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Flower Power

EP122   キレイハナのバトルダンシング！ Kireihana's Battle Dancing!

First broadcast Japan November 18, 1999 United States November 11, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ニャースのパーティ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Flower Power (Japanese: キレイハナのバトルダンシング！ Kireihana's Battle Dancing!) is the 122nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 18, 1999, and in the United States on November 11, 2000.

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

Blurb

Our heroes must help prepare an insecure Bellossom dance troupe for their upcoming exhibition—a chore that's further complicated when Team Rocket attempts to steal the show with their raucous act.

Plot

Ash and his friends make it out of a forest and arrive in Florando. As they enter the city, a local girl hands them a pamphlet advertising Florando's annual Pokémon Exhibition, an outdoor performance festival. Excited, the trio makes their way to a giant square where the exhibition is held, and are particularly interested by a pair of acrobatic and dancing Bellossom. One of the Bellossom is asked to do a trick, but it fails to complete it and lands in Ash's arms, knocking him to the ground. The girl commanding the Bellossom rushes over to Ash, asking him if he is alright. He says he is and hands Bellossom back to her.

Over some drinks, the girl introduces herself as Bailey and her two Bellossom as Bella and Belle, and thanks Ash for catching her Bellossom. After Ash and his friends thank her for the show, Ash asks Bailey if they are going to perform the same trick tomorrow at the show. Bailey says it was their intent, but reveals that Bella is having trouble performing her special move.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket enters the exhibition with the hopes of making money. They quickly set up a stage and use Meowth's rare gift of speech to attract a crowd. People start to gather around, but Meowth gets stage fright and disappoints the audience. A frustrated Jessie gives Meowth some jokes to tell and orders him to make the people laugh. Meowth does so, surprising the crowd, but all of the jokes are terrible and the crowd starts booing and leaving. Jessie tries telling them it is not a free show, but the crowd refuses to pay out of disappointment from Meowth's performance. James whispers a joke to Meowth in desperation and Meowth tells it, but he messes it up, and the last of the onlookers leave. Jessie says that she and James could have done better with a dancing routine, but their enthusiasm worries Meowth.

Later, Team Rocket commandeers a bulldozer and drives through Florando's streets, performing their motto. Ash is about to blast them off using Pikachu, but Bailey and the other performers want to do it themselves; Team Rocket accepts their challenge. A performer uses his Alakazam's Psychic to knock them off their feet. Jessie and James quickly stand up and send out Arbok and Victreebel. Bailey uses her two Bellossom and has them dodge the attacks using their dancing moves before spraying Team Rocket with Sleep Powder, forcing the trio to quickly leave. The crowd mistakes the events for a performance battle and gives Bailey a round of applause. Later, as Team Rocket mopes about their latest defeat, they find a flyer advertising the Florando Exhibition, and the trio decides to steal all of the performing Pokémon.

Meanwhile, at Bailey's van, her Bellossom play with Pikachu and Togepi while Ash and his friends talk things over with Bailey, who says that her dream is to be the best performer ever. Ash wants to know how her Bellossom were able to dodge Team Rocket's attacks, and Bailey says that dancing is similar to battling because of the movement of the Pokémon's feet. She suggests that Ash and his friends should watch her practice. The next day, Bailey teaches Bellossom's routine to Pikachu so he can use it in battle. After a shaky start, Pikachu proves to be a natural. Bailey starts practicing her special move, "Bell-oop-de-loop", but again it fails. As a result, Bailey decides not to do it in the show.

The Florando Exhibition begins, with Team Rocket posing as the show's announcers, with the real ones tied up and held backstage. They bring all of the contestants and their Pokémon onstage, where Meowth drops a net from above and steals the performing Pokémon. Team Rocket starts to leave in their Meowth balloon, but Ash has Heracross throw Pikachu into the air. Pikachu soars past the trio, grabs the balloon, and uses Thunderbolt to pop it. Ash, his friends, and Bailey rush to the crash-site nearby, but Jessie and James are unfazed and call for a battle. Team Rocket sends out Victreebel, who latches onto James's head, and Arbok.

