Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan! – Pokémon Season 10, Episode 25

Plot episodeDawn learns Poffin-makingFloaroma Town

Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan! is the 25th episode of Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl, the tenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 489th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 492, Bulbapedia code DP025). It first aired in Japan on 29 March 2007 and in the United States on 1 September 2007. It falls within the season’s Floaroma Town: Kenny & Dawn’s first Ribbon stretch (EP25–EP29).

The first episode of Cartoon Network’s 2007–08 Saturday-morning line-up, shown with DP026 on 1 September 2007.

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Synopsis

Late one night, Team Rocket sneak into a garden to snack on Berries, and a caped figure leaps down from a rooftop and blasts them away with Magical Leaf. The next day Ash, Dawn and Brock arrive in Floaroma Town, which an old woman explains was once barren until a beautiful woman climbed the hill to give thanks and flowers spread across the land. Dawn spots a sign for a Poffin cooking class and explains that Poffins are Pokémon treats that improve a Pokémon’s condition for Contests, something she used to help her mother make. Ash compares them to Hoenn’s Pokéblocks, though Brock points out they are made differently, and Dawn talks the boys into joining. At a flower shop tended by a Lotad and a Roserade, which flees in fright when Ash shouts, they meet their teacher, Forsythia, and Brock is promptly dragged away by Croagunk.

Dawn times her batter perfectly with her Pokétch’s Kitchen Timer, Brock cooks with practised ease, and Ash nearly spills his and burns the lot. At the tasting, Brock’s Pokémon love his Poffins, Ash’s Pokémon ignore his for Forsythia’s, and Dawn’s Pokémon turn up their noses at hers; one stray Poffin rolls out of a window to Meowth, who loves it. Forsythia explains that every Pokémon has its own taste, and that Johanna’s recipe was made for Glameow. Over tea she describes how Roserade was once a shy Budew that followed her home from a Pokémon Center, attracted by her flowers, and evolved as it grew up among them, while the red scarf she gave it for warmth turns it into a bold protector. Meanwhile, Team Rocket hatch a plan to sell Poffins for profit and storm the garden in a mecha to steal the Berries.

Pikachu’s Thunderbolt does nothing to the mecha, and a brawl breaks out: Croagunk’s Poison Sting blocks Dustox’s, Pin Missile and Bullet Seed stop Bubble Beam and Razor Leaf, Wobbuffet’s Mirror Coat reflects Swift and Cacnea’s Sandstorm halts Ice Beam. Wearing its scarf, Roserade strikes with Magical Leaf, and Team Rocket realise it is the masked attacker from the night before. Meowth traps everyone but Forsythia in baskets, and Mime Jr.’s Tickle pulls the scarf off, leaving Roserade frozen with fear as the trio carry it away. Forsythia blocks their path and tells Roserade it is strong even without the scarf; it breaks free with Petal Dance, slices the mecha’s tyres and the baskets, and blasts the villains off. Roserade’s Sunny Day and Lotad’s Water Gun restore the garden, and Dawn’s second batch of Poffins is a hit, persuading her that a Pokémon can be both strong and beautiful.

Major Events

• Floaroma Town. Forsythia and her Roserade teach Dawn to make Poffins
• Kikuko Inoue’s first episode as Nurse Joy in Japanese
• The first episode of the US Saturday run

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Roserade#0407 · DP025

Trivia

• The English title plays on the nursery rhyme "Do You Know the Muffin Man?".
• The screenplay is by Aya Matsui.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Sinnoh storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• Dub-only cold open and reordered introduction
• Three seconds added to the To be continued card
• Tsubomi renamed Forsythia (Dogasu’s Backpack: “just a weird name”)
• New Pop-Up ending animation with Pachirisu
• Mewtwo Strikes Back music added in the dub

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