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| Season | Pokémon: Johto League Champions (Season 4) · Festivals, balloons & the first Gen III Pokémon arc (EP201–EP207) |
| Episode | Season 4, episode 47 · English episode 204 · Japanese episode 206 · Bulbapedia code EP204 |
| English title | Right On, Rhydon! |
| Japanese title | なみのりサイドンをおえ!? みずうみのたたかい! Naminori Saidon o Oe!? Mizuumi no Tatakai! — “Follow the Surfing Sidon!? The Battle at the Lake!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 28 June 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 22 June 2002 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Takeshi Shudō |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Mezase Pokémon Master (Whiteberry version) – Whiteberry · Maemuki Rocket-dan! (Face Forward Team Rocket!) – Team Rocket |
| English opening | Born to Be a Winner – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Sunflora (US) · Rhydon (Japan) |
| Previous episode | The Screen Actor’s Guilt (EP203) |
| Next episode | The Kecleon Caper (EP205) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeFirst Iron TailTakeshi Shudō script
Right On, Rhydon! is the 47th episode of Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 204th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 206, Bulbapedia code EP204). It first aired in Japan on 28 June 2001 and in the United States on 22 June 2002. It falls within the season’s Festivals, balloons & the first Gen III Pokémon stretch (EP201–EP207).
Synopsis
A girl named Pietra and her Marill catch a swimming Rhydon so that it can finish digging a tunnel for her grandmother. At dawn the gang watch a Rhydon that has learned Surf rise from a lake. Pietra needs it because her Ground types (and Brock’s Onix) bolt whenever water drips into the tunnel she is boring to the next town. Rhydon’s trail of apple cores leads to an orchard, where it finds Team Rocket scoffing its fruit and promptly rams them into the sky.
Rhydon dives, and Totodile, Marill and Misty’s Water types pursue, but a horn-spun whirlpool knocks every one of them out. On an apple-rich island Pietra lies in ambush; Pikachu’s Thunderbolt gets its attention, then Team Rocket net it from their balloon. Crobat’s Wing Attack downs the balloon, Bulbasaur’s Razor Leaf frees Rhydon and Pikachu sends the trio off again.
Pietra clings to Rhydon’s neck through its dives until it accepts her challenge. Marill dodges a tail swipe, trades Water Gun against Horn Drill, bounces off Rhydon’s hide with Tackle, then lands Bubble Beam and Water Gun; a first Poké Ball fails, but after an Iron Tail to the face the second holds. Back at the tunnel the new Rhydon ignores the drips and breaks through with Horn Drill and Take Down.
Major Events
- Pietra catches the surfing Rhydon
- First use of Iron Tail in the anime
- Screenplay by Takeshi Shudō
Captures and evolutions
Rhydon#0112 · Pietra
Trivia
- The English title plays on the phrase "right on".
- The screenplay is by Takeshi Shudō.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Johto story.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Rhydon in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Sunflora in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- “Fruit” becomes “apples”.
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