Flower Power – Pokémon Season 3, Episode 6

Filler / stand-alone episodeBellossom debut

Flower Power is the 6th episode of Pokémon: The Johto Journeys, the third season of the Pokémon anime, and the 122nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 124, Bulbapedia code EP122). It first aired in Japan on 18 November 1999 and in the United States on 11 November 2000. It falls within the season’s The road to Violet City stretch (EP122–EP129).

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Synopsis

Our heroes have escaped the forest and arrived at Florando City, where they are spoilt for choice with things to do. A lady approaches and tells them about the Pokémon Exhibition, an annual Pokémon entertainment festival where people use their Pokémon to put on shows; the group head over to check it out and see loads of Pokémon providing the entertainment. One particular type of Pokémon catch the groups eye; a pair of jumping and dancing Grass Pokémon identified as Belossom.

The group continue to watch the impressive acrobatic show put on by the two Belossom, when they attempt a mid-air loop the loop move they call the bell-loop-de-loop, but one of the Belossom gets it wrong and luckily Ash is there to catch it. The Belossoms trainer gets Ash and friends some drinks to thank them for saving her Belossom, she introduces herself as Bailey and explains that the Belossom are her two star performers; Belle and Bella. Ash asks if they are going to try the bell-loop-de-loop trick again at the exhibition tomorrow, Bailey says they are but Belle has had real trouble performing the move since they reached Florando.

Team Rocket meanwhile have arrived in town and are enjoying the festival atmosphere and are looking to make some money with some talent of their own….. attempting to show off Meowth’s ability to take to make some money, but he gets stage fright and fails to speak. Meowth is then coerced to going onto the stage to read some jokes, the crowd are initially shocked he can speak but his jokes are so bad that the crowd start to leave without paying.

Jessie and James are disappointed that no one got to see them dance, so they resort to turning up in their dancing gear on a bulldozer to get the crowds attention. Ash confronts them but Bailey says it should be the festival performers who are responsible for defending the festival. Team Rocket are attacked by an unnamed trainer and his Alakazam before eventually being defeated by Bailey’s pair of Belossom. Later that evening Team Rocket are sat in a dark alley sharing some meatballs, they could only afford one meal because it cost them so much to rent the bulldozer, just then they get a leaflet about the Pokémon exhibition which is to take place tomorrow and decide it would be a great place to swipe some talented Pokémon.

Meanwhile Bailey preaches to Ash and friends about how dancing isn’t so different to battling, and invites them to her training session where she even teaches Pikachu some. Then the Belossom start practicing for the exhibition and again attempt the bell-loop-de-loop, Belle gets it wrong again and Bailey says they’ll leave that move out of the routine for the exhibition.

The next day some very strange and familiar looking new hosts are presenting the event and welcome all of the entertainers and their Pokémon to the stage before catching the Pokémon in a net, revealing themselves as Team Rocket and making their escape in their balloon.

Ash sends out his Heracross, uses its horn to catapult Pikachu into the air so it can get close enough to the balloon to destroy it with a thunderbolt, sending it crashing down. Bailey, Ash and gang approach Team Rocket who are still not done despite being knocked out of the air. Jessie and James send their Pokémon to attack but Pikachu uses its newly learned dance moves to avoid their attacks; before eventually being snagged by Victreebel, just as Arbok is about to tackle Pikachu Belle and Bella the Belossom manage to perform the bell-loop-de-loop to defeat Arbok and Victreebel before sending Team Rocket blasting off.

All of the entertainers are reunited with their Pokémon, and the show goes on as planned. Bailey and her Belossom perform on the stage and put on a great show which they finish with a successful bell-loop-de-loop which is met with a roar of applauds by the crowd.

Major Events

• Bellossom debut (prior PK04)
• Last episode before *Gold and Silver*’s JP release
• Victreebel’s Swords Dance/Take Down/Wrap

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Bellossom#0182 · EP122

Trivia

• The English title plays on the 1960s pacifist slogan, for Bailey’s dancing Bellossom.
• The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
• This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Johto story.
• The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Bellossom in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Spinarak in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.

Changes in the English Dub

• James orders Vine Whip as “Wrap”.
• Dub inserts an instrumental of “What Kind of Pokémon Are You?”.
• Pokémon Karaokémon: “You & Me & Pokémon” (Élan Rivera & PJ Lequerica).

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