Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate! (Japanese: ポケモン不思議のダンジョン　出動！ポケモン救助隊ガンバルズ！ Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Setting Out! Pokémon Rescue !) is an adaptation of the spin-off games Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team. It first aired in the United States on September 8, 2006 on , and in Japan on March 23, 2007.
This episode was released on the Japanese and English Pokémon YouTube channels on July 3, 2015 and October 22, 2015, respectively, for the release of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. This episode was also made available on Pokémon TV.
==Plot==
A voice calls out from the darkness if is okay. The sleeping boy wakes up, and can't believe himself when he sees a . Charmander then points out that he's a too. The boy takes a look at his reflection at a river besides him, and sees that it is true. He has turned into a Squirtle, and has no recollection at all how this had happened.
Later, Squirtle wakes up at a house, and takes a look at his reflection on a pool of water, seeing that he truly is a Squirtle. While trying to get a closer look, he falls into the water. He starts sinking, but to his surprise, he finds himself able to breathe underwater. He swims around for a while and starts thinking that being a Pokémon isn't so bad after all. As he's a Pokémon, he tries to use , but it turns out as instead. While admiring how pretty the bubbles are, he sees that Charmander has entered the house with a . They think that Squirtle is pretty weird, as he acts like a human. Squirtle tries to explain that he really used to be a human, but Charmander and Chikorita don't seem to take him seriously. Charmander asks what Squirtle thinks about the place, and Squirtle says that he loves the house. Charmander, however, explains that it's not a house but their Team Base. He then throws Squirtle a Rescue Team Badge, and explains that from now on, he's a member of their Rescue Team, Team Go-Getters. Squirtle asks what a Rescue Team is, shocking Charmander and Chikorita with his lack of knowledge. Just then, an earthquake strikes, and Squirtle starts panicking, but it goes over quickly and Charmander and Chikorita explain that that is normal, and those earthquakes are why Rescue Teams exist, to help Pokémon that are in trouble. Chikorita says that Squirtle must be the only Pokémon around that doesn't know anything about this. Squirtle tries to explain that he really was a human, but Charmander and Chikorita still don't believe him, and instead push him out and tell him that they're going to the to look for a new rescue mission. They give Squirtle their Toolbox, and he tries to keep up with them as they run ahead.
Meanwhile, at the Pokémon Square, the tries to calm down crying , and tells him that and the other Team A.C.T. members are sure to save his older brother . , however, points out that Team A.C.T. is at the Magma Cavern, trying to save and , so they won't be available for some time. Whiscash tells Pichu that despite this, they still have many Rescue Teams to do the job. Just then, Team Go-Getters arrives, only to be pushed away by , , and of Team Meanies, who are ready to take the case. Whiscash gives the both Rescue Teams the mission to go through Sinister Cave and save Pikachu. Gengar, however, doesn't seem to think he's going to need help from the other team.
Chikorita leads Charmander and Squirtle to the Kecleon Brothers' shop for supplies, but when they get there, they find out that the whole shop has been emptied by some greedy customers. When they're about to leave, Squirtle asks who those customers were, and the Brothers say that they were Gengar and his companions from Team Meanies. Later Team Go-Getters checks out their Toolbox, with a bunch of being the only thing Chikorita could find to fill it with. Team Meanies appears from behind a tree, mocking the three Pokémon how they could save anyone with just Berries. Charmander tries to explain that Berries can be really useful, but Gengar sends Ekans forth, and it eats all the Berries. Outraged, Squirtle tries to use Bubble on them, but his attack is easily stopped by Gengar's . Team Meanies heads out, leaving Team Go-Getters with just two Oran Berries. Aunty from the Kangaskhan Storage appears and offers her help for the three, giving them a each and a bag of s. She wishes them luck with a wink as Team Go-Getters leaves for the rescue mission.
