DP159

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Short and To the Punch!

DP159   EP625 唸れれいとうパンチ！ブイゼルＶＳバリヤード！！ Roaring Freezing Punch! Buoysel VS Barrierd!!

First broadcast Japan January 14, 2010 United States June 12, 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 Iguchi Screenplay 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation directors 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama Additional credits

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Short and To the Punch! (Japanese: 唸れれいとうパンチ！ブイゼルＶＳバリヤード！！ Roaring Freezing Punch! Buoysel VS Barrierd!!) is the 159th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 625th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 14, 2010 and in the United States on June 12, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis After yet another failed attempt to master Draco Meteor, Ash's Gible falls into a lake and has to be saved by Buizel. After the successful rescue, Ash and Buizel are suddenly challenged to a battle by a Black Belt named Clayton against his Mr. Mime. Ash and Buizel naturally agree, however it soon emerges that this Mr. Mime is a powerful battler and Buizel is easily defeated. Ash then asks to train with Clayton, determined to master Ice Punch for Buizel. Clayton then takes Ash and Buizel to a waterfall were Mr. Mime shows them what he can do, by punching the waterfall and turning it all into ice. Clayton then punches it but it does not make a splash and his hand didn't get wet. Ash and Buizel then practise trying it though Clayton says they need to improve. At dinner (which Clayton and his Mr. Mime enjoy), Ash, Pikachu and Buizel walk off and Buizel practises Ice Punch on leaves. He almost masters it but the camera switches to Ash challenging Clayton to a battle. At the start of the battle the same moves are used as before, just with more precision. After some extremely hard work from both Ash and Buizel, they finally perfect the move Ice Punch in order to beat Mr. Mime's ThunderPunch and achieve victory.

Major events

• Ash's Buizel learns Ice Punch.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Clayton

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Mr. Mime (Clayton's)

Trivia

Live action ending song

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Charmeleon
• Challenger!! is used as background music when Ash was teaching Buizel Ice Punch.
• Music from Spell of the Unown, Pikachu's Peek-a-Boo, Jirachi Wish Maker, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used as background music.
• A live action version of Which One ~ Is It? is used as the ending song.
• This episode surpasses the previous 31 episode gap where Ash does not earn a Gym Badge, which happened between The Grass Menagerie! to A Triple Fighting Chance!. This gap started with Sliding Into Seventh!.
• The English title of this episode is a reference to the phrase "short and to the point".
• With this episode, the Sinnoh League journey is now the longest running arc of the anime, surpassing the 158 episodes of the Johto League saga of the original series.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		怒吼吧急凍拳！泳氣鼬對吸盤魔偶！！
Dutch		Snel en Slagvaardig!
Finnish		Pieni mutta pippurinen!
German		Faust gegen Faust!
Italian		Dritto al pugno!
Polish		Niezwykły trening!
Portuguese	Brazil	Curto e Grosso!
	Portugal	Resumindo e Concluindo
Spanish	Latin America	¡Corto pero Certero!
	Spain	Abreviando y golpeando
Swedish		Kort och rakt på sak!

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