BW037

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A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!

BW037   EP694 釣りソムリエ・デント登場！ Fisher Sommelier - Dent Appears!

First broadcast Japan June 23, 2011 United States October 15, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition! (Japanese: 釣りソムリエ・デント登場！ Fisher Sommelier - Dent Appears!) is the 37th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 694th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 23, 2011, and first aired in the United States on October 15, 2011.

This episode was originally scheduled to air in Japan on April 7, 2011, as the 26th episode of the Best Wishes series, but it was postponed, along with the original BW023 and BW024, because of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The episode starts off with Ash, Cilan, and Iris continuing on their journey to Nimbasa City. They notice everyone crowding around a certain area--naturally, all of them get curious. Ash was just about to go in and see what was going on, when he is suddenly knocked over by Bianca, who apologizes, halting his attempts. When Ash asks her why she was in such a hurry, she tells him that she was going to enter a fishing competition. This convinces Ash, Iris, and Cilan to enter as well.

When they get there, Team Rocket (in disguise) is handing out the fishing rods and fishing Poké Balls. They say that the grand prize is a golden fishing rod, causing Cilan to get extremely excited.

Major events

• Ash and friends encounter Bianca again.
• Cilan captures a Basculin. However, it is later released.
• James's Yamask is revealed to know Haze.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Basculin

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Bianca
• Competition participants
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Basculin (Red-Striped and Blue-Striped)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Basculin (Red-Striped and Blue-Striped; multiple; debut)
• Basculin (Cilan's; new; released; debut)
• Frillish
• Alomomola
• Patrat (Competition participant's)
• Minccino (Competition participant's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Scraggy
• This episode was originally supposed to be the 26th episode of the Best Wishes series and was supposed to fall in between Battling for the Love of Bug-types! and Emolga the Irresistible, formerly the 25th and 27th episodes, respectively. It was also originally titled ヒウンシティのつり大会！釣りソムリエ・デント登場！！ Fishing Conference of Hiun City! Fisher Sommelier - Dent Appears!! in Japanese before it was postponed. As they were no longer in Castelia City by the time the episode was aired, all references to the city were removed.
• Clips from this episode were first shown in the Pokémon Live Caster following Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!.
• This episode, in order to better place it between Archeops In The Modern World! and Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!, went through a couple of minor retcons:
  • All references to the gang being in Castelia City have been removed.
  • The ending has been altered to show Bianca leaving the group, contradicting the two episodes following where it was intended to air, in which she is traveling with them.
• This episode marks the first time that Bianca excitedly runs towards the group, trips and then crashes and into Ash, who ends up being knocked into a body of water (this will eventually become a running gag in the series).
• A trainer who looks very similar to Hilbert appears as a contestant in one wide-angle shot of the competition.

Errors

The Scraggy error

• Despite the edits listed above, a couple of indications that this was an earlier episode have been left in:
  • In the original, the gang were surprised to see James owning a Yamask (to the point where Ash scanned it with his Pokédex), despite having encountered it several times in previously aired episodes.
  • Ash was surprised when Cilan revealed his personal fishing rod, despite having seen it in Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open!, five episodes before.
• The profile of the Scraggy appearing in Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster has a yellow colored scale on its head instead of red.

Dub edits

• When James's Yamask appeared, Ash did not sound as surprised about it as he did in the original. It was made to look like he was scanning it so Bianca, who was unfamiliar with the Pokémon, would know about it.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		釣魚酒侍·天桐登場！

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