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series=Diamond & Pearl series |

'''If the Scarf Fits, ''Wear'' It!''' (Japanese: '''浮かぶ未確認怪物！？''' ''The Floating Unidentified Mysterious Animal!?'') is the 98th episode of the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}, and the 564th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on October 16, 2008 and in the United States on March 21, 2009.

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Arriving back in [[Solaceon Town]], {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} are in a park reading an article in the [[Sinnoh Star]] about a mysterious scarf monster roaming the town, causing widespread rumors, but they don't seem to be interested. Along the way to [[Angie]]'s house, they spot a shadow of a mysterious creature that looks similar to the monster the article was referring to, though the shadow soon disappears.

Upon arriving at Angie's house, the gang greets themselves once again to an old friend. After having dinner, Ash tells Angie of a mysterious creature they saw; Angie becomes worried and leaves the room immediately. The gang follows her to a cave where she says to keep the mysterious creature, but the problem is the creature is nowhere to be found. {{TRT}}, who are trying to track down this creature, are acting as news reporters. They spot [[Officer Jenny]] standing in front a pool of water and Team Rocket asks the police officer of any evidence of what the clue is. Officer Jenny replies that it is saliva. Back at the park a trap is set to catch the creature, the trap succeeds as the creature comes closer and closer to the trap. The creature turns out to be a Pokémon, a {{p|Lickilicky}}. Angie tells the gang that she was looking after a {{p|Lickitung}} when suddenly it used {{m|Rollout}} and evolved and, according to daycare rules, the carer must not let a Pokémon evolve at any circumstances.

Team Rocket then ask Ash and his friends where the creature went, which Ash lies about. As Team Rocket leaves, Angie inflates the tube surrounding Lickilicky's neck with helium, which makes it float, and they return it to the cave. Nearby, a man fishing spots a creature in the forests flying overhead and is terrified.

The next day, Team Rocket creates a [[Team Rocket's mechas|mecha]] to catch the creature. This machine lures the creature by using a ball of [[Pokémon food]], which the smell will lure the creature to it. The plan succeeds as the Lickilicky follows the scent. Ash and Angie go to the cave to get Lickilicky, but then they see nothing but a broken rope. As Lickilicky is approaching the ball of Pokémon food, Ash and friends arrive to tell Team Rocket that it is actually a Lickilicky, but they disagree as a Lickilicky doesn't wear a tube. Angie gets furious and orders {{p|Shinx}} to use {{m|Crunch}} on the tube to pop it. Team Rocket then realizes that it really is a Lickilicky, but [[Jessie]] refutes this, claiming the tube makes it the creature. They try to capture Lickilicky, but the tables turn and Team Rocket are blasted off by {{AP|Pikachu}}'s {{m|Thunderbolt}}. At that very moment [[Angie's parents]] arrive.

After telling them what happened, Angie's father is furious, but as the Trainer of the Lickilicky is actually happy about the evolution, Angie is let off easy as the gang says goodbye to Angie. As Angie waves to them, her parents jokingly tell her that if she and Ash got married, they could look after the daycare. Angie frantically tells them not to say things like that, while Ash suddenly sneezes.

* Unnamed {{OBP|Trainer|DP098}}

* Old {{tc|Fisherman}}  

* {{p|Lickitung}} (flashback; unnamed {{OBP|Trainer|DP098}}'s, evolves)

* {{p|Lickilicky}} (unnamed {{OBP|Trainer|DP098}}'s, newly evolved; debut)

==Trivia==  

* Team Rocket seems to think that the unknown creature is a {{wp|Kappa (folklore)|Kappa}} in the Japanese version.

* Lickilicky's Trainer uses several English phrases, such as "Thank you very much" in the Japanese version. In the dub, he speaks in an Italian accent, even mentioning Italian phrases.

* This is the first time the narrator reads the "TO BE CONTINUED..." sign out loud.

** In the Finnish dub, this manner started in ''[[DP132|Evolving Strategies!]]''.

* In the games, [[Pokémon Day Care]]s will not evolve a Trainer's Pokémon even if the Pokémon meets the evolutionary requirements. It is mentioned several times in the episode that the Day Care should not evolve Pokémon, however, the {{p|Lickitung}} they were raising did in fact evolve under their care.

* The ''[[Sinnoh Star]]'', the newspaper Brock was reading at the start of the episode, featured the ruins in Celestic Town and the Lustrous Orb from the [[DP096|previous]] [[DP097|episodes]].

* [[Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Examination]]: {{p|Magikarp}}  

* Jessie makes a reference to the 1958 song ''{{wp|The Purple People Eater}}'' in the dub by stating that {{p|Lickilicky}} is a "''One eyed, purple people eater''."

* The dub title parodies the popular saying "if the shoe fits, wear it".  

* This episode confirms that Angie has a crush on Ash.

* In Japan, it is common for people to say that sneezing means that someone is talking about you.

* The Pokémon food ball used by Team Rocket attracts only Lickilicky, but not the other wild Pokémon that exist in the forest.

* After Meowth announced the Team Rocket Scheme to capture the "scarf monster", Wobbuffet can be heard, even though it was inside its Poké Ball the whole time.  

* Ash incorrectly tells Team Rocket that it's Angie's Lickilicky, when it really belongs to someone else.

{{Epilang|color=FFCCCC|bordercolor=9999FF

|da={{tt|Hvis tørklædet passer, brug det!|If the scarf fits, use it!}}}

|ko={{tt|목도리 괴물의 정체를 밝혀라!|Scarves, identify the identity of the monster!}}

|pl={{tt|Niezidentyfikowany stwór latający!|Unidentified flying creature!}}

series=Diamond & Pearl series |

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