Team Go-Getters enters Sinister Cave and starts going through, having their way lit by Charmander's tail flame. Suddenly, they hear someone crying for help. Charmander locates the voice coming from behind a big rock, and uses to break it, revealing a small tunnel. Following a swarm of , out comes Pichu, who is terrified of the darkness. Charmander hands Pichu one of their Oran Berries, and Pichu quickly regains his strength. Pichu explains that as he couldn't just sit and do nothing while his big brother was in trouble, he followed Team Meanies. They weren't too pleased to see Pichu, so Gengar tricked Pichu into running into the tunnel and trapped him inside by using on a boulder. Team Go-Getters is outraged for such a behavior and swears to rescue Pikachu before Team Meanies can.
The Rescue Team next reaches a group of sleeping . Charmander tells everyone to keep their voices down, but Squirtle accidentally bumps into one Shroomish, and quickly all the Shroomish in the cave are awake, and use their on them. Team Go-Getters quickly runs away, but the Shroomish are following them. Charmander uses , scaring the Shroomish. As he tries to do the same again, Charmander ends up using instead. The Shroomish run away and Pichu tells Charmander that he just leveled up. As they continue forward, Squirtle starts thinking that they all might have leveled up because the Poison Powder did nothing to them. Chikorita, however, explains that this was due to the Pecha Scarves Aunty Kangaskhan gave them, which protect them from being .
Team Go-Getters reaches the end of the cave, and Pichu notices Pikachu's Treasure Bag on the ground and picks it up. Just then, a shows up, snatches Pichu and flies away. He is taken as a prisoner to the top of a mountain, just besides his brother Pikachu, who apologized for getting him into trouble as well. Pichu, however, tells Pikachu that Team Go-Getters is on the way to rescue them. While climbing the mountain, Squirtle is tired as the top doesn't seem to get any closer. He thinks that he could just rocket himself there if he knew Water Gun, but when he tries to use it again, it just comes out as Bubble once more.
During their climb, Team Go-Getters notices something lying on their path; Team Meanies. They tell how they had been surprised and defeated by Skarmory. Squirtle, Chikorita, and Charmander take their last Oran Berry, split it into three pieces, and feed two of the pieces to Medicham and Ekans respectively, recovering their health instantly. At first, Gengar refuses to take his piece, but when Squirtle tells how they're all Pokémon, and therefore like brothers who must be helped when needed, Gengar accepts and eats his piece of the Berry.
Finally Team Go-Getters reaches the mountain top and sees tied Pichu and Pikachu, as well as Skarmory. Skarmory doesn't like the intruders and attacks them. Chikorita tries to use , but Skarmory just uses to blow the leaves away before attacking Chikorita with . Squirtle attacks Skarmory with Bubble, but Skarmory easily avoids the Bubbles and uses on Squirtle.
Team Go-Getters makes a tactical retreat. Seeing how strong Skarmory is, they decide to use the Corsola Twigs Aunty Kangaskhan gave them. They open the bag, and find three Twigs, one for each of them. They start a combination attack. Charmander uses Flamethrower, and while Skarmory dodges it, Chikorita throws her Twig, but Skarmory easily dodges it too. Squirtle uses on Skarmory, knocking it off-balance. Charmander throws his Twig, but Skarmory just knocks it away and prepares for a new attack. Pikachu hurries Pichu to drop the content of his Treasure Bag out. A Seed falls out, and Pikachu kicks it, sending it flying into Squirtle's mouth. Squirtle swallows the seed, and when he dodges Skarmory's attack, he and everybody else notice that he's a lot faster now. Pikachu explains that the Seed was a , which makes its eater's moves super-fast. Squirtle uses Skarmory's confusion as his advantage, and throws his Twig at it, scoring a direct hit. Charmander attacks with Flamethrower and Chikorita goes with Razor Leaf. When Squirtle tries to add a Bubble attack to the barrage, he finally uses Water Gun, having leveled up too. The attacks make a direct hit, and Skarmory is finally defeated. Charmander and Chikorita admire how strong Squirtle's Water Gun was.
