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'''Island of the Giant Pokémon''' (Japanese: '''きょだいポケモンのしま！？''' ''Island of the Giant Pokémon!?'') is the 17th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 22, 1997 and in United States on September 30, 1998.

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After the attack caused by a group of {{p|Gyarados}} in [[EP016|the last episode]], {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} end up on an island, where they realize that four of Ash's {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}, including {{AP|Pikachu}}, are missing. On another side of the island, [[Jessie]] and [[James]] are awakened by a {{p|Krabby}} to find their Pokémon, including {{MTR}}, are missing. They try to call for help in a phone booth, but they soon remember they don't have any money. On another part of the island, a separated Pikachu finds the {{i|Poké Ball}}s of the separated Pokémon and releases {{AP|Bulbasaur}}, {{AP|Charmander}}, and {{AP|Squirtle}}. They then see a {{p|Slowpoke}} fishing in the sea with its tail. Pikachu and Charmander decide to ask for help but with little result while Bulbasaur and Squirtle relax on the beach.

While trying to find Ash and the others, Ash's Pokémon are found by {{TRT}}'s Pokémon, {{TP|James|Koffing}}, {{TP|Jessie|Ekans}} and {{MTR}}. Meowth tells Koffing and Ekans to attack Ash's Pokémon, only to find out they won't battle for him because he is not their master. They also tell him that they are not bad guys and only take bad orders from their masters, much to Meowth's dismay, leaving him unable to battle Ash's Pokémon. Each side tells the other about their missing Trainers and Koffing and Ekans get visibly upset when Bulbasaur mentions that their Trainers may have abandoned them. Pikachu immediately refutes the very idea, telling Bulbasaur that Ash would never do something like that. The two sets of Pokémon join together to find their Trainers. Meanwhile, Meowth is tied up for what he has done to Pikachu and the others in the past. While they are eating, a giant {{p|Rhydon}} frightens them. The Pokémon escape, accidentally leaving Meowth tied up. Pikachu unties Meowth so he can escape. Meowth shows no gratitude for Pikachu's action, instead pushing him and saying that he could have got out himself. At the same time, Ash, {{an|Misty}} and {{an|Brock}} are being chased by a giant {{p|Zapdos}}. They soon elude it and decide to rest for the night. Ash vows to find his Pokémon no matter what. Meanwhile, Jessie and James are being chased by a huge {{p|Moltres}}. They run into a sign and are both knocked out, causing them to escape the Moltres.

The next day, Team Rocket runs back to the phone booth and Jessie makes a phone call. When James tells her that they don't have money, she says they are calling {{an|Giovanni|the boss}} by collect. They annoy him with their motto, causing him to hang up on them. Jessie and James then use a wire to get help by pulling on it while inside, hoping it will lead to the phone company. They see a {{p|Pikachu}} and decide to catch it, not realizing until it is too late that it is in fact a giant Pikachu. At the same time, Ash and company run behind a rock after being attacked by a giant {{p|Charizard}}. Meanwhile, the Pokémon, still searching for Ash and Team Rocket (and having agreed to a truce until they find them), come across a giant {{p|Blastoise}}. Squirtle is forced to ask it for directions by the other Pokémon, something that it's not too happy to do. Squirtle tries to start up a conversation with the giant Blastoise but it gets attacked by its {{m|Hydro Pump}}. They then see a {{p|Venusaur}} and Squirtle this time asks Bulbasaur to seek help from it as Squirtle thinks it's one of Bulbasaur's relatives. Bulbasaur is too afraid to ask the giant Venusaur and so says that it's an orphan and has no family, to which Squirtle decides to call it a "coward." Team Rocket, still pulling the telephone wire, are now being chased by a huge {{p|Kabutops}}. They decide to jump into a rail cart to get away. It starts moving but begins to head backwards toward the Kabutops, rather than away from it. It gets its foot tied in the wire and is dragged after Team Rocket. Then Ash and friends find the giant Pikachu, which is then knocked down because of Team Rocket and the trailing wire on the rail cart. Ash and friends fall into the cart with Team Rocket inside. Then they see their Pokémon chased by a giant Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur. The Pokémon manage to jump to their Trainers and are at last reunited. Then the cart is sent flying into the air because of a giant loop in the rail tracks causing them to fly and crash into the giant Zapdos which they then discover to be robotic. Soon all the other giant robot Pokémon crash into each other and lie broken in a massive pile on the beach. Then the rail cart crashes into the water. A Gyarados shaped boat approaches the island. Inside, a woman introduces what appears to be tourists on the boat to Pokémon Island, however on noticing the damaged Pokémon, apologizes and then makes a call. It is revealed that the island is actually an attraction park owned by Team Rocket's boss, Giovanni, who isn't too happy with the destruction of Pokémon Land.

Ash and his friends continue on, ending up in [[Porta Vista]]. Meanwhile, the Slowpoke from earlier in the episode is still sitting on the rocks. It stands up, revealing a {{p|Shellder}} attached to its tail. The newly evolved {{p|Slowbro}} looks forward and says its name proudly.

* [[Jessie]] and [[James]] reveal that {{TP|Jessie|Ekans}} and {{TP|James|Koffing}} were given to them as {{wp|chūgen}} (the Ghost Festival) and {{jwp|歳暮|oseibo}} (Year-End gift giving) presents, respectively.

* Despite Ekans explicitly stating that there was no such thing as an evil Pokémon in this episode, future episodes disproved that idea, most notably {{p|Togepi}} in ''[[DP142|Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!]]'' and {{an|Malamar}} in ''[[Pokémon the Series: XY]]''.

* Years later in [[Pokémon Masters EX]], it would be specified that the one who gave {{TP|James|Koffing}} to James as an oseibo gift was Giovanni.

[[File:Giant Pokémon.png|thumb|210px|The mechanical Blastoise's miscolored jaw]]

* One of Squirtle's captions does not capitalize Pokémon, thus leaving it as "pokémon".

** Also, as Pikachu stumbles across Ash's Poké Balls, he says "Poké Balls" without the accented "é", making it "Poke Balls".

* When Team Rocket are about to use the brakes on the cart, they say "pull", but they push the lever.

* After all the Pokémon jumped in the moving cart, when Jessie and James are hugging Koffing and Ekans, their gloves are missing.

* When the Pokémon jump into the moving cart, Misty catches Squirtle and Brock catches Charmander and Bulbasaur. However, when the cart falls towards the water, Misty is shown holding Charmander while Brock is holding Squirtle and Bulbasaur.

* When James is explaining about their recent run of bad luck, Jessie's earrings and lipstick are gone.

* At the very end, when Brock, Ash, and Misty are seen walking a path, Ash's gloves are missing. Just afterward they reappear, only to disappear once more as the three are running towards Porta Vista.

* When showing that the Pokémon were running on the right side of the cart, when the Pokémon jumped, they were shown jumping from the left.

* When the group fell into the water, Charmander was still out of its {{i|Poké Ball}} and its tail was completely submerged, yet the flame did not go out. This happened again, as a Charizard, in ''[[EP134|Charizard's Burning Ambitions]]''.

** In addition, Ekans and Koffing are missing as the cart flies off the rails and falls into the water.

* The word Oden is removed from the stand.

** Also, the scene where the Pokémon were at the Oden was not translated. The translation of the scene is as follows:

:* There was also a subtitle that told the time.

* In the {{pmin|Poland|Polish}} dub on [[Netflix]], the Pokémon speech read by the [[narrator]] in the original Polish dub was removed and replaced with subtitles.