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Pathways to Performance Partnering!

XY050

EP849

踊れヤンチャム、魅せろフォッコ！明日へのステップ！！
Dance, Yancham — Captivate, Fokko! The Dance for Tomorrow!!

First broadcast

Japan	November 13, 2014
United States	February 7, 2015

English themes

Opening	Be a Hero
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	メガＶ（メガボルト）
Ending	ドリドリ

Credits

No additional credits are available at this time.
Animation	Team Kato
Screenplay	大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard	樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi
Assistant director	古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga
Animation directors	松永香苗 Kanae Matsunaga
Animation directors	玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa

Pathways to Performance Partnering! (Japanese: 踊れヤンチャム、魅せろフォッコ！明日へのステップ！！ Dance, Yancham — Captivate, Fokko! The Dance for Tomorrow!!) is the 50th episode of the XY series, and the 849th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 13, 2014 and in the United States on February 7, 2015 as the first episode of the eighteenth season.

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

Blurb

As our heroes head to Coumarine City, a lunchtime squabble between Clemont's Chespin and Serena's Pancham gets out of hand when they bump into a Smoochum and Farfetch'd. Their Trainer, Nini, is planning to enter her first Pokémon Showcase, just like Serena. The two girls decide to show each other their performances and get feedback from Ash, Clemont, and Bonnie as well, but they have an unexpected audience...

Team Rocket is lurking nearby, and Jessie decides she just has to have Nini's Smoochum as her Pokémon Showcase partner. She disguises herself as a choreographer and coaxes all the dancing Pokémon into a small performance space...and then Team Rocket's balloon takes off with them! Chespin and Pancham finally decide to work together and discover they're a pretty good team, sending the villains blasting off again. Nini and Serena say their goodbyes and promise to meet in the Pokémon Showcase as rivals!

Plot

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Major events

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Smoochum (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Smoochum (Japan)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Serena.png

The title card segment focuses on Serena for this episode

Serena reads the title card.
Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Magneton*
- Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster or Mairin's Mega Evolution Journal, Steven appears to talk about Mega Latias and Mega Latios.
  - The mother and daughter from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew made a cameo appearance during Mega Latias and Mega Latios journal.
Yuji Ueda is credited for Wobbuffet for this episode, even though Wobbuffet does not appear in this episode.
Jessie displays her love towards Smoochum again in this episode.
Jessie's disguise outfit resembles the 1980's actress Grace Jones, due to her hair.

Errors

In one scene, Luxio's pupils are white instead of yellow.
In some scenes, Nini's gloves are missing.
When Serena and Nini shake hands at the end of the episode, Nini's glove is missing.
When Serena goes to fetch the Poké Puffs, she isn't wearing her hat, but when she comes back, she is.
- It should be noted that she may have put her hat on when she retrieved the basket of Poke Puffs.

Luxio's eyes error
Nini's missing her glove

Dub edits

File:Title Card XY Ash.png

The dub's title card

The title card segment focuses on, and is read by, Ash in the dub instead of Serena.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		跳吧，頑皮熊貓！驚艷全場吧，火狐狸！前往明日的舞步！！
European French		Une collaboration fructueuse !
German		Vorführungspartner gesucht!
Italian		Alla ricerca del partner perfetto!
Russian		Дорога к исполнительскому партнёрству!
Thai		ยันชัมผู้เต้นรำ ฟ็อกโกะผู้น่าหลงใหล! จังหวะการเต้นสู่วันพรุ่งนี้!!