AG056

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Going, Going, Yawn!

AG056   EP330 ヒートバッジ！燃えるバトルでゲットだぜ!! Heat Badge! Win the Blazing Battle!

First broadcast Japan December 18, 2003 United States November 20, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending スマイル

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 誌村宏明 Hiroaki Shimura Assistant director ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

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Going, Going, Yawn! (Japanese: ヒートバッジ！燃えるバトルでゲットだぜ!! Heat Badge! Win the Blazing Battle!) is the 56th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 330th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 18, 2003 and in the United States on November 20, 2004.

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

Major events

• Ash has a Gym battle with Flannery.
  • Ash's Corphish knocks out Flannery's Magcargo (nicknamed "Mag") with Crabhammer.
  • Ash's Treecko battles with Flannery's Slugma (nicknamed "Meg") before being recalled.
  • Ash's Corphish gets hit by Meg's Yawn and Ash recalls it.
  • Ash's Pikachu knocks out Meg with Thunderbolt.
  • Flannery's Torkoal knocks out Ash's Pikachu with Overheat.
  • Flanney's Torkoal knocks out Ash's Treecko with Overheat.
  • Ash's Corphish knocks out Flannery's Torkoal with BubbleBeam, winning the match for Ash and earning him his fourth Hoenn badge, the Heat Badge.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Flannery
• Mr. Moore

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Seviper

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's; flashback)
• Cacnea (James's; flashback)
• Slugma (Flannery's; nicknamed "Meg")
• Magcargo (Flannery's; nicknamed "Mag")
• Torkoal (Flannery's)
• Typhlosion (Mr. Moore's; flashback)
• Murkrow
• Ursaring

Trivia

• The English dub is based on the phrase "going, going, gone"

Errors

• Before Flannery and Ash begin their gym battle, their Pokémon aren't seen on the field when Team Rocket spies on them.

In other languages

• Finnish: Taistelua ja haukottelua
• French: Une sacrée carapace
• Italian: La prima esperienza
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Guerra contra el sueño!
• Portuguese: O Ataque Bocejo
• Iberian Spanish: Marchando un bostezo

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