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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket arc (AG004–AG008) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 5 · English episode 278 · Japanese episode 281 · Bulbapedia code AG005 |
| English title | In the Knicker of Time! |
| Japanese title | ジグザグマと短パン小僧！ハルカはじめてのバトル！！ Jiguzaguma to Tanpan-kozō! Haruka Hajimete no Batoru!! — “Jiguzaguma and the Short-pantsed Boy! Haruka’s First Battle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 19 December 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 22 November 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Yanma (US) |
| Previous episode | You Never Can Taillow (AG004) |
| Next episode | A Poached Ego! (AG006) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeMay’s first battleZigzagoon debut
In the Knicker of Time! is the 5th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 278th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 281, Bulbapedia code AG005). It first aired in Japan on 19 December 2002 and in the United States on 22 November 2003. It falls within the season’s Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket stretch (EP4–EP8).
Synopsis
Ash and company meet an eccentric pokémon trainer who gives May her first pokémon battle.
Major Events
- May’s first Trainer battle, lost to Nicholai’s Mudkip
- Nicholai catches a Zigzagoon
- Taillow uses Peck
- Last battle for Jessie’s Arbok and James’s Weezing
- Jessie and James narrate the preview
- Zigzagoon debuts
Pokémon making their anime debut
Zigzagoon#0263 · AG005
Captures and evolutions
- Zigzagoon#0263 · Nicholai
Trivia
- The English title plays on "in the nick of time", plus Nicholai’s knickerbockers.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Hoenn story.
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