DP037

The Grass Menagerie!
ハクタイジム！VSナタネ！！ Hakutai Gym! VS Natane!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	June 7, 2007
USA	November 17, 2007
Theme songs
Opening	Diamond and Pearl
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (PopUp.Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka
Assistant director	古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports credited 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada as storyboarder and assistant director and 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane as animation director.

The Grass Menagerie! (Japanese: ハクタイジム！VSナタネ！！ Hakutai Gym! VS Natane!!) is the 37th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on June 7, 2007 and in the United States on November 17, 2007.

Ash Ketchum formally challenges Gardenia, the leader of the Eterna City Gym.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash obtains the Forest Badge.
  • Ash's Staravia defeats Gardenia's Cherubi.
  • Ash's Staravia is defeated by Gardenia's Turtwig.
  • Ash's Turtwig defeats Gardenia's Turtwig.
  • Ash's Turtwig is defeated by Gardenia's Roserade.
  • Ash's Aipom defeats Gardenia's Roserade.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia
• Yōko
• The Underground Man

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's)
• Cherubi (Gardenia's)
• Roserade (Gardenia's)
• Nuzleaf (Yōko's)

Trivia

• This episode introduces The Underground of Sinnoh, but only to Jessie, James and Meowth.
• Yōko strongly resembles Kumiko Yamaguchi from Gokusen, who is also voiced by 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu.
• Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Drapion
  • Pokémon senryū: ドラピオン　バトルでめざせ　チャンピオン "Drapion aims to be the battle champion".
• Brock narrates the next episode preview.
• Assistant executive animation director Yamashita Megumi is dropped from the ending credits.
• The English title of this episode is a reference to Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: L'esperta di Pokémon d'Erba
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Conexión de Pokémon Planta!

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