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Piplup, Up and Away!

DP164   EP630 ポッチャマはぐれる！ Pochama Goes Astray!

First broadcast Japan February 18, 2010 United States July 17, 2010

English themes Opening We Will Carry On! Ending

Japanese themes Opening サイコー・エブリディ！ Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume Additional credits

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Piplup, Up and Away! (Japanese: ポッチャマはぐれる！ Pochama Goes Astray!) is the 164th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 630th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 18, 2010 and will air in the United States on July 17, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Since Ash captured his Gible, Piplup has always been the unlucky target of the Land Shark Pokémon's continuous unsuccessful attempts to master Draco Meteor... and the Penguin Pokémon has finally had enough! However when it seems that Dawn prefers Gible over him, Piplup is heartbroken and decides to run away and head back to Sandgem Town to return to Professor Rowan. However, things go wrong when Piplup accidentally runs into a disguised Team Rocket, while the group find themselves under attack from an angry Rhyperior.

Major events

• Dawn's Piplup learns Hydro Pump.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Marian (dream)
• Unnamed Trainer
• Trainer (picture)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Rhyperior (Unnamed Trainer's)
• Raichu (picture)
• Munchlax (picture)
• Murkrow (picture)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Golem
• This episode marks the first time Piplup has gained a new move since learning Whirlpool, which occurred one hundred and thirty-eight episodes ago.
• Music from Gotta Dance and Jirachi Wish Maker is used during the episode.
• The English title of this episode comes from the popular song Up, Up and Away, made famous by The 5th Dimension, or the takeoff phrase made famous in the Superman animated cartoons by his voice actor Bud Collyier.
• The animation and background strongly suggest that Piplup's ability Torrent activated, though no one directly says so.

Errors

• In one scene, Meowth was wearing glasses and in the next, they had disappeared.

Dub edits

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Diamond & Pearl series

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