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The Keystone Pops!
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First broadcast
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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The Keystone Pops! (Japanese: ミカルゲの要石! Mikaruge's Keystone!) is the 56th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on November 29, 2007 and in the United States on May 10, 2008.
During a training session, Buizel's Sonicboom accidentally destroys a stone tower. A Spiritomb appears from the debris and begins to attack the group, so they must begin the trial of re-sealing it.
Synopsis
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash Ketchum
- Brock
- Dawn
- Jessie
- James
- Old woman (Seiyū: 杉山佳寿子 Kazuko Sugiyama)
- Villagers
- Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*, 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*, 伊東みやこ Miyako Itō*
- Aura guardian (flashback)
* No official credit was given for this character.
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Staravia (Ash's)
- Buizel (Ash's)
- Aipom (Dawn's)
- Seviper (Jessie's)
- Spiritomb (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
- Pikachu (aura guardian's; flashback)
- Pidgeot
- Raticate
- Arbok
- Parasect
- Chikorita
- Phanpy
- Torkoal
- Bagon
- Bidoof
Trivia
- Buizel and Aipom switched places in Ash's and Dawn's teams in the opening and ending, respectively, corresponding with their trade that happened in the previous episode.
- Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music during the old woman's story and the ending scene.
- Professor Oak's lecture: Mismagius
- Pokémon senryū: ムウマージ じゅもんとなえて やみにきえ Muumāji, jumon to naete, yami ni kie
- Ash, Dawn and Brock imitate Team Rocket in one scene. First, they do a trap using Pikachu as a bait, and then Team Rocket falls in a hole. Ash, as Jessie, Dawn, as James, and Brock, as Meowth, start their motto, but they are interrupted by Jessie.
- This is the first Pokémon USA/DuArt Film & Video episode to have Dan Green (Green only worked on the 4Kids dub of the anime)
- The episode was originally scheduled to first air in the United States on May 3, 2008, but was pulled because of a technical difficultie. Due to this, some fans were initially led to believe this episode was being skipped in the dub.
- This is one of the few episodes in which Dawn's Piplup did not appear.
Errors
Dub edits
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