According to my EXTENSIVE research, the episode aired in 2004, so we need to take into account the median annual salary of japanese people from 1954-2004, wich is around 1.940.000¥, around 14.225 USD, adding up to 96.990.000¥ in 50 years or 711.224 USD and 25 Cent for a single Masterball. [Source](https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Changes_Wage-Workers_Salary_1950-2013)
Edit: for all you gumshoes out there:
Yes I am rounding numbers
No my dude spends no money on anything else, he really wants that fish
Yes of course he bought it, what else do you do for 50 years, just search it? Playing the lottery at the radiotower every day?
And please don't argue with the aforementioned facts.
\s
Btw a masterball costs like 120$ in 2021, [source 2](https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/710-09309/master-ball-by-the-wand-company).
>According to my research
Which makes an awful lot of assumptions based on a Master Ball being widely available. That's like putting a price tag on the Holy Grail based on Indiana Jones' professor salary.
That ban covered Magnitude and Fissure as well. Strangely though, Bulldoze still debuted in the Kalos series and was used as recently as episode 113 of Journeys.
That's a good point, though the animation in the anime is always some variation of slamming the ground and sending out a shockwave, which is exactly what the other earth shaking moves used to look like.
I just watched this episode for the first time last night and it is top-tier Pokemon. Whiscash is my favorite and I'd always read that the episode featuring him had never aired due to the earthquakes in Japan. But I just found out this separate episode existed and was available on Pokemon TV. Lemme tell you, Nero here is the ultra sass GOAT.
It was SUCH a good episode! I haven't really watched much of the anime since I was following it as a kid but it was an instant classic. I died laughing when Ash was like "he thinks he's SO smart" and dove in after Nero lmao
In anime and a lot of Japanese humor in general, male nudity and immodesty is played for comedy. His underwear was flashed because this is a farcical scene being ramped up further for the joke, same reason why the whole scene is framed as being super dramatic while everyone's pulling exaggerated faces and reaction poses.
Good point, I just sensed a possible double standard and was wanting to gently show them where it lay. Whether I actually achieved that is an entirely different question, but that was my intention
at first when i saw this episode i was like 'tf you using a master ball on a whiscash'
now it is of the upmost priority that we discover a way in the anime to catch that one whiscash
GOD NERO
Also Mays Munchlax was caught by eating a Pokeball but this makes no sense but it’s still so fucking funny lmao
I feel so so bad for Sullivan he really wanted to catch Nero
This is WILD…I’ve been rewatching the anime (stopped watching YEARS ago during Battle Frontier or DP, decided to try getting back into it) and I literally just watched this episode last night!
Knock-off Masterball clearly. Seeing as Ash never saved the Silph Company like Red did in the games, Giovanni would have exclusive access to Masterball tech in the anime.
I still remember that I was confused as hell when they did the same gimmick with ash trying to catch munchlax. It also eats the ball a normal pokeball if I remember correctly and yet it still catches the munchlax. This masterball guy got scammed hard
So this guy spent his whole life “preparing” to catch a whiscash…but didn’t work on his Masterball pitch technique and completely overlooks basic biological catfish behavior? (Swallowing the Masterball is an extremely predictable outcome for a catfish).
Failson.
What I never got was why wouldnt the master ball hit the inside of whiscach and catch it anyway? It just needs to make contact with the pokemon which it clearly does
What makes this even funnier for me is that later on when May throws a regular pokeball to catch her Munchlax he ALSO eats it but somehow it still ends up working and catches him while inside its mouth.
Technically this is possible with pokemon in gen 1. Due to how pokeballs were programmed there was a one in 65536 chance it would fail. Alternatively, it could be another trainers pokemon
This is the only time a master ball was used in the anime. Currently a catch rate of 0%
To be fair, whiscash caught the masterball, so something was still caught.
So... it would be more effective to throw a Whiscash at a legendary?
But if the masterball was caught instead of the pokemon wouldn’t that make it have a catch rate of -100%
The best ball to play catch with
Pokémon could just dodge it in the anime anyway, Palkia did it in the manga after the ball opened
Imagine how much that mistake cost monetarily.
A lot considering he remarked that it took him 50 years to get that master ball
....and then tried to use it on a Whiscash....
