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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Battle (Season 8) · Back to Kanto: the Battle Frontier begins arc (AG132–AG136) |
| Episode | Season 8, episode 41 · English episode 406 · Japanese episode 410 · Bulbapedia code AG134 |
| English title | A Real Cleffa-Hanger |
| Japanese title | オツキミやま！ピィとピッピとピクシーと！ Otsukimi Yama! Pii to Pippi to Pikushī to! — “Mt. Otsukimi! With Py, Pippi and Pixy!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 7 July 2005 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 15 April 2006 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Pokémon Symphonic Medley – Pokémon Symphonic Orchestra · GLORY DAY ~Kagayaku Sono Hi~ (That Shining Day) – GARDEN |
| English opening | Unbeatable – David Rolfe |
| Pokémon Trainer’s Choice | Which one does not evolve? (Feebas / Luvdisc / Barboach) → Luvdisc |
| Previous episode | The Right Place and the Right Mime (AG133) |
| Next episode | Numero Uno Articuno (AG135) |
Plot episodeMisty goes homeLast Misty until SM
A Real Cleffa-Hanger is the 41st episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle, the eighth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 406th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 410, Bulbapedia code AG134). It first aired in Japan on 7 July 2005 and in the United States on 15 April 2006. It falls within the season’s Back to Kanto: the Battle Frontier begins stretch (EP132–EP136).
Synopsis
On the way to the Battle Factory the group picnic at the foot of Mt. Moon, where Brock explains that he left his newly evolved Ludicolo at home in Pewter City because his younger siblings got along so well with it. Misty, now carrying a Pokégear, gets a call from her sister Daisy complaining that the Cerulean Gym is swamped with challengers and suggesting they simply hand out Cascade Badges; Misty tells her to be patient. A wild Cleffa wanders up, and then Team Rocket arrive with a vacuum attached to their Meowth balloon and suck up all the group’s Pokémon except Pikachu. Jessie’s Seviper poisons Pikachu with Poison Tail, but Jessie’s tinkering reverses the suction and the machine explodes, throwing Misty, Max, Pikachu, Azurill and the Cleffa into a river. May reaches for Max’s hand and misses.
Misty and Max haul themselves out of the river downstream. Pikachu is badly poisoned, and Misty’s Azurill cures him with Refresh. Cleffa leads them to a Pecha Berry tree, but three Beedrill chase them over a cliff, and they land softly on moss in a forest and shelter from a storm in a cave. Ash, May and Brock search with Mudkip’s radar fin without success and wait out the rain under a tree beside a Clefairy and a Clefable. In the cave Misty and Max talk about their older sisters, and the two youngest siblings agree that, however annoying their sisters can be, they will keep helping them, a conversation that foreshadows Misty’s own decision at the end of the episode.
After the storm the groups search for each other and Team Rocket attack again; May pulls Max away from the vacuum, and Azurill’s Bubble blows up the machine. When Seviper and Cacnea come out, the Cleffa family answers with Metronome, Munchlax joins in, and a parade of random moves follows: Cleffa produces Splash and Clefable’s Teeter Dance sets Team Rocket dancing helplessly, while Munchlax and Clefairy charge Solar Beams. Pikachu’s Thunderbolt stops Seviper and Cacnea and the Solar Beams blast the trio away. That night everyone watches the Cleffa family’s moon dance around the Moon Stone on Mt. Moon. The next morning Daisy calls again, and Misty says goodbye and heads home to the Cerulean Gym with Azurill. It is Misty’s last regular appearance until the Sun and Moon series, and Rachael Lillis’s last episode as Misty.
Major Events
- Misty goes home to the Cerulean Gym, her last regular appearance until Sun & Moon and Rachael Lillis’s last episode as Misty
- Brock reveals he left Ludicolo in Pewter City
- The Cleffa family’s moon dance
- New dub title card
- Last Japanese episode before the eighth movie
Trivia
- The English title plays on a cliffhanger.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- A new dub title-card sequence begins
- Teeter Dance called “Hula Dance” (from フラフラダンス)
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