Battling The Generation Gap! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト!カンナギ大会!!, Hepburn: Pokemon Contest! The Celestic Convention!!) is the 43rd episode of Pokémon: DP Battle Dimension.
Episode Plot
Debuts
Pokémon
Trivia
- The song "Oración", music from Destiny Deoxys, Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and The Rise of Darkrai are used as background music.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Starly
- Jessie, disguised as Jessilina, dresses up like Fantina for this episode's Contest. She also uses a French accent similar to Fantina's.
- Dawn's appeal corresponds May's Appeal in Lessons In Lilycove as it was their third Contest and both had some type of unintentional effect in the appeal.
- James and Meowth wore the same outfits they wore in Gymbaliar!.
- This episode contains the anime's first representation of Substitute, an attack that has existed since Generation I.
- The dub title for this episode is a reference to the phrase "bridging the generation gap".
- Team Rocket doesn't blast off or recite their motto in this episode.
Mistakes
- In one scene, when Lila's bodyguard pulled her away, the ribbons on Dawn's dress disappear.
- At one point after Lila made her appeal Cherrim posed, the viewer can see a line running down its flower petal giving it the impression it has two flowers on its head instead of one.
- The status ailment Attraction does not wear off on its own in the games: the afflicted Pokémon must be switched out or the one who inflicted it must be removed from battle.
Gallery
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