AG042

Love at First Flight File:LoveatFirstFlight.jpg.png

AG042   バルビートとイルミーゼ！愛のダンス！ Barubeat and Illumise! Dance of Love!

First broadcast Japan September 11, 2003 United States October 16, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending ポルカ・オ・ドルカ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 吉田浩 Hiroshi Yoshida Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

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Love at First Flight (Japanese: バルビートとイルミーゼ！愛のダンス！ ) is episode 42 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 11, 2003 and in the United States on October 16, 2004.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Romeo
• Juliet

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer’s Choice: Plusle

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Lotad (Brock's)
• Mudkip (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Illumise (Juliet's) (debut)
• Volbeat (Romeo's; multiple, including one nicknamed "Beat")

Trivia

• For reasons unknown, this episode was pulled over and aired on a later date.
• This is the third episode that's been a reference to William Shakespeare's play of "Romeo and Juliet".
• Bella Hudson takes over as Nurse Joy as of this episode from Megan Hollingshead who left after
• File:Bouldership AG042.jpg

  Ash's 2nd time cross-dressing.
  This episode marks the second time that Ash has crossdressed. The other time was in Pokémon Scent-sation. Ash crosdresses again in Tanks for the memories. A picture of this episode's outfit can be seen on this page. It is also interesting to note and this is adressed in the picture that Brock falls madly in love with Ash because he looks like Juliet and that Ash even comments that Brock "had really flipped"

In other languages

• French: Coup de foudre en plein vol
• Italian: Romeo, Giulietta e i Pokémon
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Amor al primer vuelo!
• Portuguese: Amor ao Primeiro Vôo.
• Spanish: Amor al primer vuelo

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