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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg arc (AG001–AG003) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 1 · English episode 274 · Japanese episode 277 · Bulbapedia code AG001 |
| English title | Get the Show on the Road! |
| Japanese title | 新たなる大地！ 新たなる冒険！！ Aratanaru Daichi! Aratanaru Bōken!! — “A New Land! A New Adventure!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 21 November 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 1 November 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Lanturn (US) |
| Next episode | A Ruin with a View (AG002) |
Plot episodeSeason premiereMay chooses Torchic
Get the Show on the Road! is the 1st episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 274th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 277, Bulbapedia code AG001). It first aired in Japan on 21 November 2002 and in the United States on 1 November 2003. It falls within the season’s A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg stretch (EP1–EP3).
First shown in the US as a sneak preview on 15 March 2003, back to back with A Ruin with a View, in the middle of the Master Quest run and two days before Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire reached North America. The preview used a logo resembling the Master Quest one and an earlier recording of some of May’s lines; the regular Kids’ WB premiere followed on 1 November 2003, launching the network’s new Saturday line-up.
Synopsis
Major Events
- Season premiere and first episode of the Advanced Generation series
- Ash arrives in Hoenn with only Pikachu
- Pikachu’s electrical overload is cured by Team Rocket’s battery robot
- Pikachu fries May’s bike
- May chooses Torchic and receives a Pokédex and six Poké Balls
- Ash and May set off together
- May, Professor Birch (in person) and Joshua debut
- New Japanese opening Advance Adventure and ending Because the Sky is There
- English opening I Wanna Be a Hero
Pokémon making their anime debut
Treecko#0252 · AG001
Torchic#0255 · AG001
Mudkip#0258 · AG001
Poochyena#0261 · AG001
Beautifly#0267 · AG001
Duskull#0355 · AG001
Captures and evolutions
- Torchic#0255 · May · first partner from Professor Birch
Trivia
- The English title plays on the idiom for setting off.
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- The 15 March 2003 sneak-preview version had May say “between you and I” (corrected to “me”), lacked the added line “There it is, Littleroot Town, up ahead!” and pronounced “Pokémon” differently
- 4Kids replaced the whole score with its own synthesiser tracks, keeping only the new Team Rocket theme
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