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"The March of the Exeggutor Squad" is the 43rd episode of Pokémon the Series. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 7, 1998, and in the United States on October 30, 1998. It was initially intended to air in Japan on February 3, 1998, but was rescheduled following the Electric Soldier Porygon incident.

Plot[]

When at a carnival, Ash Ketchum and his friends meet Melvin, a magician who is really losing his touch and fails in his own magic show. In his effort to get better, Melvin decides to hypnotize Ash and uses his Pokémon Exeggcute to capture loads of Exeggutor. The Exeggutor end up hypnotizing themselves and Team Rocket and almost destroy the entire carnival. The carnival owner sets a time bomb to stop the Exeggutor. Ash's Charmander uses flame attacks and Melvin successfully performs his fire magic trick to wake up the Exeggutor before they get harmed by the time bomb. After this Charmander unexpectedly evolves into Charmeleon.

Home media releases[]

VHS
  • Pokémon: Jigglypuff Pop
DVD

Trivia[]

  • Who's That Pokémon?: Exeggcute
  • This is the last episode to air in syndication in the United States. Due to this, there was a near four-month gap between this episode and The Problem with Paras as a result of Pokémon being moved to the Kids' WB lineup.
  • Early in the episode, Ash and Brock are wearing party outfits. Brock's outfit, which has pink frills for the sleeves and the cuffs of the pants, has large similarities to his future Brock's Paradise outfit, including the maracas he holds. The outfit from this episode thus may have served as inspiration for the later outfit.
  • This is the first episode in which there is a reference to a real-life city; Melvin mentions that his dream is to have his own magic show in Las Vegas.
  • Parts of this episode were reanimated and used for flashback material for The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!.
  • Melvin keeps all of his Exeggutor on hand in this episode, even though there are far more than the maximum six allowed to all Trainers.
  • In the English dub, the title card is written in all caps.

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