All Things Bright and Beautifly! – Pokémon Season 6, Episode 13

Season	Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Contests, Wurmple & the Trainers’ School arc (AG013–AG015)
Episode	Season 6, episode 13 · English episode 286 · Japanese episode 289 · Bulbapedia code AG013
English title	All Things Bright and Beautifly!
Japanese title	ポケモンコンテスト！アゲハントの華麗なバトル！！ Pokemon Kontesuto! Agehanto no Karei na Batoru!! — “Pokémon Contest! Agehunt’s Magnificent Battle!!”
First aired (Japan)	20 February 2003 · TV Tokyo
First aired (US)	27 December 2003 · Kids’ WB
Screenplay	Atsuhiro Tomioka
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?	Magcargo (US)
Previous episode	The Lotad Lowdown (AG012)
Next episode	All in a Day’s Wurmple (AG014)

Plot episodeFirst Pokémon ContestPikachu starts Iron Tail

All Things Bright and Beautifly! is the 13th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 286th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 289, Bulbapedia code AG013). It first aired in Japan on 20 February 2003 and in the United States on 27 December 2003. It falls within the season’s Contests, Wurmple & the Trainers’ School stretch (EP13–EP15).

Synopsis · Major Events · Trivia · Dub Changes · All episodes

Synopsis

Ash and May are introduced to pokémon contests, and May is considering becoming a coördinator instead of a trainer. Ash learns the Rustboro City Gym is a rock gym, then is advised to teach Pikachu to use Iron Tail.

Major Events

• The anime’s first Pokémon Contest, in Rustboro
• Janet’s Beautifly wins her third Ribbon
• The group receives Contest Passes
• Jessie enters as Mademoiselle Jessica and scores zero
• Ash hears that the Rustboro Gym uses Rock types
• Pikachu begins learning Iron Tail
• May becomes interested in Contests
• Janet, Chaz, Raoul Contesta and Mr. Sukizo debut
• Flaaffy’s TV debut

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Flaaffy#0180 · AG013

Trivia

• The English title plays on the hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful".
• The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• 13-second shot of a Coordinator’s Jynx cut — the last appearance of Jynx’s original design (the 2017 Prime Video Japan print uses the purple redesign)
• Team Rocket’s fantasy shot of saluting grunts heavily repainted for its resemblance to a Nazi salute, and the marching sound removed
• The “Pokémon Contest” sign changed to “Pokémon Competition”
• The ellipsis removed from “To be continued…”
• Jessie orders “Luster Purge”

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