The first recording today starts with the end of an episode of SamSam.
Then it’s Pokemon Battle Dimension – Playing the Levelling Field.
Ash and friends come across their friend Zoey, who’s in the middle of a battle with a top French Pokemon coordinator, Fantina.
Her Mismagius beats Zoey’s Glameow.
Team Rocket watch, and Jessie poses as a reporter wanting to interview Fantina, but really wanting to steal all her training secrets. Nobody recognises her, as usual.
Fantina ignores her request, but tells Ash and friends all about how she’s training. Ash asks if he can battle her, which she agrees to. Her first Pokemon is a Drifloon.
Buizel fights back. But he gets defeated.
Next, Chimchar takes on Drifloon. He also gets beaten.
Pikachu is the last to try, and he struggles against Drifloon’s Ominous Wind.
He attacks with a strong Thunderbolt, but that causes Drifloon to evolve into Drifblim. And using Hypnosis, it puts Pikachu to sleep.
This only makes Ash want to try again at Hearthome gym, and Fantina accepts his challenge.
Jessie shows Yanmega some of the moves, hoping it will learn them, despite being the wrong type to do them.
Ash also reviews the battle, hoping to find something to counter the Hypnosis move Fantina’s Pokemon used.
Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever.
Recorded from CITV on Monday 27th July 2009 08:03
In a shake-up of the routine today, there’s a second recording, but don’t get too excited, as it’s another episode of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl – Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan! This is a different series, from before the episodes we’ve so far been watching.
Ash is cooking.
This episode is presented with its title sequence intact, but it’s a shame this season’s theme song isn’t quite the banger that Battle Dimension is.
There’s a strange Ninja Pokemon that we first see attacking Team Rocket as they forage for berries.
I’ve no idea what the short bit with Ash cooking at the start of the episode was about, because when we next meet him, he and Dawn and Brock have arrived in Floaroma Town for a Pokemon contest.
An old lady tells them how the town used to be a barren wasteland. “But legend has it that one day, a beautiful woman climbed to the top of the hill to give thanks for nature’s great beauty. And with that, it was like the flowers and trees couldn’t wait to break through the earth and join forces with the woman to express their thanks as well.”
Dawn suggests that while they’re there, they also take a Poffin cooking class. So I guess the scene at the start was just a preview.
They meet Forsythia, who runs the cooking classes.
Ash’s first attempt is a failure.
Team Rocket think they can make a fortune with Poffins.
Forsythia has a Pokemon called Roserade who appears to be scared of everyone.
Team Rocket appear with a machine that’s stealing all the berries.
There’s a big fight.
But it takes the Roserade dressing in a ninja scarf to really scare Team Rocket.
Meowth tries to get the scarf off.
He succeeds, and they also grab a depowered Roserade before they start leaving.
But Forsythia tells Roserade that it doesn’t need the scarf to be powerful, and together, all the Pokemon stop Team Rocket escaping with the berries.
Roserade uses its powers to regrow the destroyed berry fields.
Dawn’s new recipe for Poffins is much more to her Pokemons’ taste.
Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles, and strikes up a friendship with a novice trainer named Dawn.
Recorded from CITV on Monday 27th July 2009 15:28
Here’s the first episode’s ad breaks.
Here’s the later episode’s ad breaks – odd how they’re almost entirely different to the ones from the episode in the morning. Interesting how the ad buys differ during the day.
Adverts:
- First Choice Holidays
- G-Force in cinemas
- Hannah Montana 3
- Gormiti Atomic
- Lego
- trail: Huntik
- Persil Small & Mighty
- First Choice Holidays
- Dove Summer Glow
- Lego Racers
- Churchill Insurance
- McDonalds
- Sleepy Igglepiggle
- Pop ‘n’ Freeze
- Ring O’ Roses Fifi
- G-Force in cinemas
- Lego
- Gold2Pounds
- The Blue Cross
- trail: Handy Manny’s Summer Fiesta
- Legoland Windsor – Kingdom of the Pharaohs
- Land of the Lost in cinemas
- Ben 10 Alien Creation Chamber
- Roary The Racing Car
- gocompare.com
- The Blue Cross
- trail: Skillicious
- trail: Huntik
- Moon Sand
- G-Force in cinemas
- Dogs Trust
- Postal Gold
- Privilege Insurance – Nigel Havers
- Alton Towers
- First Choice Holidays
- trail: Even Stevens
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