Children all over the world are looking forward to Christmas. A certain group of Rocket Gang members are, too. However,
they're looking forward to it because they've come up with a plan to capture Santa Claus and get all the presents for themselves.
Musashi tells the other two they can never let their guard down when
dealing with Santa Claus, remembering a Christmas some 10-odd years back
when she was waiting for him in her bed.
You see, what actually showed up then was a psionic Pokémon wearing a Santa Claus hat and carrying a bag of presents...
NOTES: This episode was originally intended to be the 39th episode of the
Pocket Monsters anime, and was meant to be aired December 23rd, 1997.
However, as mentioned in
the episode 38 release post,
the show got taken off the air for four months due to the Porygon
incident. When it returned in April, this episode wasn't seen as overly
seasonally appropriate anymore, and was skipped over and temporarily
shelved. It eventually aired as part of the one-hour "Pocket Monsters
Winter Special" in October 1998. The episode wasn't edited in any way,
and doesn't fit into the series continuity in that new position it was
given at all, so we recommend watching these episodes in their
originally intended order, and will be releasing them in that intended
order for that reason.
Pokémon Smash #116 which aired on December 23rd, 2012, contained the first airing of the recolored version of Rougela's Christmas. The episode also aired as part of the
special Pokémon TV Show! The Rocket Gang Secret Empire: Pocket Monsters airing on Kids Station earlier in that week but did not feature this recolored version. The Smash recolored version of the episode featured a significant crop of the picture similar to that of the
remastered version of episode 1.
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