EP188

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Spring Fever

EP188   ここほれウリムー！おんせんをさがせ！！ Dig Here Urimoo! Search for the Hot Spring!!

First broadcast Japan March 8, 2001 United States February 2, 2002

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 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 横田和 Kazu Yokota Assistant director 松本マサユキ Masayuki Matsumoto Animation director 桜井木ノ実 Kinomi Sakurai Additional credits

Spring Fever (Japanese: ここほれウリムー！おんせんをさがせ！！ Dig Here Urimoo! Search for the Hot Spring!!) is the 188th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 8, 2001 and in the United States on February 2, 2002.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Continuing their travels with Todd, their search for Articuno, Ash and friends no sooner stop for a snack break than a trio of Swinub appears and makes off with Misty’s rice cake. The children jump to pursuit and soon learn that these Pokémon are in the employ of a father-daughter team of water prospectors. The Swinub’s keen sense of smell allows them to detect substances buried deep underground. Impressed by their operations, Team Rocket decided to pirate the idea and its key Pokémon and turn them to their own gain...

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Swinub

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Todd Snap
• Rory
• Peggy

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Farfetch'd

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Poliwhirl (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Swinub (Rory's, Su, Ein, and Ub; debut)
• Graveler (Rory's)
• Articuno

Trivia

• This episode is the first time the "To be continued" graphic simply appeared on the screen instead of the screen resizing to show the graphic.
• This episode's dub title is a reference to the illness, spring fever, it may also come from swine fever.
• Hot Springing a Leak has a similar plot to this episode.
• The names of the Swinub in this episode are Sue, Ein, Ub, which, if said together quickly, become their species, Swinub. The same applies to their Japanese names, U, Ri, and Moo are the three syllables that comprise Urimoo.
• This episode is featured on the Volume 5: Ice copy of Pokémon Elements.

Errors

• In the dub, Jessie commands Arbok to use a Fang Attack on two of the Swinub. She most likely meant Bite and it was simply misunderstood when dubbing.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		挖這裡吧！！小山豬，找出溫泉
Czech		Horké prameny
European French		La fièvre des sources
German		Heiße Quellen
Hebrew		החיפוש אחר המעיין hakhipus akhar hama'ayan
Italian		A caccia di sorgenti
Brazilian Portuguese		Febre da Primavera
Spanish	Latin America	¡Fiebre del manantial!
	Spain	Aguas termales

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Original series

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