DP053
Tears For Fears!
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Tears For Fears! (Japanese: ヒコザルの涙！ Hikozaru's Tears!) is the 53rd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It was originally scheduled to air in Japan on November 1, 2007, but was delayed to November 8 due to baseball. It aired in the US on April 12, 2008 as the first episode of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension.
Ash and his friends head to Veilstone City, the location of the next gym. During the trip, the party has a picnic. However, Chimchar is confused with the harmonious atmosphere, because this has never happened in its journey with Paul who has given it nothing but cold and harsh training.
Synopsis
The episode starts with Ash and friends eating in the morning. Ash's newly obtained Chimchar is confused on what to do since everyone is in a happy mood. While Team Rocket have their respective Pokémon out of their Poké Balls eating with them. Jessie's Seviper notices that Zangoose are heading their way. They begin fighting with Seviper which mainly uses Poison Tail. Jessie frantically tries to re-call her Seviper but it comes out immediately after. Jessie continually tries to get Seviper back into the Poké Ball but to no avail. Then the wild Zangoose send Team Rocket "blasting off again". Meowth is sent off after Jessie and James are (landing in a different area).
With most of their Pokémon lounging about, Ash and Dawn go for a sparring match. Ash uses his Pikachu and Dawn uses her Buizel. After a tough match, they decide to use different Pokémon. Then Ash uses his Chimchar to battle against Dawn's Piplup. Chimchar loses the battle. Ash & Co. compliment Chimchar which causes it to become nervous. So Chimchar starts crying since it can't handle the drastic change from a negative owner to positive people.
Later, at night, Chimchar has a nightmare about having to fight under Paul's command battling a Graveler. Graveler jumps out against Chimchar sending rocks flying which leaves Chimchar badly hurt. Chimchar's nightmare switches to the Zangoose fight. Which wakes Chimchar up.
Chimchar is then seen walking and crosses paths with Meowth. Meowth, who is looking for the rest of Team Rocket, stops for a talk with Chimchar. Meowth reminds Chimchar that Chimchar's friends would "give the clothes off their backs" for Chimchar.
Later, in the daytime, Team Rocket is then shown in their balloon, holding Meowth on his rear end with a "plunger". Which Team Rocket state that they were going to steal Ash's Pokémon and that meeting Meowth was just a coincidence. Team Rocket goes through with their plan to capture Ash and his friend's Pokémon. Which they actually capture all of the Pokémon that are out of their Poké Balls and begin to fly off. Dawn tries to make her Pokémon return by using the Poké Ball but this fails. Meowth says the containers are protected from that possibility. So Dawn sends out her Piplup and commands it to use BubbleBeam while Brock orders Croagunk to use Poison Sting. This also fails.
Seviper, gets out of its Poké Ball because it senses the 3 Zangoose once again. Which gang of Zangoose climb up a tree to get to the level of Team Rocket's Balloon. Team Rocket's Balloon falls so Team Rocket ironically hide themselves within the containers that they stole Ash, Dawn, and Brock's Pokémon. Which with much fury, the wild Zangoose attack the container. Chimchar, who wasn't captured in the container is too frightened to fight the wild Zangoose. So Ash gives a little "Pep-talk" to Chimchar, who becomes motivated to battle against his fear, the Zangoose. Chimchar uses Dig a few times to confuse the Zangoose and then uses Flamethrower to finish them off.
Team Rocket open the container from the inside and try to escape but Ash and Dawn command Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, Chimchar to use Flamethrower, Turtwig to use Razor Leaf, Piplup to use BubbleBeam, and Buneary to use Ice Beam to attack Team Rocket ending the episode sending Team Rocket on their 2nd "Blast Off" of the episode.
Borrowed with permission from Ruru Poké Page.
Major events
- Chimchar overcomes its fear of Zangoose.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Mime Jr. (James's)
- Aipom (Ash's)
- Staravia (Ash's)
- Turtwig (Ash's)
- Chimchar (Ash's)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Pachirisu (Dawn's)
- Buizel (Dawn's)
- Sudowoodo (Brock's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Happiny (Brock's)
- Seviper (Jessie's)
- Dustox (Jessie's)
- Cacnea (James's)
- Carnivine (James's)
- Elekid (Paul's; flashback)
- Zangoose (wild, group of three) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*, うえだゆうじ Yūji Ueda*)
- Graveler (from Chimchar's nightmare)
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
- Both the opening and ending animations were updated to move Chimchar to Ash's group.
- Paul's Elekid changes into Electabuzz in the opening animation.
- An instrumental version of Meowth's Song, music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Garchomp
- Pokémon senryū: ガブリアス ガブリとくるぞ かみくだくGaburiasu, gaburi to kuruzo, kamiku daku
- James, Gardenia and Meowth narrate the next episode preview.
- This is the second episode where a character bleeds. The first was way back in Wake Up, Snorlax! when Misty scratched her shoulder while trying to get through the thorny bushes.
- This episode's dub title is a reference to the musical group Tears for Fears.
- Kayzie Rogers returns after the hiatus that she went on after Following a Maiden's Voyage.
Errors
- Ash's scratch disappears in the next scene.
- In the dub, the narrator says, "With the Eterna Contest and Tag Battle behind them..." The group has just left from a contest in Hearthome City, not Eterna. This may be due to script confusion, as the next episode features the Eterna Gym Leader, Gardenia.
- For an unknown reason Jessie's Seviper's Japanese voice can be heard during the brawls against Zangoose.
Dub edits
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