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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The road to Blackthorn arc (EP239–EP250) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 34 · English episode 243 · Japanese episode 245 · Bulbapedia code EP243 |
| English title | Same Old Song and Dance |
| Japanese title | ふたごのププリンVSプリン! うたうポケモンコンサート! Futago no Pupurin Tai Purin! Utau Pokemon Konsāto! — “Pupurin Twins vs. Purin! Singing Pokémon Concert!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 11 April 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 19 April 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Yanma (US) · Igglybuff (Japan) |
| Previous episode | As Clear as Crystal (EP242) |
| Next episode | Enlighten Up! (EP244) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeIgglybuff debut
Same Old Song and Dance is the 34th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 243rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 245, Bulbapedia code EP243). It first aired in Japan on 11 April 2002 and in the United States on 19 April 2003. It falls within the season’s The road to Blackthorn stretch (EP239–EP250).
Synopsis
Ash and company meet Brittany, the star of a television show and her twin igglybuffs, Gigglybiff and Gigglybuff. Unknown to Ash and company, they have been found and followed by the microphone-bearing Sleep jigglypuff. Also tracking them is Team Rocket who now have designs on the trained twin igglybuffs.
Team Rocket steals the twin igglybuffs. Ash and friends catch up with Team Rocket and a battle begins. Even Sleep Jigglypuff joins the battle. Team Rocket is sent blasting off and Brittany returns to finish the concert with her igglybuffs. Then Sleep Jigglypuff closes the concert with putting everyone asleep. In revenge for everyone falling asleep on its performance it uses its marker to draw on everyone’s face.
Major Events
- Igglybuff debut
- Jigglypuff
Pokémon making their anime debut
Igglybuff#0174 · EP243
Trivia
- The English title plays on the Aerosmith song.
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- 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 Igglybuff in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Yanma in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.