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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Challenge (Season 7) · Mt. Chimney & the Heat Badge arc (AG052–AG056) |
| Episode | Season 7, episode 16 · English episode 329 · Japanese episode 332 · Bulbapedia code AG056 |
| English title | Going, Going, Yawn |
| Japanese title | ヒートバッジ！燃えるバトルでゲットだぜ！！ Hīto Bajji! Moeru Batoru de Getto da ze!! — “Heat Badge! Win the Blazing Battle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 18 December 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 20 November 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Smile – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | This Dream – David Rolfe |
| Pokémon Trainer’s Choice | Which Pokémon is best against Forretress, misspelt “Foretress” on screen? — Seviper (the segment’s answer is wrong) |
| Previous episode | Poetry Commotion! (AG055) |
| Next episode | Going for a Spinda (AG057) |
Plot episodeHeat BadgeFirst burn in the anime
Going, Going, Yawn is the 16th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 329th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 332, Bulbapedia code AG056). It first aired in Japan on 18 December 2003 and in the United States on 20 November 2004. It falls within the season’s Mt. Chimney & the Heat Badge stretch (EP52–EP56).
Synopsis
The day of Ash’s Lavaridge Gym battle arrives, and with Mr. Moore officiating, Flannery opens the three-on-three match with her newly evolved Magcargo. Ash has built his plan around Corphish’s type advantage. It answers with Bubble Beam and uses Harden to soften Magcargo’s Flamethrower, but Flannery quickly shows that she has learned some tricks of her own when Reflect blocks Corphish’s Vise Grip and knocks it back. Corphish persists, however, and finishes Magcargo with Crabhammer. Watching from the stands, May, Max and Brock realise that the rookie Leader is not as inexperienced as she first seemed. Beneath the arena, meanwhile, Team Rocket are tunnelling towards the battlefield in the hope of grabbing Magcargo and Pikachu mid-match, but they hit a water pipe and are blown away in a geyser before they can even recite their motto.
Ash then gambles on Treecko despite its weakness to Fire. Flannery’s Slugma raises another Reflect that bounces back Treecko’s Quick Attack. A point-blank Bullet Seed lands, but Treecko is burned in return, the first time a Pokémon in the anime suffers the burn condition, and Ash recalls it. Corphish comes back in, only for Slugma to lull it to sleep with Yawn, and when Ash cannot wake it he recalls it too. Pikachu takes over, dodging Flamethrower and smashing through the Reflect with Quick Attack. Slugma hides in a cloud of Smog and fires Flamethrower from inside it, so Pikachu electrifies the entire cloud with Thunderbolt and finishes Slugma off with Quick Attack and Thunder, leaving Flannery with one Pokémon remaining and Ash with three that are all tired or hurt.
Flannery’s last Pokémon is Torkoal, whose Iron Defense makes Pikachu’s Thunderbolt and Iron Tail useless. A Sludge Bomb followed by a powerful Overheat knocks Pikachu out, and Treecko, sent back in, falls to Overheat almost at once. Ash’s last hope is the still-sleeping Corphish, which absorbs several blows before finally waking up. Realising that Iron Defense protects Torkoal only from the front, Ash has Corphish attack from the side: Crabhammer flips Torkoal onto its back and Bubble Beam knocks it out. Mr. Moore praises his granddaughter’s performance and offers her advice for the future, and Flannery presents Ash with the Heat Badge, his fourth in Hoenn. Along with the previous episode, it was later banned from broadcast in South Korea for reasons that were never explained, although both appeared on DVD there.
Major Events
- Heat Badge. Ash’s fourth Hoenn badge, against Flannery
- First burn in the anime (Treecko)
- Corphish wins after waking from Yawn
- Team Rocket never get to recite the motto
- Banned in South Korea, the last Korean ban
Trivia
- The English title plays on the baseball call "going, going, gone", and Slugma’s Yawn.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Jessie’s cleavage painted over in one shot
- Pokémon Trainer’s Choice (dub only, in place of Who’s That Pokémon?): which Pokémon is best against “Foretress” (Forretress)? Answer: Seviper (misspelt, and a wrong answer)
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