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Archeops In The Modern World!

BW036

EP693

化石復活！古代怪鳥アーケオス！！
Fossil Revival! Ancient Mysterious Bird Archeos!!

First broadcast

Japan	June 16, 2011
United States	October 8, 2011

English themes

Opening	Black and White
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	ベストウイッシュ！
Ending	ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits

Additional credits
Animation	Team Kato
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda
Assistant director	うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda
Animation director	小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama

Screenshots on Filb.de

Archeops In The Modern World! (Japanese: 化石復活！古代怪鳥アーケオス！！ Fossil Revival! Ancient Mysterious Bird Archeos!!) is the 36th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 693rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 16, 2011 and first aired in the United States on October 8, 2011.

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

Blurb

Our heroes stop to visit their old friends Professor Juniper and Dr. Fennel on their way to Nimbasa City, just in time to witness an amazing event: Dr. Fennel uses a special Pokémon restoration machine to restore an Archen from a Plume Fossil!

The ancient Pokémon has some trouble adjusting to its modern environment, rejecting Cilan’s specially prepared food and complaining in an ear-splitting voice. Flying also proves difficult for Archen, even though it’s the ancestor of all Flying-type Pokémon. This gives our heroes and the researchers a monumental opportunity to witness the historic birth of Pokémon flight! At first Archen struggles to get off the ground, even with help from Ash’s Tranquill—but after it evolves into Archeops, it takes off easily!

Meanwhile, Dr. Fennel’s machine has drawn the attention of Team Rocket, who hack into it to steal the data. They also try to catch Archeops, but after losing a heated battle, they withdraw to celebrate their data-stealing success with Doctor Zager.

Worried about how Archeops will survive in the modern world, Dr. Fennel and Professor Juniper start making plans to create a proper environment for it...and then they discover the purpose of its persistent cries when three other Archeops appear! And so, united with others of its own kind, Archeops happily goes off with its new friends, and our heroes bid them a fond farewell.

Plot

The episode starts off with Ash and his friends in a building somewhere on the way to Nimbasa City. Professor Juniper is showing Ash, Iris, and Cilan a Plume Fossil and tells them that the ancient Pokémon Archen came from this Fossil, immediately interesting the group--that is, everyone except Iris, who thinks it looks like a rock. Ash recalls Nacrene City's Gym Leader Lenora and her fascination with Fossils as well. Professor Juniper slips slightly and tells her everyone has their own opinions. She shows Ash, Iris, and Cilan a picture of Archen, and Iris comments that if Archen is the "First Bird Pokémon" then it must be Tranquill's great-great relative. The group continues to read the manual as Professor Juniper looks over at Fennel, who is on the computer. The Fossil is placed in a machine that is powered by Musharna's Dream Smoke. The machine is then activated, scanning the Fossil and then creating Archen. After the machine stops, they open up the machine and find Archen. A seed seems to fall off of Archen's plumage. Initially, Archen tries to fight off Ash and friends, confused and using Peck on everyone. Ash attempts to calm down the Archen but instead they run right into each other. Archen wears itself out and falls asleep. Professor Juniper brings out her camera and starts filming the Archen. Meanwhile in another location, Team Rocket is listening in on the action while planning how they are going to try and capture the Archen. Archen wakes up and starts crying, as the seeds that appeared when Archen was revived started growing and sprouting. Archen's cries shatter windows. Ash grabs Archen trying to calm it down, after of which it does. Ash attempts to feed Archen, but it spits it out and escapes through the broken window and into the trees outside. Archen spits out the tree's fruit as well.

Ash brings out Tranquill to help teach Archen to fly while Iris brings out Emolga to help but she uses Attract, which fails indicating that Archen is indeed a female. Instead of helping Archen, Emolga uses Volt Switch to force Stunfisk to come out who then uses ThunderShock. Archen uses her cries again while the sprouting seeds start growing even more, turning into a tree. While learning to fly, Archen starts to fly for short distances. Archen cries out in happiness causing the growing tree to grow even larger breaking the machines, and going right out of the window. Archen climbs up the new tree to eat the new fruit, and ends up liking that fruit. Archen cries out in delight and evolves into Archeops. Archeops shows that she can fly to everyone, then all of a sudden, Team Rocket strikes. Team Rocket has Yamask use Night Shade and set the tree on fire while they try to get away. Ash brings out Roggenrola and Oshawott to put out the fire. Team Rocket uses an electric net to capture the Archeops, which enrages her, using DragonBreath to break free and attack them.

After Team Rocket gets away, everyone looks at the tree which was now completely destroyed. Archeops begins crying out and a flock of Archeops hear her cries and come to her. Everyone says their goodbyes to her and the flock flies away. Dr. Zager informs Team Rocket that even though they failed to capture Archeops, they were able to obtain all of the data that was needed.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Archen

Pikachu (Ash's)
Axew (Iris's)
Meowth (Team Rocket)
Tranquill (Ash's)
Oshawott (Ash's)
Roggenrola (Ash's)
Emolga (Iris's)
Stunfisk (Cilan's)
Woobat (Jessie's)
Yamask (James's)
Munna (Fennel's)
Musharna (Fennel's)
Archen (evolves; debut)
Archeops (newly evolved; debut)
Archeops (multiple; debut)

Trivia

Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Druddigon

Errors

After Archen attacks Ash's head and later jumped on Iris's head, Iris's eyelashes disappear for a split second.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		化石復活！古代怪鳥始祖大鳥！！
Danish		Archeops I den moderne verden!
Dutch		Archeops in de moderne wereld!
Finnish		Archeops nykyajassa!
German		Aeropteryx - Besuch aus der Urzeit!
Greek		Το Archeops Στον Σύγχρονο Κόσμο!
Hindi		Modern dunya mai Archeops!
Indonesian		Fosil hidup lagi. Burung misterius jaman purba Archeops!!
Italian		Archeops nel mondo moderno!
Korean		화석에서 부활하다! 고대의 괴조 아케오스!
Norwegian		Archeops i den moderne verden!
Polish		Archeops we współczesnym świecie!
Portuguese	Brazil	Archeops no Mundo Moderno!
Portuguese	Portugal	Archeops contemporâneo!
Russian		Археопс в современном мире!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Archeops en el mundo moderno!
Spanish	Spain	¡Archeops en el mundo moderno!
Swedish		Archeops i den moderna världen!