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Don't Touch That 'Dile
ワカバタウン！はじまりをつげるかぜのふくまち！ Wakaba Town! Where Winds of New Beginning Blow
Broadcast dates
Japan	October 14, 1999
USA	October 14, 2000
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon Johto
Japanese theme songs
Opening	OK!
Ending	ニャースのパーティ
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
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

Don't Touch That 'Dile (Japanese: ワカバタウン！はじまりをつげるかぜのふくまち！ Wakaba Town! Where Winds of New Beginning Blow!) is episode 117 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 14, 1999 and in the United States on October 14, 2000.

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

• Ash and co. see a Suicune.

Debuts

• Professor Elm

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Professor Elm
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Lickitung (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Bulbasaur (starter Pokémon; flashback)
• Charmander (starter Pokémon; flashback)
• Squirtle (starter Pokémon; flashback)
• Cyndaquil (starter Pokémon; debut)
• Totodile (starter Pokémon; debut)
• Growlithe (Officer Jenny's)
• Chansey (Pokémon Center's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Fearow
• Suicune (debut)

Trivia

• OK! replaced Rival! as the opening.
• Meowth's Party replaced Riding on Lapras as the ending.
• The girl who Professor Elm was saving Totodile for may have been Marina. She is seen with one in the opening A New Oath, which, prior to The Legend of Thunder!, evolved into a Croconaw.
• The Japanese title of the episode is a reference to the town slogan of New Bark Town.
• The English dub of this episode first aired exactly one year after the original did in Japanese.
• This episode's dub title is a reference to the old advertising slogan, "don't touch that dial!"

Errors

• In one scene, when James was going to make a phone call, he did not have any gloves for a second. In the next scene, he had gloves as usual.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Com Pokémon não se brinca!
• French: Le crime ne paie pas
• Italian: Un'iscrizione difficile
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El robo de Totodile!
• Spanish: No toqueis a ese 'dile