EP173

Wobbu-Palooza! (Japanese: ソーナンスのむら!? Village of Sonans!?) is the 173rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 16, 2000 and in the United States on October 27, 2001.

The group arrive at the Wobbuffet Village in time for the Wobbuffet Festival. However, when some punks use the ban on battling to beat up the Wobbuffet, it takes some people who don't care about rules to save the day.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Villagers
  • Lulu
  • Annie
• Wobbuffet Festival crashers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Sneasel

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Poliwhirl (Misty's)
• Golbat (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Wobbuffet (villagers'; many)
• Primeape (Festival crasher's)
• Machoke (Festival crasher's)
• Hitmonlee (Festival crasher's)

Trivia

• To My Best Friend replaces Exciting Pokémon Relay as the ending.
• Unlike other episodes with groups of one Pokémon, many of the Wobbuffet in this episode have variations from the base design.
• In a variation of the usual running gag, Victreebel eats Meowth on being released.
• The English title is based off "Lollapalooza".

Errors

• When Jessie uses her Wobbuffet in battle, the Machoke trainer calls for a Seismic Toss but Machoke uses Karate Chop.

Dub edits

Some shots were cut and shortened for the English dub for time, an example of a deleted shot in this episode is the establishing shot of the Wobbuffet village.

In other languages

• French: L'emblème du festival
• Italian: La sagra
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Wobbu-paliza!
• Spanish: Festival de Wobbuffet

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