EP030

Sparks Fly for Magnemite File:SparksFlyforMagnemite.gif.png

EP030   コイルはでんきネズミのユメをみるか!? Does Coil See Dreams of Electric Mice!?

First broadcast Japan October 21, 1997 United States October 16, 1998

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ニャースのうた

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 小川浩司 Kōji Ogawa Animation director 山本郷 Gō Yamamoto No additional credits are available at this time.

Sparks Fly for Magnemite (Japanese: コイルはでんきネズミのユメをみるか!? Does Coil See Dreams of Electric Mice!?) is episode 30 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 21, 1997 and in the United States on October 16, 1998.

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

Major events

• Ash captures a Muk.

Debuts

• Magnemite
• Magneton
• Grimer
• Muk

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Oak
• Power Plant workers

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Magnemite

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Muk (Ash's; new, sent to Oak's lab; debut)
• Magnemite (debut)
• Magneton (debut)
• Grimer

Various Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Center)

• Pidgey
• Rattata
• Raticate
• Spearow
• Fearow (debut)
• Sandshrew
• Nidoran♀ (debut)
• Oddish
• Growlithe (debut)
• Bellsprout

Trivia

• The Japanese title is a reference to a book by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
• When Ash referrs to how Magnemite is folowing Pikachu, he calls it a streaker by mistake, instead of a stalker, and is yelled at by Brock.

In other languages

• French: Coup de foudre magnétique

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