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| The Double Trouble Header
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ルーキーのチコリータ！
The Rookie's Chicorita!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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October 21, 1999
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| United States
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October 21, 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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園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
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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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福本潔 Kiyoshi Fukumoto
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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 Double Trouble Header (Japanese: ルーキーのチコリータ！ The Rookie's Chicorita!) is the 118th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 21, 1999 and in the United States on October 21, 2000.
Synopsis
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The group meets Casey, a beginning Pokémon Trainer who is obsessed with baseball. After Ash easily wins a battle against Casey, Team Rocket convince her that he is a cheater.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Heracross (US and international), Chikorita (Japan)
Trivia
- The English dub of this episode first aired exactly one year after the original did in Japanese.
- This episode's dub title is a reference to the popular saying, "double trouble," and the baseball term, doubleheader.
- In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
Errors
Dub edits
- The shot of Ash getting hit by baseballs was covered by impact animations for the dubbed English version.
In other languages
- Finnish: Takalaiton Ash
- French: Leçon de Base-ball
- German: Im Team gegen Team Rocket
- Italian: Una giovane Allenatrice
- Latin America Spanish: La Principiante
- Iberian Spanish: Dos encuentros problemáticos
- European Portuguese: Duplos Sarilhos
- Brazilian Portuguese: Um Desempate com Encrenca em Dobro
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