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First broadcast
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October 28, 1997
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October 19, 1998
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Dig Those Diglett! (Japanese: ディグダがいっぱい！ Full of Digda!) is the 31st episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 28, 1997 and in the United States on October 19, 1998.
Synopsis
While journeying through a mountainous region, Ash, Misty and Brock and Team Rocket hear what sounds like an explosion in the distance. Upon arriving at the scene, they instead find several trucks in a pile-up. A local construction worker reveals that a group of Diglett inhabiting the area are responsible in an attempt to halt the building of a "Great Dam" within the region. The worker says that rewards will be offered for those who succeed in halting the Diglett's interference; conveniently, Gary Oak chooses this moment to make one of his appearances. Nevertheless, the attempts of the invited trainers fall flat, as their Pokémon possess no desire to do battle with the Diglett.
Meanwhile, Jessie and James plot to take possession of the hordes of new Pokémon nearby, but quickly realize their efforts would be in vain with simply Ekans and Koffing at their disposal. Shortly thereafter, seemingly out of a love for their owners, the two Pokémon evolve into Arbok and Weezing, respectively, during a typical ambush on Ash and his friends. However, despite the evolutions, Team Rocket are soundly defeated by the Diglett and Dugtrio as Arbok uses dig to go underground, with Weezing following along.
The episode concludes with the scene of the construction worker vowing to bring the dam project to a halt, after learning that Diglett and Dugtrio inhabited the area peacefully prior to his intrusion.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Diglett
Trivia
- This is Nathan Price's last episode as Meowth.
- Apparently, a Pokémon can choose whether or not to come out of their Poké Ball, as demonstrated by Psyduck, and later, Wobbuffet, Skitty, and Croagunk.
- This is the second episode where a character is trying to build something that would destroy the area around them, and the Pokémon that interfere with it to save their area are targeted by the character to be exterminated. Unlike Nastina, however, the construction worker realizes why the Diglett are interfering with him, and cancels the dam.
- It is likely that, for the same reason Ash attempted to send out Squirtle, one of the Pokémon Gary was trying to send out was his Blastoise (or Squirtle or Wartortle, as it was never revealed exactly how long it took Gary's Squirtle to evolve).
- Team rocket was breaking the fourth wall again, when they first revealed their evolved Pokémon to Ash and friends. They mentioned that their Arbok and Weezing were being shown "for the first time on TV".
- This is the first time when two of main characters' Pokémon evolve simultaneously. This wouldn't happen again until A Corphish Out of Water.
Errors
- In the dub, Brock points out that Diglett plow the ground and that Dugtrio plant the trees, but the clips actually show Dugtrio plowing the ground and the Diglett planting trees.
- When James's Weezing's second head opened its mouth for the first time, it temporarily had the two upper square teeth the main head has. This was removed in subsequent appearances.
- After the pond where Ash, Misty, and Brock were bathing in was emptied out by the Diglett, the Diglett are heard saying their original Japanese name "Digda".
Dub edits
- When Jessie and James set up their picnic in the dub, Jessie says she is having Chinese food when she is really having Japanese curry, and James says he'll have tea and crumpets, pouring the tea into a bowl containing his supposed crumpets, when he's actually having ochazuke.
- Originally, when witnessing the explosions, James speculates if the trucks and explosions related to treasure hunter TV shows or Ultra Squadrons.
- The kanji for the Hot Spring advertisement was removed.
- Also, the sign that translated to "The Pokémon Trainer Party" also had the text removed.
- In the scene where Gary decides to make his grand slam, he originally stated that "it isn't like baseball, where being fourth batter is the best." Also, Misty and Brock's reaction in the original was of agreement, while as the dub had them calling Gary detestable. This was presumably done because Beauty and the Beach (the first meeting between Gary and Misty and Brock) was still banned by the time this episode aired.
- The impact star was replaced when Brock hits Ash for wondering if Gary's cheerleaders are Pokémon.
- Gary's cheerleaders referred to Brock as an "old man" in the Japanese version instead of "Sir".
- Most lines relating to numbers or the number 4 were rewritten.
- Brock originally wonders if it is alright to be wearing swimsuits in a hot spring.
- When they figured out that the Pokémon did not want to fight the Diglett, thus explaining why they won't obey their trainers in leaving the balls, Misty referred to them as masters in the dub.
In other languages
- Czech: Pryč s Digletty!
- Dutch: Diglett's wraak
- Finnish: Kuka diggaa Diglettejä?
- French: Barrage contre Pokémon
- German: Das Digda-Problem
- Hebrew: דיגלט והסכר Diglett vehasecher
- Italian: La diga
- Mandarin: 好多地鼠
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese: Em Busca dos Digglets!
- European Portuguese: Escavem Esse Diglett
- Russian: Все на борьбу с Диглеттами!
- Spanish
- Iberian Spanish: Aplasta a esos Diglett
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Saquen a esos Diglett!
- Swedish: Digga Diglett
- Hungarian: Áskálódás Diglett módra
