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A Dancing Debut!

XY101   EP900 踊れイーブイ！トライポカロン･デビュー！！ Dance, Eievui! Its TryPokaron Debut!!

First broadcast Japan December 17, 2015 United States April 9, 2016

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 秋山勝仁 Katsuhito Akiyama Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation directors 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata 毛利和昭 Kazuaki Mōri 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

A Dancing Debut! (Japanese: 踊れイーブイ！トライポカロン･デビュー！！ Dance, Eievui! Its TriPokalon Debut!!) is the 101st episode of Pokémon the Series: XY, and the 900th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on December 17, 2015 and in the United States on April 9, 2016.

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

Blurb

Serena, her friend Nini, and Jessilee (Team Rocket’s Jessie in disguise) are competing in the Couriway Pokémon Showcase! The first round is a Poké Puff Performance, and it’s more than just a bake-off—the performers have to put on a show while creating their treats. Then, it’s on to the Freestyle Performance and Eevee’s Showcase debut!

Serena and Eevee dance together as Braixen spins a ring of fire around them, and as a finishing move, Eevee leaps gracefully onto Braixen’s flaming branch! But as the audience erupts in cheers, Eevee gets nervous and loses its balance. That misstep is enough to give Jessilee the win—and her first Princess Key!

Plot

Ash and his friends have arrived in Couriway Town, where Serena is going to compete for her third Princess Key. She is planning on using Eevee, but upon seeing the Showcase theater, Eevee becomes nervous about making her stage debut. Palermo has also come to town to watch the Pokémon Showcase. She spots Serena and remembers the day she first saw her. The night before the event takes place, Team Rocket go spying on the Showcase theater in order to discover what activity Performers will have to do during the Theme Performance, believing that knowing it in advance will give Jessie an edge. Meanwhile, Eevee is stressed about competing, but Serena, Braixen, and Pancham all help to calm her nerves.

The next morning, Serena meets up with Nini, who is revealed to have earned two Princess Keys and added a Gothita to her team. The Couriway Showcase Rookie Class starts with Monsieur Pierre welcoming the audience and explaining that, for the Theme Performance, the participating Performers will have to bake a Poké Puff while simultaneously performing a dance routine together with their Pokémon. They will then be judged by the audience, and only if they reach a certain number of votes will they get to move on to the Freestyle Performance. Jessie and Meowth are shocked to hear that the theme is nothing they imagined it would be.

The first competitor to appear on stage is Nini, who manages to wow the audience together with her Smoochum, Farfetch'd, and Gothita. She gets enough votes to advance to the next round. Second comes Jessie, assisted by Meowth and Wobbuffet, and she also manages to get to round two. After a couple more contestants perform, some succeeding while some others being eliminated, Serena gets called on stage. She uses her Pancham and greatly impresses the audience, surpassing the required number of votes to advance to the next round. With the Theme Performance behind, Pierre announces that the Freestyle Performance will start later that evening, meaning Performers can take a break to relax.

Ash and his friends decide to have a picnic, but Eevee is still feeling nervous, so much so that she is not even eating her food. To help with that, Clemont chops up an Oran Berry and a Sitrus Berry to make the food look tastier. The afternoon goes by quickly and the Showcase resumes. In the Freestyle Performance, Nini displays a variety of moves to create a dramatic performance, while Jessie has her Wobbuffet counter Gourgeist's attacks, an effect that leaves the audience excited. Lily and Sara Lee are briefly shown performing and then it's Serena's turn to perform, and she is counting on Braixen and Eevee to win her third Princess Key, which will allow her to compete for the title of Kalos Queen in the Master Class.

Eevee gets nervous when she enters the stage, but Serena calms her down. The performance begins with Braixen creating a ring of fire around Serena and Eevee as the two dance. Eevee jumps numerous times before landing on Braixen's branch. The audience is impressed by this and starts cheering louder, which makes Eevee scared and causes her to lose her balance. She ends up falling on her face and becomes sad for botching the performance, but Serena encourages her to continue performing. Eevee gets up and manages to finish the performance smiling and posing, but as soon as it ends, she gets sad again. Serena cheers her up and says they will do better next time.

