EP054

The Case of the K-9 Caper! File:CaseoftheK9Capers.gif.png

EP054   けいさつけんガーディ Police Officer Gardie

First broadcast Japan July 16, 1998 United States April 10, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケモン音頭

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 井坂純子 Junko Isaka No additional credits are available at this time.

The Case of the K-9 Caper! (Japanese: けいさつけんガーディ Police Officer Gardie) is episode 54 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 16, 1998 and in the United States on April 10, 1999.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Growlithe

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Growlithe (Officer Jenny's; multiple)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Dodrio

Trivia

• Pokémon Ondo replaced Pocket Fantasy as the ending.
• This is one of the few episodes where Rachael Lillis had to provide Pikachu's voice.
• Although it was never aired in syndicated form in Cartoon Network in 2003, it finally makes its debut on September 14, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET.
• Ash had six Poké Balls on his bed even though he doesn't use Pikachu's.
  • Additionally, he only had five Pokémon in his party at the time: Pikachu, Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur, Charizard, and Squirtle.
• This episode is preceded by different episodes between the original Japanese version and dubbed versions. The episode is preceded by The Purr-fect Hero in the original Japanese version and by Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden in the dub.
• This is the last episode to air in Japan before the debut of the first movie Mewtwo Strikes Back.
• This is the only episode until it's final appearance to have Jigglypuff sing it song in it's entirety without one of the characters falling asleep.
• Oddly, though another episode was banned in the US, allegedly for the scenes containing guns, the opening scene in this episode shows a burglar with a pistol.

Errors

• When Jessie from Team Rocket changes into the Ash costume to try to fool Pikachu, she comes back and says "Pikachu" under Ash's voice, yet in the next scene, she turns the dial to Ash on her voice changer.

In other languages

• French: L'unité d'élite K-9
• Italian: Scuola di polizia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El caso de la policía canina!
• Spanish: El caso de la travesura K-9
• Swedish: Röstresurser

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.