DP057

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Bibarel Gnaws Best! (Japanese: ビーダルは知っていた！ Beadull Knew!) is the 57th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on November 29, 2007 as part of a one-hour special alongside DP056, and in the United States on May 17, 2008.

Before an under-construction stone bridge, Ash and his friends meet the Breeder Isis, who is having a quarrel with the designer of the bridge. They are having sort of a headache because the "employee"-- Bibarel, who is supposed to do the quarrying, now doesn't work. Ash and friends offer to help with the quarrying work, however...

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Bibarel

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Isis (Seiyū: 名塚佳織 Kaori Nazuka)
• Expert (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)
• Designer (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Village headmaster

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Bibarel (expert's, in Isis's care; Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Machamp (expert's)
• Machoke (construction worker's)
• Machamp (construction worker's)
• Rhydon (designer's)
• Magmar (designer's)
• Aggron (designer's; Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake*)
• Metang (designer's; Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Hippopotas
  • Pokémon senryū: みえるかな　すなにかくれた　ヒポポタス Mieru ka na, suna ni kakureta, Hipopotasu "Can I see it? Hidden in the sand; Hipopotas"
• The ending credits are for DP056 and DP057.
• Instead of the ending credits shown before Professor Oak's Pokémon Lecture, they were shown after it.

Errors

• In one scene, which was repeated several times, Buizel's eye was colored the same as his Water Gun.

Dub edits

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