EP163

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Fossil Fools

EP163   こだいポケモンパーク！アルフのいせき!! Ancient Pokémon Park! Ruins of Alph!!

First broadcast Japan September 7, 2000 United States September 15, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ポケモンはらはらリレー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Fossil Fools (Japanese: こだいポケモンパーク！アルフのいせき!! Ancient Pokémon Park! Ruins of Alph!!) is the 163rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 7, 2000 and in the United States on September 15, 2001.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The group visit the Ruins of Alph where living Omanyte and Omastar have been discovered. Unfortunately, Team Rocket have also discovered them.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Foster
• Researchers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Pichu (US and international), Omnite (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Omanyte (many)
• Omastar (many)
• Aerodactyl (picture/fossil/robot)
• Kabutops (fossil)

Trivia

• Exciting Pokémon Relay replaces Takeshi's Paradise as the ending.
• The Ruins of Alph in the games is entirely different and focuses on the Unown.
• Archaeology currently dates the first Pokémon at 2 million years ago, though a Kabutops fossil had been discovered that is 20 to 30 thousand years older than that.
• Like life on Earth, the prevailing theory is that Pokémon life began in the sea.
• The English title is a reference to "fossil fuels".

Errors

• Ash is surprised to find that extinct Pokémon still exist, despite the fact that he'd already encountered Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops, and Aerodactyl in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon and an entire island of Kabuto in Shell Shock.
• When Team Rocket discover that they stole too many Omanyte to escape, they begin arguing and at one point, Wobbuffet can be heard breaking out of it's Poké Ball and agreeing with James despite already being outside.
• Instead of Misty pulling Brock by his ear away from a girl, Brock pulls Misty away by her ear away from a guy. Except Misty wasn't flirting with Foster.

In other languages

• French: Retour vers la préhistoire
• German: Aufregende Entdeckungen
• Hebrew: פוקימונים פרה-היסטורים Pokémonim pre-historim
• Italian: Jurassic Pokémon
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Parque dos Pokéssauros
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Locos por los fósiles
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Pokémon prehistóricos!

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Original series

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