DP094

Doc Brock!

DP094   EP560 パチリスお熱です！２人でお留守番！？ Pachirisu Has a Fever! Two People Taking Care!?

First broadcast Japan September 25, 2008 United States February 14, 2009

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together2008 Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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Doc Brock! (Japanese: パチリスお熱です！２人でお留守番！？ Pachirisu Has a Fever! Two People Taking Care!?) is the 94th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 560th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 25, 2008, with Battling the Generation Gap! and in the United States on February 14, 2009.

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

Synopsis

While Brock goes to a pharmacy he leaves Ash and Dawn in charge of taking care of the Pokémon, leaving a list of things to do with the Pokémon while he's gone. Ash and Dawn clean, feed, and put the Pokémon down for their naps. As Ash is trying to figure out a way to avoid Fantina's Drifblim's Hypnosis, he ends up falling asleep himself. When Dawn goes to wake Ash up, Pikachu comes in saying something's wrong.

The two go outside to find that Pachirisu has a fever. The two try doing everything they can think of to make Pachirisu feel better. When Pachirisu won't eat they have to get Brock, so Ash sends Staravia to get him. While Staravia is flying, Team Rocket tries to catch it, and so after a while Ash decides to send Gliscor. When Brock gets back he finds out that Pachirisu has an electric cold similar to the one Pikachu previously had, and so he uses an electricity discharger to get Pachirisu's electricity back to normal as well as a pill to keep its electricity under control.

After thwarting Team Rocket's plan to steal Pachirisu, Brock suggests that it would be a good idea for the two to learn first aid. As the screen fades to black, Ash interrupts the narrator's closing speech and exclaims "We forgot Gliscor!" The scene switches back to Gliscor trying to find its way back to Ash, humorously crying.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Johanna (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Swinub (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Wooper (×3)
• Zapdos

Trivia

• Pokémon Symphonic Medley is used as background music.

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Glaceon.
• Team Rocket seeing a Zapdos from their balloon in this episode may be a reference to Pokémon Platinum, in which all three legendary birds can be found roaming Sinnoh. This was also the first episode aired after the game's Japanese release.
• Pachirisu becoming ill from having too much electricity is reminiscent of Pikachu's condition from Hoenn Alone!, which is shown in this episode, Get the Show on the Road! and Watt's With Wattson?, which in turn is reminiscent of Pikachu's cold in Sparks Fly for Magnemite.
• The rhyming dub title may be a pun on "Doc Ock," the nickname of the character Doctor Octopus from the Spider-Man franchise.
• Buneary's vest from The Bells are Singing! is shown again in this episode.
• Doc Brock! is the shortest dub title for an episode in the Diamond & Pearl series.
• Dawn reads the title card for this episode.
• Dawn says that Swinub does not like to take showers, yet in Fighting Fear With Fear it was swimming with all of the other Pokémon.
• The dub version of the credits showed the former 4Kids logo at the end. The reason for this is unknown, although it may have been an unintentional result of switching the show's credits to the system used for other Cartoon Network shows.
  • This became a running error that later recurred in most of the following arc. Only the televised versions are affected; Cartoon Network Video presentations continue to use the original style of credits and are not affected by this.
• This episode features some similarities with the beginning of Giratina and the Sky Warrior. In this episode, Ash and his friends' Pokémon take baths and eat pancakes. This also happens to Shaymin in the movie. Shaymin also gets a mild fever, similar to Pachirisu. Coincidentally, both of these premiered during the same weekend in America.
• In many TV descriptions of this episode, they describe Pachirisu as being struck by lightning, possibly referring to the Zapdos seen in the episode.

Errors

• While Croagunk is looking at himself in the mirror, his Japanese voice can be heard.
• During the flashback Pikachu's little charge was blue not yellow.
• After Dawn stops crying her white top extends to the bottom of her shirt.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		帕奇利茲發燒了！兩個人看家！？
Czech		Doktor Brock
Dutch		Doc Brock!
Finnish		Tohtori!
European French		Docteur Pierre!
German		Doktor Rocko!
Italian		Dottor Brock!
Polish		Doktor Brock
Portuguese	Brazil	Doutor Brock!
	Portugal	Doutor Brock!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Doc Brock!
	Spain	¡El Doctor Brock!
Swedish		Doktor Brock!

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