EP050

← EP049 : So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd

Original series

EP051 : Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden →

Who Gets to Keep Togepi?

EP050   トゲピーはだれのもの！？ Who Gets to Keep Togepy!?

First broadcast Japan June 25, 1998 United States March 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 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Assistant director 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Animation director 酒井啓史 Keishi Sakai Additional credits

Who Gets to Keep Togepi? (Japanese: トゲピーはだれのもの！？ Who Gets to Keep Togepy!?) is the 50th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 25, 1998, and in the United States on March 27, 1999.

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

Synopsis

As this story begins, our heroes are sitting in the Pokémon Center playing when Ash gets a phone call from Professor Oak on the PC phone. Professor Oak appears on the screen and so does Ash's Muk, the Pokémon Professor very displeased with Ash's Muk as it has climbed all over him and spoiling his new lab coat. Professor Oak informs Ash that his Pokédex is now upgradeable and tells Ash of how he can do so. Ash follows the directions and places his Pokédex into the small slot on the computer. They go back to a table and talk about the Pokémon that they wish would hatch out of the mysterious egg that Ash found back at the Pokémon Fossil Canyon. Naturally they all say their favorite Pokémon, Misty choosing a Template:Type2 and Brock choosing a Template:Type2.

After that, they leave the Pokémon Center and head outside where they find Team Rocket posing as egg sellers. They have a whole basketful of eggs, just like Ash's mysterious egg. Team Rocket tries to talk them into trading or buying one of their eggs and when they politely refuse Jessie and James resort to throwing all of their fake eggs in the air. The real egg, that Brock was holding, gets taken when there is a mix-up with all the eggs.

Team Rocket run out of site and escape with the real egg! Ash, Misty and Brock are stuck with a fake. Whilst in Team Rockets little hiding shack Meowth takes care of the egg. Whilst it is in his possession, the egg gets its best attention ever. Meowth sleeps with it, sings with it and even eats with it.

The three young adventurers follow a trail of broken red blue and green eggs until they reach the shack in which Team Rocket are hiding. They decide to burst in, even though it may be dangerous, and get the egg back.

Ash sends out Pidgeotto, Misty sends out Staryu and Brock sends out Geodude. They all quickly bust into the shack, surprising Team Rocket. James sends out Weezing who gives a Poison Gas attack, making Ash and others cough and gasp for breath. They take a lunge for the little white egg. The egg goes up and down much like in a game of football! Through much controversy Pikachu ends up with the egg and gives the egg back to Ash, at that moment the egg begins to break open, beginning to hatch.

Misty, enthralled with what was going on, jumps in pushes everyone out of the way to get a closer look and the newly hatched Pokémon. When she does the egg hatches, revealing a new unidentified Pokémon. Ash and others are all surprised, especially Team Rocket who instantly want to steal it. Ash points his newly updated Pokédex at the Pokémon, identifying it as a Togepi.

Togepi, unlike other Pokémon, will not just like anybody, to Ash's and Brock's disappointment. It chooses Misty! As Misty is the first thing that the Pokémon saw, it thinks that Misty is its mother.

This newly hatched Pokémon causes quite a fuss among the group. Ash feels that he should have it because he found it; Brock feels it should be his because he cared for it before Meowth; Meowth wants it because he looked after it before it hatched, Jessie and James both just want it! Meowth says to them that they didn't do anything to help in Togepi's growth. Misty feels she should have it, as Togepi likes her best. They all decide to have a Pokémon tournament to decide who should have it. Meowth panics because he has no Pokémon and goes and asks Jessie and James for theirs. They refuse as he didn't let them participate, Meowth then remembers that he is a Pokémon and decides to battle for himself. After the draw ends up between Misty and Ash, the first battle since Cerulean City. Ash sends out Bulbasaur and Misty attempted to send out Staryu, but instead Psyduck came out. Misty instructs Bulbasaur to attack Psyduck on the head, Ash decides to use Bulbasaur for a different manner, and commands Bulbasaur to lick Psyduck on the head and tickle it, until Psyduck went back in its Poké Ball. Ash and Meowth battle, but it is cut short after one Thunderbolt by Pikachu. Jessie and James drag a crisp Meowth away. After the tournament, Togepi still doesn't want to go with Ash, or Brock, instead still chooses Misty.

Major events

• Ash gets his Pokédex upgraded.
• The egg hatches into a Togepi.
• Ash, Misty, Brock, and Meowth decide to have a tournament to see who will keep Togepi.
• Ash wins the tournament but Togepi chooses to go with Misty.
• Brock's Geodude is revealed to know Tackle.
• Brock's Onix is revealed to know Rock Throw.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Togepi (Misty's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Aerodactyl

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's; newly hatched, debut)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charmeleon (Ash's; flashback)
• Muk (Ash's; at Professor Oak's Laboratory)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Aerodactyl (flashback)

Trivia

• This is the third episode in which a Pokémon from a new generation appears. The first two were Pokémon - I Choose You! and Pokémon Emergency!, respectively, in which Ho-Oh appeared.
• When Arbok slaps Brock in the back of the head, his eyes open.
• This marks one of the few occasions where Meowth is seen in battle.
• The tournament:
  • Meowth VS Onix - Meowth wins by hitting Onix with two buckets of water and then using Fury Swipes (Brock claims that he cheated when he did that, though considering how there was no rule against it, Brock still lost.)
  • Bulbasaur VS Psyduck - Ash wins by having Bulbasaur Tickle Psyduck (unable to actually attack Psyduck without giving it a headache).
  • Meowth VS Pikachu - Ash wins with a simple Thunderbolt
• The dub title is the same as the Japanese title. This also happened with Pokémon - I Choose You!.
• This episode marks the first of the many times in which Pikachu saves Togepi, though the only one of these times in which it is noticed by anyone else.
• Even though it was implied a few times in the episode that Brock knew the concepts of breeding/raising Pokémon eggs, he didn't seem to know about imprinting until after Dexter revealed why Togepi wanted to go to Misty.

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Jessie with no gloves

Errors

• In one scene, Jessie eats toast with her gloves and boots off. The next scene after being attacked, her gloves and boots were back on.
• In its Pokédex entry, Togepi's species is given as the "Egg Pokémon" instead of the "Spike Ball Pokémon", as it is in the games.
  • This may be due to the fact that Generation II was still a long way off, and may have been an early description.

Dub edits

• The Japanese release states "Dr. Okido" on the video card that Ash gets from Nurse Joy. The dub painted it out.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		波克比是誰的呢? / 波克比是谁的呢？
Czech		A čí bude Togepi?
Dutch		Voor Wie is Togepi?
Finnish		Kenelle Togepi kuuluu?
European French		Oeuf surprise
German		Kampf um Togepi
Hebrew		למי שייך טוגפי lemi shayach Togepi
Hungarian		Kié legyen Togepi?
Italian		L'uovo della discordia
Portuguese	Brazil	Quem Vai Ficar com Togepi?
	Portugal	Quem Fica Com o Togepi?
Russian		Кому достанется Тогепи?
Spanish	Latin America	¿Quién se queda con Togepi?
	Spain	¿Quién conseguirá quedarse con Togepi?
Swedish		Vem vinner Togepi?

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Original series

EP051 : Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden →

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