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The [[Eevee brothers|three brothers]] who are hosting the party, Sparky, Rainer, and Pyro, see Ash and his friends with {{p|Eevee}}, and says that that Eevee is the star of the party. They call for their youngest brother, Mikey, who is Eevee's trainer. The brothers, who each own one of the Eevee stone evolutions, mention that the only way to win battles is for Mikey to evolve his Pokémon. Mikey says that he doesn't care about battles, which makes his brothers and their Pokémon mad, and they push Mikey even harder about which of the Eevee evolutions is stronger. Brock comments that the family sure is competitive, especially when they try to push Ash to evolve Pikachu and Brock to evolve Vulpix.

Mikey's brothers come up and ask Mikey if he has made his decision yet. Misty tells Mikey just to go right out and tell his brothers what he has wanted to say. As Mikey is about to tell his brothers what he has decided, sparks on the ground go off by everyone. Team Rocket arrives in their balloon and does their motto while eating all of the party food. {{TP|James|Weezing}} then uses {{m|SmokeScreen}} over everyone. Ash brings out {{AP|Pidgeotto}} to use {{m|Gust}} to blow the SmokeScreen away. Once the smoke clears, everyone realizes that all the Pokémon (except Misty's Psyduck, much to her annoyance), the evolution stones, and the food are all missing.

===Debuts===

====Pokémon debuts====

* {{p|Eevee}}

* {{p|Jolteon}}

* {{p|Flareon}}

=====English dub debuts=====

* {{p|Ninetales}}

* {{p|Jolteon}} ([[Eevee brothers|Sparky]]'s; debut)

* {{p|Flareon}} ([[Eevee brothers|Pyro]]'s; debut)

* {{p|Raichu}}

* {{p|Vileplume}}

* {{p|Poliwhirl}} (evolves)

==Trivia==

* The episode aired as a one-hour special (放送再開スペシャル（放送再開スペシャル やっとあえるね！）１時間{{j|SP}}) with ''[[EP039|Pikachu's Good-Bye]]'', when Pokémon came back on the air.

* Rainer warns Mikey that he could lose his Trainer qualification as a result of losing his Eevee. Mikey is clearly younger than Ash and should not have a Trainer qualification yet.

* Misty refers to ''[[EP014|Electric Shock Showdown]]'' when she tells Mikey that Pikachu decided not to evolve using a Thunder Stone.

* This episode is featured on ''Volume 6: Eevee'' from [[Viz Media]]'s {{OBP|Pokémon All-Stars|Region 1}} series.

* {{p|Arcanine}} is the only [[Generation I]] stone evolution (not including {{evostone|Moon Stone}} evolutions) Pokémon not to appear in this episode.

* Because [[EP038]] never aired outside of Japan, this episode marks the anime debut of {{p|Ninetales}} in the English dub.

===Errors===

* When Misty offers a plate of sandwiches to Mikey, the food position changes orientation as the camera rotates to Mikey's point of view.

* When Misty is talking to Mikey, Pikachu's left ear is missing.

* When Misty asks why Team Rocket couldn't have taken Psyduck along with the other Pokémon, her shorts are all blue. They should have been light blue on the bottom.

* In the picture that Psyduck takes, Raichu's normally white belly is orange.

* When the brothers get angry at Mikey's disinterest in battling, Vaporeon's ears are blue instead of yellow.

* When Jessie stops blowing the whistle, the sound is still heard. However, it could be an echo.

* When Jolteon uses {{m|Pin Missile}}, the animation of the needles freezes for a second.

===Dub edits===

==In other languages==

|zh_cmn={{tt|伊布四兄弟|Four Eevee Brothers}}

|cs={{tt|Eevee bratři|Eevee brothers}}

|nl={{tt|De Strijdende Eevee Broers|The Battling Eevee Brothers}}

|fi={{tt|Taistelevat Eevee-veljekset|The battling Eevee brothers}}

|de={{tt|Die ungleichen Brüder|The dissimilar brothers}}

|he=האחים איווי {{tt|ha'achim Eevee|The Eevee brothers}}

|hu={{tt|A változó Eevee|The Changing Eevee}}

|it={{tt|L'importante non è vincere|It's less important to win}}{{tt|*|Original 2000 dub}} <br> {{tt|I fratelli Eevee|The Eevee brothers}}{{tt|*|2014 K2 TV dub}}

|no={{tt|De kjempende Eevee-brødrene|The battling Eevee brothers}}

|pt_br={{tt|Irmãos da Pesada|Hard-to-Win Brothers}}

|pt_eu={{tt|Os Irmãos Batalhadores Eevee|The Battling Eevee Brothers}}

|ru={{tt|Четыре брата Эви|Eevee's four brothers}}

|es_la={{tt|¡Los belicosos hermanos Eevee!|The bellicose Eevee brothers!}}

|es_eu={{tt|Los combatientes hermanos Eevee|The battling Eevee brothers}}

|sv={{tt|Eeveebröderna|The Eevee brothers}}

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[[Category:Episodes written by Atsuhiro Tomioka|040]]

[[Category:Episodes storyboarded and directed by Osamu Inoue|040]]

[[Category:Episodes animated by Shin'ichirō Kajiura|040]]

[[Category:Episodes focusing on Misty|040]]

[[fr:EP040]]

[[it:EP040]]

[[ja:無印編第40話]]

[[pl:EP040]]

[[zh:EP039]]