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| Season | Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest (Season 18) |
| Episode | Season 18, episode 3 · English episode 846 · Japanese episode 824 · Bulbapedia code XY024 |
| English title | An Undersea Place to Call Home! |
| Japanese title | 海底の城！クズモーとドラミドロ！！ Kaitei no Shiro! Kuzumō to Doramidoro!! — “The Undersea Castle! Kuzumo and Dramidoro!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 20 November 2014 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 7 February 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Mega V (Mega Volt) – Yūsuke · Doridori (DreamDream) – Shōko Nakagawa |
| English opening | Be a Hero – Ben Dixon and The Sad Truth |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Skrelp (US) |
| Previous episode | When Light and Dark Collide! (XY051) |
| Next episode | A Stealthy Challenge! (XY052) |
Filler / stand-alone episodePostponed from Season 17Skrelp and Dragalge
An Undersea Place to Call Home! is the 3rd episode of Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest, the eighteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 846th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 824, Bulbapedia code XY024). It first aired in Japan on 20 November 2014 and in the United States on 7 February 2015.
Due on TV Tokyo on 24 April 2014 but postponed after the Sewol ferry disaster, it aired in Japan on 20 November 2014 and premiered on Cartoon Network at 3:30 p.m. on 7 February 2015, the last premiere of the four-hour marathon — which makes it the season’s third episode on TV, on DVD and in TPCi’s production codes (1803). It is set before Ash’s Cyllage Gym battle, and its dub narrator speaks in the past tense.
Synopsis
Before Ash’s Cyllage Gym battle, the group joins two underwater archaeologists in a submarine search for a sunken liner and helps the Skrelp and Dragalge that live in the wreck save their home from Team Rocket. Lunching on the Muraille Coast, Ash wants to train for his match with Grant, but Serena persuades him that fishing will ease his stress and Clemont suggests he catch a Water type. Ash hooks a furious Skrelp that lunges at his face; Bonnie bandages its injured head, but it thrashes free, fires Sludge Bomb and badly poisons Pikachu with Toxic. As the group hurries towards a Pokémon Center, a couple in a van stops and cures Pikachu with an Antidote. They are Eddy and Lindsey, underwater archaeologists looking for the S.S. Cussler, a luxury liner that sank after hitting an iceberg years ago and that they believe the currents carried near the coast. Short of hands, they accept the group’s help, though Lindsey warns that the dive is dangerous. Team Rocket overhear and set out to claim the ship’s treasure.
Lindsey’s submarine can take only two passengers, and Clemont’s random-selection machine picks Ash and Serena, to Bonnie’s annoyance. Beneath the waves they pass Qwilfish, Octillery and many other Water types, spot the bandaged Skrelp with two others, and ride out a powerful current that cuts their communications. They find the Cussler, marked with a Milotic emblem, and see two Dragalge using Acid to weld it to another wreck, building a bigger home where Luvdisc, Chinchou and Remoraid play with the Skrelp. A light in the hull turns out to be Team Rocket’s Magikarp submarine cutting into the ship. When the Skrelp and Dragalge attack the submarine, Pikachu intervenes and the bandaged Skrelp calls off its friends, then turns on Team Rocket, who blast their target safe loose with a charge.
The flooded wreck begins to collapse; Ash rallies the Water types to hold it up and suggests sealing the gap with a metal plate, which the Dragalge fix in place with Acid. On the surface, returning whirlpools wreck Team Rocket’s submarine, fling them clear and separate them from the safe. Froakie, who has been clinging to Team Rocket’s sub with Skrelp, is caught in a whirlpool too, until Ash urges it to jump: carrying Skrelp on its back, Froakie leaps from one piece of floating debris to the next and lands safely in Ash’s arms. At sunset the group waves goodbye to the Skrelp and Dragalge, and Ash realises that a jump like Froakie’s could be the key to beating Grant’s Onix at the Cyllage Gym.
Major Events
- The sunken liner. Postponed in Japan from 24 April 2014 and set before the Cyllage Gym battle
- The underwater archaeologists Eddy and Lindsey search for the S.S. Cussler
- Skrelp and Dragalge defend their home in the wreck from Team Rocket
- Froakie’s leaps across floating debris give Ash his plan against Grant
- The dub’s narrator speaks in the past tense
- Debuts of Eddy and Lindsey
- Anime debuts of Skrelp and Dragalge
Pokémon making their anime debut
Skrelp#0690 · XY024
Dragalge#0691 · XY024
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kalos story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The narrator speaks entirely in the past tense to signal that the episode belongs earlier in the story; the Finnish and Polish dubs do not keep this
- First broadcast in Japan with the then-current Mega V and DreamDream; the dub uses Be a Hero
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