EP169

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EP169   さよならロコン！ポケモンビューティーコンテスト!! Goodbye Rokon! Pokémon Beauty Contest!!

First broadcast Japan October 19, 2000 United States October 6, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ポケモンはらはらリレー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Beauty and the Breeder (Japanese: さよならロコン！ポケモンビューティーコンテスト!! Goodbye Rokon! Pokémon Beauty Contest!!) is the 169th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 19, 2000 and in the United States on October 6, 2001.

Brock convinces Ash and Misty to go out of their way to meet Suzy, who is taking part in a Pokémon Contest. There they meet her close friend and rival, Zane, who has differing opinions on what makes a Pokémon beautiful.

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

Major events

• Brock returns Vulpix to Suzy after keeping it since Pokémon Fashion Flash when Suzy gave Vulpix to him.
• Brock and Suzy enter the Breeder convention, but it is not revealed whether they win or lose.
• Suzy and Zane agree to open a Pokémon breeding centre together.
• After seeing how close Suzy and Zane are, Brock finally ends his infatuation with Suzy.

Debuts

• Zane

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Suzy
• Zane
• Contest entrants
• Audience

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Quagsire

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Vulpix (Brock's; returned to Suzy)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Ninetales (Zane's)
• Chansey (flashback)

Pokémon entered in the contest:

• Marill (Entry #1)
• Charizard
• Pidgeot
• Raichu
• Sandshrew
• Nidoran♀
• Clefable
• Wigglytuff
• Oddish
• Venonat
• Dugtrio
• Persian
• Psyduck
• Primeape
• Growlithe
• Arcanine
• Poliwhirl
• Machoke
• Machamp
• Bellsprout
• Weepinbell
• Slowpoke
• Dodrio
• Gengar
• Onix
• Drowzee
• Hypno
• Krabby
• Electrode
• Exeggutor
• Marowak
• Hitmonlee
• Hitmonchan
• Lickitung
• Tangela
• Goldeen
• Starmie
• Pinsir
• Tauros
• Hoppip
• Sunflora
• Wooper
• Heracross

Note: The camera scrolling of the camera shows that more were entered and only parts of the Pokémon are shown in some cases. Multiple members of the same species were also seen to be entered in some cases. (As Team Rocket were entry 259 and there were only 251 known Pokémon at this time, there had to be duplicates.)

Trivia

• Brock states that he always knew Vulpix wasn't his and that he would have to return it one day, this episode being the moment.
• This episode features a Pokémon Contest for Pokémon Breeders. It is very different from those for Pokémon Coordinators that were introduced in Advanced Generation. Also of note is that Jessie's contest costume used there is reminiscent of the one seen in this episode.
• The Exeggutor's appearance may be a reference to Takeshi's Paradise, the ending theme used before the (then) current one, where two Exeggutor looking exactly the same dance with Brock in one scene.
• The white tuxedo Brock wears in this episode makes another appearance less than thirty episodes later: in The Heartbreak of Brock, Brock wears it in Temacu's fantasy about marrying him.
• This episode's dub title is the second dub title reference to the movie, Beauty and the Beast. The first time was EP018, Beauty and the Beach.

Errors

• The Pokémon Team Rocket steal are not dressed up, despite all the Pokémon entered (besides Vulpix and Ninetales) being stylised for the contest.

In other languages

• French: Le Concours de Beauté
• Italian: Il concorso di bellezza
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La bella y el criador!
• Spanish: La bella y el criador

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