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Three Sides to Every Story!

DP137   EP603 マリル・ポッチャマ・エレキッド！！ Maril, Pochama, Elekid!!

First broadcast Japan August 6, 2009 United States December 26, 2009

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

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！2009 Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

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Three Sides to Every Story! (Japanese: マリル・ポッチャマ・エレキッド！！ Maril, Pochama, Elekid!!) is the 137th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 603rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 6, 2009 and in the United States on December 26, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Dawn's Piplup and an Elekid both fall in love with a Marill! What will happen to the love triangle?

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Lulu
• Johanna

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Marill (Lulu's)
• Sunflora (multiple; Lulu's)
• Elekid
• Raikou (dream)

Trivia

• This episode is similar to Love, Totodile Style, wherein a Water-type starter Pokémon falls in love with a member of Marill's evolutionary family, and another Pokémon is involved in this, forming a love triangle.
• While in the games, Piplup and Marill are in the same egg group (Water 1), Elekid is a baby Pokémon and as such is in the No eggs Group. Even if it evolved, it would not be in Marill's egg group, being only in the Humanshape Egg Group.
• Dawn and Johanna narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The dub's title may be a reference to the saying "Two Sides to Every Story".
  • The dub title may also be also inspired from the romantic novel "Three Sides of Every Story".
• This is the last English episode of the 2000s.
• This is the first episode since Frozen on Their Tracks! to air the entire episode in 16:9 aspect ratio in the high-definition feed. The previous 6 episodes showed the beginning of the episode (until the title card) in a 3:2 aspect ratio.

Dub edits

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