AG009

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Taming of the Shroomish

AG009   EP283 怪奇！キノココ屋敷の謎！？ Bizarre! Mystery of the Kinococo Mansion!?

First broadcast Japan January 23, 2003 United States December 6, 2003

English themes Opening I Wanna Be A Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending そこに空があるから

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 宍戸久美子 Kumiko Shishido Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Taming of the Shroomish (Japanese: 怪奇！キノココ屋敷の謎！？ Bizarre! Mystery of the Kinococo Mansion!?) is the ninth episode of the Advanced Generation series and the 283rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 23, 2003 and in the United States on December 6, 2003.

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

Synopsis

After making it out of Petalburg Woods, we find our heroes in Rinshin Town. May wants to go window shopping, Ash wants to get something to eat, Brock needs to stock up on supplies and Max is all for Pokémon hunting. May and Brock go to the shops while Ash and Max go out to eat.

Meanwhile, Jessie, James and Meowth are working as manual laborers on a building site in the city, tearing down an old, disused mansion. The other workers are worried by what seems to be ghosts in the mansion.

May drags Brock off to look at fashion and accessories. He's extremely bored. He would rather be buying medicine and ingredients for Pokémon food, but May says that can wait. Eventually, he gets his stuff and they're walking through the streets when they hear a girl mention a curse. May is instantly interested and eager to hear the tale of a haunted mansion, where workers have been quitting because of strange happenings. Brock gets scared but she insists on going over to check out the "haunted house".

After eating a burger, Ash and Max head off to the alleyways in the city, where they peer in looking for Pokémon and spot a Shroomish, who doesn't look too happy. Max wants to feed it and make friends with it, so Ash hands over some Pokémon food. Shroomish is suspicious and uses Stun Spore; Ash and Max quickly back away. Afterwards, Ash takes out some of Brock's Pokémon food, stacks it on a piece of paper and sets it in front of the Shroomish. Shroomish still doesn't want to eat it, until Pikachu jumps down from Ash's shoulder and takes a piece to show that it's safe to eat. Shroomish tries the food and loves it.

Ash and Max are surprised because Shroomish is in the city instead of the forest, where it normally would be. They think it might have been separated from its Trainer and maybe they should take it to a Pokémon Center. Max takes out a handkerchief and ties it around the top of Shroomish's head, as a gift. Shroomish is very happy with this. Max picks up Shroomish and they head off.

Brock and May are inspecting the haunted mansion, and Brock comments that they really should let it go. May's still very excited about the prospect of ghosts.

Ash, Max, Pikachu and Shroomish stop in front of an old mansion. They're spotted by Team Rocket, and Jessie and James immediately drop the log they're holding to hatch plan to catch Pikachu. Meowth is left holding the log, which drops on top of him. Shroomish, still in Max's arms, gets very distressed and runs off. Ash and Max follow it. Shroomish goes into the mansion through a broken window. Ash and Max see May and Brock just outside where Shroomish went in, and they're surprised to meet each other there. They are explaining what happened when a man comes up to them and tells them that they should not be there. He says it's impossible that there could have been a Shroomish, explaining that when he was a boy and his grandfather owned the mansion there were Shroomish everywhere. He loved playing with them as a kid but they all went away as the forest disappeared. Ash and Max insist, so he decides he'll have to go inside and see for himself. The others follow him.

Inside, they find Shroomish saying "mish, mish" very sadly. Two other Shroomish emerge and they all start talking, looking frightened. Pikachu goes to talk to them, while the humans decide that they must be upset because they'll have no home when the mansion is torn down. Team Rocket turns up to try to capture Pikachu, with the help of Cacnea and Seviper. A whole herd of Shroomish stampede over them and use Stun Spore. Afterwards, Ash sees a picture on the table and they realize it's the man and his grandfather playing with the Shroomish.

Team Rocket decides they want revenge on the Shroomish and get hold of another vehicle. This one is airtight to stop the Stun Spores. They bash the mansion to force all the Shroomish out of the house, then pick them up with the machine one by one. The first Shroomish is angry and leads its comrades in a Stun Spore barrage, but since Team Rocket's vehicle is airtight, nothing gets through and that includes fresh air. The Stun Spores go off towards the city, but Brock's Forretress heads it off with a Rapid Spin attack.

Jessie and James start feeling weird from lack of oxygen so Meowth opens the windows. This lets in fresh air, but also the Stun Spore. They get stunned and then all the Shroomish use Leech Seed to tie them up. May's Torchic burns through Team Rocket's giant net/basket with its Ember attack to free the other Shroomish. Afterwards Pikachu uses thunder to defeat Team Rocket.

The man who owns the mansion explains it's too late to stop the destruction of the building. He says he'll replant the whole area full of trees so there will be a forest like there was before, and the Shroomish agree enthusiastically. Ash, May, Brock and Max wave goodbye to the man and the happy herd of Shroomish.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Alex

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who’s That Pokémon?: Snubbull

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Shroomish (Alex's)
• Machoke

Trivia

• The title of this episode is based on that of the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew.
• This episode marks the first of many times where Max befriends a Pokémon.
• Jessie and James says that "I think there's a fungus." and "And they're among us." when a herd of Shroomish came. Later Pokémon names are also based on this, Foongus and Amoonguss.

Errors

Cacnea's miscoloration

• James's Cacnea had the three dark green diamonds under its mouth and the four point shape at the top of its head colored black like its mouth when it was attacking the herd of Shroomish. It can also be seen for the top of its head during the first time the camera looks at Team Rocket after the start of the Stun Spore attack inside the mansion.
• In the first shot of May window shopping, the mannequins had heads. In the second shot, they didn't.
• Max says that they should stop the construction, when he should have said destruction.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		怪奇！怪奇蘑蘑菇大宅之謎？
Danish		Den Fortabte Shroomish
Dutch		Het temmen van de Shroomish!
Finnish		Kummituskartano
European French		Le manoir hanté
German		Die heimatlosen Knilz
Hebrew		לביית את השרומישים levayet et haShroomishim
Italian		La casa stregata
Polish		Oswoić Shroomisha
Portuguese	Brazil	Domando um Shroomish
	Portugal	Domesticar Um Shroomish
Spanish	Latin America	¡El rescate de Shroomish!
	Spain	La mansión de los Shroomish
Swedish		Rivningshuset

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