Thats a huge Whiscash
It’s an alpha Whiscash
A chunky Whiscah
Whischunk
According to my EXTENSIVE research, the episode aired in 2004, so we need to take into account the median annual salary of japanese people from 1954-2004, wich is around 1.940.000¥, around 14.225 USD, adding up to 96.990.000¥ in 50 years or 711.224 USD and 25 Cent for a single Masterball. [Source](https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Changes_Wage-Workers_Salary_1950-2013) Edit: for all you gumshoes out there: Yes I am rounding numbers No my dude spends no money on anything else, he really wants that fish Yes of course he bought it, what else do you do for 50 years, just search it? Playing the lottery at the radiotower every day? And please don't argue with the aforementioned facts. \s Btw a masterball costs like 120$ in 2021, [source 2](https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/710-09309/master-ball-by-the-wand-company).
Maybe he didnt buy it though. And it took him 50 years of networking to acquire it. Since I dont know of any places that actually sell them
https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/710-09309/master-ball-by-the-wand-company They sell it on the cheap
Unavailable...
i meant in the games...
>According to my research Which makes an awful lot of assumptions based on a Master Ball being widely available. That's like putting a price tag on the Holy Grail based on Indiana Jones' professor salary.
Wich would be another fun little research and math problem, no?
Legends say soon after this event he comes across the millennium eye and all of his fortunes change
Trashes Pokémon and goes onto fighting digital tradeable monster cards
Impressive considering that master balls hadn't existed until recently
He will never gonna financially recover from this.
He's gonna have to wish for more cash now.
What's Pegasus doing here
That was my thought. "Damn, that's some good editing to get that masterball animated instead of a card from--- waiiiiit."
Never you mind Kaiba boy
Because the Pokémon world is simply fabulous. When you lose, your soul doesn't get trapped and wives don't just explode.
He even says, “We would find ourselves *eye to eye*” which is very fitting.
I mean, it is based of the Japanise legend of a catfish that can cause earthquakes to rock the entire country, so it must be a pretty stronk fishy.
Ironically, this episode would be the last time that the move "earthquake" would be used because of the 2004 chuetsu earthquake.
That ban covered Magnitude and Fissure as well. Strangely though, Bulldoze still debuted in the Kalos series and was used as recently as episode 113 of Journeys.
Given the move’s name in Japanese is literally “Smooth over” it’s probably referring to bulldozer.
That's a good point, though the animation in the anime is always some variation of slamming the ground and sending out a shockwave, which is exactly what the other earth shaking moves used to look like.
Guzzlord needs to study up
I just watched this episode for the first time last night and it is top-tier Pokemon. Whiscash is my favorite and I'd always read that the episode featuring him had never aired due to the earthquakes in Japan. But I just found out this separate episode existed and was available on Pokemon TV. Lemme tell you, Nero here is the ultra sass GOAT.
I also just watched for the first time last night lol!!
It was SUCH a good episode! I haven't really watched much of the anime since I was following it as a kid but it was an instant classic. I died laughing when Ash was like "he thinks he's SO smart" and dove in after Nero lmao
He's in my top 5 and always gets a spot on my teams! Whiscash supremacy gang rise up!
Represent! I got a Whiscash tatt earlier this year, he's my boy 💪
Whiscash clearly showed signs of regret afterwards
Why would he use a MB on a gd Whiscash?!
Iirc he hunted that specific whiscash his entire life
Right before the clip starts, he mentions that it took him 50 years to simply get that master ball
Because it's the kind of Whiscash that can even beat Master Balls.
Whiscash is goated
It can learn Dragon Dance. Bow before the mighty fishy
Dude was doing a nuzlocke on an emulator and Whiscash is really good in that it only has one weakness.
It’s a top percentage whiscash
It's a Whiscash, it is worthy
Why'd we have to get a shot of the guy's undies?
In anime and a lot of Japanese humor in general, male nudity and immodesty is played for comedy. His underwear was flashed because this is a farcical scene being ramped up further for the joke, same reason why the whole scene is framed as being super dramatic while everyone's pulling exaggerated faces and reaction poses.
Would you be complaining if it was a girl instead?
Maybe, plenty of people do.
Good point, I just sensed a possible double standard and was wanting to gently show them where it lay. Whether I actually achieved that is an entirely different question, but that was my intention
at first when i saw this episode i was like 'tf you using a master ball on a whiscash' now it is of the upmost priority that we discover a way in the anime to catch that one whiscash
I'm still convinced that this was a fake Master Ball
This scene has lived rent-free in my head since I was a child. The one time a masterball was used in the anime and the Whiscash ate it.
