AG184

Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight!

AG184   EP458 ペラップとポケモン漫才！ Perap and the Pokémon Comedian!

First broadcast Japan July 20, 2006 United States January 6, 2007

English themes Opening Battle Frontier Ending

Japanese themes Opening スパート！ Ending 私、負けない！ ～ハルカのテーマ～

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 川田武範 Takenori Kawada Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de 山下恵 Megumi Yamashita was credited as 総作監補佐 general animation assistant director

Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight! (Japanese: ペラップとポケモン漫才！ Perap and the Pokémon Comedian!) is the 184th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 458th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 20, 2006 and in the USA on January 6, 2007.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis On the way to the Battle Pyramid, Ash and friends run into a girl named Ada and her Chatot. Ada tells them that she is planning on competing in the Comedy Grand Prix. However, her Chatot keeps flying away during the day and coming back at night, and saying strange things. They decide to follow Chatot and they find out that it goes to a children’s hospital. When Ada explains that her and Chatot must leave, a girl named Corinna gets mad. In order to cheer her up, Ada decides to practice her act in front of the kids. However, Team Rocket wants to steal Chatot!...

Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Chatot

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Team Rocket Grunts (fantasy)
• Ada
• Corinna
• Hospital director
• Nurse
• Children

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Donphan (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Chatot (Ada's)

Trivia

• The English dub title is a take on a line from Stephen Sondheim's song "Comedy Tonight" from the film "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". The original line of the song is "Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight".
• Part of Takeshi's Paradise was performed.
• Pokémon Symphonic Medley and an alternate mix of Polka O Dolka were used as background music.
• Ada and Chatot switch to Kansai-ben when performing their manzai, which is a Japanese stereotype of comedians.
  • Ada heads for a Manzai Grand Prix in Johto, which is based on the Kansai region.
  • Diamond and Pearl also went to a Manzai Grand Prix.

Errors

Dub edits

• In the European Portuguese dub of the episode, Ada speaks in Portuguese but Chatot replies in English. Also, Chatot's lines were subtitled.
• TPCi made their own rendition of Takeshi's Paradise with only three instruments (Piano, bass and maraca).
• In the danish version ada calls themselves Nordsøens Knold og Chatot, probably so that the Danish children better would be able to relate to it. But this also confuesed a lot of children.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		聒噪鳥與神奇寶貝相聲！
Finnish		Nauru parantaa haavat
European French		Artiste en herbe
German		Strategie am Morgen, Komik am Abend!
Italian		Comici per un giorno
Spanish	Latin America	¡Estrategia mañana, esta noche comedia!
	Spain	¡Estrategia mañana, esta noche comedia!

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