EP045

The Song of Jigglypuff File:TheSongofJigglypuff.gif.png

EP045   うたって！プリン！ Sing! Purin!

First broadcast Japan May 21, 1998 United States February 20, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケットにファンタジー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa No additional credits are available at this time.

The Song of Jigglypuff (Japanese: うたって！プリン！ Sing! Purin!) is episode 45 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 21, 1998 and in USA on February 20, 1999.

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

Major events

• The Jigglypuff Ash and his friends help out in this episode begins to follow them around. It will continue doing this until A Pokéblock Party.

Debuts

• Jigglypuff (anime)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Jigglypuff

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Jigglypuff (anime; debut)

Trivia

• James makes a possible reference to Spinal Tap when he says "crank the speakers up to eleven."
• Although it was never aired in syndicated form in Cartoon Network in 2003, it was finally aired on September 5, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET.

Dub edits

• The scene of Jessie getting spanked by the huge woman and James getting beat up was cut out of the Kids' WB! airing of the episode. However, it does appear in the Cartoon Network and the DVD/VHS version.

In other languages

• French: Une jolie berceuse
• Italian: Sulle ali di una canzone
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La canción de Jigglypuff!
• Spanish: La canción de Jigglypuff
• Swedish: Jigglypuffs sång

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