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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · Blackthorn City: the Rising Badge arc (EP251–EP255) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 42 · English episode 251 · Japanese episode 254 · Bulbapedia code EP252 |
| English title | Fangs for Nothin’ |
| Japanese title | フスベジムのりゅうのきば! Fusube Jimu no Ryū no Kiba! — “Fusube Gym’s Dragon Fang!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 13 June 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 7 June 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Octillery (US) · Dragonair (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Beauty Is Skin Deep (EP251) |
| Next episode | Great Bowls of Fire! (EP253) |
Plot episodeWynaut debut – Gen III preview
Fangs for Nothin’ is the 42nd episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 251st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 254, Bulbapedia code EP252). It first aired in Japan on 13 June 2002 and in the United States on 7 June 2003. It falls within the season’s Blackthorn City: the Rising Badge stretch (EP251–EP255).
Synopsis
The gym battle between Claire and Ash begins. Halfway through the match, the gym battle is interrupted by Team Rocket’s theft of the ancient dragon fang. While escaping Team Rocket ducks into Dragon’s Den and all the way into the Dragon Holy Land. Here they con a trusting dragonite into helping them telling it that Claire and Ash’s party are evil humans who want to steal the dragon fang and enslave the pokémon. When it spots Ash and company the dragonite attacks them, then helps Team Rocket to escape. Claire catches up with the kids, and compare notes. Just then a silhouette appears in the sky of a large winged pokémon.
Major Events
- Gym battle interrupted
- Wynaut debut (anime debut of a Gen III Pokémon)
- Furret dub debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Furret#0162 · EP252
Wynaut#0360 · EP252
Trivia
- The English title plays on “thanks for nothing”.
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Dragonair in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Octillery in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Onigiri → “sandwiches”/”doughnuts”/”onion” EP251/EP252/EP273
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.