DP052
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| Smells Like Team Spirit | |
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| タッグバトル！ファイナル!! Tag Battle! Final!! | |
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| Broadcast dates | |
| Japan | October 25, 2007 |
| USA | February 1, 2008 |
| Theme songs | |
| Opening | |
| Japanese theme songs | |
| Opening | Together |
| Ending | 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (Winter Version) |
| Credits | |
| Animation | Team Iguchi |
| Screenplay | 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Storyboard | 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada |
| Assistant director | 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada |
| Animation director | 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane |
Smells Like Team Spirit (Japanese: タッグバトル！ファイナル!! Tag Battle! Final!!) is the 52nd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on October 25, 2007 and in the United States on February 1, 2008.
As the tag battle tournament reaches the semi-finals, which of our heroes will emerge victorious?
Spoiler warning: Major plot or ending details may follow.
Contents |
Synopsis
Major events
- Chimchar joins Ash's team.
- Paul's Elekid evolves into an Electabuzz.
- Ash with his Staravia, and Paul with his Torterra, face Brock with his Croagunk, and Holly with her Farfetch'd. Ash and Paul win, and advance to the finals.
- Dawn with her Buizel, and Conway with his Heracross, face Ash with his Chimchar, and Paul with his Elekid, in the finals.
- Ash and Paul win the tournament.
- Paul gives his prize Soothe Bell to Ash.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Mime Jr. (James's)
- Turtwig (Ash's)
- Staravia (Ash's)
- Chimchar (Ash's, formerly Paul's)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Buizel (Dawn's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Cacnea (James's)
- Carnivine (James's)
- Elekid (Paul's; evolves)
- Electabuzz (Paul's; newly evolved)
- Torterra (Paul's)
- Farfetch'd (Holly's)
- Heracross (Conway's)
- Slowking (Conway's)
Trivia
- Music from Pokémon 4Ever is used as background music.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Stunky
- Pokémon senryū: スカンプー すかんあいてに におにプー
- This episode's dub title is a reference to the song, Smells Like Teen Spirit by the band, Nirvana. The name of this song, coincidently, is often mistaken as Smells Like Team Spirit.
- This episode, along with DP050 and DP051 was aired as a 90 minute special on Feburary 1st on Cartoon Network.
- All of Ash's, Dawn's and Brock's Pokémon were shown over the past 3 episodes apart from Happiny.
- This is the last episode where PUSA's voice actors dub at TAJ Productions. Beginning with the following episode, DuArt will be used as the studio to record and distribute the anime.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
- Italian: La finale di Cuoripoli & Vittoria sudata
| This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each episode of the Pokémon anime. |
