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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket arc (AG004–AG008) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 8 · English episode 281 · Japanese episode 284 · Bulbapedia code AG008 |
| English title | A Tail with a Twist |
| Japanese title | ハブネークVSキモリ！必殺のはたく攻撃！！ Habunēku Tai Kimori! Hissatsu no Hataku Kōgeki!! — “Habunake VS Kimori! The Strike Offensive of Certain Kills!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 16 January 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 6 December 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Gligar (US) |
| Previous episode | Tree’s a Crowd (AG007) |
| Next episode | Taming of the Shroomish (AG009) |
Plot episodeJessie catches Seviper
A Tail with a Twist is the 8th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 281st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 284, Bulbapedia code AG008). It first aired in Japan on 16 January 2003 and in the United States on 6 December 2003. It falls within the season’s Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket stretch (EP4–EP8).
Synopsis
Ash and company are attacked by a hungry seviper. Treecko attacks but is hurt. They chase it off, but Jessie catches it. Treecko goes into its own training session then when the Team Rocket Trio attacks with Seviper, Treecko beats it, leaving Pikachu to do the rest.
Major Events
- Jessie catches Seviper by beating it with her own hands
- Treecko trains a spinning Pound and beats Seviper
- Treecko’s Quick Attack
- Taillow’s Wing Attack
- First anime use of Haze
- Seviper debuts
Pokémon making their anime debut
Seviper#0336 · AG008
Captures and evolutions
- Seviper#0336 · Jessie · beaten by hand
Trivia
- The English title plays on a tale with a twist.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Impact star over the first second of Jessie’s Fury Swipes (US airings only)
- Meowth’s “Scary Face” quip becomes “knows not what it’s done”
- First English-dub episode to use an instrumental Advance Adventure for an action sequence
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