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| Season | Pokémon the Series: XY (Season 17) · Stops on the road to Cyllage arc (XY011–XY019) |
| Episode | Season 17, episode 18 · English episode 813 · Japanese episode 818 · Bulbapedia code XY018 |
| English title | Awakening the Sleeping Giant! |
| Japanese title | カビゴンを起こせ！パルファム宮殿でバトルです！ Kabigon o Okose! Parufamu Kyūden de Batoru desu! — “Wake Up Kabigon! Battle in Parfum Palace!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 27 February 2014 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 17 May 2014 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | V (Volt) – Yūsuke · X Kaikyō Y Geshiki (X Strait Y Scenery) – J☆Dee’Z |
| English opening | Pokémon Theme (Version XY) – Ben Dixon & The Sad Truth |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Snorlax (US) |
| Previous episode | A Rush of Ninja Wisdom! (XY017) |
| Next episode | A Conspiracy to Conquer! (XY019) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeSnorlax and the Poké FlutePrincess Allie
Awakening the Sleeping Giant! is the 18th episode of Pokémon the Series: XY, the seventeenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 813th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 818, Bulbapedia code XY018). It first aired in Japan on 27 February 2014 and in the United States on 17 May 2014. It falls within the season’s Stops on the road to Cyllage stretch (EP11–EP19).
Italy’s K2 had aired it two days earlier, on 15 May 2014.
Synopsis
In Camphrier Town a snoring Snorlax will not leave the street, and Ash wins back the Poké Flute needed to wake it from the spoiled Princess Allie of Parfum Palace. Each year the Snorlax comes down to eat the roots of harvested crops, tilling the fields, until Lord Shabboneau plays the Poké Flute at a festival, but this year he has not come, and Clemont’s alarm-clock invention explodes.
At Shabboneau Castle the lord admits that Princess Allie took his flute. At Parfum Palace Allie refuses to return it, demands Pikachu as a family heirloom, then pits her Furfrou against Pikachu for both: Quick Attack, Bite and Charge Beam are traded until Electro Ball and Thunderbolt ruin Furfrou’s trim and she forfeits. Insisting her terms never named a winner, she will return the flute only if she can keep Clemont.
Back in town Team Rocket snatch the flute, and Jessie’s screeching wakes Snorlax in a rage, so it blasts them away. Ash catches the flute and gives it to the lord, whose playing calms Snorlax; it eats the offerings and heads back to the mountains. Clemont escapes in his underclothes, having left a robot double behind, and everyone watches the fireworks.
Major Events
- Snorlax and the Poké Flute. Camphrier Town’s snoring Snorlax
- Lord Shabboneau and Princess Allie of Parfum Palace
- Pikachu against Allie’s Furfrou, which she forfeits
- Jessie’s screeching wakes Snorlax
- Clemont’s robot double
- The XY series’ first boss fantasy
- TV debut of Furfrou’s Matron Trim
Trivia
- The English title plays on the idiom “wake a sleeping giant”, for a snoring Snorlax.
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kalos story.
Changes in the English Dub
- James tells Lord Shabboneau he “protests too much”, a nod to Hamlet
Part of our Pokémon the Series: XY guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.