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Battling the Generation Gap!
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Battling the Generation Gap! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！カンナギ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Kannagi Tournament!!) is the 95th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 561st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 25, 2008, as a part of a one-hour special with Doc Brock! and in the United States on February 21, 2009.
Synopsis
Template:Incomplete synopsis Arriving in Celestic Town, Dawn is eager to enter the Pokémon Contest. However, Dawn discovers that an old friend of her mother's will also be entering. How will Dawn cope against a talented, seasoned Coordinator?
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Dawn
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Johanna
- Lila
- Wallace (poster)
- Contesta
- Sukizo
- Nurse Joy
- Marian
- Lila's coworkers
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Turtwig (Ash's)
- Staravia (Ash's)
- Chimchar (Ash's)
- Buizel (Ash's)
- Gliscor (Ash's)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Pachirisu (Dawn's)
- Ambipom (Dawn's)
- Swinub (Dawn's)
- Yanmega (Jessie's)
- Glameow (Johanna's)
- Delcatty (Lila's)
- Cherrim (Lila's; debut)
- Milotic (Wallace's) (poster)
- Nosepass
- Crawdaunt
- Delibird
- Donphan
- Swinub (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
- Stantler (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
- Butterfree (×2) (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
- Magikarp (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
Trivia
- The song "Oración", music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and The Rise of Darkrai are used as background music.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Starly
- Jessie, disguised as Jessalina, dresses up like Fantina for this episode's contest. She also uses a French accent similar to Fantina's.
- James and Meowth wore the same outfits they wore in Gymbaliar!.
- This is the first time Dawn wins a ribbon in which the events of the contest take place in one episode.
- This episode contains the anime's first representation of Substitute, an attack that has existed since Generation I.
- The dub title for this episode is a reference to the phrase "bridging the generation gap".
Errors
- The status ailment Attraction does not wear off on its own in the games: the afflicted Pokémon must be switched out or the one who inflicted it must be removed from battle.
Dub edits
In other languages
- German: Zwei Generationen - Eine Gegnerin!
- Korean: 빛나! 엄마의 라이벌을 만나다!
- Italian: Generazioni a confronto!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Peleando Con La Brecha Generacional!
- Czech: Zápas napříč generacemi
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