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Beauty and the Breeder (Japanese: さよならロコン！ポケモンビューティーコンテスト!! Goodbye Rokon! Pokémon Beauty Contest!!) is episode 169 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 19, 2000 and in the United States on October 6, 2001.

Brock convinces Ash and Misty to go out of their way to meet Susie, who is taking part in a Pokémon Contest. There they meet her close friend and rival, Zane, who has differing opinions on what makes a Pokémon beautiful.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Brock returns Vulpix to Susie after keeping it since Pokémon Fashion Flash when Susie gave Vulpix to him.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Susie
• Zane
• Contest entrants
• Audience

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Quagsire

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Vulpix (Brock's; returned to Susie)
• Ninetales (Zane's)
• Chansey (flashback)

Pokémon entered in the contest:

• Marill (Entry #1)
• Heracross
• Cubone
• Oddish
• Bellsprout
• Hoppip
• Venonat
• Wooper
• Sunflora
• Growlithe
• Weepinbell
• Sandshrew
• Goldeen
• Tangela
• Primeape
• Drowzee
• Pidgeot
• Pinsir
• Exeggutor
• Persian
• Dodrio
• Krabby
• Psyduck
• Wigglytuff
• Slowbro
• Machamp
• Clefable
• Hypno
• Onix
• Gengar
• Dugtrio
• Tauros
• Machoke
• Charizard

Note: The camera scrolling of the camera shows that more were entered and only parts of the Pokémon are shown in some cases. Multiple members of the same species were also seen to be entered in some cases. (As Team Rocket were entry 259 and there were only 251 known Pokémon at this time, there had to be duplicates.)

Trivia

• Brock states that he always knew Vulpix wasn't his and that he would have to return it one day, this episode being the perfect time.
• This episode to features a Pokémon Contest for Pokémon Breeders. It is very different from those for Pokémon Coordinators that were introduced in Advanced Generation. Also of note is that Jessie's contest costume used there is reminiscent of the one seen in this episode.
• The Exeggutor's appearance may be a reference to Takeshi's Paradise, the ending theme used before the (then) current one, where two Exeggutor looking exactly the same dance with Brock in one scene.
• The white tuxedo Brock wears in this episode makes another appearance less than thirty episodes later: in The Heartbreak of Brock, Brock wears it in Temaku's fantasy about marrying him.

Errors

• The Pokémon Team Rocket steal are not dressed up, despite all the Pokémon entered (besides Vulpix and Ninetales) being stylised for the contest.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Le Concours de Beauté

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