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Cooking Up a Sweet Story (Japanese: 対決！サトシ対ピカチュウ!? Showdown! Satoshi VS Pikachu?!) is the 24th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series. It first aired in Japan on March 29, 2007 with DP025, and in the United States on July 16, 2007.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Theresa sees Ash's Pikachu and asks to borrow it for three days. Ash is reluctant, but Theresa explains that her grandmother Abigail's Pikachu, Sugar, ran away. There will be a cooking contest coming up, but Theresa doesn't think that her grandmother will win without Sugar.

Ash agrees to this plan. Theresa tells them that Sugar always scratched her head with her tail. They arrive at the store, and Pikachu runs in and scratches his head. Abigail believes that Sugar has come back and sets off with Pikachu to find berries.

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Theresa
• Abigail
• Male customer (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)
• Female customer (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)

* 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)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Raichu (Abigail's, nicknamed Sugar) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This episode originally aired as a one-hour special together with Oh Do You Know the Poffin Plan.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Jessie's Wobbuffet
  • Pokémon senryū: きがつけば　なのりもやってる　ソーナンス

Errors

Dub edits

• In the Japanese version, there was an original intro for this episode, yet Pokémon USA starts out the episode with a cold open format (not present in the Japanese version), and then using the original intro after the theme song is played. This is also true for Oh Do You Know the Poffin Plan?.

In other languages

• Italian: Pikachu in prestito & Il ritorno di Sugar
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Cocinando una Dulce Historia!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Cocinando una linda historia!
• Dutch: Een oud vrouwtje met een Pikachu!

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