AG063

Take the Lombre Home! (Japanese: ソルロックとハスブレロ！聖なる森の伝説！ Solrock and Hasubrero! Legend of the Forest!) is the 63rd episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 337th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 12, 2004 and in the United States on January 29, 2005.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Brock's Lotad evolves into Lombre.

Debuts

• Lombre (Brock's)
• Solrock

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Mary

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Camerupt

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Skitty (May's)
• Lotad (Brock's; evolves)
• Lombre (Brock's; debut, newly evolved)
• Mudkip (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Zubat
• Oddish
• Bellossom
• Seedot
• Shroomish
• Solrock (debut)

Trivia

• This episode's English dub title is a reference to the song, Take the Long Way Home, by Supertramp.
• In the case of the Italian dub, the title references the famous song O sole mio.
• For the Spanish dub, as Lombre sounds similar to the word hombre, the title is a play on the saying Pon un hombre en tu casa.

Pokémon Trainer's Choice

• Question: Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Roselia?
• Choices: Electabuzz, Grovyle, Camerupt
• Answer: Ok, trainers! If you chose Camerupt, you were right!

Errors

• When Team Rocket blasts off in the beginning of the episode, Jessie's Seviper is seen, even though she never called for it.
• When Team Rocket said that Solrock would dry Giovanni's hair with an Ember, it is shown using Flamethrower.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: La source de leurs ennui
• Italian: O Solrock mio!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Lombre, el señor del agua!
• Portuguese: Lombre, o Mestre Aquático
• Iberian Spanish: Pon un Lombre en tu casa

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