EP257

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EP257   ラプラスのうた！ Laplace's Song!

First broadcast Japan July 18, 2002 United States July 26, 2003

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Lapras of Luxury (Japanese: ラプラスのうた！ Laplace's Song!) is episode 257 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 18, 2002 and in the United States on July 26, 2003.

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

Major events

• Ash is briefly reunited with his Lapras.
• Ash's Lapras becomes the leader of its herd.
• Ash is asked to deliver a Pokémon egg to Professor Elm.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Elm
• Naomi

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Qwilfish

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Lapras (Ash's; returns; leaves)
• Crobat (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Lapras (herd)
• Lanturn (Naomi's)

Trivia

• Team Rocket uses the Gyarados submarine again, complete with boosters.
• The episode title is a reference to the phrase lap of luxury.

Errors

• Brock's statement that they haven't seen Lapras since "we were in the Orange Islands" is obviously untrue as Brock stayed with Professor Ivy in the Orange Islands and never saw Lapras, Tracey was traveling with Ash and Misty at that point. He may, however, have been told about Lapras by Ash and Misty during their initial trip between Pallet Town and New Bark Town, offscreen.
• In the English dub Ash mistakenly tells his Lapras to use "Cold Beam" instead of Ice Beam.
• When the Lapras froze Arbok and Wheezing, we see them frozen together. But when Pikachu uses Thunder, we see them separated.

In other languages

• French: Retrouvaille
• Italian: La ricercatrice
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Lapras de lujo!
• Spanish: Lapras de lujo

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