EP012

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EP012   ゼニガメぐんだんとうじょう！ Enter the Zenigame Corps!

First broadcast Japan June 17, 1997 United States September 23, 1998

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ひゃくごじゅういち

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 酒井啓史 Keishi Sakai No additional credits are available at this time.

Here Comes the Squirtle Squad (Japanese: ゼニガメぐんだんとうじょう！ Enter the Zenigame Corps!) is episode 12 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 17, 1997 and in USA on September 23, 1998.

Ash arrives in a town that is being terrorised by a gang of Squirtles.

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

Major events

• Ash catches a Squirtle

Debuts

• Ash's Squirtle

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Gary makes a brief appearance

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Squirtle

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's; flashback)
• Charmander (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's; new)
• Squirtle (Squirtle Squad)
• Goldeen

Trivia

• This episode can be found on the third GBA video.
• This is the third and final episode of a three-episode arc where Ash gets each of Kanto's starter Pokémon.
• This is the first episode that shows a town not featured in the games.
• This is one of the few times that the gang uses a Potion, an important item in the games. It is depicted as a spray bottle, which later became its sprite in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
• This is the episode in which we learn that all Officer Jennys are identical cousins--they are all police officers and named Jenny.
• This episode features frightened store owners pointing guns at Ash. However this episode aired in the U.S. anyway unlike the infamous The Legend of Dratini episode. This might be due to the fact that this was prior to the Columbine High School massacre.

Errors

• In the dub, Ash calls Misty "Mindy" when the Squirtle Squad threatens to dye her hair.

Dub edits

• In the dub, the Squirtle Squad threatens to dye Misty’s hair purple--in the original, they threaten to kill her.
• The rice balls Team Rocket are eating are called doughnuts and éclairs in the dub.

In other languages

• French: Sans maître ni loi
• Portuguese (Brazil): Aí vem o Esquadrão Squirtle
• Spanish: El Squirtle

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