After all five Performers have performed, they assemble on stage as Monsieur Pierre asks the audience members to cast their votes using the Glow Caster. The voting ends to reveal that Jessie has gotten the most votes and is the big winner of the Couriway Town Pokémon Showcase Rookie Class. Meowth and Wobbuffet are delighted and crying tears of joy as Pierre's Klefki proceeds to award Jessie her first Princess Key, bringing the competition to a close. Jessie's victory boosts her confidence and she starts fantasizing about how life will be when she becomes a famous Performer. Elsewhere, Ash and his friends bid Nini farewell and Serena reassures Eevee that they are going to win the next Showcase.

Major events

Jessie holding the Couriway Princess Key

• Ash and his friends arrive in Couriway Town and meet up with Nini again.
• Nini is revealed to have obtained a Gothita and to have earned two Princess Keys.
• Serena, Jessie, and Nini enter the Couriway Showcase Rookie Class and Jessie wins, earning her first Princess Key.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Sara Lee

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Nini
• Palermo
• Monsieur Pierre
• Lily
• Sara Lee
• Performers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Gothita (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Serena's Eevee (Stage clothing) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Fennekin (Serena's; flashback)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Eevee (Serena's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's; Super Size)
• Smoochum (Nini's)
• Farfetch'd (Nini's)
• Gothita (Nini's)
• Klefki (Monsieur Pierre's)
• Solrock (Lily's)
• Leafeon (Sara Lee's)
• Glaceon (Sara Lee's)
• Mightyena (Performer's)
• Pansage (Performer's)
• Pansear (Performer's)
• Panpour (Performer's)
• Teddiursa (Performer's)
• Ducklett (Performer's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Ekans (fantasy)
• Mamoswine (fantasy)

Trivia

The title card segment focuses on Serena for this episode

• In the Japanese version, the title card segment focuses on, and is read by, Serena.
• Poké TV: "Performer News" focusing on Nini's Smoochum and Farfetch'd and featuring a performance by a Pikachu Rock Star.
  • In original airings, Poké TV is replaced by a presentation from Professor Oak featuring the reveal of Volcanion in the third Pokémon the Series: XY movie.
• Bonnie, Squishy, Xerosic, and Celosia narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Team Rocket does not perform their motto or blast off in this episode.
• Mariya Ise returns to her role as the voice of Bonnie in this episode after her maternity leave.
• DreamDream is used as an insert song near the end of Serena's Freestyle Performance.
• All of Serena's Pokémon remain outside of their Poké Balls for the entire episode.
• The sequence of Ekans swallowing Mamoswine is a reference to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella The Little Prince, in which a snake swallows an elephant.
• A shot of this episode was remade and used for flashback material for Reuniting for the First Time!.

Errors

Leafeon error

• When Monsieur Pierre is rising onstage during the introductions, his Klefki is not perched on the end of his staff. However, after he takes off his mask, it is.
• During the Theme Performance, Sara Lee's Leafeon's chest leaves are colored yellow instead of green.
• When Serena takes out her Pokédex, it is already open. However, when it is pointed at Nini's Gothita, it opens up again.
• In the English dub:
  • During Serena's Freestyle Performance, as Serena and Braixen are throwing Braixen's branch back and forth, Braixen's Japanese voice can be heard when she throws the branch back to Serena.
  • When Bonnie was in front of the gate the next day, Dedenne didn't make a cry, but his cry was left in the closed captioning. In the Japanese version, he did say a cry after Bonnie speaks.
  • Jessie commands Meowth to use "Fury Swipe" instead of the correct name for the attack, "Fury Swipes", during the Theme Performance.

Dub edits

• The title card segment is read by Ash instead of Serena.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	跳吧，伊貝！三冠衛星賽首次登埸！！ * 跳啦，伊貝！三冠衛星賽首次登台！！ *
	Mandarin	跳吧 伊布！三冠衛星賽·首次登台！！
Czech		Taneční debut!
Danish		En dansende debut!
Dutch		Een dansdebuut!
Finnish		Tanssidebyytti!
European French		Une gracieuse débutante !
German		Das Tanzdebüt!
Hindi		अ डान्सिंग डेब्यू! A Dancing Debut!
Italian		Debutto danzante!
Korean		춤추는 이브이! 트라이포카론 데뷔!!
Norwegian		En dansedebut!
Polish		Taneczny debiut!
Portuguese	Brazil	Dança de Debutante!
	Portugal	Uma Estreia com Dança!
Russian		Танцевальный дебют!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Un debut de baile!
	Spain	¡El baile del debut!
Swedish		En dansande debut!
Thai		อีบุยผู้เต้นรำ! การเปิดตัวในไตรโปคาลอน!!
Turkish		Sahnede İlk Dans!

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