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| Season | Pokémon: Black & White (Season 14) · Meowth’s defection & the Battle Subway arc (BW043–BW048) |
| Episode | Season 14, episode 44 · English episode 697 · Japanese episode 702 · Bulbapedia code BW044 |
| English title | Purrloin: Sweet or Sneaky? |
| Japanese title | チョロネコに御用心！ニャースとミジュマル！！ Choroneko ni Goyōjin! Nyāsu to Mijumaru!! — “Beware of Choroneko! Nyarth and Mijumaru!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 25 August 2011 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 3 December 2011 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Hideki Sonoda |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Pokémon Ieru kana? BW (Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW) – Takeshi Tsuruno |
| English opening | Black and White – Erin Bowman & Joe Philips |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Purrloin (US) |
| Previous episode | Meowth’s Scrafty Tactics! (BW043) |
| Next episode | Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief! (BW045) |
Filler / stand-alone episodePurrloin’s tricks
Purrloin: Sweet or Sneaky? is the 44th episode of Pokémon: Black & White, the fourteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 697th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 702, Bulbapedia code BW044). It first aired in Japan on 25 August 2011 and in the United States on 3 December 2011. It falls within the season’s Meowth’s defection & the Battle Subway stretch (EP43–EP48).
Premiered on 3 December 2011, the day White—Victini and Zekrom opened in US digital cinemas.
Synopsis
A charming Purrloin wraps Meowth, Oshawott and Iris around its paw while stealing the group’s food, until its Trainer Misha reveals who it really is. The Purrloin has already raided a Tranquill nest when it knocks Meowth over in the forest and, through Meowth’s translation, begs for help rescuing a friend trapped in a cave.
Oshawott and Pikachu fend off the angry Tranquill flock as Meowth and Oshawott compete for Purrloin’s attention, and it sneaks off with Ash’s Sitrus Berries. It leads the others into an abandoned mine, takes Ash’s backpack and runs off as the old scaffolding collapses, while Cilan, waiting outside, meets Misha, who has been searching for her runaway Purrloin.
Inside, Misha and Purrloin reconcile just as a landslide sweeps everyone away. Snivy grabs a rope and Excadrill and Pansage help, and when the rope snaps, the Tranquill flock Purrloin has summoned rescues them. Meowth and Oshawott make one last romantic attempt and discover that Purrloin is male, while Dr. Zager’s mobile lab arrives in Anville Town.
Major Events
- A charming Purrloin. Misha’s runaway Purrloin turns out to be male
- The Tranquill flock’s rescue
- Dr. Zager’s mobile lab reaches Anville Town
- Purrloin’s TV debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Purrloin#0509 · BW044
Trivia
- The English title plays on an either/or in the spirit of “trick or treat”, for a Purrloin that is both.
- The screenplay is by Hideki Sonoda.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Unova story.
Changes in the English Dub
- Meowth calls Misha “mother” only in Japanese
- Purrloin’s “devil’s tail” becomes a “pitchfork”
- Cilan’s “menu substitution” replaces “in bad taste”
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