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Wobbu-Palooza!

EP173   ソーナンスのむら!? Village of Sonans!?

First broadcast Japan November 16, 2000 United States October 27, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ぼくのベストフレンドへ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 佐藤まさふみ Masafumi Satō No additional credits are available at this time.

Wobbu-Palooza! (Japanese: ソーナンスのむら!? Village of Sonans!?) is the 173rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 16, 2000 and in the United States on October 27, 2001.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The group arrive at the Wobbuffet Village in time for the Wobbuffet Festival. However, Breaking for lunch at a spot in the forest, our heroes notice a nearby Wobbuffet and begin to look around for it’s co-horts, Team Rocket! Although there’s no sign of Team Rocket, everywhere they look there are more Wobbuffet popping up. The gang follows them to Wobbuffet Village and finds out the village is about to have their annual Wobbuffet fair. Due to festival rules, our heroes aren’t able to help when a gang of punks and their Pokémon try to ruin the fair. Team Rocket are the only one’s in a position to help. Will they come to the town’s aid because they have a Wobbuffet of their own?...

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Villagers
  • Lulu
  • Annie
• Wobbuffet Festival crashers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Sneasel

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Poliwhirl (Misty's)
• Golbat (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Wobbuffet (villagers'; many)
• Primeape (Festival crasher's)
• Machoke (Festival crasher's)
• Hitmonlee (Festival crasher's)

Trivia

• To My Best Friend replaces Exciting Pokémon Relay as the ending.
• Unlike other episodes with groups of one Pokémon, many of the Wobbuffet in this episode have variations from the base design.
• In a variation of the usual running gag, Victreebel eats Meowth on being released.
• The English title is based off "Lollapalooza".

Errors

• When Jessie uses her Wobbuffet in battle, the Machoke Trainer calls for a Seismic Toss but Machoke uses Karate Chop.

Dub edits

Some shots were cut and shortened for the English dub for time. An example of a deleted shot in this episode is the establishing shot of the Wobbuffet village.

In other languages

• French: L'emblème du festival
• German. Woingenau Festival
• Italian: La sagra
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Wobbu-paliza!
• Iberian Spanish: Festival de Wobbuffet
• Brazilian Portuguese: O Festival dos Wobbuffet!

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