S1.E4

Samurai shonen no chouse nichi!

Episode aired Sep 11, 1998
TV-Y
22m

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James Carter Cathcart and Veronica Taylor in Pokémon (1997)

Anime Hand-Drawn Animation Quest Action Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi

While still traveling through the Viridian Forest, Ash and Misty find a Pokemon trainer named Samurai, who has been challenging all of the trainers from Pallet Town.While still traveling through the Viridian Forest, Ash and Misty find a Pokemon trainer named Samurai, who has been challenging all of the trainers from Pallet Town.While still traveling through the Viridian Forest, Ash and Misty find a Pokemon trainer named Samurai, who has been challenging all of the trainers from Pallet Town.

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Rikako Aikawa

Caterpie
(voice)
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Inuko Inuyama

Nyarth
(voice)

Unshô Ishizuka

Narrator
(voice)

Rodger Parsons

Narrator
(English version)
(voice)
(as Ken Gates)

Mayumi Izuka

Kasumi
(voice)
(as Mayumi Iizuka)

Megumi Hayashibara

Pidgeotto
(voice)
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Rica Matsumoto

Satoshi
(voice)

Ted Lewis

James
(English version)
(voice)

Rachael Lillis

Misty
(English version)
(voice)
(as Rachel Lillis)
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Shin'ichirô Miki

Weedle
(voice)
(as Shinichiro Miki)

Ikue Ôtani

Pikachu
(voice)
(as Ikue Otani)

Matthew Sussman

Meowth
(English version)
(voice)
(as Nathan Price)

Eric Stuart

Metapod
(English version)
(voice)

Nick Stellate

Pokédex
(English version)
(voice)
(as Nicholas James Tate)

Veronica Taylor

Ash Ketchum
(English version)
(voice)

James Carter Cathcart

Samurai
(English version)
(voice)
(as Jimmy Zoppi)

Storyline

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Trivia
Ash's Metapod evolves into Butterfree and learns the move Sleep Powder.

Goofs
Ash puts several Beedrill to sleep with Butterfree's Sleep Powder attack. It seems unlikely an aspiring young trainer like Ash who wants to fill up his Pokédex would leave them sleeping there and not capture a single one.

Quotes
Misty: This whole forest is crawling with slimy, disgusting Pokémon. I'd wish they'd all just bug off!

Alternate versions
In 1998, a company called 4Kids Entertainment bought Pokemon and made several edits to almost every episode such as:
The opening themes in the original Japanese versions were changed to new themes in the English version.
Referring to rice balls as "donuts".
Extra music was added to fill silence in the series.
Some of the dialogue was edited to change the meaning.
Japanese text is mostly painted out.
Some scenes were cut out of the English version (such as James's breasts scene in "Beauty and the Beach").
Some scenes are switched around.

Connections
Edited into Pokémon: Battle on the St. Annu! (1997)

Soundtracks
Pokémon Theme
(first theme song)
Written by John Siegler & John Loeffler
Performed by Jason Paige

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10/10

A fun diversion

I have to say I thought this episode was pretty fun.

The ideas here are zany enough to work And be entertaining:

A random samurai fetishist with a little net who wants to battle Ash
a ridiculous metapod v metapod battle of hardening (proving that the samurai boy and Ash are equally inept at Pokémon battles)
an insect plot to kidnap Ash's metapod (so cute)
weedles chewing through team rocket's box
a shrieking butterfree shooting out sleep spores

This Is pretty much a non essential episode, but I found it to be a fun one.