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Hour of the Houndour

EP150   ダークポケモン・デルビル Dark Pokémon - Delvil

First broadcast Japan June 1, 2000 United States April 14, 2001

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ポケモンはらはらリレー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 椎名ひさし Hisashi Shiina Assistant director 岩崎太郎 Tarō Iwasaki Animation director はしもとかつみ Katsumi Hashimoto Additional credits

Hour of the Houndour (Japanese: ダークポケモン・デルビル Dark Pokémon - Delvil) is the 150th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 1, 2000 and in the United States on April 14, 2001.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Misty, Togepi and Brock are setting the table, getting ready for lunch. Eyes are staring out of the bushes as Ash and Pikachu walk out of the bushes with the food. Suddenly, they disappear. Ash is shocked and begins to look for it and they all wonder where it went. Brock then spots footprints in the ground and they all follow them.

In the town, a Nurse Joy and her Chansey are walking with groceries, when an ice cream truck pulls up. They set the groceries down to go and get some ice cream as Team Rocket appears and look down at the food. Wobbuffet pops out of its Poké Ball and they decide to lower Meowth down on a fishing pole. Meowth pulls out the ham and Team Rocket run off. Jessie, James and Meowth are excitedly looking at the ham as red eyes appear in the bushes. They begin to fight over the ham when the ham disappears. Meowth blames Wobbuffet for eating the ham as Wobbuffet says that it did not eat it.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Houndour

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Hitmontop

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Golem
• Eevee
• Houndour (debut)

Trivia

• This is the only episode in which Pikachu uses Leer.
• This episode introduces Template:Type2 Pokémon to the anime.
• The book Tough Enough is based on this episode.

Errors

• Pikachu is unable to use the move Leer.
• After his backpack is found missing, Ash says that his Pokédex was in the backpack, however, when battling the Houndour, he uses his Pokédex to identify them.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		黑暗神奇寶貝，戴魯比！
Czech		Hodina Houndoura
European French		Le voleur mystérieux
German		Nachts, wenn die Hunduster kommen!
Hebrew		מפגש עם האונדאור mifgash im Houndour
Italian		Furti misteriosi
Portuguese	Brazil	A Hora do Houndour
	Portugal	Hora do Houndour
Spanish	Latin America	La hora de los Houndour
	Spain	Salvad al Houndour

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