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"The Song of Jigglypuff" is the 45th episode of Pokémon the Series (though it is actually the 47th episode chronologically). It was first broadcast in Japan on May 21, 1998, and in the United States on February 20, 1999.
Plot[]
Ash and his friends find a Jigglypuff in the forest who is too shy to sing its hypnotic song. Brock gives Jigglypuff a fruit that heals its throat to make it able to sing, but Ash, his friends and Team Rocket fall asleep to the song, angering Jigglypuff. Team Rocket tricks Ash and his friends into giving Jigglypuff a stage to perform its song for an audience in Neon Town, whose inhabitants Team Rocket intends to steal from. Everyone falls asleep, including Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket, and a miffed Jigglypuff uses the marker hidden in its microphone to draw on everyone's sleeping faces. From this point on, Jigglypuff follows Ash around trying to sing its song to a crowd that will not fall asleep in almost every episode.
Videos[]
Home video releases[]
- VHS
- Pokémon: Jigglypuff Pop
- DVD
- Pokémon: Jigglypuff Pop
- Pokémon Indigo League: Volume 2
Trivia[]
- Who's That Pokémon?: Jigglypuff
- In the English dub's version of the Who's That Pokémon? segment, the Jigglypuff has green eyes, like it had been in one scene in the episode. Usually, only Shiny Jigglypuff have green eyes; at this point in time, Shiny Pokémon had not yet been implemented.
- Although it was never aired in syndicated form in Cartoon Network in 2003, it was finally aired on September 5, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET.
- James makes a reference to the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap when he says "crank the speakers up to eleven".
- In the English dub, the guitar on the music store sign is a Gibson Les Paul.
- This is one of the few episodes in which Team Rocket does not blast off prior to Pokémon the Series: Black and White.
- The original 2000 Italian name of this episode may be a reference to Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (On the wings of song) by Felix Mendelssohn.
- This episode was banned in Turkey, but no reason was ever stated.
- Some of the businesses in Neon Town are puns on the names of chain businesses found in many Japanese cities, such as "Royal Poppo" (Royal Host) and "Seven Erebū" (Seven Eleven).
External links[]
- The Song of Jigglypuff at Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki.
- The Song of Jigglypuff at the Internet Movie Database