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| Season | Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors (Season 13) · The Beacon Badge & the voyage arc (DP178–DP181) |
| Episode | Season 13, episode 24 · English episode 643 · Japanese episode 648 · Bulbapedia code DP181 |
| English title | Bucking the Treasure Trend! |
| Japanese title | トレジャーハンター・バクとヤジロン！ Torejā Hantā – Baku to Yajiron! — “Treasure Hunter – Baku and Yajilon!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 17 June 2010 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 13 November 2010 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Saikō – Everyday! (The Greatest – Everyday!) – Fumie Akiyoshi · Dotchi~nyo? (Which One ~ Is It?), Version 2 – Moomoo Milk and Araki-san |
| English opening | We Will Carry On! – Adam Elk |
| Previous episode | Four Roads Diverged in a Pokémon Port! (DP180) |
| Next episode | An Old Family Blend! (DP182) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeBuck catches ClaydolLast DP motto
Bucking the Treasure Trend! is the 24th episode of Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors, the thirteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 643rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 648, Bulbapedia code DP181). It first aired in Japan on 17 June 2010 and in the United States on 13 November 2010. It falls within the season’s The Beacon Badge & the voyage stretch (EP178–EP181).
Synopsis
On the ferry to the Sinnoh League, the friends join a young treasure hunter named Buck on Dandelion Island, where he catches a Claydol. Buck’s Baltoy can sense hidden treasure, and his pirate map marks the island with Pokémon symbols, which turn out to be warnings of traps.
The group survive exploding Voltorb and Pineco, drive off Vileplume and Gloom with Infernape’s Flamethrower, flee a stampede of Graveler and fall into caverns, where Gible’s Rock Smash scares off a Golem and its Draco Meteor helps them find Piplup. Team Rocket pick another tunnel and are blasted off by the Onix Meowth is standing on.
At ruins carved with Solrock and Lunatone, Team Rocket trigger a panel and a guardian Claydol appears, spinning their Pokémon away. Claydol blocks Piplup’s Bubble Beam and dodges Torterra’s attacks, but Buck’s Baltoy confuses it with Gyro Ball and Solar Beam, and Buck catches it. The treasure turns out to be ancient pottery, which thrills Buck, who dreams of becoming an archaeology professor.
Major Events
- The treasure hunter Buck and his Baltoy
- Buck catches a Claydol
- The last Diamond and Pearl episode in which Team Rocket recite their motto
- Buck’s debut
Captures and evolutions
Claydol#0344 · Buck · the guardian of the Dandelion Island ruins
Trivia
- The English title plays on “bucking the trend”, for the treasure hunter Buck.
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
Changes in the English Dub
- Jessie’s beer is left in
- The children’s rhyme Meowth uses to choose a cave, a prayer in Japanese, becomes “eeny, meeny, miny, moe”
- “protector god” is removed twice from Buck’s lines about Claydol, probably for religious reasons
- Tanpopo Island becomes Dandelion Island and Hard Mountain Stark Mountain
- Baltoy is re-voiced
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