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(“When Worlds Collide” is a stock phrase, but it’s not quite an idiom or anything like that. But the use here is definitely is not a reference to other media who use the phrase for a title.)
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* This originally aired as a two-hour special on September 28, 2006, together with ''[[DP001|Following a Maiden's Voyage!]]'' and ''[[DP002|Two Degrees of Separation!]]''. As such, they are also the first episodes to air in Japan after the earliest releases of {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}} in Japan and {{pmin|Greater China|Taiwan}}.
* This originally aired as a two-hour special on September 28, 2006, together with ''[[DP001|Following a Maiden's Voyage!]]'' and ''[[DP002|Two Degrees of Separation!]]''. As such, they are also the first episodes to air in Japan after the earliest releases of {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}} in Japan and {{pmin|Greater China|Taiwan}}.
* Meowth says that they have been chasing {{AP|Pikachu}} for as long as Dawn has been alive. This is a reference to the fact that the [[Pokémon anime]] had been airing for almost ten years at the point that this episode had aired (being nearly exactly ten years{{tt|*|19 days more}} between the first Japanese airing of [[EP002|Team Rocket's debut]] and the English dub of this episode), the same as Dawn's age. However, if this is taken literally, Dawn as a character had only been envisioned at most a few years previously, meaning that her age in that context would be around three or four years old at the most.
* Meowth says that they have been chasing {{AP|Pikachu}} for as long as Dawn has been alive. This is a reference to the fact that the [[Pokémon anime]] had been airing for almost ten years at the point that this episode had aired (being nearly exactly ten years{{tt|*|19 days more}} between the first Japanese airing of [[EP002|Team Rocket's debut]] and the English dub of this episode), the same as Dawn's age.
* This is the first episode when Team Rocket recites their Sinnoh {{motto}}.
* This is the first episode when Team Rocket recites their Sinnoh {{motto}}.
* Music from ''[[M06|Jirachi: Wish Maker]]'' and ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' are used as background music.
* Music from ''[[M06|Jirachi: Wish Maker]]'' and ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' are used as background music.
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