DP008

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DP008   なぞのジムのグレッグル！ Gureggru of the Mysterious Gym!

First broadcast Japan November 9, 2006 United States June 14, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura

Screenshots on Filb.de

Gymbaliar (Japanese: なぞのジムのグレッグル！ Gureggru of the Mysterious Gym!) is the eighth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on November 9, 2006, and in the USA on June 14, 2007.

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

Major events

• Jessie, James and Meowth make a gym and battle trainers.
• Brock catches a Croagunk.

Debuts

• Croagunk

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Minnie
• Jeffrey
• Boy trainer (Seiyū: 伊東みやこ Miyako Itō*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's, new; debut)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Sandslash (Boy trainer's)
• Marowak (Jeffrey's)
• Scizor (Minnie's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Jessie used many Anglicisms in her speech throughout this episode in the Japanese version.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music in this episode.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gyms

The footage in this segment is from Ash's battles with Roxanne, Flannery, Winona and Juan. The final shot is of the flame at the Ever Grande Conference.

• Pokémon senryū: かてるまで　なんどもちょうせん　ポケモンジム Kateru made nando mo chōsen, Pokémon Jimu "Until you win, battle again and again; that is a Pokémon Gym."
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.
• The dub title is a play off the dish Jambalaya and combining the two words Gym and liar.
• Brock's Croagunk was caught similar to the way James's Mime Jr. and the majority of the ones Ash caught during the Indigo League were. There was no battle, and the Pokémon just wanted to be caught. Ironically, Brock was praised when he got Croagunk, whileas when Ash did it with most of the captures, he was bashed by both Misty and Brock.
• Japanese text was left on the Croagunk card used by James.
• Poison Jab appeared to hurt Scizor, who is part Steel. Steel Pokémon are immune to Poison moves. It is almost the same case, however, when Pikachu hurts a Ground-type Pokémon with Thunderbolt.
• Jessie's Dustox uses Stun Spore in this episode, an attack that Dustox are not normally able to learn.

Errors

• In the English dub, Jessie (AKA Princess Powerzone) commands Croagunk to use Poison Sting, yet it used Brick Break.

In other languages

• Dutch: Een neppe Gym
• Brazilian Portuguese: O Ginásio de Pernas Curtas
• Italian: Bugiardi in Palestra & Brock trova un amico
• Iberian Spanish: Un gimnasio de mentira
• Latin American Spanish: Los farsantes

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