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| Season | Pokémon DP: Galactic Battles (Season 12) · Team Galactic’s endgame arc (DP148–DP152) |
| Episode | Season 12, episode 44 · English episode 611 · Japanese episode 616 · Bulbapedia code DP149 |
| English title | Sticking With Who You Know! |
| Japanese title | ピカチュウポッチャマくっつかないで！！ Pikachū Potchama Kuttsukanai de!! — “Pikachu, Pochama, Keep Apart!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 29 October 2009 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 20 March 2010 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Masashi Sogo |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | High Touch! 2009 – Satoshi (Rica Matsumoto) & Hikari (Megumi Toyoguchi) · Dotchi~nyo? (Which One ~ Is It?) – Moomoo Milk and Araki-san |
| English opening | Battle Cry – (Stand Up!), Version 2 – Erin Bowman |
| Previous episode | Try for the Family Stone! (DP148) |
| Next episode | Unlocking the Red Chain of Events! (DP150) |
Filler / stand-alone episodePikachu & Piplup stuck together
Sticking With Who You Know! is the 44th episode of Pokémon DP: Galactic Battles, the twelfth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 611th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 616, Bulbapedia code DP149). It first aired in Japan on 29 October 2009 and in the United States on 20 March 2010. It falls within the season’s Team Galactic’s endgame stretch (EP148–EP152).
The first US episode after HeartGold and SoulSilver’s North American release, and the first that Cartoon Network aired letterboxed instead of cropped on its standard-definition feed.
Synopsis
Pikachu and Piplup become inseparably infatuated with each other because of Professor Kodama’s experimental machine, which affects Water- and Electric-type pairs all over town. The two Pokémon collide during training and suddenly cling together, and every attempt to separate them fails, while Nurse Joy reports other Pokémon in the same state.
Brock notices that every affected pair is one Water-type and one Electric-type. Nearby, Team Rocket, hired to clean Kodama’s lab, learn that his “Affinity-Enabler” broadcasts an Attract-like effect intended to make his feuding Magnemite and Quagsire get along, and Meowth plans to use it to make Pikachu love him.
The group trace the effect to the lab, Kodama exposes Team Rocket, and the trio fly off with the machine and grab Pikachu and Piplup. Quagsire launches Magnemite at the balloon, whose shock snaps the ropes and wrecks the machine, ending the effect. Staraptor rescues the pair, and it turns out Magnemite and Quagsire were only training partners, never enemies.
Major Events
- The Affinity-Enabler sticks Pikachu and Piplup together
- Kodama’s Magnemite and Quagsire turn out to be training partners
Trivia
- The English title plays on “sticking with what you know”, for Pikachu and Piplup stuck together.
- The screenplay is by Masashi Sogo.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The first episode Cartoon Network aired letterboxed rather than cropped
- Brock’s line about breeding Pokémon of the same gender is rewritten
- Kodama’s “Pocket Dan” gag becomes “Team Racket”
- The episode was announced as Sticking With You Know Who!
Part of our Pokémon DP: Galactic Battles guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.