AG176

The Ole' Berate and Switch File:TeamRocketBreakup.jpg

AG175   ロケット団解散!?それぞれの道！ Team Rocket Dissolution!? Respective Roads!

First broadcast Japan May 11, 2006 United States December 4, 2006

English themes Opening

Japanese themes Opening スパート！ Ending 私、負けない！～ハルカのテーマ～

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 入好さとる Satoru Iriyoshi Assistant director ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura

Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports originally listed 秦義人 Yoshito Hata as the director and 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu as animation director along with Izumi Shimura.

The Ole' Berate and Switch (Japanese: ロケット団解散!?それぞれの道！ Team Rocket Dissolution!? Respective Roads!) is episode 175 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 11, 2006 and in the USA on December 4, 2006.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Butch
• Cassidy
• Professor Oak (flashback)
• Dr. Namba
• Hiroo (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi)
• Oriba (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Announcer (Team Rocket) (Seiyū: 坂口候一 Kōichi Sakaguchi)
• Referee (Team Rocket) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)
• Pokémon trainers

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Raticate (Butch and Cassidy's)
• Houndour (Cassidy's)
• Pinsir (Hiroo's) (Seiyū: 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki*)
• Marowak (Oriba's) (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Doduo
• Zubat
• Venomoth
• Pidgeotto
• Hitmontop
• Ponyta
• Ledian
• Rhyhorn (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka)
• Skarmory
• Torchic
• Taillow

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Pokémon Symphonic Medley, ニャースのうた Meowth's Song and 前向きロケット団！ Face Forward Team Rocket! are used as background music.

Errors

In the dub, when Max finds James and Cassidy with boxes full of Pokéballs he comments that James is working for Butch and Cassidy even though he had never seen nor heard of them before.

In other languages

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