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| Season | Pokémon DP: Galactic Battles (Season 12) · South through Twinleaf Town arc (DP134–DP142) |
| Episode | Season 12, episode 37 · English episode 604 · Japanese episode 609 · Bulbapedia code DP142 |
| English title | Where No Togepi Has Gone Before! |
| Japanese title | 史上最悪のトゲピー！ Shijō Saiaku no Togepī! — “The Worst Togepy Ever!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 10 September 2009 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 30 January 2010 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | High Touch! 2009 – Satoshi (Rica Matsumoto) & Hikari (Megumi Toyoguchi) · Moeyo Gizamimi Pichū! (Get Fired Up, Spiky-eared Pichu!) – Shōko Nakagawa |
| English opening | Battle Cry – (Stand Up!), Version 2 – Erin Bowman |
| Previous episode | Challenging a Towering Figure! (DP141) |
| Next episode | An Egg Scramble! (DP143) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeEvil TogepiTeam Rocket in space
Where No Togepi Has Gone Before! is the 37th episode of Pokémon DP: Galactic Battles, the twelfth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 604th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 609, Bulbapedia code DP142). It first aired in Japan on 10 September 2009 and in the United States on 30 January 2010. It falls within the season’s South through Twinleaf Town stretch (EP134–EP142).
Synopsis
A mischievous Togepi takes over Team Rocket’s new tower, traps Ash and his friends, and launches the building into outer space. Posing as a Trainer Tower, the base bought with Team Rocket’s festival earnings drops Ash and Dawn into a cell, while a stowaway Togepi raids the trio’s food and blames an “evil Togepi” that teleported away.
Togepi frees the prisoners only to drop them into more pit traps, torments Team Rocket with Psychic, and uses Attract on Pikachu, Piplup, Croagunk and Meowth; only Jessie’s female Yanmega is immune. Brock works out that Togepi used Substitute rather than Teleport and is itself female. Then the tower transforms into a rocket, and Togepi launches it into orbit.
Rayquaza appears and fires Hyper Beam, knocking the ship back towards Earth. James takes the controls, Pikachu powers the emergency generators, Buneary cools the nose cone, and Grotle and Piplup steady the ship, but Togepi burns the parachute. At the last moment it lands the wreck gently with Psychic, promises to finish their fight later and strolls off laughing.
Major Events
- An evil Togepi torments the group and launches the tower into space
- Rayquaza knocks it back to Earth
- Jessie’s Yanmega turns out to be female
- The first trip into outer space
- The last Japanese episode before HeartGold and SoulSilver came out
- Rayquaza’s TV debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Rayquaza#0384 · DP142
Trivia
- The English title plays on Star Trek’s “where no man has gone before”, for a Togepi that launches a rocket into space.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The “Sakaki-sama robot” becomes the “Boss Bot”
- James’s parents gave him a real rocket for his tenth birthday instead of a toy
- “ten thousandth” becomes “ten zillionth”
- Togepi and Rayquaza keep their Japanese voices
- The dub keeps all the Japanese music, title card included
- “Team Rocket Forever” before the first eyecatch
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