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'''Tentacool & Tentacruel''' (Japanese: '''メノクラゲドククラゲ''' ''{{tt|Menokurage Dokukurage|Tentacool Tentacruel}}'') 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.

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Later, Ash and {{ashfr}} meet [[Nastina]], who is the spitting image of [[Brutella]] from the [[EP018|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 {{p|Tentacool}} and {{p|Tentacruel}}, who've been attacking her construction site. 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. The trio make their way to Horsea, now healed by a [[Super Potion]], and Pikachu, who are enjoying a swim in a small pool. Misty finally understands Horsea's earlier ink drawings: they warned of the Tentacool and Tentacruel. Nastina then makes a public announcement offering the 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, and Nastina makes her way over to her loyal followers in a tank.

{{TRT}} eagerly offers to help Nastina and set out on their boat. 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 boat is soon surrounded by thousands of angry Tentacool, one of whom blasts the stun sauce with a ray gun-type attack and destroys the boat. The sauce lands on that same Tentacool, but instead of being stunned, it evolves into a Tentacruel hundreds of times the normal size of the breed, and promptly begins a citywide rampage. Tentacool overwhelm the land, while the giant Tentacruel causes a giant tidal wave that floods [[Porta Vista]]. {{MTR}} is captured by the large Tentacruel and is used as its mouthpiece. It explains that it is destroying the city in much the same way Nastina has been destroying its home, the coral reef. Horsea that Misty pleads with the Tentacruel to stop, but is swatted away by its tentacle, though {{AP|Pidgeotto}} manages to catch the small Pokémon and brings to Misty. Ash, Misty, and Brock send out their Pokémon to stop the Tentacruel, managing to return some of the Tentacool back to the ocean.

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 climbs 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 tosses {{MTR}} into a Ferris wheel in the previously destroyed amusement park, which then collapses and causes Meowth to reawaken. Tentacruel then slowly goes into the ocean, followed by the Tentacool. Nastina attempts once again to destroy the Tentacruel, but has her face blotched by Horsea's ink before being whacked into the air by the Tentacruel's tentacle. The giant Tentacruel calmly slips into the blue sea, and Misty promises that the townspeople will not forget. Meanwhile, Nastina crash-lands into Brutella's construction site of a restaurant and destroys it in the process.

As Ash, Misty, and Brock board a boat to the mainland, Misty reaffirms her love of Tentacool, much to Brock and Ash's confusion. Misty also reveals she caught Horsea, calling it out to proudly show it off. She then performs Ash's victory pose, which annoys him. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is in a bucket attached to the ship, wearily plotting for next time.

* {{an|Misty}} catches a {{p|Horsea}}.

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* Actual fish can be seen in the aquarium in [[Nastina]]'s vision. This is one of the few occasions real animals are seen onscreen.

* This episode marks the first time that a Pokémon communicates through {{MTR}}'s translations.

* There is a noticeable similarity between the scene where {{p|Tentacruel}} speaks through Meowth, and a scene from the 1996 movie ''{{wp|Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day}}'', in which a captive alien speaks through the body of a scientist. In both cases, a voiceless creature covered in tentacles telepathically speaks through another being in order to make its objectives known to humans.

* This is one of the few episodes where Zubat does not keep its Japanese voice. <!--Who did supply the voice to Brock's Zubat, anyways?-->

* This is the first episode where Pikachu rides another one of Ash's Pokémon.

* The book ''[[Return of the Squirtle Squad]]'' is partially based on this episode.

* Even though Pikachu was with Ash and the others when they first meet Nastina, he's later seen waiting in the pool with Horsea (whom we last saw was under a pier) as they return from that same meeting.

* In the shot where Team Rocket is being held by Tentacruel, the Tentacool beneath it are miscolored as light brown.

* During one scene of both the Tentacool speaking through {{MTR}} and the multiple Tentacool destroying the city, Tentacruel can be seen without Meowth in its tentacle.

* {{an|Brock}} states that it was Tentacruel using {{TRM}} as a puppet. However, while Tentacruel was holding Meowth, it was actually a {{p|Tentacool}} that was controlling him.

* In the scene when the Tentacool attached to Meowth states that the horde will return if their homes are attacked again, the Tentacool is gone.

* Brock's Zubat is shown to be capable of carrying Ash's Squirtle while flying, despite not having any visible way of doing so. This same scene is the last episode footage of the [[Pokémon Theme]].

* In the scene where Nastina is telling Team Rocket they have a lot of spunk, Ash's pupils are not in the right spots.

 

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* [[PokéRap]]: Day 4

** The scene involving [[Nastina]]'s appearance was rewritten. 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]].

** Moe's restaurant's sign was erased in the dub.

* The scene where Ash tells {{an|Misty}} not to try to protect the Tentacool because of an incoming tidal wave was changed from the Japanese version, which had Ash calling Misty an idiot.

* In the {{pmin|Sweden|Swedish}} dub, [[Nastina]] offers {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} ten million crowns instead one million.

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|he='טנטקול וטנטקרול {{tt|Tentacool veTentacruel|Tentacool and Tentacruel}}

|hi=Tentacool और Tentacruel {{tt|''Tenatcool aur Tentacruel''|Tentacool And Tentacruel}} {{tt|*|Same in CN dub and Hungama dub}}

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|ko=독파리, 왕눈해 미안해 {{tt|dokpali, wangnunhae mianhae|Tentacruel, Tentacool, Sorry}}

|tr={{tt|İyi Mürekkep Balığı ve Kötü Mürekkep Balığı|The Good Cuttlefish and the Bad Cuttlefish}}

[[zh:精灵宝可梦 第19集]]