If the Scarf Fits, Wear It! – Pokémon Season 11, Episode 46

Filler / stand-alone episodeAngie’s Lickilicky

If the Scarf Fits, Wear It! is the 46th episode of Pokémon DP: Battle Dimension, the eleventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 561st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 565, Bulbapedia code DP098). It first aired in Japan on 16 October 2008 and in the United States on 21 March 2009. It falls within the season’s Grotle, Barry, the Relic Badge & Canalave stretch (EP98–EP104).

Premiered on 21 March 2009, after a week with no new episode, and was the last US episode before Pokémon Platinum’s North American release on 22 March.

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Synopsis

Back in Solaceon Town, Ash and his friends read a Sinnoh Star article about a “Scarf Monster” said to roam the area, which Brock dismisses because the paper is not the most reliable. On their way to visit Angie, though, they glimpse a shadowy creature resembling the monster before it vanishes. At Angie’s house they share dinner, but when Ash mentions the creature, Angie grows anxious and runs out. The friends follow her to a cave, where she begs them to keep the creature a secret, though it has already disappeared. Meanwhile Team Rocket, posing as news reporters, are hunting for the monster, and Officer Jenny tells them that the only clue so far is a pool of saliva. Back at the park, the group set a trap, and the creature walks right into it, revealing itself as a Lickilicky wearing an inflatable ring around its neck.

Angie confesses that she was caring for a Lickitung at her family’s Day Care and trained it too hard: it learned Rollout and evolved, which breaks the Day Care’s rule against evolving the Pokémon in its care. When Team Rocket ask where the creature went, Ash lies to them, and after they leave Angie fills Lickilicky’s ring with helium so that it floats and guides it back to the cave through the air, frightening an old fisherman who sees something flying overhead. The next day Team Rocket unveil a mecha that dangles a huge ball of Pokémon food to lure the creature, and Lickilicky follows the smell. Ash and Angie reach the cave to find only a broken rope, and as Lickilicky approaches the food, Ash and his friends confront the trio, who insist that the creature cannot be a Lickilicky because Lickilicky do not wear tubes.

Angie orders Shinx to pop the ring with Crunch, and Team Rocket admit that it is a Lickilicky, though Jessie argues that the tube is what made it the monster; when they try to capture it anyway, Pikachu’s Thunderbolt blasts them off. Just then Angie’s parents arrive. Her father is angry when he hears the story, but the Lickitung’s Trainer, an excitable man fond of foreign phrases, is delighted by the evolution, so Angie escapes serious trouble. As the group leave Solaceon, Angie’s parents tease her that she and Ash could run the Day Care together one day; Angie tells them to stop, and far down the road Ash sneezes. It is Angie’s last appearance and her only one outside the Summer Academy arc. The episode was the last to air in the United States before Pokémon Platinum’s North American release, and in the dub the narrator reads out the “To Be Continued” card for the first time.

Major Events

• The Scarf Monster turns out to be a Lickilicky that evolved at Angie’s family Day Care
• Angie’s last appearance
• The narrator reads the To Be Continued card for the first time
• The last US episode before Pokémon Platinum’s North American release
• Lickilicky’s TV debut

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Lickilicky#0463 · DP098

Captures and evolutions

• Lickitung → Lickilicky#0463 · Angie’s Day Care · evolved off screen after learning Rollout

Trivia

• The English title plays on “if the shoe fits, wear it”, for the “Scarf Monster”.
• The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
• This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.

Changes in the English Dub

• Team Rocket’s guess that the creature is a kappa is changed
• The Lickitung’s Trainer, who uses English phrases in Japanese, has an Italian accent in English
• Jessie refers to “The Purple People Eater”
• The narrator reads the To Be Continued card aloud, a first for the English dub

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