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| The Whistle Stop
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First broadcast
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January 1, 2000
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| United States
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December 2, 2000
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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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米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
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| Storyboard
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椎名ひさし Hisashi Shiina
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| Assistant director
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岩崎太郎 Tarō Iwasaki
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| Animation director
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はしもとかつみ Katsumi Hashimoto
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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The Whistle Stop (Japanese: レディバのふえ！ Ledyba's Flute!) is the 128th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 1, 2000 and in the United States on December 2, 2000.
Synopsis
The episode starts with Ash, Brock, Pikachu and Misty traveling to a new town via a bridge, with Team Rocket watching them. Team Rocket plan to have our heroes drop into a cage under the bridge and then lock them in it. However it doesn't go according to plan because the bridge collapses. Team Rocket breaks the fourth wall by saying "We usually don't wash out this early in the episode." The bridge collapses and they fall into the river below. The gang arrive at the bridge and notice the gap in the middle, not knowing Team Rocket caused this.
They think of how to get across, with the nearest bridge being 10 miles away. They notice a woman traveling with Ledyba, by flight. They ask her help to get across the river. She introduces herself as Arielle and says that she can fly them across using her Ledyba, which she controls with a Whistle. She takes them across, one at a time.
She tells them about her job, which is picking apples using her Ledyba to pollinate the apples, commanding the Ledyba to fly up or down or pollinate with the whistle. Brock explains that this is how apples reproduce by pollinating. Ash sends out his Heracross to help the Ledyba, though it decides to suck maple out of the tree instead. Team Rocket spies on the gang saying that Arielle's control over the Ledyba would be a good present for the boss.
Team Rocket tries to steal the whistle by pretending to be TV Hosts. Team Rocket says their motto and takes off in their Meowth balloon. Jessie blows the whistle but the Ledyba do not obey her, because she hasn't trained with them. Jessie sends out her Lickitung and which uses Supersonic. The confused Ledyba won't listen to Arielle. Pikachu, unaffected by the attack uses Thunderbolt on the balloon, shocking Team Rocket and fires Team Rocket into the air. The Ledyba follow Team Rocket as the blast off, Jessie still in possession of the whistle.
Ash, Pikachu, Brock, Misty and Arielle search for the Ledyba. Brock uses his Zubat to find them. Ledyba and Zubat both use supersonic waves and it can therefore spot the Ledyba. However the Zubat finds a group of Golbat. Brock recalls his Zubat and the Golbat leave. Arielle says that Ledyba like the smell of flowers so Ash sends out his Heracross to sniff nicely scented Flowers. Heracross leads them to a tree with Maple on it.
Jessie throws the whistle away and says that it is worthless. Meowth says she is blowing it wrongly so he tries to use it, though he can't even get a sound from it. Jessie sends out her Arbok to find food. Meowth finally gets a note out which has an effect on Arbok, it starts dancing. James sees the Ledyba over in the bushes. Jessie suggests capturing them but Meowth tells Arbok to go underground and surround them. Jessie and James don't believe that Arbok listened to Meowth. Arbok appears in front of the Ledyba. Whilst the Ledyba was distracted, Meowth throws a net over them and ties them to rope. The Ledyba fly off with Meowth holding on though Jessie and James grab on to stop them from flying away. The Ledyba stun Team Rocket with Stun Spore. Team Rocket let go and the Ledyba fly away.
Arielle is worried that they won’t listen to her without the whistle. Ash reminds her of who looked after the Ledyba when they were young. Arielle smells the scent that the Ledyba give off when they’re in danger. Ash tells Pikachu to find them. Pikachu shows her an area, with Stun Spore filled air and orange footprints leading to Team Rocket and the Ledyba. They find Team Rocket and James activates a net which engulfs our heroes in it. Jessie tells them to give them Pikachu. Jessie sends out Lickitung and James sends out Victreebel.
They attack the gang who struggles to escape. Arielle wonders whether the Ledyba will listen to her with out the whistle. Lickitung uses Stomp on Ash and Misty’s head and Victreebel uses Tackle. Arielle tries anyway and they listen to her, but they are being held back by Arbok, They break free and fly over to Arielle – dragging Arbok with them . Arbok flies into Lickitung and Victreebel and knocks them over. Ash sends Bulbasaur to get them out by using Razor Leaf. James instructed Victreebel to use the same attack, but Arielle instructs the Ledyba to fly upwards so the Razor Leaf cut the rope instead. Then downwards to dodge the next attack. Jessie tells Lickitung to use Supersonic. Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Lickitung before it can use Supersonic, which knocks Team Rocket over. Arielle tells Ledyba to use Tackle on Team Rocket, which sends them hurdling into the sky. Arielle thanks them for the help and all the Ledyba gather around. The gang then heads out for Ash's first Johto region gym battle in Violet City.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Blissey
Trivia
Errors
- In one scene where Jessie is holding the whistle, a line can be seen in the middle of her chest.
- After Team Rocket steals the whistle it disappears while they say their motto and briefly afterwards.
Dub edits
In the english version, when Victreebel is on top of James' head, he mumbles something, if you play it backwards he is saying "Leo Burnett and 4kids are the devil! Leo Burnett!"
In other languages
- French: Le coup de sifflet
- German: Treue Ledyba
- Hebrew: שריקת הסיום shrikat hasiyum
- Italian: Il fischietto
- Mandarin: 芭瓢蟲之笛
- Portuguese (Brazilian): O Apito de Parada
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: Fuera el silbato
- Latin American Spanish: ¡El silbato calló!
