DP105

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Diamond & Pearl series

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Get Your Rotom Running!

DP105   EP571 羊羹とロトム！ Yōkan and Rotom!

First broadcast Japan December 4, 2008 United States May 9, 2009

English themes Opening ~Battle Cry~ (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending あしたはきっと

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 新田典生 Norio Nitta Assistant director 新田典生 Norio Nitta Animation directors 田口広一 Kōichi Taguchi 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

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Get Your Rotom Running! (Japanese: 羊羹とロトム！ Yōkan and Rotom!) is the 105th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 571st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 4, 2008, as part of a one hour special with DP104, and in the United States on May 9, 2009. This episode is the season premiere of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Professor Oak recommends a hotel to the group, as the hotel serves a special dessert called Old Gateau. The group go to the hotel immediately, but it is closed. When they are about to turn back and leave, the doors open by themselves. The group ventures inside, where they see a microwave oven. Ash and Pikachu stare at the mysterious microwave oven, and the oven suddenly attacks!

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Rotom (all forms)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Miner

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Piloswine (Dawn's)
• Rotom (all forms, debut)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Huntail
• The mansion in the episode which housed Rotom is a reference to the Old Chateau.
• The dub title for this episode is a reference to the phrase, "get your motor running!".
• This is the first episode of the twelfth season, Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles.

Dub edits

← DP104 : Sleepless in Pre-Battle!

Diamond & Pearl series

DP106 : A Breed Stampede! →

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