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パパはアイドル!?いつわりのジムリーダー!!
Papa is Idol? False Gym Leader!
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First broadcast
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March 18, 2004
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March 5, 2005
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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A Double Dilemma (Japanese: パパはアイドル!?いつわりのジムリーダー!! Papa is Idol? False Gym Leader!) is the 68th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 342nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 18, 2004 and in the United States on March 5, 2005.
Synopsis
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The gang have arrived in North Petalburg, a suburb of the main city, and go straight to the Pokémon center. Once they arrive, Nurse Joy recognizes May and Max. A woman there overhears their conversation and runs off to tell other people. Our heroes leave the Pokémon center, when they see a load of people running towards them. Apparently, Norman is an idol to everyone who lives there, and May and Max are soon mobbed by Norman fans. May shows them her two ribbons, and they cheer her for her talent. Ash tries to impress them with his 4 badges, but they discredit him instead.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket arrives to Petalburg as well, but tired and hungry. James then looks to an advertisement with Norman's and Caroline's faces in it. They don't recognize them at first, but then they realize it's Norman, the Gym Leader and Caroline, the Gym Leader's wife. They look around and see everyone with Norman stuff, and Jessie decides to disguise themselves as Norman's family. Once done, however, everyone rushes to see them but begin doubting Meowth and Wobbuffet are Norman's true sons. However, a man claiming to have lived almost all of his life next door to Norman comes and evaluates them to see if they're the real ones. He notices "Max" is blue,but fails to realize the fake sons, though, and tells everyone who has gathered that there is no doubt they aren't lying.
Back to the gang,May delightfully shows off her Beautifly and Skitty, but Ash also runs into fans of Norman who, after hearing that Ash is planning to challenge the Gym Leader, keep challenging Ash to battle after battle, which exhausts most of his Pokémon and when the crowd encourages May to battle him, it leads to a showdown between Ash’s Taillow and May's Torchic. Meanwhile, after hearing of Norman’s popularity Jesse, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet decide to dress up as Norman, Caroline, May and Max in order to sell autographs and get away with the money…
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
North Petalburg's Pokémon seen:
Trivia
- The character of Dee Dunstan is believed to be named after voice director/actor Darren Dunstan.
- The Italian dub title is a pun on the phrase Vera figlia d'arte, similar to the saying Like father like son in English. As May is called Vera in Italian, this title can mean The true daughter who followed in her father's footstep or May followed in her father's footsteps
- Dee Dunstan calling Ash a novice might be a reference to Challenge of the Samurai.
- Very interestingly, despite that they boo at Ash when winning legitimately, and even showing hatred against him, it was Ash that supported and even trained her throughout her adventure, in fact, May would not be as good as she was if Ash hadn't help, a fact that would be known to her fans.
Pokémon Trainer's Choice
- Question: Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Corphish?
- Choices: Minun, Marowak, Nincada
- Answer: Ok, Trainers! If you chose Minun, you were right!
Errors
Dub edits
When Ash's badge case is seen in the original, there is a Poké Ball design on it. In the dub, that was painted over to be just a horizontal line.
In other languages
- Finnish: Kaksoisolennot
- French: L'imposture
- German: Norman-Mania
- Hebrew: באור הזרקורים be'or hazarkorim
- Italian: Vera figlia d'arte
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese: Um Dilema Duplo
- European Portuguese: Duplo Dilema
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: Un problema de dobles
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Un dilema doble!
