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ctesjbuvf posted...

Also did Beauty and the Beach not eventually air just without the scenes where James has inflatable boobs? I'm pretty sure I recall having watched it in English.

Yes, this aired in the dub with the James bikini scenes removed nearly two years after it would have aired sequentially, heavily promoted as a "lost episode." It aired in June 2000, then was rerun once that August, and has never again surfaced in any official form (not even on DVD). Furthermore, as far as I've been able to find, there's no recording of the dubbed episode as it aired available online. Any version I've found has the English audio synced to the Japanese episode, so it has the deleted Japanese scenes intact (with Japanese audio, obviously), and that duller, almost 80s-ish look that the first season had in Japan as opposed to the brighter, more polished restoration that they gave the dub (and noticeable cuts where they added the theme song and Who's That Pokemon... honestly I'm not sure why they went through the effort).

One more curiosity about this episode. The episode Hypno's Naptime includes a flashback to this episode with Ash saying goodbye to Delia and Professor Oak on the beach, but only in the dub. In the original, the flashback is to them saying goodbye in Pallet Town. Weird that 4Kids would add a flashback to an episode they didn't originally intend to air. My best guess is that they wanted to put the master tape to some use since they had it (similar to how they used clips from the Dratini episode in the Pokerap and What Kind of Pokemon Are You music videos).