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| The Psyduck Stops Here!
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コダックの通せんぼ！
The Koduck Roadblock!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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July 24, 2008
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| United States
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December 27, 2008
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Iguchi
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| Screenplay
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大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
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| Storyboard
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秦義人 Yoshito Hata
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| Assistant director
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秦義人 Yoshito Hata
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| Animation director
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木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita
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| Additional credits
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The Psyduck Stops Here! (Japanese: コダックの通せんぼ！ The Koduck Roadblock!) is the 87th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 553rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 24, 2008, and in the United States on December 27, 2008.
Synopsis
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The episode starts with Ash and friends traveling through a valley on the way to Dawn's next contest in Celestic Town. They encounter three Psyduck in the middle of the road. Dawn scans the Psyduck with her Pokédex. As they walk closer to them the Psyduck lift them up with Psychic. Ash, Dawn and Brock sit down to come up with a plan to get around them. Ash sends out Turtwig who attacks with Razor Leaf and Bite, but is defeated. Next up is Piplup who uses Whirlpool but is also defeated by the Psyduck. Brock sends out Croagunk who uses Poison Sting, but he too is defeated. Chimchar also comes out and is defeated.
Team Rocket appears and do their motto. Meowth walks up to the Psyduck and attempts to bargain with them. It backfires; however, and Team Rocket is sent off by Psychic to the top of the valley. Brock's Happiny then comes but is defeated along with Dawn's Swinub. They then come up with a plan for Staravia and Gliscor to fly around with Ash while Dawn and Brock distract the Psyduck. Brock begins to perform Brock's Paradise while Ash and Gliscor take off. Gliscor flies into the wall a little farther down the valley. Ash sees a few mother Psyduck holding eggs, and realizes that the Psyduck are protecting their babies.
Back with Brock, he is still performing the song but is getting tired. Ash reappears with Gliscor and lands. He explains to Brock and Dawn that the three Psyduck are just protecting their babies. Team Rocket reappeaars again in their Meowth Balloon and reperform their motto. Ash, Brock, and Dawn send out Staravia, Croagunk and Buneary respectively to battle Team Rocket. Chimchar also comes out to fight Carnivine and Yanmega. Team Rocket blasts off.
They return to the lake in time to see the eggs hatch. They wonder why they are not at their lake, when three Muk rise up from the water. Dawn scans the Muk with her Pokédex. They send the Muk out of this lake and back into their original lake where they meet three other Muk and fall in love. The Psyduck hop back into the lake as Ash, Dawn and Brock continue their journey to Celestic Town.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- This episode is based on an event in the games. A group of Psyduck are initially blocking the route to Celestic Town but a potion provided by Cynthia cures their headaches and makes them move away.
- Brock wears his outfit from Takeshi's Paradise in this episode, and music from that is used as well in the original Japanese version.
- This episode marks the third time that Brock's Croagunk is shown to be defeated, the other two times being in DP008 (although he gets up in a few seconds) and in DP052. It wasn't knocked out again until DP096.
- This episode also marks the first and only time so far that Brock's Happiny got knocked out.
- The Psyduck group also defeated Pikachu, Turtwig, Piplup, Chimchar and Swinub in quick succession.
- After it is knocked out, Dawn returns Piplup to its Poké Ball for the first time since Pruning a Passel of Pals!, in which the episode number is a reversal of this episode. Once it was returned, it didn't reappear for the rest of the episode.
- Ambipom had not used Double Team since she was an Aipom, making this her first time since evolving. In addition, Ambipom hasn't used this move since The Keystone Pops!, 31 episodes beforehand.
- An earlier episode had a similar title to this episode. Both are references to the famous saying "the buck stops here".
Errors
- When Dawn got her "Psyducklings" idea, Brock's hair is colored black instead of brown.
Dub edits
In other languages
- Dutch: Tegengehouden Door Psyducks!
- German: Ein Enton kommt selten allein!
- Polish: Miejsce postoju Psyducków
- Italian: Con gli Psyduck non si passa!
- Brazilian Portuguese: Os Psyducks param aqui!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Los Psyduck llegaron ya!
- Iberian Spanish: La Barrera de los Psyduck
- Czech: Psyduckčí zátaras
- French: Psykokwak protège les siens !
