DP124

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To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!

DP124   EP590 ポケモンピンポン大会！エテボースがんばる！！ Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament! Eteboth Does Her Best!!

First broadcast Japan April 23, 2009 United States September 12, 2009

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

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami 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

Screenshots on Filb.de

To Thine Own Pokémon Be True! (Japanese: ポケモンピンポン大会！エテボースがんばる！！ Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament! Eteboth Does Her Best!!) is the 124th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 590th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 23, 2009 and will air in the United States on September 12, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The Pokémon Ping-pong tournament is about to begin. everyone is excited as they walk out of a Pokémon center. Just then, Barry appears say that he entered the contest too. As usual, he an Ash are getting competitive about it. Dawn asks about the ping-pong contest, and Barry explains it is a contest where a trainer and their Pokémon work together to win. Dawn decides she will enter.At the building where the Pokémon Ping-Pong tournament every sign up. Ash is using Pikachu and Dawn is using Ambipom. They find a bunch of ping-pong tables outside the building and decide to practice there. Dawn and Ash decide to go against each other, so Dawn flips a coin on her Pokétch to decide who gets first serve. Ash serves first and the play as a man named Ō walks by and sees there playing ping-pong. Pikachu hits a curve ball, but Dawn cant hit it, so Ambipom hits the ball and it goes on fire and Ō stops it and Ash and Dawn notice him and they introuduce themselves. Who will win the Pokémon ping pong tournment?

Major events

• Ash, Dawn, Barry and Jessie enter the Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament and ended up being defeated.
• Barry leaves the group.
• Dawn gives her Ambipom to Ō for training to become a Ping Pong champion.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Barry
• Ō
• Max (flashback)
• Hakua
• Tournament participants
• Referees
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Aipom (Ash's; flashback)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's; flashback)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Empoleon (Barry's)
• Shiftry (Ō's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Farfetch'd
• Alakazam
• Marowak (Hakua's)
• Chikorita
• Hitmontop
• Grovyle
• Machamp
• Hariyama
• Gliscor
• Whismur
• Shuckle
• Azumarill
• Wooper
• Venonat
• Machop

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Happiny
• An instrumental version of A Small Thing is used as background music.
• The ending animation receives a minor change in this episode, as the Pikachu-colored Pichu is now surrounded by sparkles when it first appears similar to the games when a shiny Pokémon enters a battle.

Marowak's bone

Errors

• During the match between Dawn and Hakua, the end of Marowak's bone is colored brown instead of white.

Dub edits

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Diamond & Pearl series

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