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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Challenge (Season 7) · The long way round: Torkoal, Manectric & Verdanturf arc (AG057–AG062) |
| Episode | Season 7, episode 22 · English episode 335 · Japanese episode 338 · Bulbapedia code AG062 |
| English title | Disguise Da Limit |
| Japanese title | シダケタウン！ポケモンコンテスト！！ Shidake Taun! Pokemon Kontesuto!! — “Shidake Town! Pokémon Contest!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 5 February 2004 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 11 December 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Masashi Sogo |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Smile (second version) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | This Dream – David Rolfe |
| Pokémon Trainer’s Choice | Which Pokémon is best against Wooper? — Spheal (the segment’s answer is wrong) |
| Previous episode | Disaster of Disguise (AG061) |
| Next episode | Take the Lombre Home (AG063) |
Plot episodeVerdanturf Contest – May’s second Ribbon
Disguise Da Limit is the 22nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 335th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 338, Bulbapedia code AG062). It first aired in Japan on 5 February 2004 and in the United States on 11 December 2004. It falls within the season’s The long way round: Torkoal, Manectric & Verdanturf stretch (EP57–EP62).
The last new episode of 2004 in the US, shown with Disaster of Disguise on 11 December 2004. No new episodes aired from 18 December 2004 to 22 January 2005, when Kids’ WB premiered Destiny Deoxys.
Synopsis
The Verdanturf Contest is about to begin, and May is nervous about entering Skitty for the first time. Ash worries that Timmy will miss registration, but he arrives just in time; his mother has been piling homework on him, and his father, Tommy, helped him sneak out. When Mrs. Grimm finds his room empty, Tommy calmly tells her that their son has gone to compete. In the Appeals Round, Jessie, disguised as “Jesslana”, scores 28.5 with a Dustox routine combining Poison Sting, Whirlwind and Psybeam. May’s Skitty fumbles its Blizzard, but May recovers by having it juggle with Double Slap, earning 24.9. Timmy, as the masked Phantom, scores 27.8 with Dusclops’s combination of Will-O-Wisp and Psychic. May, the Phantom, Jesslana and a Coordinator named Stefano reach the battle rounds.
Mrs. Grimm storms in, furious that her husband let Timmy enter, but Tommy defends their son’s passion and reminds her of her own childhood love of Pokémon. In the second round May knocks out Stefano’s Wartortle within seconds, while the Phantom faces Jesslana as his parents watch. Dusclops’s Psychic stops Dustox’s Psybeam, and the explosion blows away Jessie’s disguise. Team Rocket try to snatch Dusclops, but Pikachu’s Thunderbolt blasts them off and also knocks off Timmy’s mask, revealing him to his mother, who apologises and walks away. Backstage, Tommy tells Timmy that his mother once adored her Poochyena until her parents took her Pokémon away and forbade her to have any, and that she feared the same heartbreak for him. He urges Timmy to make the most of his chance in the final.
The final pits Skitty against Dusclops. Skitty bats away a Focus Punch with Double Slap, but Dusclops keeps up the pressure with Will-O-Wisp, Psychic and repeated Hyper Beams, and Skitty’s Blizzard fails again. May turns to Assist: Gust blocks a Hyper Beam and evens the score, String Shot stops a Focus Punch and Ember counters Will-O-Wisp, though Psychic halts Silver Wind. With Mrs. Grimm now cheering her son from the sidelines, Dusclops fires another Hyper Beam, and May trusts Skitty with one more Blizzard. This time it works, knocking Dusclops out and winning the Contest. Drew, watching from the stands, is quietly impressed. Mrs. Grimm agrees that Timmy may keep entering Contests as long as he keeps up with his homework, and May receives the Verdanturf Ribbon, her second.
Major Events
- Verdanturf Contest — May wins her second Ribbon. Skitty’s Blizzard finally works against Dusclops
- Mrs. Grimm lets Timmy keep entering Contests
- The dub gives Vivian the surname Meridian
- The Japanese ending switches to the second version of Smile
Trivia
- The English title plays on "the sky’s the limit".
- The screenplay is by Masashi Sogo.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- The Poké Ball design removed from Timmy’s pen in the recap
- Vivian given the surname “Meridian”
- Pokémon Trainer’s Choice (dub only, in place of Who’s That Pokémon?): which Pokémon is best against Wooper? Answer: Spheal (a wrong answer)
- Ready Go! used as background music in Japan; Smile switches to its second version
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