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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: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

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

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Paul
• Enta
• Holly
• Conway

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
• The dub title is taken from Nirvana's famous song, Smells Like Teen 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 Aipom, Buneary, and Happiny. Coincidently, all three are of the Template:Type2 and confirmed to be female in the dub.
• 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

• In one scene where Dawn is issuing a command to buizel, she calls it "buoysel", the Japanese name for buizel.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: La finale di Cuoripoli & Vittoria sudata

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