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Stopped in the Name of Love!

DP122   EP588 進化！その時ポッチャマは！？ Evolution! This Time for Pochama!?

First broadcast Japan April 2, 2009 United States August 29, 2009

English themes Opening ~Battle Cry~ (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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Stopped in the Name of Love! (Japanese: 進化！その時ポッチャマは！？ Evolution! This Time for Pochama!?) is the 122nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 588th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 2, 2009, as part of a one-hour special along with DP121 and aired in the United States on August 29, 2009.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Continuing to the next town to compete in the Sandalstraw Contest, Dawn's Piplup starts displaying signs of evolution. The gang then meet up with Kenny and Barry, and their respective Prinplup and Empoleon. Dawn and Piplup are faced with a dilemma as to whether it is right to evolve, but before they can decide, Team Rocket attacks, hoping to capture the evolutionary line.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Barry and Kenny again.
• The gang learns about an upcoming Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament which Barry is planning to enter.
• Dawn's Piplup begins to evolve, but chooses not to.
• Nurse Joy gives Dawn an Everstone to prevent Piplup's evolution.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Barry
• Kenny
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Mamoswine (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Empoleon (Barry's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Ariados (×8)
• Budew
• Jigglypuff

Trivia

• Darkrai and Giratina replace Dialga and Palkia respectively in their appearance before and after the preview of the next episode.
• In this episode, Dawn and Piplup underwent the same experience against a group of wild Ariados as when they first met; the same encounter that helped Piplup trust Dawn.
• This episode is similar to Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, where Ash's Bulbasaur was in the process of evolving and ultimately decided not to evolve.
• Nurse Joy giving Dawn an Everstone to prevent Piplup from evolving is similar to when she gave Ash a Thunderstone to cause Pikachu to evolve (however, he refused it, but still carries it around). The stones were even kept in similar cases.
• The dub title is a reference to Stop! In the Name of Love, a song recorded by The Supremes.

Errors

Dub edits

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