Thanks to Bailey's training, Pikachu is able to dodge Arbok's Poison Sting and Victreebel's Take Down with ease. As the two try to use Tackle, Pikachu jumps up, causing Arbok and Victreebel to collide into each other. At James's insistence, Victreebel uses Wrap to grab Pikachu's feet, and Arbok tries to use Bite. However, Bailey is able to free Belle and Bella during the chaos, and tells them to use their special move. Their move is a success and the Bellossom successfully hit Arbok out of the way. Jessie recalls Arbok before Pikachu lands a Thunderbolt on Victreebel. Next, Bellossom use their "Tornado Twister" dance move, which sends Team Rocket blasting off. The other performers are reunited with their Pokémon, and the Florando Exhibition goes on. Bailey has Belle and Bella perform the "Bell-oop-de-Loop" successfully onstage.

Major events

• James's Victreebel is revealed to know Swords Dance and Take Down and uses Wrap for the first time.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Main series debuts

• Bellossom

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Bailey
• Trainers
• Spectators

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Spinarak (US and international); Bellossom (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Bellossom (Bailey's; ×2; Belle and Bella)
• Wartortle (Trainer's; ×2)
• Pidgeotto (Trainer's)
• Oddish (Trainer's)
• Psyduck (Trainer's; ×2)
• Mankey (Trainer's; ×12)
• Poliwhirl (Trainer's; ×2)
• Alakazam (Trainer's)
• Bellsprout (Trainer's)
• Slowpoke (Trainer's; ×2)
• Krabby (Trainer's; ×2)
• Electrode (Trainer's)
• Starmie (Trainer's)
• Ditto (Trainer's)
• Flareon (Trainer's)

Trivia

• This episode's English title may refer to a slogan coined by pacifists protesting the Vietnam War.
• This is the last episode to air in Japan before the earliest release of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
• The Pokémon Junior book Bellossom's Big Battle was based on this episode.
• The dance that Pikachu, Belle, Bella, and Togepi do while Ash, Misty, Brock, and Bailey had dinner is remarkably similar to the one performed by the Bellossom in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.
• Swords Dance is used as an offensive attack in this episode instead of a status move.

Errors

• In one scene, some Wartortle's tails are colored dark-blue instead of light-blue.
• After Bailey tells Ash and his friends to come to her workout tomorrow, Ash's hat turns completely red.
• During the second battle with Team Rocket, James tells Victreebel to use Take Down, but it actually uses Swords Dance. This error is corrected in the Polish dub.
  • Shortly later, he and Jessie tell Victreebel and Arbok to use Tackle, a move they cannot legally learn in the games.
• Towards the end of the episode, when Ash and his friends are cheering for Bailey, Misty's mouth moves, but no sound can be heard.
• In the English dub, James tells Victreebel to use Wrap attack instead of Vine Whip.
• In one scene in the Finnish dub, Bailey doesn't talk, although her mouth still moves.

Dub edits

• Pokémon Karaokémon: You & Me & Pokémon
• An instrumental version of What Kind of Pokémon Are You? is used as background music during the exhibition.

In other languages

Language		Title
Arabic		قوة الزهرة
Bulgarian		Силата на цветята
Mandarin Chinese		美麗花的戰鬥之舞
Czech		Květinový zápas
Dutch		Flower Power
Finnish		Kukkavoimaa
European French		Le pouvoir des fleurs
German		Flower Power
Hindi		फ्लावर पावर Flower Power *
Hungarian		Aki a virágot szereti
Italian		Il potere della danza
Polish		Moc kwiatów
Portuguese	Brazil	O Poder Floral
	Portugal	Poder de Flores
Romanian		Puterea Florilor
Spanish	Latin America	¡El poder de las flores!
	Spain	El poder floral
Swedish		I afton dans

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