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Date Expectations
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Date Expectations (Japanese: ころがれ！恋するドンファン！ Rollout! Loving Donfan!) is the 114th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 388th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 10, 2005, in the UK on January 30, 2006 and in the United States on April 1, 2006.
Synopsis
Everyone is going to Pacifidlog Town so May can participate in a Contest. Two islands come into sight, and the engine breaks. They land on the left island while the captain fixes the engine. He tells Ash it might take a few hours to fix, and tells them that if they want to be on time for the Contest, they could take a ferry on the other side of the island.
Soon, they come across a group of Donphan using Rollout, and almost get run over. Brock explains that it is mating season and they are trying to impress the females. The same Donphan rolls towards them again, so they run away and leave the area. When they find a deserted area, they stop to rest.
Suddenly, a female Donphan shows up and a bunch of males come over to impress it. Ash and co. run away again. They call out Mudkip and Corphish to protect them, since Template:Type2s are super effective on Template:Type2s.
While this is going on, Team Rocket watches the Donphan from the top of a hill. As usual, Meowth suggests catching one and giving it to their boss. They start setting up some nets as a female rolls by. They try to figure out where it was going, but get squashed by more males chasing it. Jessie tells James to have Chimecho heal them, but he startles them instead by making it use Astonish.
They notice some Donphan with mates up ahead. Everyone comments on them, but another Donphan starts chasing them. The Pokémon attack it, and knock it into a rock. Brock bandages its nose, but suddenly a shiny Donphan comes over and the injured Donphan chases after it.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is trying to catch a Donphan, but they just get squashed.
Ash sees the injured Donphan again as it tries to impress the female, but it just gets knocked out of the way by some other Donphan. As they watch, Snorunt comes out of its Poké Ball and uses Ice Beam. Excited, Ash tells it to use the move again, and it freezes the ground under the Donphan, making them slip. The shiny female expresses its disapproval and walks away. Max says they shouldn't have brought out Snorunt, so Ash tries to recall it. However, it just runs away so they chase after it.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket has made a pitfall trap, and they're all congratulating each other. Unnoticed, Snorunt walks up and freezes them. Before the ice can melt, more Donphan roll by and crash into them, blasting them off again.
Suddenly, a number of Donphan roll at Ash. Brock and Max run one way, while Ash and May go the other. Ash and May get to the ferry, but May tells Ash that she won't get on, because even though, she'll miss the contest, she won't leave her brother. She remembers leaving her house and promising her mom to take care of Max, and Ash agrees. They head off.
Brock and Max see the injured Donphan, and ask it if it had any luck. It tells them that it didn't.
Meanwhile, May and Ash see the shiny female. May gives it some Pokémon food and tells it about the injured Donphan. Brock and Max find Ash and May. The injured Donphan also finds the shiny Donphan and starts using Rollout, but is knocked away by another male. All the other Donphan start rolling around the female, but the injured Donphan gets annoyed and knocks them all away. It starts to roll off with the female, but they both get caught in a net as Team Rocket appears. Ash wants to battle them, but May interrupts and scolds them, complaining that she would be in Pacifidlog if it wasn't for them. Team Rocket gets worried.
May sends out her Pokémon. Beautifly pulls the Donphan away with String Shot, Bulbasaur cuts the net with Razor Leaf, Skitty uses DoubleSlap on them, and Combusken uses Flamethrower. Finally, the two Donphan use Rollout and blast them off again. Everyone thanks them and congratulates the injured Donphan on getting the shiny female. Both Pokémon smile.
In the evening, they reach the harbor. As they look at Pacifidlog on the horizon, Ash says that they could have done it if Max hadn't gotten lost. Max says sorry but May tells him it was the Donphan messing everything up, not him.
Suddenly, they hear the captain calling out that he fixed the engine, so they get on board the boat. While they head toward Pacifidlog, the captain says that they are lucky because if he hadn't gotten there then, he would have thought that they got on the ferry. Max tells May that now she can be in the Contest.
Major events
- Ash's Snorunt tries to use Ice Beam for the first time.
- James's Chimecho uses Astonish for the first time.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Lunatone
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Chimecho (James's)
- Phanpy (Ash's; flashback)
- Corphish (Ash's)
- Snorunt (Ash's)
- Combusken (May's)
- Beautifly (May's)
- Skitty (May's)
- Bulbasaur (May's)
- Mudkip (Brock's)
- Seviper (Jessie's)
- Dustox (Jessie's)
- Cacnea (James's)
- Donphan (multiple, including a female one of Template:Shiny2)
- Wingull
Trivia
- The English dub title is a play on the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations".
- This episode is one of the few to feature shiny Pokémon.
Pokémon Trainer's Choice
- Question: Trainers, which Pokémon would not be affected by Earthquake?
- Choices: Sandshrew, Lunatone, Whiscash
- Answer: OK, trainers! If you chose Lunatone, you were right!
Errors
- When Team Rocket was blasting off at the end of the episode, Chimecho's face was similar to Wobbuffet's.
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: Désillusions
- German: Die rollende Romanze
- Italian: La stagione degli amori
- Latin America Spanish: La fecha esperada
- Iberian Spanish: Época de emparejamiento
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