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All Things Bright and Beautifly! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！アゲハントの華麗なバトル!! Contest! Agehunt's Magnificent Battle!) is episode 13 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 20, 2003 and in USA on December 27, 2003.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash, May, Max and Brock go to their very first Pokémon contest.
• Ash, Brock, May and Max get a Hoenn Contest Pass.
• May becomes interested in contests.
• Ash begins teaching Iron Tail to Pikachu.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Max
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Chaz
• Janet
• Raul Contesta
• Sukizo
• Nurse Joy
• Contest host

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Magcargo

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Beautifly (Janet's)
• Venomoth (Chaz's)
• Sentret (Chaz's)
• Ninetales
• Persian
• Jynx (Japanese version)
• Flaaffy
• Marill
• Slugma
• Smeargle
• Elekid
• Poochyena
• Lotad

Trivia

• This is the only contest in Hoenn not to be hosted by Vivian.
• Jessie has an expired Contest Pass that is renewed in this episode. However, she loses the appeal round by ordering Seviper to use a moves that it doesn't know.

Errors

• This episode contradicts a lot of what later became canon about Pokémon Contests.
• In the dub, the Slugma has Magcargo's voice.

Dub edits

• Jynx made an appeal in this contest. However, because Jynx had been animated with black skin instead of purple, she was cut from the English dub.

In other languages

• French: La beauté du jeu
• Portuguese: Tudo Limpo e Brilhante!

External links

• Pokémon Contest Retcons thread on BMGf

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