SM023

Getting the Band Back Together!

SM023   EP962 衝撃！ダグトリオ解散！？ Shocking! Dugtrio Split Up!?

First broadcast Japan April 20, 2017 United States July 15, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 直井由紀 Yuki Naoi 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

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Getting the Band Back Together! (Japanese: 衝撃！ダグトリオ解散！？ Shocking! Dugtrio Split Up!?) is the 23rd episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 962nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 20, 2017 and in the United States on July 15, 2017.

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

Blurb

Ash and friends are attending a concert by the wildly popular group Dug-Leo, made up of DJ Leo and his partner, a talented Alolan Dugtrio. Everyone wears blonde wigs in Dugtrio’s honor, including Rotom Dex—until its wig is carried off after the show by another fan of the band, an Alolan Diglett!

As the band rehearses for their next concert, Dugtrio’s three heads start fighting over who gets to be lead singer—and Team Rocket swoops in, posing as a talent agency to lure Dugtrio away! Diglett joins our heroes to track them down, and soon the band is back together—and they’ve added Diglett to their ranks!

Plot

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Ash and his friends go to a concert starring DJ Leo and his Alolan Dugtrio. Afterwards, they learn that Prof. Kukui and Leo are old friends.

Major events

• Rotom updates itself with a voice sampling function.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Dugtrio (Alola Form)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Kiawe
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Mimo
• DJ Leo
• Announcer (on television)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Dugtrio (Alola Form)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Dugtrio (DJ Leo's; Alola Form; Jessica, Ashley, and Michael; debut)
• Diglett (DJ Leo's; Alola Form; new)
• Sableye (Trainer's; ×4)
• Sudowoodo (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's; ×2)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's; ×3)
• Eevee (Trainer's; ×2)
• Makuhita (Trainer's; ×3)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Smeargle (Trainer's; ×5)
• Machop (Trainer's)
• Riolu (Trainer's; ×2)
• Happiny (Trainer's; ×2)
• Abra (Trainer's; ×5)
• Machoke (Trainer's; ×4)
• Bewear (anime)
• Exeggutor (Alola Form; painting)

Trivia

The Katsushika Hokusai famous woodcut reference

The wigs

• Poké Problem: Which Pokémon admires the Dugtrio in today's episode?
  • Host: Sophocles
  • Choices: Rockruff, Litten, Alolan Diglett, Togedemaru
  • Answer: Alolan Diglett
• Two of the wigs at Team Rocket's wig store resemble hairdos of Ash's previous companions; one resembles May's hair with the ribbon from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and the other resembles Brock's hair.
• In the scene where Team Rocket realize that Alolan Diglett was setting Alolan Dugtrio free, the background is Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa while Team Rocket themselves are posed and stylized to resemble Tōshūsai Sharaku's color print Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei.
• Delia and Mimey narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Ash, Sophocles, Mallow, Kiawe and DJ Leo read the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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