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| Season | Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl (Season 10) · Oreburgh City & the Coal Badge arc (DP013–DP018) |
| Episode | Season 10, episode 14 · English episode 478 · Japanese episode 481 · Bulbapedia code DP014 |
| English title | Leave It To Brocko! |
| Japanese title | タケシにおまかせ！ Takeshi ni Omakase! — “Leave It to Takeshi!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 21 December 2006 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 26 June 2007 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Together – Fumie Akiyoshi · Kimi no Soba de ~Hikari no Tēma~ (By Your Side ~Hikari’s Theme~) – Grin |
| English opening | Diamond and Pearl – Chris “Breeze” Barczynski |
| Previous episode | A Staravia Is Born! (DP013) |
| Next episode | Shapes of Things to Come! (DP015) |
Plot episodeBonsly evolves into Sudowoodo
Leave It To Brocko! is the 14th episode of Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl, the tenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 478th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 481, Bulbapedia code DP014). It first aired in Japan on 21 December 2006 and in the United States on 26 June 2007. It falls within the season’s Oreburgh City & the Coal Badge stretch (EP13–EP18).
Synopsis
In the dark of night, a towering old tree is home to a whole community of Seedot and their evolved forms, and when one Seedot kicks a sleeping Nuzleaf off its branch, the Nuzleaf drops onto a passing Vileplume without waking. By morning the Vileplume’s pollen has made it sneeze, the startled Vileplume has bolted, and the Nuzleaf wakes far from home, tumbling off a cliff as it tries to find its way back. At the foot of the mountain that separates them from Oreburgh City, Ash wants to push on but Dawn insists on resting at the Pokémon Center, where Brock notices how much Bonsly has grown since moving on to solid food. A sudden gust leads them to the injured Nuzleaf, which drives Nurse Joy off with Razor Leaf, and Brock’s attempt to flirt with her earns him a Poison Jab from Croagunk.
Brock then shows his skill as a Breeder: he hides his hands, crouches to the Nuzleaf’s eye level, plays a soothing tune on a leaf whistle and has Bonsly taste the Oran Berries first, until the Nuzleaf eats its fill and lets Joy treat its wound. Joy explains that the only home of the Seedot line in the area is a thousand-year-old tree nearby, so the group set off to return it. On the way, Bonsly and the Nuzleaf become friends, the Nuzleaf believing Bonsly is a fellow Grass type. Team Rocket turn up with Meowth in a Shiftry costume, claiming to be looking for the same tree, until Dawn’s Pokédex identifies him as a Meowth. The trio net Bonsly and the Nuzleaf from their balloon, Brock clings to the net, and Seviper’s Haze keeps Staravia from following.
Tied to a tree, Brock offers to turn Team Rocket’s meagre garnish into a proper meal, and while they gobble it down he slips away with the cage. Bonsly’s first Double-Edge only bends a bar and it bursts into tears, but with Brock’s encouragement the second breaks the cage open, and Bonsly dances for joy, glows and evolves into Sudowoodo. Brock helps his water-shy new Sudowoodo carry the Nuzleaf across a rushing river, but Team Rocket catch up on the far bank. Croagunk and Seviper knock each other out after Croagunk’s Poison Sting pops the balloon, and Sudowoodo overcomes its fear to beat Carnivine with Double-Edge, Flail and a mimicked Bullet Seed while Ash and Dawn arrive to admire it. A real Shiftry then appears, sees through Meowth’s lies and pops the trio’s Wobbuffet-shaped balloon with Razor Wind, catching the falling Nuzleaf on a gust. Pikachu’s Thunderbolt blasts Team Rocket off, and the Nuzleaf goes home.
Major Events
- Bonsly evolves into Sudowoodo while returning a lost Nuzleaf to its home
- Meowth disguised as a Shiftry
- The first cold open made by Pokémon USA
- A teaser for the tenth movie after the Japanese broadcast
Captures and evolutions
Bonsly → Sudowoodo#0185 · Brock · breaking a cage with Double-Edge
Trivia
- The English title plays on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver, and close to the Japanese title.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Sinnoh storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- The first cold open made by Pokémon USA
- Brock’s leaf-whistle tune is Together
- Staravia replaces Starly in the ending animation
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