Team Go-Getters releases Pichu and Pikachu from their ropes. They're very glad for being saved. Just then, Skarmory wakes up, and doesn't seem to remember anything that just happened. Squirtle suspects that Skarmory possibly hit its head, while Chikorita speculates its behavior earlier could've had something to do with all the natural disasters. Whatever the case, Team Go-Getters celebrates for successfully completing their first mission. They then see a flying towards the Pokémon Square, and rush back home in the hopes for a new rescue mission. Squirtle ends the episode by saying that as long as he's going to be a Pokémon, he's going to stick in Team Go-Getters with Charmander and Chikorita.
==Major events==
* A human boy finds out he's turned into a .
* Squirtle joins Team Go-Getters.
* learns .
* Squirtle learns .
* Team Go-Getters completes their first mission by rescuing .
===Debuts===
====Pokémon debuts====
==Characters==
* Team Go-Getters
** 
** 
** 
* Team Meanies
** 
** 
** 
* Team A.C.T.
** 
** 
** 
* 
* (Big Brother Pikachu)
* Pokémon Square
** Kecleon Brothers
*** (younger)
*** (older)
** Aunty Kangaskhan's Warehouse
*** (Aunty Kangaskhan)
** ()
** ()
** 
** ()
* Pelipper Post Office
** ()
* Magma Cavern
** 
** 
* Sinister Cave
** (multiple)
** (multiple)
** 
==Comparison with the games==
* The mission to rescue Pikachu from Sinister Cave is the third storyline mission in the games, after completing the and rescue missions.
** There is no Sinister Cave in the games, with the mission in question originally being based at Mt. Steel. There is, however, a Sinister Woods in the games.
* Team A.C.T. does go to Magma Cavern in the games; however, it is to battle , not to rescue Plusle and Minun. The player eventually goes to Magma Cavern themselves in the penultimate storyline mission.
* Much of the music in this episode is a remix of, or at least similar to, music from the games.
==Cast==
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==Staff==
Executive producersエグゼクティブプロデューサー 	
* Tsunekazu Ishihara
* Kōichi Nakamura	
* 石原恒和
* 中村光一
Planning企画 	
* Takaaki Kii
* Kenjirō Itō	
* 紀伊高明
* 伊藤憲二郎
Producersプロデューサー 	
* Takemoto Mori
* Kunimi Kawamura	
* 盛　武源
* 川村久仁美
Associate producerアソシエイトプロデューサー 	
* Masakazu Kubo
* Chōji Yoshikawa	
* 久保雅一
* 吉川兆二
Animation producersアニメーションプロデューサー 	
* Toshiaki Okuno
* Shūkichi Kanda	
* 奥野敏聡
* 神田修吉
Assistant producersアシスタントプロデューサー 	
* Yūko Shimamura
* Masami Tanaka	
* 島村優子
* 田中雅美
Director監督 	
* Kunihiko Yuyama	
* 湯山邦彦
Screenplay脚本 	
* Aya Matsui 	
* 松井亜弥
Storyboard絵コンテ 	
* Kunihiko Yuyama	
* 湯山邦彦
Assistant director演出 	
* Yūji Asada 	
* 浅田裕二
Pokémon created by「ポケットモンスター」原案 	
* Satoshi Tajiri
* Jun'ichi Masuda
* Ken Sugimori	
* 田尻　智
* 増田順一
* 杉森　建
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team original staging「ポケモン不思議のダンジョン　青の救助隊・赤の救助隊」オリジナル設定 	
* Seiichirō Nagahata
* Shin'ichirō Tomie
* Kaoru Hasegawa	
* 長畑成一郎
* 富江慎一郎
* 長谷川　薫
Staging assistance設定協力 	
* Game Freak, inc.
* The Pokémon Company
* Chunsoft	
* GAME FREAK inc.
