DP014

Leave It To Brocko! File:Leave it to Takeshi!.jpg

DP014   タケシにおまかせ! Leave It to Takeshi!

First broadcast Japan December 21, 2006 United States June 26, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu

Screenshots on Filb.de

Leave It To Brocko! (Japanese: タケシにおまかせ! Leave It to Takeshi!) is the fourteenth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on December 21, 2006 as a part of a one-hour special along with DP013.

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

Synopsis

A Nuzleaf rolls off of its tree onto a Vileplume. The Vileplume walks away from the tree, taking Nuzleaf with it. Nuzleaf wakes up, away from its home, and has no idea where it is. Meanwhile, [Ash]], Dawn and Brock come to a Pokémon Center. Nurse Joy has found the Nuzleaf, which refuses to let her come close to it. Brock persuades the Nuzleaf to not be afraid, so it lets Brock treat it. Then, Ash, Dawn and Brock go to get Nuzleaf back to its tree. Then, Brock, Nuzleaf, and Brock's Bonsly get kidnapped by Team Rocket. But Brock makes a feast for Team Rocket out of scraps of food. Bonsly breaks free of the cage it and Nuzleaf were in, and evolves into Sudowoodo! Finally, they all get back to Nuzleaf's tree, and Ash and friends set back on their journey.

Major events

• Brock's Bonsly evolves into Sudowoodo.

Debuts

• Brock's Sudowoodo

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Bonsly (Brock's, evolves)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's, newly evolved)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Vileplume (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Seedot (colony)
• Nuzleaf (Seiyū: 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura)
• Shiftry (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• The episode's title is a reference to the television show Leave it to Beaver.
  • This is also the fourth time that the Japanese title was translated directly (the first and second time being Pokémon, I choose you!, Island of the Giant Pokémon and Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis.
• Everyone shouts out the title card.
• GrassWhistle is a Pokémon move.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Ash's Aipom
• Pokémon senryū: エイパムが　しっぽでつかむ　サトシのハート Eipamu ga, shippo de tsukamu, Satoshi no hāto "Eipam, it seizes with its tail, Satoshi's heart."
• A teaser for Dialga vs. Palkia is broadcast after the episode as part of the special broadcast.
• The ending credited both DP013 and DP014.
• While the episode aired as part of an hour-long special, the credits were as they would have been had the episodes aired separately. As such, Staravia was featured but Sudowoodo wasn't.
• Ash and Roark narrate the next episode preview, which is 1 minute long instead of the usual 30 seconds.

Errors

• The next-episode preview that aired with the episode used footage from DP016. The preview on TV Tokyo's website used footage from DP015.
• In the original Bonsly used Take Down on the cage, and Sudowoodo used Take Down on Carnivine. In the dub, the move was misinterpreted as Double-Edge. This error remains true for future episodes when Brock's Sudowoodo is seen.

Dub edits

• When this episode aired in Japan, along with A Staravia Is Born in 2006, there was no opening, and a cold opening intro. It went straight to the episode after the previous episode finished. In the English version, a cold open intro, possibly made up by Pokémon USA, shows Team Rocket starving, and Brock tied in a tree offers them a grub.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Deixe Tudo com o Brock!
• Italian: Ci pensa Brock! & Il coraggio di Bonsly
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Brock lo puede todo!

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