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Getting the Band Back Together!

SM023   EP962 衝撃！ダグトリオ解散！？ Shocking! Dugtrio Split Up!?

First broadcast Japan April 20, 2017 United States July 15, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume 直井由紀 Yuki Naoi No additional credits are available at this time.

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Getting the Band Back Together! (Japanese: 衝撃！ダグトリオ解散！？ Shocking! Dugtrio Split Up!?) is the 23rd episode of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, and the 962nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 20, 2017 and in the United States on July 15, 2017.

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

Blurb

Ash and friends are attending a concert by the wildly popular group Dug-Leo, made up of DJ Leo and his partner, a talented Alolan Dugtrio. Everyone wears blonde wigs in Dugtrio’s honor, including Rotom Dex—until its wig is carried off after the show by another fan of the band, an Alolan Diglett!

As the band rehearses for their next concert, Dugtrio’s three heads start fighting over who gets to be lead singer—and Team Rocket swoops in, posing as a talent agency to lure Dugtrio away! Diglett joins our heroes to track them down, and soon the band is back together—and they’ve added Diglett to their ranks!

Plot

Fireworks go off as Ash, Professor Kukui, Kiawe, and Mimo arrive at a concert. They are soon joined by Mallow, Steenee, Sophocles, and Togedemaru. Surprised with their hair, they explain that everyone wears a wig to a "Dug-Leo" concert. Looking at a concert poster, Mallow introduces them as DJ Leo and his Dugtrio— or Dug-Leo for short. Rotom provides data on Alolan Dugtrio and Alolan Diglett as Mallow introduces him to Dugtrio by their individual names. After a discussion about wearing wigs, everyone is wearing one. Nearby, an Alolan Diglett pops up out of the ground nearby and looks at Rotom's wig in admiration. Team Rocket are selling a variety of wigs but aren't attracting any customers.

A large crowd has gathered as DJ Leo starts the concert. He plays the music to which everyone cheers and dances as Dugtrio starts to sing. The Alolan Diglett pops up near Ash and the others. Team Rocket watch from a distance as Jessie thinks that the Dugtrio can be a big asset to them and they run off. After the concert, Ash and his friends head home. Kiawe is full of tears, having been moved by the way they celebrated the natural way of Alola. Rotom tells Kiawe to calm down, only to be hit by the Alolan Diglett who takes Rotom's wig and runs off. Ash and the others give chase and manage to catch up to the Diglett allowing Rotom to get its wig back. Ash wonders why it would want Rotom's wig, it goes underground and disappears. DJ Leo comes over and recognizes Professor Kukui and removes his glasses.

At DJ Leo's house, DJ Leo invites them. He and Professor Kukui used to be schoolmates as Professor Kukui had no idea it was him on stage. Leo explains that Dugtrio changed his whole life and remembers meeting Dugtrio when he heard Dugtrio singing in the mountains. They soon became friends and began making music together. At that moment, the Alolan Diglett pops up from the sand and rushes over to Dugtrio and Diglett begins to sing. Dugtrio likes Diglett's singing and agrees to be Diglett's mentor. Rotom began adding a voice-sampling function to its system. Kukui removes Rotom's wig and put it on Diglett's head. Diglett is happy with his new wig. Once the others have left, Leo starts to practice his music, but the trio start fighting. He tells them to stop fighting as Team Rocket enters the house, disguising as the staff of a talent agency. They exclaim that they wanted to be the representatives for Dugtrio, which Dugtrio agrees to. Leo is shocked at its decision.

The next day, Ash and Kukui watch the news about DJ Leo and Dugtrio's disbandment, and wonders why it changed overnight. They arrive at Leo's house and find out that Dugtrio left with the people from the agency. Ash suggests finding them and Rotom wonders how. Ash gives Rockruff a piece of Dugtrio's clothing and asks it to track them down. They arrive in the mountains and notice a hut nearby. In the hut, the Dugtrio are tied to a rope and Meowth practices rapping. Ash and the others enter the hut and battles Team Rocket. As they battle, Team Rocket realizes that Diglett has untied the ropes from Dugtrio. Mimikyu and Mareanie attack Dugtrio instead but is wrapped by its Tangling Hair Ability. It later used Tri Attack to send Team Rocket to the roof. As they are about to blast off, Bewear caught them and runs off. Leo and Dugtrio thank Ash and Diglett. Leo invites Dugtrio back to the band which they agree.

In the evening, many people arrived for the second day of the concert. Dugtrio and Diglett sing at the stage. The concert attendees throw their wig into the air as the concert went on.

Major events

• Rotom updates itself with a voice sampling function.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Humans

• DJ Leo

Pokémon debuts

• Dugtrio (Alolan form)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Kiawe
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Mimo
• DJ Leo
• Anna (on television)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Dugtrio (Alola Form)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Dugtrio (DJ Leo's; Alolan form; Jessica, Ashley, and Michael; debut)
• Diglett (DJ Leo's; Alolan form; new)
• Sableye (Trainer's; ×4)
• Sudowoodo (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's; ×2)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's; ×3)
• Eevee (Trainer's; ×2)
• Makuhita (Trainer's; ×3)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Smeargle (Trainer's; ×5)
• Machop (Trainer's)
• Riolu (Trainer's; ×2)
• Happiny (Trainer's; ×2)
• Abra (Trainer's; ×5)
• Machoke (Trainer's; ×4)
• Bewear (anime)
• Exeggutor (Alolan form; painting)

Trivia

The Katsushika Hokusai famous woodcut reference

The wigs

• Poké Problem: Which Pokémon admires the Dugtrio in today's episode?
  • Host: Sophocles
  • Choices: Rockruff, Litten, Alolan Diglett, Togedemaru
  • Answer: Alolan Diglett
• Two of the wigs at Team Rocket's wig store resemble hairdos of Ash's previous traveling companions; one resembles May's hair with the ribbon from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and the other resembles Brock's hair.
• Clemont's invention music is used as background music in the scene where Kiawe is moved to tears.
• In the scene where Team Rocket realizes that the Alolan Diglett was setting the Alolan Dugtrio free, the background is Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa, while Team Rocket themselves are posed and stylized to resemble Tōshūsai Sharaku's color print of Kabuki Actor Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei.
• Delia and Mimey narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Ash, Sophocles, Mallow, Kiawe, and DJ Leo read the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	太震撼了！三地鼠要拆夥!?
	Mandarin	太震撼了！三地鼠要拆夥！？
Danish		Bandet samles igen!
Dutch		Uit de band springen!
Finnish		Kootaan yhtye uudestaan!
European French		Le groupe se reforme !
German		Kommt die Band wieder zusammen?!
Hebrew		!איחוד להקה
Italian		Tutti insieme appassionatamente!
Korean		충격! 닥트리오 해산!?
Norwegian		Bandet samles igjen!
Polish		Na zawsze w zespole!
Portuguese	Brazil	Reunindo a banda!
	Portugal	Voltar a juntar a banda!
Russian		Группа снова вместе!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Se reúne la banda!
	Spain	¡Volviendo a reunir al grupo!
Swedish		En Hårresande Splittring!
Thai		สะเทือนวงการ! ดักทริโอแยกวง!?
Turkish		Grubu Tekrar Topluyoruz!

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