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Gymbaliar (Japanese: なぞのジムのグレッグル！ Gureggru of the Mysterious Gym!) is the eighth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on November 9, 2006.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Jessie, James and Meowth (Team Rocket) make a gym and battle trainers.
• Brock catches a Croagunk.

Pokémon debuts

• Croagunk

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Minnie (Japanese: ミナエ Minae) (Seiyū: 木村亜希子 Akiko Kimura)
• Isana (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)
• Jeffrey (Seiyū: 伊東みやこ Miyako Itō*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's, new; debut)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Sandslash (boy trainer's)
• Marowak (Isana's)
• Scizor (Minae's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Jessie used many Anglicisms in her speech throughout this episode in the Japanese version.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music in this episode.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gyms

The footage in this segment is from Ash's battles with Roxanne, Flannery, Winona and Juan. The final shot is of the flame at the Ever Grande Conference.

• Pokémon senryū: かてるまで　なんどもちょうせん　ポケモンジム Kateru made nando mo chōsen, Pokémon Jimu "Until you win, battle again and again; that is a Pokémon Gym."
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.
• The dub title is a play off the dish Jambalaya and combining the two words Gym and liar.
• Brock's Croagunk was caught simaliar to the way James's Mime Jr. was. There was no battle, and the Pokémon just wanted to be caught.
• Japanese text was left on the Croagunk card used by James

Errors

• Later in the episode, Jessie, Princess Powerzone, tells Croagunk to use Poison Sting. Croagunk uses Brick Break.
• When Croagunk used Poison Jab on James, all of its fingers glowed, but when used on Brock, only the tips of its fingers glowed, though this could mean that Croagunk simply used a weaker version of the move showing that it likes Brock.
• Poison Jab appeared to hurt Scizor, who is part Steel.

Dub edits

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