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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The road to Blackthorn arc (EP239–EP250) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 37 · English episode 246 · Japanese episode 248 · Bulbapedia code EP246 |
| English title | Wish Upon a Star Shape |
| Japanese title | ピィとピッピとながれぼし! Pī to Pippi to Nagareboshi! — “Py, Pippy and the Shooting Star!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 2 May 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 3 May 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Voltorb (US) · Cleffa (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up? (EP245) |
| Next episode | Outrageous Fortunes (EP247) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeCleffa debut
Wish Upon a Star Shape is the 37th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 246th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 248, Bulbapedia code EP246). It first aired in Japan on 2 May 2002 and in the United States on 3 May 2003. It falls within the season’s The road to Blackthorn stretch (EP239–EP250).
Synopsis
Having stopped for the night and admiring the stars, Ash and company watch as a mysterious object cuts an erratic path. It turns out to be a cleffa, the pre-evolved form of clefairy. The group wonders if the UFO could be the clefairy ship they had encountered before, and make the decision to take the cleffa to the ship to find out.
Just at that time a pair of young scientists obsessed with studying about pokémon at all costs appear to take measurements of the cleffa and insist on taking it for study. They are Ken and Mary, calling themselves the Pokémon Mystery Club. Team Rocket overhears the insult while spying on Ash and company and reveal themselves. A rivalry between the two groups begins as both teams try to capture the cleffa. Ash and company find that the ship is, indeed, the clefairy that they had encountered before.
The PMC and Team Rocket compete against each other to capture the clefairy and their ship, only to find that the clefairy are taking their machines apart to fix their spacecraft. With the clefairy ship restored and the cleffa returned to them as a newly evolved clefairy, the clefairy take of for parts unknown. Team Rocket is sent blasting off again with the PMC.
――――‧⁓«※»⁓‧―――― Just before going into the next episode this occurred to me. In the games and in real life trainers get cash for winning battles. Especially, they receive a lot of cash from gym leaders. No one in the anime does! This really does not make sense, as Ash and Misty are essentially professional trainers, not just enthusiasts. ――――‧⁓«※»⁓‧――――
Major Events
- Cleffa debut
- EP062 Clefairy return
- Pokémon Mystery Club
Pokémon making their anime debut
Cleffa#0173 · EP246
Trivia
- The English title plays on “wish upon a star”.
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- 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 Cleffa in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Voltorb in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.