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Bonnie for the Defense!

XY049   EP848 出動ラプラス防衛隊！ユリーカがんばる！！ Dispatch the Laplace Protection Team! Do Your Best, Eureka!!

First broadcast Japan October 30, 2014 United States December 20, 2014

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme (Version XY) Ending

Japanese themes Opening メガＶ（メガボルト） Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 鈴木卓夫 Takuo Suzuki Animation director 斉藤圭太 Keita Saitō 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

Bonnie for the Defense! (Japanese: 出動ラプラス防衛隊！ユリーカがんばる！！ Dispatch the Laplace Protection Team! Do Your Best, Eureka!!) is the 49th episode of the XY series, and the 848th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 30, 2014 and in the United States on December 20, 2014.

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

Blurb

While Ash and Serena do some special training and Clemont works on his inventions, Bonnie explores the forest, where she meets a trio of kids who call themselves the Lapras Defense Force. They show Bonnie to their hideout and introduce her to their friend Lapras, who is recovering from an injury and seems to be running a fever. The three of them really don't trust grown-ups, but when Ash, Serena, and Clemont come looking for Bonnie, the kids reluctantly agree to let Nurse Joy make a house call to their hideout.

After some medical attention, Lapras is feeling much better, but it keeps looking out toward the water and crying. Clemont figures out that it misses its ocean home, and the kids decide to take it back there. Despite a boulder blocking the way and a run-in with Team Rocket, Lapras is soon reunited with its family.

Bonnie bids farewell to her new friends, and our heroes resume their trek to Coumarine City!

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Clemont's Luxio is revealed to know Wild Charge.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Heidi
• Kye
• Jay
• Teacher (flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Lapras (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Lapras (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Froakie (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxio (Clemont's)
• Fennekin (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Pumpkaboo (Jessie's)
• Inkay (James's)
• Wigglytuff (Nurse Joy's: cameo)
• Lapras (×3; parents and their child)
• Wormadam (Plant Cloak)
• Eevee (flashback)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Bonnie.png

The title card segment focuses on Bonnie for this episode

• Bonnie reads the title card.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Flabébé*
  • Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster or Mairin's Mega Evolution Journal, Steven appears to talk about Primal Kyogre.
• Serena narrates the preview of the next episode alone, while she and Ash read the title card and say the "Everyone, get Pokémon!" phrase together.
• In this episode, Meowth fills in for James in the Team Rocket's motto.
• James having Inkay's Poké Ball on the end of a fishing rod is similar to the Fisherman Trainer class.
• The English dub of this episode first aired in Australia on December 15th, 2014.
• This is the season finale of the seventeenth season, Pokémon the Series: XY.

Errors

• When Clemont is releasing Chespin and Luxio to the action, the pupils in Luxio's eyes are colored black instead of yellow.
• When the Lapras friends use their Ice Beam attack on Team Rocket, the grip engine on the Magikarp submarine is missing.

• 

  Luxio's eyes error

Dub edits

File:Title Card XY Ash.png

The dub's title card

• The title card segment focuses on, and is read by, Ash in the dub instead of Bonnie.
• In the dub, the kids start crying because Ash comments that "Lapras is going downhill fast", then Clemont says that he would rather not think about it. In the original version, Ash explicitly says that if they leave Lapras there, they will "let it die", and Clemont adds that it may be a possibility in the worst case scenario.

In other languages

Language		Title
Finnish		Puolustaja Bonnie!
European French		Clem et les forces de défense !
German		Heureka geht in die Verteidigung!
Italian		Clem in difesa!
Polish		Bonnie cię obroni!
European Spanish		¡Clem por la Defensa!

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