EP046

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EP046   ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!

First broadcast Japan May 28, 1998 United States February 27, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケットにファンタジー

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.

Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon (Japanese: ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!) is episode 46 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 28, 1998 and in USA on February 27, 1999.

At a "fossil rush" at a canyon, Team Rocket take the easy route by simply blowing it up. They end up awakening fossil Pokémon including an Aerodactyl that wants to eat Ash for its dinner.

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

Major events

• Ash's Charmeleon evolves into Charizard.
• Ash finds a Pokémon egg.

Debuts

• Omanyte
• Omastar
• Kabuto
• Aerodactyl
• Ash's Charizard

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Gary
• Gary's cheerleaders
• Fossil hunters

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Kabutops

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Charmeleon (Ash's; evolves)
• Charizard (Ash's; newly evolved)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Omanyte (debut)
• Omastar (debut)
• Kabuto (debut)
• Kabutops
• Aerodactyl (debut)

Trivia

• This episode hints that Pokémon need to defecate upon mention of fossilized Pokémon manure.

Errors

• When the camera is panning over all of the Pokémon to show their red eyes, Kabuto has the colors of its claws and shell swapped.
• When Charizard fires his Flamethrower at Aerodactyl, the part of his wings that were previously blue turn yellow.
• When Ash falls, asleep, and rolls to the Togepi egg, all of the shapes are red, instead of half red and half blue.

Dub edits

• The sign at the beginning of the episode states the name of the canyon in the Japanese version. In the dub, the sign is a picture of a pick-axe and shovel.
• The point where Meowth actually lights the fuse is cut in the dub. Instead, the camera zooms in to Meowth's face so the lighter isn't seen visibly.
• When digging through the rocks, Misty says Ash had better not die on her. In the dub, she reminds him that he still owes her a bike.

In other languages

• French: L'attaque des Pokémon préhistoriques
• Italian: Avventure preistoriche
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos!
• Spanish: El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos
• Swedish: Förhistoriska Pokémon

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