AG005

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Advanced Generation series

AG006 : A Poached Ego! →

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AG005   EP278 ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル!! Zigzaguma and the Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle

First broadcast Japan December 19, 2002 United States November 22, 2003

English themes Opening I Wanna Be A Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending そこに空があるから

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 新留俊哉 Toshiya Niidome Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

In the Knicker of Time! (Japanese: ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル!! Ziguzaguma and Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka's First Battle!) is the fifth episode of the Advanced Generation series and the 279th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 19, 2002 and in the United States on November 22, 2003.

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

Major events

• May participates in (and loses) her first Pokémon Battle.

Debuts

• Nicholai

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nicholai

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Yanma

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Mudkip (Nicholai's)
• Zigzagoon (Nicholai's, new)
• Beedrill
• Pinsir
• Sentret

Trivia

• Jessie and James narrate the next episode preview. Instead of the normal preview music, the music for the Team Rocket motto is played.
• This is the very last time that Ash and friends battle Jessie's Arbok and James's Weezing.
• The English episode title is a reference to "In a Nick of Time".

File:MudkipError.JPG

The error in color

Errors

• After Torchic faints, all of Mudkip's mouth is blue.

In other languages

• French: Un dresseur en culotte courte
• Italian: I Pokémon della foresta
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Las primeras batallas!
• Portuguese: No Limite do Tempo!
• Spanish: Entrenadores panticortos

← AG004 : You Never Can Taillow

Advanced Generation series

AG006 : A Poached Ego! →

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