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| Season | Pokémon: Black & White (Season 14) · Emolga, Bianca & Iris’s dragons arc (BW024–BW033) |
| Episode | Season 14, episode 24 · English episode 677 · Japanese episode 682 · Bulbapedia code BW024 |
| English title | Emolga the Irresistible! |
| Japanese title | かわいい顔に要注意！エモンガでシビレビレ！！ Kawaii Kao ni Yōchūi! Emonga de Shibirebire!! — “Beware of Cute Faces! Emonga Paralyzes!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 24 March 2011 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 16 July 2011 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Kokoro no Fanfāre (Fanfare of the Heart) – Aki Okui |
| English opening | Black and White – Erin Bowman & Joe Philips |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Emolga (US) |
| Previous episode | Battling For The Love of Bug-Types! (BW023) |
| Next episode | Emolga and the New Volt Switch! (BW025) |
Plot episodeIris catches Emolga
Emolga the Irresistible! is the 24th episode of Pokémon: Black & White, the fourteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 677th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 682, Bulbapedia code BW024). It first aired in Japan on 24 March 2011 and in the United States on 16 July 2011. It falls within the season’s Emolga, Bianca & Iris’s dragons stretch (EP24–EP33).
Premiered in order on 16 July 2011; in Japan it had been moved up three weeks, from 14 April to 24 March 2011.
Synopsis
A crafty wild Emolga charms and swindles its way into the group’s food, and after a day of trouble it glides straight into Iris’s arms and is caught. Bianca, now travelling with Ash’s group towards Nimbasa City, is smitten and tries to catch it with Minccino, but Emolga dodges, shocks everyone with Discharge and leaves Oshawott infatuated with Attract.
The chase splits the group. Iris swings through the trees after Emolga, which exploits Axew’s crush on it to get more apples, and the two tumble down a hill into a Swoobat nest. Emolga’s Hidden Power soaks one of them in a lake and the angry flock gives chase, while Ash, Cilan and Bianca are attacked by a Scolipede and a Galvantula and Excadrill again ignores Iris.
Attract works only on the male Swoobat, but Pikachu’s Thunderbolt and Emolga’s Hidden Power drive off the rest. Emolga’s celebratory Discharge zaps everyone and Bianca gives up. At dinner Cilan serves an apple feast, and Emolga, won over, lets Iris catch it, to Bianca’s dismay.
Major Events
- Iris catches Emolga. Bianca now travelling with the group
- Emolga’s Attract and Discharge
- The Swoobat nest
- Iris’s first on-screen catch
- Excadrill confirmed male
- Moved up three weeks in Japan
- TV debuts of Emolga and Swoobat
Pokémon making their anime debut
Emolga#0587 · BW024
Swoobat#0528 · BW024
Captures and evolutions
- Emolga#0587 · Iris · her first on-screen capture
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Unova storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Ends with the original series’ title-card music
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