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The Electrike Company! (Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in the United States on December 22, 2007.

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Jaco (Japanese: ユースケ Yūsuke) (Seiyū: 真殿光昭 Mitsuaki Madono)
• Cal (Japanese: Chief) (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Electrike → Manectric (Jaco's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Electrike (Cal's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.
• Ash narrates the next episode preview.
• When James and Meowth blast off, they are wearing their electric proof jackets. In theory, the jackets could be used in later episodes for protection from Pikachu's Thunder, but they have not been seen since.

Errors

• When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash didn't have his gloves on. But when Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on. When Electrike evolves, his gloves are gone.
• Pachirisu and Pikachu zap the two outer targets. When the camera pans out it shows the target on the right fixed and the left and center targets broken.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: La fabbrica di energia
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La compañía Electrike!

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