EP135

Grin to Win!

EP135   だいパニック！キマワリコンテスト!! Big Panic! Kimawari Contest!!

First broadcast Japan February 17, 2000 United States February 10, 2001

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ニャースのパーティ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura No additional credits are available at this time.

Grin to Win! (Japanese: だいパニック！キマワリコンテスト!! Big Panic! Kimawari Contest!!) is the 135th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 17, 2000 and in the United States on February 10, 2001.

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Synopsis

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The annual Sunflora contest is only a day away and yet our heroes’ new friend and Sunflora Trainer is unable to convince her star Pokémon to compete. Complicating things further, Team Rocket enters under pseudonyms, planning to win by whatever means are required...

Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Sunflora

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Sonrisa
• Cyrus

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Ho-Oh

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Poliwag (Misty's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Snubbull (Madame Muchmoney's)
• Sunflora (The citizens of Bloomingvale's, multiple; debut)

Trivia

• This is the first time Meowth disguises himself as a Sunflora. He dresses up as a Sunflora five more times in the Pokémon anime - twice in the Advanced Generation series (A Bite to Remember and Pacifidlog Jam), and three times in the Diamond & Pearl series (All Dressed up with Somewhere To Go, The Secret Sphere of Influence! and DP137).

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Sourira bien qui sourira le dernier
• German: Sonnflora des Jahres
• Hebrew: חיוך הניצחון chiyuch hanitsachon
• Italian: Un sorriso per vincere
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Sorrir para Vencer
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Sonreíd para ganar
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Sonríe para ganar!

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