners of the now abandoned town. Abra then depicts a scene from the past from when the town was fluorishing which the miners abandoning the psychic pokemon.
Ash suggests that they should try to help the psychic pokemon as plates of Pokemon Food are setup on the table and Max then starts the music. Abra opens the door and after a few seconds the pokemon rush in. The ghost pokemon depict a story to Meowth between a everlasting battle between the ghost pokemon and the psychic pokemon. When the psychic pokemon try to enter the mine, the ghost pokemon form a figure of a gigantic Haunter leaving both sides in a battle. Still running from the scene, Wobbuffet hears the music from the psychic pokemon and notices the Kirlia dancing on the table. Wobbuffet develops a crush as he notices Kirlia's magestic movements, and rushes into the building. Wobbuffet then reveals a flower to Kirlia as which she then accepts sending Wobbuffet into a state of love.
A nearby explosion rocks the building, as the gigantic Haunter appears again. Gigantic arms eject from Haunter's body, snatching every psychic pokemon. After snatching Kirlia, Wobbuffet dashs after Kirlia and inside of the gigantic mecha. The ghost pokemon then reveal Team Rocket's new mecha with the scene being set with the usual "greeting". Team Rocket has acquired the power of the ghost pokemon with Wobbuffet rushing down to the nearby cage where the psychic pokemon are held captive. Wobbuffet tries to release the psychic pokemon by hitting the cage but proves to be ineffective. Wobbuffet then walks back a few feet and then rushes into the cage smashing it and releasing all of the psychic pokemon. Team Rocket is shocked that Wobbuffet helped the psychic pokemon and released them from the prison.
Meowth then directs the ghost pokemon to attack as they all begin forming shadow balls which then forms into a gigantic shadow ball and launches it towards the fleeing psychic pokemon. Kirlia springs into the air and blocks the shadow ball sending it rushing back towards Team Rocket's mecha and sending them blasting off into the sky again. Kirlia then notices the wilted flower that Wobbuffet handed her as the ghost pokemon are still ready to fight. Pikachu then launches a thunderbolt in the middle of the two fueding groups and tries to explain that they don't have to battle. Ash's speech proves to be ineffective as both sides are still ready to battle more than ever. Brock notices the nearby Abra and formulates a plan.
Abra is now outside with the rest of the psychic pokemon but now is emitting its shield around all of the psychic pokemon while they dance also blocking the sound of the music from the ghost pokemon. With both the psychic pokemon and ghost pokemon satisfied, another day and another adventure envelops upon our everlasting heroes. (Written by: bgt)
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash Ketchum
- May
- Brock
- Max
- Jessie
- James
- Miner (Seiyū: 坂口候一 Kōichi Sakaguchi)
- Boy (Seiyū: 半場友恵 Tomoe Hanba)
Pokémon
Trivia
- This episode debuts the new voice actors for the English version
- The Japanese title is an allusion to the (Japanese) title of EP024.
- The two paragraphs of text introducing the series in the OP animation has been restored.
- The structure of the Japanese broadcast changes to:
- First scene
- Opening theme
- Title card
- Part A
- Sponsor listing & commercials
- Part B
- Commercials
- Ending theme
- Pokémon Trivia Quiz question
- Commercials
- Next episode teaser
- Pokémon Trivia Quiz answer
- Sponsor listing & commercials
- Before this episode, it was: (to do: confirm)
- Trivia Quiz question
- Opening theme
- Sponsor listing & commercials
- Part A (title card after first scene)
- Commercials
- Part B
- Ending theme
- Commercials
- Next episode teaser
- Trivia Quiz answer / Oak's lecture
- Sponsor listing & commercials
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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