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In the Knicker of Time!
ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル!! Zigzaguma and the Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle
Broadcast dates
Japan	December 19, 2002
USA	November 22, 2003
Theme songs
Opening	I Wanna Be A Hero
Japanese theme songs
Opening	アドバンス・アドベンチャー
Ending	そこに空があるから
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita
Storyboard	新留俊哉 Toshiya Niidome
Assistant director	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura

In the Knicker of Time! (Japanese: ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル!! Ziguzaguma and Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle!) is the fifth episode of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 19, 2002 and in the United States on November 22, 2003.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Nicolai

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nicholai

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Yanma

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Mudkip (Nicolai's)
• Zigzagoon (Nicolai's, new)
• Beedrill
• Pinsir
• Sentret

Trivia

• Jessie and James narrate the next episode preview. Instead of the normal preview music, the music for the Team Rocket motto is played.
• This is the very last time that Ash and friends battle Jessie's Arbok and James's Weezing.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Un dresseur en culotte courte
• Italian: I Pokémon della foresta
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Las primeras batallas!
• Portuguese: No Limite do Tempo!
• Spanish: Entrenadores panticortos