EP175

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The Trouble With Snubbull

EP175   ニャースとブルーとグランブル!? Nyarth, Bulu and Granbulu!?

First broadcast Japan November 30, 2000 United States November 3, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ぼくのベストフレンドへ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 佐藤まさふみ Masafumi Satō No additional credits are available at this time.

The Trouble With Snubbull (Japanese: ニャースとブルーとグランブル!? Nyarth, Bulu and Granbulu!?) is the 175th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 30, 2000 and in the United States on November 3, 2001.

The group meet up with Madame Muchmoney and promise to help her find Snubbull. However, Snubbull is feeling heartbroken over Meowth and Team Rocket want to grab it for reward money.

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

Major events

• The Snubbull that has been following around Team Rocket evolves into Granbull.
• Granbull returns to its owner, Madame Muchmoney.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Granbull

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Madame Muchmoney
• Jeeves

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Hitmonlee

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Snubbull (Madame Muchmoney's; evolves)
• Granbull (Madame Muchmoney's; newly evolved)
• Mankey

Trivia

• The Team Rocket Robot in this episode is called "Meowth's Lean, Mean 'Fight the Bite' Machine".
• In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto, in which Jessie and James use "Trouble" to rhyme with "Snubbull". This rhyme happens to also be in the episode title.
• The episode's dub title is a reference to the Star Trek episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles".

In other languages

• French: Les ennuis de l'évolution
• Italian: Il Pokémon ritrovato
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El problema con Snubull!
• Iberian Spanish: El problema con Snubull

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Original series

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