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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · On to Rustboro: Shroomish, Pelipper, Poochyena & Lotad arc (AG009–AG012) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 11 · English episode 284 · Japanese episode 287 · Bulbapedia code AG011 |
| English title | A Bite to Remember |
| Japanese title | グラエナとポチエナ！進化の神秘！！ Guraena to Pochiena! Shinka no Shinpi!! — “Graena and Pochiena! Mystery of Evolution!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 6 February 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 13 December 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Aya Matsui |
| 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? | Hitmontop (US) |
| Previous episode | You Said a Mouthful! (AG010) |
| Next episode | The Lotad Lowdown (AG012) |
Filler / stand-alone episodePoochyena evolves into Mightyena
A Bite to Remember is the 11th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 284th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 287, Bulbapedia code AG011). It first aired in Japan on 6 February 2003 and in the United States on 13 December 2003. It falls within the season’s On to Rustboro: Shroomish, Pelipper, Poochyena & Lotad stretch (EP9–EP12).
Synopsis
Ash and company enter a pokémon preserve guarded by Ranger Katrina. She has three mightyena and a poochyena that were all born at the same time, but the poochyena has yet to evolve. Max wants to see a pokémon evolve and thinks that the poochyena should evolve. Brock and Ash teach both Max and May about all the different ways pokémon evolve. They also teach Max about reasons why some pokémon don’t evolve even if they are able to.
Major Events
- Katrina’s Pokémon preserve
- Poochyena evolves into Mightyena, the first evolution May and Max witness
- Forretress uses Tackle
- First Pokédex entry for a Pokémon not otherwise in the episode (Combusken)
- Mightyena debuts
Pokémon making their anime debut
Mightyena#0262 · AG011
Captures and evolutions
- Poochyena → Mightyena#0262 · Katrina
Trivia
- The English title plays on A Night to Remember, and Poochyena’s Bite; the dub also quotes McGruff’s "take a bite out of crime".
- The screenplay is by Aya Matsui.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Hoenn story.
Changes in the English Dub
- Brock’s Pokémon senryū becomes a remark about a test
- Team Rocket’s talk of promotion becomes buying a house and moving out of James’s parents’ house
- An Einstein-and-the-light-bulb joke corrected by Max (“Thomas Edison”)
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