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Historical Mystery Tour!

DP140   EP606 ネイティ、 ネイティオ。。。不思議な森！ Naty, Natio... Mysterious Forest!

First broadcast Japan August 27, 2009 United States January 16, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director 近橋伸隆 Nobutaka Chikahashi Animation director 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita Additional credits

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Historical Mystery Tour! (Japanese: ネイティ、 ネイティオ。。。不思議な森！ Naty, Natio... Mysterious Forest!) is the 140th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 606th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 27, 2009 and in the United States on January 16, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis While they are helping with the festival, the group encounters Barry again. To test the progress of each other, Ash and Barry immediately start a battle. However, Barry runs off into the forest and comes across a wild Natu. Soon Ash, Dawn and Barry find themselves in trouble facing predicaments that they each faced in the beginning of their journeys. With Dawn and Piplup up against yet another swarm of wild Ariados and Ash and Pikachu up against a flock of wild Spearow, what will be the outcome of all of this?

Major events

• The gang meet up with Barry again, who has returned for the Twinleaf Festival.
• Ash and Dawn meet Palmer, head of Sinnoh's Battle Tower and Barry's father.

Debuts

T.V. debuts

• Palmer

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Barry
• Palmer
• Johanna
• Sayer
• Izzy
• Cara
• Clown
• Goldeen Scoop Master

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Heracross (Barry's)
• Xatu (Clown's)
• Seel (Clown's)
• Grumpig (Clown's)
• Mr. Mime (Clown's)
• Alakazam (Clown's)
• Dodrio (multiple)
• Sandslash (multiple)
• Tauros (multiple)
• Goldeen (multiple)
• Exeggutor (multiple)
• Combee (multiple)
• Spearow (multiple)
• Ariados (multiple)
• Mightyena (multiple)
• Natu
• Camerupt
• Mothim
• Nidoking
• Nidoqueen
• Aipom
• Skorupi
• Fearow
• Feebas
• Magikarp
• Rattata

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Castform.
  • Professor Oak's lecture returns after a 10 episode hiatus. Interestingly, it returns one episode after Professor Oak makes an appearance in the anime.
• Palmer makes his debut appearance exactly 100 episodes after Cynthia made hers. Coincidently, they both made cameos in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, and they shared the same battle music in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
• This is the first episode featuring Barry where his Empoleon does not appear.
• Interestingly, this episode aired the same week that Stopped in the Name of Love! aired in America. Both episodes had a scene where Dawn & Piplup had to deal with a group of Ariados, which also occured in Following a Maiden's Voyage!, when Dawn and Piplup became friends.
• The dub title of this episode is a play on The Beatles album, "Magical Mystery Tour".

Errors

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Nidoqueen's mouth

• Nidoqueen's mouth is colored blue instead of cream.
• In one scene, the pokeball symbol on Dawn's hat is darker than it should be.
• In another scene, Dawn's yellow hair clips are missing.

Dub edits

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