EP167

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A Hot Water Battle

EP167   ジャングルのさんびき！おんせんバトル！！ The Three of the Jungle! Battle in the Hot Springs!!

First broadcast Japan October 5, 2000 United States September 22, 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 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

A Hot Water Battle (Japanese: ジャングルのさんびき！おんせんバトル！！ The Three of the Jungle! Battle in the Hot Springs!!) is the 167th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 5, 2000 and in the United States on September 22, 2001.

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Synopsis

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While taking a break in a tropical jungle, Ash and company notice a Mankey and two Aipom up a tree. They then discover a hot spring and Ash and relax. The gang lets their Pokémon out for a break and Ash begins a game of ball. The game is proceeding well until Totodile whacks the ball a bit too hard and it flies out of sight. Chikorita and Totodile get into a fight, but Ash tells them to just go find the ball. Chikorita sees it, but one of the Aipom is playing with it. Totodile and Cyndaquil appear and try to claim it, but other Aipom drop from the trees and bury Totodile in some sand. The others follow them into the jungle.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket is walking in the same area eating fruit and day dreaming of the tropics. All of a sudden, the Aipom and Chikorita, Totodile, and Cyndaquil run them over in the chase, and Jessie says it's a great chance to get the Pokémon since Ash isn't nearby. The Aipom go into a cave, with the other Pokémon and Team Rocket following. Team Rocket is just outside the cave when a Snorlax walks up and tries to take the fruit James has. Team Rocket enter the cave to hide, while Snorlax eats the fruit and fails asleep, blocking the cave entrance. Team Rocket splits up to find another exit. Meowth runs into a a dead end, but also finds Totodile. Meowth is ready to catch him, but Snorlax is uncomfortable and starts pounding the mountain, causing cave ins. Totodile rescues Meowth from a rockslide and easily breaks loose from the rocks. Totodile then attempts to get them out by using Water Gun, but fails. Chikorita and Cyndaquil are also trapped, and are searching for a different way out. A few more cave ins occur, and they find Totodile. Chikorita immediately starts to repeatedly slam the rock and manages to break Totodile and Meowth out. In the meantime, Jessie, James and Wobbuffet are able to blow their way out and run into a number of Aipom who start tossing rocks at them.

In the cave, the four trapped Pokémon hear some wind blowing, so Chikorita locates the air hole and Totodile uses water gun while Cyndaquil and Chikorita push at the rocks. They get through, but the hole just leads back to where Snorlax is. Chikorita attempts to tickle Snorlax, and fails, but Cyndaquil wakes Snorlax with flamethrower. Meowth nets the others, but Snorlax is upset and chases Meowth back into the cave. The Aipom are now chasing Team Rocket back in by causing a close by waterfall to flood, and the water goes through the cave and out the other side carrying Snorlax, Team Rocket, and the other Pokémon along. Chikorita, Totodile, and Cyndaquil grap on to Snorlax and try to save themselves from a waterfall down stream by latching onto each other. Chikorita Razor Leafs two trees down and they ride them to safety. Ash then catches up to them and rescues the trio. Back at the river, Team Rocket is holding onto Snorlax to keep from going over the falls, but Snorlax wakes up and starts swimming upstream, causing them to lose their grip and go down over the waterfall.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Aipom

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Wigglytuff

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Goldeen (Misty's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Poliwhirl (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Golbat (Brock's)
• Vulpix (Brock's)
• Pineco (Brock's)
• Mankey
• Snorlax
• Aipom (seven)

Trivia

• This episode can be found on the first GBA video.
• Ash has a beach ball shaped like a Master Ball, similar to the one seen in Beauty and the Beach.
• Jessie's Wobbuffet uses Bide in this episode, despite Wobbuffet being unable to learn Bide normally.

In other languages

• Finnish: Riittääkö kuuma vesi?
• French: La réconciliation
• German: Heiße Wasserschlacht
• Hebrew: מים חמים חודרים עמוק mayim chamim chodrim amok *
• Italian: Una fonte di guai
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Pela Vereda Tropical
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Un combate en agua caliente
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Una batalla de agua caliente!

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