AG074

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AG074   フシギダネとフシギダネ！モンスターボールを取り返せ!! Fushigidane and Fushigidane! Regaining the Pokéballs!

First broadcast Japan April 29, 2004 United States April 16, 2005

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening チャレンジャー!! Ending スマイル ②

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 宍戸久美子 Kumiko Shishido Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Hokey Poké Balls! (Japanese: フシギダネとフシギダネ！モンスターボールを取り返せ!! Fushigidane and Fushigidane! Regaining the Monster Balls!) is the 74th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 348th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 29, 2004 and in the United States on April 16, 2005.

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

Major events

• Ash temporarily brings his Bulbasaur from Oak's Lab to meet May's Bulbasaur.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Combusken

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Beautifly (May's)
• Skitty (May's)
• Bulbasaur (May's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Golbat (Stolen by Team Rocket)
• Oddish (At Oak's lab)
• Gloom (At Oak's lab)
• Primeape (Stolen by Team Rocket)
• Poliwhirl (At Oak's lab)
• Hoppip (At Oak's lab)
• Jumpluff (At Oak's lab)
• Nuzleaf
• Shroomish

Trivia

• The episode title is a pun on the dance name "hokey pokey".

Errors

• Since Team Rocket finished corrupting Poké Ball transporter only when Ash and others entered the Pokémon Center, not many people could have used it before Ash, if he was not the first. Obviously, Team Rocket could not have stolen three large bags of Poké Balls.
• Beautifly is pictured where Nuzleaf's name appears in Trainer's Choice.
• In the scene where Ash and his friends found Team Rocket's balloon, Poké Balls could be seen in the basket.
• "Pokéball" written in one word appears in the anime not for the first time. This spelling seems to be canonical in the anime.

In other languages

• French: Un plan génial
• Italian: L'imbroglio
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Pokébolas locas!
• Portuguese: Pokébolas de Hóquei
• Spanish: Falsas Pokéball

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.