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Sleight of Sand!

DP065   EP531 パチリスはカバルドンの口の中!? Pachirisu is in Kabarudon's Mouth!?

First broadcast Japan January 31, 2008 United States July 12, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 於地紘仁 Kōjin Ochi Assistant director 宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

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Sleight of Sand! (Japanese: パチリスはカバルドンの口の中!? Pachirisu is in Kabarudon's Mouth!?) is the 65th episode of Diamond & Pearl series, and the 531st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 31, 2008 and in the United States on July 12, 2008.

When our heroes' Pokémon are having a fun time in a sandpit, a Hippowdon appears from within. However, the over-curious Pachirisu can't help peeping into the mouth of Hippowdon and accidentally falls into it...

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The episode starts, showing Hippowdon walking. Pachirisu peeps its head out of one of the Hippowdon's holes in its back. It gasps as it sees Butch and Cassidy's Rhyhorn machine starting to keep up with Hippowdon. It goes back inside. The screen shows the giant claw coming closer. Then the screen shows Ash putting his foot on sand and sliding down a cliff, with Hippopotas on Ash's shoulders. Brock slides down too, so does Pikachu, Piplup, and Dawn. Butch and Cassidy's Rhyhorn machine drives down.

Major events

• Dawn meets Butch and Cassidy for the first time.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Hippowdon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Cassidy
• Butch
• Dr. Namba (on the phone)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Gligar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Shuckle (Butch's)
• Granbull (Cassidy's)
• Hippopotas
• Hippowdon (debut)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's lecture: Munchlax
  • Pokémon senryū: あさひるばん　たべるかねるか　ゴンベかな Asa hiru ban, taberu kaneru ka, Gonbe kana? "Morning, noon, and night, still it's eating all the while, could it be Gonbe?"
• This is the first appearance of Butch and Cassidy in the Sinnoh region.
• It is also one of the few episodes in which Jessie's Wobbuffet didn't appear.
• The Hippopotas from Mass Hip-Po-Sis! returned in this episode.
• Ash's Gligar has been added to the ending theme to reflect the events of the previous episode
• Butch and Cassidy now have a new motto. Once again, it is a variation on Jessie and James's Sinnoh motto.
• The dub name of this episode comes from the term "Sleight Of Hand".
• When the Rhyhorn attack Jessi and James' air balloon, it's eyeballs pop out and it smiles.

In other languages

• German: Sandtricks!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Un baño de arena!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Operação Resgate na Areia!
• Finnish: Pettävä hiekka!
• Polish: Pojedynek na pustyni
• Italian: Battaglie sabbiose!
• Czech: Písečné pláně
• Dutch: Zandvaardigheid
  • Dutch: The Dutch title of this episode is titled after the words zand and handvaardigheid.

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