AG056

Going, Going, Yawn

AG056   EP330 ヒートバッジ！燃えるバトルでゲットだぜ！！ Heat Badge! Win the Blazing Battle!

First broadcast Japan December 18, 2003 United States November 20, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending スマイル

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 誌村宏明 Hiroaki Shimura Assistant director ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

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Going, Going, Yawn (Japanese: ヒートバッジ！燃えるバトルでゲットだぜ！！ Heat Badge! Win the Blazing Battle!) is the 56th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 330th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 18, 2003 and in the United States on November 20, 2004.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and Flannery begin their long-awaited Gym battle, with Ash beginning with Corphish and Flannery starting with her newly-evolved Magcargo. With Flannery desperate to prove herself as a worthy Gym Leader, Ash has to hope that his Pokémon are strong enough to defeat her.

Major events

• Ash defeats Flannery and earns the Heat Badge.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Flannery
• Mr. Moore

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Seviper

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's; flashback)
• Cacnea (James's; flashback)
• Slugma (Flannery's; nicknamed "Meg")
• Magcargo (Flannery's; nicknamed "Mag")
• Torkoal (Flannery's)
• Typhlosion (Mr. Moore's; flashback)
• Murkrow
• Ursaring

Trivia

• The English dub is based on the phrase "going, going, gone"

Errors

• Before Flannery and Ash begin their gym battle, their Pokémon aren't seen on the field when Team Rocket spies on them.
• Ash says that this is Flannery's first Gym battle, however, in the previous episode Flannery says that the challenger in her last battle liked to use Dig.
• During the battle, Flannery's Magcargo uses reflect to resist Corphish's vicegrip attack, later when ash used crabhammer on Magcargo, (to get through the sandstorm) reflect appeared to have no effect at all. Then, reflect seemed to come back when Ash's Treeko uses pound and quick attack, and when Pikachu uses quick attack.
• When Flannery's Torkoal used Flamethrower on Ash's Corphish, it emerged from its shell like it had just used Iron Defense, even though it hadn't used it.
• During the Trainer's Choice, Forretress' name is missing an r.
• In the Trainer's Choice the answer was Seviper although Forretress is immune to Poison.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Chinese: 烈燄徽章！在燃燒的戰鬥中獲得！
• Finnish: Taistelua ja haukottelua
• French: Une sacrée carapace
• German: Das große Gähen
• Hebrew: פיהוק של קרב pihuk shel krav
• Italian: La prima esperienza
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Ataque Bocejo
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Marchando un bostezo
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Guerra contra el sueño!

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