AG050

Pros and Con Artists

AG050   EP324 ポケモンコンテスト・ハジツゲ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Hajitsuge Convention!

First broadcast Japan November 6, 2003 United States October 30, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream

Japanese themes 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 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 誌村宏明 Hiroaki Shimura Assistant director ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Pros and Con Artists (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト・ハジツゲ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Hajitsuge Convention!) is the 50th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 324th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 6, 2003 and in the United States on October 30, 2004.

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Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash and friends arrive in Fallarbor Town for May's next Contest.
• Ash has a battle against Drew and loses.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Medicham

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Drew
• Grace

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Geodude

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Beautifly (May's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Roselia (Drew's)
• Medicham (Grace's; debut)

Various Contest Pokémon seen:

• Wigglytuff
• Natu
• Marill
• Hoppip
• Espeon
• Teddiursa
• Smoochum
• Electrike
• Kecleon
• Shelgon

Trivia

The scene

• The English dub is based on the phrases "pros and cons" and "con artists"
• Pokéblock Gold and Pokéblock Silver are references to the Pokémon Gold and Silver games.
• The split screen shot of Ash training his Taillow makes Ash look like he's wearing a giant red billed-Taillow hat.

Errors

Dub edits

Pokémon Trainer's Choice

• Question: Trainers, which of these is the best to battle Magneton?
• Choices: Crobat, Lanturn, Geodude
• Answer: OK, if you answered Geodude, you were right!

In other languages

• Finnish: Ammattilaisia ja huijareita
• French: Artistes en tout genre
• German: Schwindel auf ganzer Linie!
• Hebrew: על מקצוענים וגנבים al miktso'anim veganavim
• Italian: Allenatori e truffatori
• Portuguese:
  • Brazilian Portuguese: O Concurso Pokémon!
  • European Portuguese: Na Cidade de Fallarbor
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Artistas y estafadores
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Los secretos para ganar!

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