EP119

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A Sappy Ending

EP119   げきとつ！へラクロスVSカイロス!! Collide! Heracross VS Kailios!!

First broadcast Japan October 28, 1999 United States October 28, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ニャースのパーティ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura No additional credits are available at this time.

A Sappy Ending (Japanese: げきとつ！へラクロスVSカイロス!! Collide! Heracross VS Kailios!!) is the 119th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 28, 1999 and in the United States on October 28, 2000.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and friends discover a forest where Pinsir invaders are causing heavy deforestation. Investigation reveals the root of the problem: Team Rocket is carelessly harvesting sap from a nearby wood, thereby upsetting the balance of nature...

Major events

• Ash captures a Heracross.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Heracross (Ash's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Woodrow

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Donphan

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's; debut)
• Lickitung (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Butterfree
• Pinsir
• Heracross (debut)

Trivia

• The English dub of this episode first aired exactly one year after the original did in Japanese.
• This episode was listed on Cartoon Network's website with an alternate title; Getting Buggy With it which, like another episode where Ash catches a Pokémon early on in a region, refers to the Will Smith song, Gettin Jiggy With It

In other languages

• Finnish: Ötökät uhkaavat
• French: Une fin juteuse
• German: Ein spezieller Freund
• Hebrew: השרף הנכסף hasaraf hanichsaf
• Italian: L'equilibrio naturale
• Portuguese:
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Uma História Melosa
  • European Portuguese: Um Final Suculento
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Un jugoso final
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡El bósque de Pinsir!

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