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| An Old Family Blend!
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熱戦前夜！サトシのポケモン大集合！！
Eve of Battle! Satoshi's Pokémon All Together!!
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First broadcast
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June 24, 2010
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| United States
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November 20, 2010
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Kato
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| Screenplay
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武上純希 Junki Takegami
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| Storyboard
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金崎貴臣 Takaomi Kanasaki
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| Assistant director
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渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe
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| Animation director
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小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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An Old Family Blend! (Japanese: 熱戦前夜！サトシのポケモン大集合！！ Eve of Battle! Satoshi's Pokémon All Together!!) is the 182nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 648th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 24, 2010 and in the United States on November 20, 2010.
Synopsis
The gang has finally reached Lily of the Valley Island. Ash registers for the League at the Pokémon Center, while Team Rocket watches. Next they head to Trainer's Village. While there, they bump into Conway who says that he will be competing too. Inside the hotel room, Ash finds a basket of roses with a good-luck card from Professor Oak. Ash calls Oak and tells him to send some of his reserve Pokémon for training. But the Poké Balls get separated from Team Rocket, so Ash and co. search and finds Totodile, Corphish, Snorlax (sent by mistake; Oak was supposed to send in Heracross), and Bayleef. Cyndaquil is left, but Team Rocket finds it first. It then uses its new move Flame Wheel to crash into a tree and set it on fire. Ash and the others see the smoke and find it. After the kids put out the fire, they begin to destroy the machine however the mecha fixes itself and Team Rocket goes after Cyndaquil once more. Just as they reach for it, Cyndaquil suddenly evolves into Quilava to protect itself. Quilava immediately learns Eruption to blast off Team Rocket. They then celebrate. After that, Glalie, Torkoal, Donphan, Noctowl and Muk show up so Ash can start his training session. At last, the Sinnoh League starts and Ash's first opponent will be Nando. Who will win?
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trainers'
Trivia
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Gardevoir
- This is the first episode of the eight-part 'Lily of the Valley Conference' arc.
- This marks the first time a legendary Pokémon, Heatran, is seen being entered in a Pokémon League competition.
- Pokémon Symphonic Medley 2 and music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea were used in this episode.
- One of the badges that appear on a screen at the end of the episode is the same unknown red badge that has been seen among the badges owned by both Barry and Nando in previous episodes.
- If one of looks closely at the entrance sign in the beginning of the episode, they could see the word Suzuran, the Japanese name of the Conference, written in the text.
- Among some of the less practicle tools on Team Rocket's multi-armed mech are a folding fan, a concrete scraper, a pair of barbeque tongs, and a craftsman's triangle; a tool used to measure various angles.
Errors
- In the scene in Oak's lab with Heracross and Bulbasaur, the top of Heracross's horn is missing when Oak checks his list.
Dub edits
