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| In the Knicker of Time!
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ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル！！
Zigzaguma and the Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle
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First broadcast
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December 19, 2002
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| United States
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November 22, 2003
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita
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| Storyboard
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新留俊哉 Toshiya Niidome
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| Assistant director
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鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
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| Animation director
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志村泉 Izumi Shimura
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| Additional credits
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In the Knicker of Time! (Japanese: ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル！！ Ziguzaguma and Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle!) is the fifth episode of the Advanced Generation series and the 279th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 19, 2002 and in the United States on November 22, 2003.
Synopsis
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Brock is ready to travel again and has joined up with Ash, May and Max as they journey on towards Rustboro City. In the forest they encounter a giant Zigzagoon, which they soon realize is actually a trainer in a Zigzagoon suit. The trainer is Nicolai ,the Knickerbocker who believes in becoming one with Pokémon in order to understand them. While battling, he wears a costume of whichever Pokémon he is using. When not dressed as a Pokémon, he wears knickers in order to be closer to nature. Nicolai is very excited to learn that May is the daughter of the Petalburg Gym leader,Norman. He challenges her to a battle and quickly defeats her. Nicolai taunts her for losing, saying that he doesn’t think her father will be difficult to beat since she is such an inexperienced trainer. Brock, Ash and May shrug off the defeat and continue on their way, but Max is furious. Without telling anyone, he goes off in search of Nicholai to defend his father’s honor.
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Yanma
Trivia
- Jessie and James narrate the next episode preview. Instead of the normal preview music, the music for the Team Rocket motto is played.
- This is the very last time that Ash and friends battle Jessie's Arbok and James's Weezing.
- The English episode title is a pun on the phrase "in the nick of time".
Errors
- After Torchic faints, the bottom of Mudkip's mouth is dark blue.
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: Un dresseur en culotte courte
- Italian: I Pokémon della foresta
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Las primeras batallas!
- Portuguese: No Limite do Tempo!
- Iberian Spanish: Entrenadores panticortos
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