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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · On to Rustboro: Shroomish, Pelipper, Poochyena & Lotad arc (AG009–AG012) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 9 · English episode 282 · Japanese episode 285 · Bulbapedia code AG009 |
| English title | Taming of the Shroomish |
| Japanese title | 怪奇！キノココ屋敷の謎！？ Kaiki! Kinokoko Yashiki no Nazo!? — “Bizarre! Mystery of the Kinococo Mansion!?” |
| First aired (Japan) | 23 January 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 6 December 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Masashi Sogo |
| 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? | Snubbull (US) |
| Previous episode | A Tail with a Twist (AG008) |
| Next episode | You Said a Mouthful! (AG010) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeFirst filler of the seriesShroomish debut
Taming of the Shroomish is the 9th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 282nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 285, Bulbapedia code AG009). It first aired in Japan on 23 January 2003 and in the United States on 6 December 2003. It falls within the season’s On to Rustboro: Shroomish, Pelipper, Poochyena & Lotad stretch (EP9–EP12).
Synopsis
After arriving in Rinshin Town, Brock and May check out a “haunted” mansion, while Ash and Max make friends with a shroomish. The shroomish runs inside the mansion causing Ash and Max to meet up with Brock and May. They meet Alex, the owner of the mansion who has agreed to allow the city to demolish the mansion and cut down the remaining forest to build more urban area. They come to the conclusion that the strange happenings inside the mansion are the shroomish defending what is left of their home. After an attack by the Team Rocket Trio, Alex decides to restore the forest after the mansion is demolished to create a shroomish habitat within the city.
Major Events
- Bulbapedia’s first filler episode of the series
- Rinshin Town’s Green Lodge and Alex
- Max befriends a Shroomish, his first Pokémon friend
- The credits run over an instrumental I Wanna Be a Hero
- Shroomish debuts
Pokémon making their anime debut
Shroomish#0285 · AG009
Trivia
- The English title plays on “Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”.
- The screenplay is by Masashi Sogo.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Hoenn story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The credits play over an instrumental I Wanna Be a Hero
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