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"Odd Pokémon Out!" is the 161st episode of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, and the 437th episode overall of Pokémon the Series. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 26, 2006, and in the United States on October 28, 2006. In this episode, Ash Ketchum's Grovyle evolved into Sceptile and loses the ability to use any of its attacks.
Plot[]
Heading for the next Pokémon Contest, Ash Ketchum and his friends encounter a Meganium owned by a Nurse Joy and a Tropius who is in love in it. However, Grovyle has become smitten with the Meganium as well, and seeks to beat the Tropius. When Team Rocket intervenes, Grovyle evolves into Sceptile but it loses the ability to use any of its attacks due to his unrequited love for Meganium, who teams up with Tropius to get rid of Team Rocket.
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Trivia[]
- The episode's English dub title is a pun on the idiom "odd man out".
- Tomoe Hanba voices James's Mime Jr. in this episode because Ikue Otani was on maternity leave. Otani still provides the voice of Ash's Pikachu, but Pikachu's voice was likely supplied by clips from the much more abundant amount of previous episodes.
- This episode marks the only time that a:
- Main character's Grass-type First partner Pokémon has evolved in two different regions.
- Grass-type first partner Pokémon has evolved outside its native region onscreen.
- This episode was skipped in the initial rotation on the Castilian Spanish Pokémon TV on April 1, 2016. It was later added on April 9, 2016.
External links[]
- Odd Pokémon Out! at Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki
- Odd Pokémon Out! at the Internet Movie Database