* The Pokémon Company
* 株式会社チュンソフト
Special thanksスペシャルサンクス 	
* Yōichi Kotabe
* TV Tokyo	
* 小田部羊一
* テレビ東京
Animation director作画監督 	
* Akihiro Tamagawa	
* 玉川明洋
Animation director assistance作画監督補佐 	
* Makoto Shinjō	
* 新城　真
Colorist色指定 	
* Kayo Ōshima	
* 大島嘉代
Special effects特殊効果 	
* Yūji Asada 	
* 浅田裕二
Art director美術監督／設定 	
* Katsuyoshi Kanemura	
* 金村勝義
Director of photography撮影監督 	
* Yasushi Kamakoshi	
* 山越康司
CGI 	
* OLM Digital	
* OLM Digital
CGI directorCGI監督 	
* Minoru Tokushige	
* 徳重　実
Editor編集 	
* Toshio Henmi	
* 辺見俊夫
Music音楽 	
* Moririn Tada	
* モリリン多田
Original score (partial)一部原曲・作曲 	
* Arata Iiyoshi
* Atsuhiro Ishizuna	
* 飯吉　新
* 石綱淳泰
Sound recording producer音響プロデューサー 	
* Michiyoshi Minamisawa
* Takeshi Nishina	
* 南沢道義
* 西名　武
Sound director音響監督 	
* Masafumi Mima	
* 三間雅文
Recording studio録音スタジオ 	
* HALF H・P STUDIO	
* HALF H・P STUDIO
Production manager制作担当 	
* Tsukasa Koitabashi	
* 小板橋　司
Animation productionアニメーション制作 	
* OLM Team Koitabashi	
* OLM Team Koitabashi
Production制作 	
* Shogakukan Production	
* 小学館プロダクション
Executive production & writing製作・著作 	
* Shogakukan Production
* Chunsoft
* The Pokémon Company	
* 小学館プロダクション
* 株式会社チュンソフト
* The Pokémon Company
USA production 	USA production	USA production
Executive producer 	
* Akira Chiba (Pokémon USA)
* Holly Rawlinson (Pokémon USA)	
Producer 	
* Larry Judis (TAJ Productions)	
Assistant producer 	
* Maya Nakamura (Pokémon USA)
* Kaori Brand (Pokémon USA)	
Voice director 	
* Armen Mazlumian (TAJ Productions)	
Video editor 	
* Peter Vaughan (Chromavision)	
Script adaptation 	
* James Carter Cathcart	
==Trivia==
* This episode first aired the same day as Fear Factor Phony in the U.S.
* The episode was animated by Team Koitabashi, which usually handles the s.
* The episode was storyboarded by Kunihiko Yuyama, who also usually handles the movies.
* The episode had music producers, which are usually only found in the movies.
* The only Pokémon in this episode who don't are and .
* Most of the background music in the episode was taken from the game score, which was composed by Arata Iiyoshi and Atsuhiro Ishizuna. Unusual for , the music was not arranged by Shinji Miyazaki, at least according to the Japanese credits—the U.S. credits list Miyazaki Shinji as the composer.
* The title shown some time during the beginning was colored blue only, not red, similar to that of the cover of both games.
* This special debuted in the United States before airing in Japan.
===Errors===
* When Gengar ordered Ekans to eat up all the Berries that Team Go-Getters collected, he called the Poisonous Snake Pokémon "," which may be a misinterpretation of the Japanese name of , "Arbo."
** If one listens closely to Ekans's response after the error, he replies with "Gee, thanks," as if the mistake was made to be intentional.
* In one scene, the top of Aunty Kangaskhan's head is discolored brown.
* Gengar uses in this episode, but Gengar cannot learn that move in the games.
* The episode ends with To be continued, despite being a one-off special.
===Dub edits===
* When Squirtle uses instead of for the first time, he originally figures that his level must not be high enough, while in the English dub, he merely says he still has a lot to learn.
* Charmander mentions TMs while talking with the Kecleon Brothers in the Japanese version, marking one of the only times TMs have been mentioned in , although this reference was removed from the dubbed version.
* In the Japanese version, upon learning how their protected them from , Squirtle admires how amazing the item is, instead of lamenting how he had thought he had actually leveled up, as he does in the English dub.
* Pelipper does not speak in the Japanese version, but he does in the dub.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness
==External links==
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate on Pokémon TV (English)
Category:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon episodes
Category:Episodes written by Aya Matsui
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Kunihiko Yuyama
Category:Episodes directed by Yūji Asada
Category:Episodes animated by Akihiro Tamagawa
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