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| Season | Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series (Season 24) · Chloe’s Eevee & a new year of research arc (JN049–JN055) |
| Episode | Season 24, episode 4 · English episode 1132 · Japanese episode 1138 · Bulbapedia code JN052 |
| English title | How Are You Gonna Keep ‘Em Off of the Farm? |
| Japanese title | 農業体験！ディグダはどこだ！？ Nōgyō Taiken! Diguda wa Doko da!? — “Agricultural Experience! Where is Digda!?” |
| First aired (Japan) | 22 January 2021 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 10 September 2021 · Netflix |
| Screenplay | Yūko Kakihara |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Karaage Sisters · Fushigi na Fushigi na Ikimono (Strange and Wonderful Creatures) – Tortoise Matsumoto (first TV Tokyo airing), then Pokémon Shiritori (Pikachu → Mew Ver.) – Pokémon Music Club |
| English opening | Journey to Your Heart – Haven Paschall |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Dugtrio (US) · Dugtrio (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Trials of a Budding Master! (JN051) |
| Next episode | Healing the Healer! (JN053) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeLaxton FarmGoh gives Dugtrio away
How Are You Gonna Keep ‘Em Off of the Farm? is the 4th episode of Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series, the twenty-fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1132nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1138, Bulbapedia code JN052). It first aired in Japan on 22 January 2021 and in the United States on 10 September 2021. It falls within the season’s Chloe’s Eevee & a new year of research stretch (EP49–EP55).
Released on Netflix in the US on Friday 10 September 2021 with the rest of Part 1; Teletoon had premiered it in Canada on 3 July 2021, followed by e.tv in South Africa on 24 August 2021 and POP in the UK on 6 September 2021.
Synopsis
Ash, Goh and Chloe help a farmer drive a horde of Diglett out of his carrot field, and Goh catches a Diglett and a Dugtrio before giving the Dugtrio to the farmer. A shipment of fresh vegetables arrives at the Cerise Laboratory from Laxton, a former student of Professor Cerise who left research two years ago to become a farmer, along with news that Diglett and Dugtrio are troubling his fields. Ash and Goh volunteer to help, and Cerise asks Chloe to join them. At Laxton Farm, Laxton’s Voltorb gives Eevee a jolt for getting too close, and Chloe recognises her father’s old student. Laxton serves them wonderfully tasty tomatoes, grown with fertiliser ground from moulted Golem shells, and shows them his largest field, where Voltorb burns away weeds. Suddenly Diglett pop up all over the carrot patch, far too many to handle, damaging carrots that are almost ready to harvest.
Goh sends out Cinderace, and the group pulls up carrots to find the Diglett underground, but a Dugtrio leads them and every one escapes, although the team gathers a large undamaged harvest. That night, Chloe observes that the Diglett move far more cleverly than her team did and suggests they need someone to coordinate them; after some hesitation, she agrees to take that role herself. The next morning she watches from Laxton’s balcony as coloured flags mark the corners of the field and calls directions to Ash and Goh, who cut off a Diglett and pull up its target carrot so that Goh can catch it. When the Dugtrio surfaces, Chloe guides the boys again, and Goh catches it before it can react. Without their leader, the remaining Diglett retreat in confusion. Laxton explains that the Diglett once lived on a nearby hill and never came down to the fields before, so the children go to investigate.
On the hill, Team Rocket have run out of food and are trying to farm, and Meowth orders his robot to play loud music to make the crops grow, the noise that drove the Diglett from their home. The music is so loud that nobody hears Team Rocket’s motto. Annoyed, Jessie and James summon the Rocket Prize Master, which produces a Drilbur and a Sandslash, and Goh sends out his new Dugtrio. A fierce battle rages unseen underground, with Dig against Drill Run, until both Rocket Pokémon are forced to the surface, Pikachu strikes them with Quick Attack, and Dugtrio’s Sand Tomb sends the trio flying. Over a carrot dinner at the farm, Goh sees the Diglett returning and gathering around his Dugtrio, and realises they need their leader. He hands Dugtrio’s Poké Ball to Laxton, showing him that the Pokédex says soil tilled by Dugtrio is ideal for crops, and Laxton happily welcomes Dugtrio and the Diglett to his farm. On the way home, Chloe races ahead of the boys.
Major Events
- Laxton Farm. Chloe coordinates the Diglett hunt
- Goh catches a Diglett and a Dugtrio and gives the Dugtrio to Laxton, the first time a newly caught Pokémon is given away since EP161
- The Rocket Prize Master supplies a Drilbur and a Sandslash
Captures and evolutions
Diglett#0050 · Goh · with Chloe directing the hunt on Laxton Farm
Dugtrio#0051 · Goh · the Diglett’s leader, given to Laxton the same day
Trivia
- The English title plays on the song “How ’Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”.
- The screenplay is by Yūko Kakihara.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kanto, Galar & beyond story.
Changes in the English Dub
- An animation error in which the Rotom Phone shows Diglett for Dugtrio is fixed
- The name and category captions of the Rocket Prize Master’s Drilbur and Sandslash are removed
Part of our Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.