EP122

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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

"Flower Power" redirects here. For the e-Reader application, see Flower Power (e-Reader).

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.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and friends finally made it out from the forest after getting a little lost. As they leave the forest they notice a huge city nearby called Flowender. Misty suggest that they should relax and enjoy the city. Like always, Brock is excited to see all the beautiful girls that are at the city. As Ash, Misty, and Brock enter the city, they find out there is a exhibtion going on in the city, with different types of Pokemon shows. Ash and friends are excited to see all the shows, and Ash even wants to be part of a show with all his Pokemon. Misty and Brock agree with ash doing a live show, but Ash really wanted to do a t.v show. Misty quickly says "Who would watch anything like that". Brock quickly grabs Ash and Misty excited to see all the shows. They start seeing all types of Pokemon shows with different types of Pokemon. As they are watching the shows, they notice some Bellosom jumping up and down. Misty suggests that they should head over their and get a better look. Ash and his friends watch the Bellosoms perform and do their amazing acrobatic dances. One of the Bellosom is asked to do a "Loop-de-loop". However, the Bellosom fails the move and quickly land on Ash's arms and he falls to the ground. Quickly, the girl rushes over Ash asking him if he was alright. He tells her that he is oka and that he made " a lucky catch". The girl thanks Ash for catching her Bellosoom on time. Being so grateful, the girl gives a toast to Ash and his friends for saving her Bellosoom. Ash and his friends thank her for giving them a well done show. The girl introduces her self as Bailey, and idrotuces her Bellosooms called Bella and Bell. Ash and his friends also introduces themselves. But Brock quickly says "Who cares about the Pokemon?" and starts flirting with Bailey, but Misty angrily grabs Brock and them him what he meant about not caring about Pokemon. Ash asks Bailey if they were going to perform tomorrow with the same trick they used before. Bailey says that they were going to but Bella is having trouble performoing her special move. As usual Team Rocket is up to no good when they enter the exhibition. Team Rocket is planning to enter the show just to make money. They use Meowth since he is a rare type of Meowth who knows how to talk. People start to gather around but doesn't see any action because Meowth gets stage fright. Jesse angrily ask what is Meowth problem. She quickly gives Meowth some joke and tell him to go over there and make some people laugh. Meowth goes and starts telling the joke, and the crowd is suprised to see a Meowth talking. However. all his joke aren't that good and the crowd starting booing and leaving. Jesse quicjly tells them its not a free show, but the crowd refuses to pey beauce they don't see anything funny about Moewth's performance. James tells them not leave becuase Moweth is warming up. James whisper a joke to Meowth and Moewth tells it. However, Meowth messes it up, and the crowd leaves. James and Meowth start arguing and blasting each other. Jessie says that she and James could have made it better with thier dancing, and they think that their dance show can become big and famous. They start bulldozing themselves to prepare to dance. Ash says that they can do this, and Bailer ask them who they were, and Team Rockets does their motto. Ash is about to send them out using Pikachu, but Bailey in the other performers want to do themselves. Team Rockets accpets a battle from them. A preformer uses his Alakazam and tells it to use a Psychic attack and knocks them off. Jessie and Jmaes quickly stand up and they use their Arbok and Victreebeel to attack. Bailey uses her Bellosoms and tells them to dodge their attack by using their dancing moves, which works. Bailey tells her Bellosoms to use Sleep Powder, making Team Rocket quickly leave. The crowd like the perofmance battle that Bailey did and they give her an applause. Ash and his friends love and enjoy the performance and siad they they derserve a "hand" Team Rocket is seen later eating meat balls at a dark valley. They finally admit that the bulldozer ruined their financial debt. They suddenly see a flyer and suggest they should go and steal all their Pokemon. Bailey's Bellosom are seen playing with Pikachu and Togepi. Bailey says that her dream is to be the best performance ever. Ash wants to know how her Bellossom were able to dodging Team Rockets attacks. She says that dancing is almost simliar to batting becuase the movement of the Pokemons feet. She suggest Ash and his friends to see her practices performances. Bailey teaches Pikachu the routin of Bellosom who he can us it in a battle. Bailey then starts practing her special move, but again it fails. Bella dissapointed gives her a sad face, but Bailey says not worry, they won't do it. Team Rocket again up to no good start stealing the Pokemon in the festival. Team Rockets starting leaving, but Ash uses Heracross to throw Pikachu up in the air where Team Rocket is and is able to use Thunderbolt on the balloon, stopping their theft. Ash tells them to give back all the Pokemon, but they refuse and send Arbok and Victreebell to attack. Pikachu starts daning to dodging the moves moves of Arbok and Victeerbell. Suddenly, Victeerbell uses wrap and grabs Pikachu's feet, and Arbok goes and attacks Pikachu with a Bite attack. Bailey is able to free Bell and Bella, and tells them to use their special move. Luckily, their move is a succes and Bellossom attacks Arbok. Jessie return Arbok, and Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, and Bellosoom uses a Twister attacking sending Team Rocket flying and blasting off. Bailey says if Bell and Bella can perform their special move. Bailey, Bell, and Bella perform the "Loop-de-Lop" and again is a succesful move. In the end the narrator says that Ash can learn for this performance. The episode ends with Team Rocket is twirling around in the city.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Bellossom

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Bailey

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Spinarak

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Bellossom (Bailey's; two, nicknamed "Belle" and "Bella")

Other Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Exhibition:

• Wartortle
• Pidgeotto
• Oddish
• Psyduck
• Mankey
• Poliwhirl
• Alakazam
• Bellsprout
• Slowpoke
• Krabby
• Electrode
• Starmie
• Ditto
• Flareon

Trivia

• This episode's English title may refer to a slogan coined by pacifists protesting the Vietnam War.
• The Pokémon Junior book, "Bellossom's Big Battle" was based on this episode.

Errors

• Bailey's two Bellossom used Twister in this episode. Bellossom cannot learn this attack in the games.
• In one scene, Heracross's lips were black instead of blue.

In other languages

• Czech: Květinový zápas
• French: Le pouvoir des fleurs
• German: Flower Power
• Italian: Il potere della danza
• Mandarin: 美麗花的戰鬥之舞
• Portuguese:
  • Brazilian Portuguese: O Poder Floral
  • European Portuguese: Poder de Flores
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: El poder floral
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡El poder de las flores!

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