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The Keystone Pops! (Japanese: ミカルゲの要石！ Mikaruge's Keystone!) is the 56th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on November 29, 2007 and in the United States on May 10, 2008.

During a training session, Buizel's Sonicboom accidentally destroys a stone tower. A Spiritomb appears from the debris and begins to attack the group, so they must begin the trial of re-sealing it.

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Spiritomb

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Old woman (Seiyū: 杉山佳寿子 Kazuko Sugiyama)
• Villagers
  • Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*, 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*, 伊東みやこ Miyako Itō*
• Aura guardian (flashback)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Aipom (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Spiritomb (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Pikachu (aura guardian's; flashback)
• Pidgeot
• Raticate
• Arbok
• Parasect
• Chikorita
• Phanpy
• Torkoal
• Bagon
• Bidoof

Trivia

• Team Rocket's motto in this episode refers to Hindi/Chinese myth of world creation: the world is held by four elephants (Phanpy), which stand on a turtle (Torkoal), which stands on a snake that bites its own tail (Arbok).
• Buizel and Aipom switched places in Ash's and Dawn's teams in the opening and ending, respectively, corresponding with their trade that happened in the previous episode.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music during the old woman's story and the ending scene.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Mismagius
  • Pokémon senryū: ムウマージ　じゅもんとなえて　やみにきえ Muumāji, jumon to naete, yami ni kie
• Ash, Dawn and Brock imitate Team Rocket in one scene. First, they do a trap using Pikachu as a bait, and then Team Rocket falls in a hole. Ash, as Jessie, Dawn, as James, and Brock, as Meowth, start their motto, but they are interrupted by Jessie.
• This is the first Pokémon USA/DuArt Film & Video episode to have Dan Green (Green had previously worked on the 4Kids dub of the anime)
• The episode was originally scheduled to first air in the United States on May 3, 2008, but was pulled due to unknown reasons. Due to this, some fans were initially led to believe this episode was being skipped in the dub.
• This is one of the few episodes in which Dawn's Piplup did not appear.

Errors

Dub edits

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