DP031

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DP031   ナエトル対ナエトル！スピード対決！！ Naetle VS Naetle! Speed Showdown!!

First broadcast Japan April 26, 2007 United States October 6, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(PopUp.Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de

The Grass-Type is Always Greener (Japanese: ナエトル対ナエトル！スピード対決！！ Naetle vs. Naetle! Speed Showdown!!) is the 31st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 26, 2007 and in the United States on October 6, 2007.

The group becomes lost in Eterna Forest while searching for the "enchanted honey". They come across Gardenia, who asks for a two-on-two battle.

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

Major events

• Ash has an unofficial battle with Gardenia:
  • Gardenia sends out her Cherubi to battle Ash's Turtwig.
  • Gardenia recalls Cherubi and sends out her Turtwig.
  • Gardenia's Turtwig defeats Ash's Turtwig.
  • Gardenia's Turtwig defeats Ash's Staravia.

Debuts

• Gardenia
• Cherubi
• Combee

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia
• Cheryl

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Victreebel(James's) (flashback)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Chansey (Cheryl's)
• Burmy (Cheryl's)
• Mothim (Cheryl's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's)
• Nuzleaf (Gardenia's)
• Cherubi (Gardenia's)
• Caterpie
• Kakuna
• Beedrill
• Gloom
• Ledyba
• Combee

Trivia

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A Nunchuk?

• This is the second episode of a three-episode arc.
• Music from Destiny Deoxys is used as background music.
• Aerial Ace cannot miss under normal conditions in the game.
• Meowth uses something that looks similar to a Nunchuk, an extension of the Wiimote, to control the blimp.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Chimchar
  • Pokémon senryū: さあバトル　かえんぐるまで　もえあがれ Saa batoru / Kaenguruma de / Moe agare "Come, a battle / With Flame Wheel / Burst into flame."
• The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.
• The English dub title for this episode "The Grass-type is always greener" is a pun on the saying/cliché, The grass is always greener on the other side, which can be abreviated to, The grass is always greener.

Errors

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Gardenia's apparent nudity

• Gardenia is animated with skin color underneath her mantle, making it seem as if she has no shirt on underneath.

In other languages

• Italian: ...La ricerca continua! & I fiori di Baccagrana
• Spain Spanish El del Tipo Planta Siempre es Más Verde!

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