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Pokémon: A Dairy Tale Ending

Whitney takes our heroes to her uncle's Miltank farm in the outskirts of Goldenrod City. Here they sample the finest in Miltank dairy products and learn how to groom and care for these Pokémon. Ash realizes this is a great opportunity to study Miltank first-hand and hopes it will help him against Whitney's Miltank in their next battle. After learning about Miltank and coming out victorious in a battle against Team Rocket, Ash realizes the answer to overcoming Whitney's strongest Pokémon is good old-fashioned team-work.


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Episode Info


Episode number: 4x2
Production Number: 402
Airdate: Saturday August 18th, 2001

Director: (Unknown)
Writer: (Unknown)


Guest Stars
Megan HollingsheadMegan Hollingshead
voiced Whitney
Recurring

Recap

After suffering a defeat from Whitney, Ash brought his Pokémon to the Pokémon Center. Nurse Joy comes out of the emergency room and reports that Ash's Pokémon are fine. Nurse Joy considers Ash to be lucky. A lot of other trainers lose from Miltank, and they end up at the Pokémon Center, but Ash's Pokémon are in better shape than the others. Ash is glad that his Pokémon are okay, but he isn't too happy about the fact that he lost to Miltank. Misty and Brock don't think there's any way to stop Miltank, and that makes Ash worried. Nurse Joy states that trainers need time to recover from battles too, not just their Pokémon...

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Episode Notes
When this episode aired on Cartoon Network's Pokemon Master Marathon on June 2, 2007, the Pokemon: The Johto Journeys had its theme song shown instead of the correct Johto League Champions theme. However, when this episode's title was shown, it was the correct format for this season.

The badge is called the Plain badge.

Who's That Pokémon: Snorlax

Gym Line-Ups:
Ash: Cyndaquil, Totodile, Pikachu
Whitney: Miltank

Unlike the previous and future gym leaders, Whitney actually allows Ash to have a numbers advantage (3-on-1). Every other gym leader only allowed Ash to match their own number of Pokemon.

Again Ash uses Cyndaquil, Totodile, and Pikachu

Title Pun: A Fairy Tale Ending

Ash rebattles Whitney and earns a Plain Badge

Cyndaquil VS Miltank: Miltank wins
Totodile VS Miltank: Miltank wins
Pikachu VS Miltank: Pikachu wins

In other languages
French: Des Pokémons très lait
Italian: Latte per tutti
Latin American Spanish: ¡Un final feliz!
Spanish: El final del cuento de la lechera

The Miltank dairy may be based on the MooMoo Farm in the games, though that is found to the west of Route 38 while the dairy in this episode is located just outside Goldenrod City.

Milton states that the most important factor in winning a Gym Battle is defeating the Leader's best Pokémon in a fair match.

Nurse Joy comments that sometimes trainers also need to recover after a tough match. This can be seen in Ash who briefly considers just returning to Pallet Town.

Jessie: (to Wobbuffet) Get back in your Pokeball, you cheeseball!



Episode Goofs
Team Rocket states that the line for the Magnet Train ends at "a brick wall in Saffron City." In the games, it is used to travel between the aforementioned cities.



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