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| Who Gets to Keep Togepi?
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トゲピーはだれのもの！？
Who Gets to Keep Togepy!?
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First broadcast
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June 25, 1998
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| United States
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March 27, 1999
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
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| Storyboard
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井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
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| Assistant director
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井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
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| Animation director
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酒井啓史 Keishi Sakai
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| Additional credits
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Who Gets to Keep Togepi? (Japanese: トゲピーはだれのもの！？ Who Gets to Keep Togepy!?) is the 50th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 25, 1998, and in the United States on March 27, 1999.
Synopsis
As this story begins, our heroes are sitting in the Pokémon Center playing when Ash gets a phone call from Professor Oak on the PC phone. Professor Oak appears on the screen and so does Ash's Muk, the Pokémon Professor very displeased with Ash's Muk as it has climbed all over him and spoiling his new lab coat. Professor Oak informs Ash that his Pokédex is now upgradeable and tells Ash of how he can do so. Ash follows the directions and places his Pokédex into the small slot on the computer. They go back to a table and talk about the Pokémon that they wish would hatch out of the mysterious egg that Ash found back at the Pokémon Fossil Canyon. Naturally they all say their favorite Pokémon, Misty choosing a Template:Type2 and Brock choosing a Template:Type2.
After that, they leave the Pokémon Center and head outside where they find Team Rocket posing as egg sellers. They have a whole basketful of eggs, just like Ash's mysterious egg. Team Rocket tries to talk them into trading or buying one of their eggs and when they politely refuse Jessie and James resort to throwing all of their fake eggs in the air. The real egg, that Brock was holding, gets taken when there is a mix-up with all the eggs.
Team Rocket run out of site and escape with the real egg! Ash, Misty and Brock are stuck with a fake. Whilst in Team Rockets little hiding shack Meowth takes care of the egg. Whilst it is in his possession, the egg gets its best attention ever. Meowth sleeps with it, sings with it and even eats with it.
The three young adventurers follow a trail of broken red blue and green eggs until they reach the shack in which Team Rocket are hiding. They decide to burst in, even though it may be dangerous, and get the egg back.
They all quickly bust into the shack but unfortunately James is quick to react. He sends out Weezing who gives a Poison Gas attack, making Ash and others cough and gasp for breath. Ash sends out Pidgeotto and tells it to use a Gust attack to clear away the Poison Gas. They take a lunge for the little white egg. The egg goes up and down much like in a game of football! Through much controversy Pikachu ends up with the egg and gives the egg back to Ash, at that moment the egg begins to break open, beginning to hatch.
Misty, enthralled with what was going on, jumps in pushes everyone out of the way to get a closer look and the newly hatched Pokémon. When she does the egg hatches, revealing a new unidentified Pokémon. Ash and others are all surprised, especially Team Rocket who instantly want to steal it. Ash points his newly updated Pokédex at the Pokémon, identifying it as a Togepi.
Togepi, unlike other Pokémon, will not just like anybody, to Ash's and Brock's disappointment. It chooses Misty! As Misty is the first thing that the Pokémon saw, it thinks that Misty is its mother.
This newly hatched Pokémon causes quite a fuss among the group. Ash feels that he should have it because he found it; Brock feels it should be his because he cared for it before Meowth; Meowth wants it because he looked after it before it hatched, Jessie and James both just want it! Meowth says to them that they didn't do anything to help in Togepi's growth. Misty feels she should have it, as Togepi likes her best. They all decide to have a Pokémon tournament to decide who should have it. Meowth panics because he has no Pokémon and goes and asks Jessie and James for theirs. They refuse as he didn't let them participate, Meowth then remembers that he is a Pokémon and decides to battle for himself. After the draw ends up between Misty and Ash, the first battle since Cerulean City. Of course everybody's favorite trainer, Ash, wins, but because Misty was the first thing that Togepi, saw she gets to keep it.
Major events
- Ash gets his Pokédex upgraded.
- The egg hatches into a Togepi.
- Ash, Misty, Brock, and Meowth decide to have a tournament to see who will keep Togepi.
- Ash wins the tournament but Togepi chooses to go with Misty.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Aerodactyl
Trivia
- This is the third episode in which a Pokémon from a new generation appears. The first two were Pokémon - I Choose You! and Pokémon Emergency!, respectively, in which Ho-Oh appeared.
- When Arbok slaps Brock in the back of the head his eyes open.
- This marks one of the few occasions where Meowth is seen in battle.
- The tournament:
- Meowth VS Onix - Meowth wins by hitting Onix with two buckets of water and then using Fury Swipes (Brock claims that he cheated when he did that, though considering how there was no rule against it, Brock still lost.)
- Bulbasaur VS Psyduck - Ash wins by having Bulbasaur Tickle Psyduck (unable to actually attack Psyduck without giving it a headache).
- Meowth VS Pikachu - Ash wins with a simple Thunderbolt
- The dub title is the same as the Japanese title. This also happened with Pokémon - I Choose You!.
- When the main characters imagine what their egg could hatch into, Misty and Brock suggest Pokémon that are not possible to be hatched from an egg at that stage. Misty suggested that it could hatch into a Tentacruel, while Brock suggested that it could hatch into a Golem. Ash's suggestion of what it could hatch into, Aerodactyl, is the only possible (although unlikely) suggestion.
- This episode marks the first of the many times in which Pikachu saves Togepi, though the only one of these times in which it is noticed by anyone else.
- Even though it was implied a few times in the episode that Brock knew the concepts of breeding/raising Pokémon eggs, he didn't seem to know about imprinting until after Dexter revealed why Togepi wanted to go to Misty.
Errors
- In one scene, Jessie eats toast with her gloves and boots off. The next scene after being attacked, her gloves and boots were back on.
- In its Pokédex entry, Togepi is described as the "Egg Pokémon" instead of the "Spike Ball Pokémon".
- However, this is probably due to Generation II not being around yet. They might have not even came up with a true description for it until then and ended up changing it later.
- When Ash, Misty and Brock are talking about what could hatch from the egg, they consider an Aerodactyl, Tentacruel and Golem. However, none of these Pokémon can legally hatch from eggs, as Aerodactyl is a fossil Pokémon and Tentacruel and Golem are evolved Pokémon.
Dub edits
- The Japanese release states "Dr. Okido" on the video card that Ash gets from Nurse Joy. The dub painted it out.
In other languages
- Finnish: Kenelle Togepi kuuluu?
- French: Oeuf surprise
- German: Kampf um Togepi
- Hebrew: למי שייך טוגפי lemi shayach Togepi
- Italian: L'uovo della discordia
- Mandarin: 波克比是谁的呢？
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese: Quem Vai Ficar com o Togepi?
- European Portuguese: Quem Fica Com o Togepi?
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: ¿Quién conseguirá quedarse con Togepi?
- Latin American Spanish: ¿Quién se queda con Togepi?
- Swedish: Vem vinner Togepi?