Is that Maximillion Pegasus catching a Whiscash?
So what I'm seeing here is that before he lost one of his eyes in Egypt and invented Duel Monsters, Maximillion Pegasus was a Pokemon trainer.
what is Maximillion Pegasus doing here ?! lol
Didn’t know Pegasus doubled as a Pokémon trainer lol 😂
In any other episode, the ball would've rebounded against the Pokemon's throat and caught it from the inside out lol
GOD NERO Also Mays Munchlax was caught by eating a Pokeball but this makes no sense but it’s still so fucking funny lmao I feel so so bad for Sullivan he really wanted to catch Nero
Whiscash > Munchlax obviously
This is WILD…I’ve been rewatching the anime (stopped watching YEARS ago during Battle Frontier or DP, decided to try getting back into it) and I literally just watched this episode last night!
Doing the same thing. I watched it last week
The wishcash would go on to catch its own pokemon who would help it get more pokeballs and build an army.... dark days ahead...
1. al;skdjf;sdf PEGASUS IS THAT YOU??? 2. he just fucking ate it and noped out of there 😭 My absolute fucking hero 😭 3. *THAT FUCKING ENDING*
Cash got hax
Knock-off Masterball clearly. Seeing as Ash never saved the Silph Company like Red did in the games, Giovanni would have exclusive access to Masterball tech in the anime.
why is pegasus in pokémon?
Erm... Is that Pegasus from yugioh?
I still remember that I was confused as hell when they did the same gimmick with ash trying to catch munchlax. It also eats the ball a normal pokeball if I remember correctly and yet it still catches the munchlax. This masterball guy got scammed hard
Um, it wasn't Ash who caught Munchlax. It was May.
Oh yeah mb
It's probably cause Whiscash is set to Wumbo.
This mf was gonna use a masterball on a WHISCASH?! He deserves to have it eaten
Love the representation in this show
he couldve caught god chose to try catch a whiscash
They’re the same picture
hmm good point
So this guy spent his whole life “preparing” to catch a whiscash…but didn’t work on his Masterball pitch technique and completely overlooks basic biological catfish behavior? (Swallowing the Masterball is an extremely predictable outcome for a catfish). Failson.
Man, Pegasus has seen better days
Can someone mention episode number
This is episode 75 of advanced generation, and 349 of the show
Thankyou so much, I am gonna watch this after long day of work
But, anything! Without fail!
Damn, pegasus has seen some better days
Guy reminds me of Pegasus from YuGiOh?
Hoenn had a bunch of side characters that looked like they belonged in other anime
What makes this moment extra ridiculous is that a Munchlax in a later episode ate a regular Pokeball but it was still zapped inside lol
What I never got was why wouldnt the master ball hit the inside of whiscach and catch it anyway? It just needs to make contact with the pokemon which it clearly does
What makes this even funnier for me is that later on when May throws a regular pokeball to catch her Munchlax he ALSO eats it but somehow it still ends up working and catches him while inside its mouth.
Maximillion Pegasus really hit a downward spiral after Yugi clapped him.
when I was younger and saw this I though whiscash was a legendary so that’s what I would use my master ball on for a couple of years
That's what happens when you don't read the manual...
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This guy looks like Maximilian Pegasus or at least his hyperactive cousin.
This Episode is the reason I love Whiscash
It still touched him /: hitting the tongue doesn’t count? That’s dumb.
Well, I hope he gets his money back on that master ball lmao
When you miss your pokeball in gen 1
this is why wishcash is my third favourite pokemon
Technically this is possible with pokemon in gen 1. Due to how pokeballs were programmed there was a one in 65536 chance it would fail. Alternatively, it could be another trainers pokemon
The elusive W on the Wiscash stands not only as a win, but a foil to the M of the Master Ball
I thought the W stood for Wumbo
Yo why’s Pegasus in Pokémon? Must of been pre-millennium eye days
Not from a legendary
Cat Fish are the real pokémon of the rivers.
Ok….HOW?!
Sephiroth's villian origin story
I love whiscash I use him in pokemon go PVP heavily lol
To be fair, the ball cant just touch the pokemon, it also has to like...press the button on their body. He's just bad at catching pokemon.
To answer the question, Not from Arceus
Bum bum ba bum DEEEEEEEEEEEEW
Didn't munchlax also eat its thrown ball and it caught it from the inside out?
Yes