The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, The Burned Tower! Enter Matsuba!! / Handsome Yamamoto's Final Battle! / HGSS - Group Member Baba's Most Valuable Information (やけたとう！マツバとうじょう!! ハンサム山本・最後の戦い！ HGSS・馬場隊員のとっておきのお得情報), aired today in Japan.

In this weeks episode, the Pokemon Sunday crew acted out portions of the upcoming Pocket Monsters Diamond&Pearl anime Galaxy Gang arc that will air in November. Clips and segments from the anime were also shown to promote the arc throughout the episode.

An imageboard thread has been created with high quality pictures from the latest trailers and preview. The pictures do contain spoilers for the upcoming arc. Click here to view the thread.

Handsome Yamamoto started of the show running into the studio with a device attached to his chest. The crew needed to get him happy enough to disarm the device which had a happiness indicator on the front. Golgo, Baba and Shoko started off by making funny faces to make him laugh. Through the help of the crew there were able to disarm in and Handsome Yamamoto quickly left the studio with Baba and Akiyama following him.

The next scene starts off with Handsome Yamamoto preparing to enter a warehouse, when the doors raise up to reveal Saturn and Mars. Yoshiaki Yamane (山根良顕) is dressed up as Mars & Takushi Tanaka (田中卓志) is dressed up as Saturn. Both are famous Japanese comedians. Moments later, Akiyama dressed up as Pokemon Hunter J and Baba dressed up as Champion Master Shirona show up.

A new theme was introduced for the Pokémon Selection rerun serial, "Popular characters playing important roles in HeartGold and SoulSilver". Today's episode focused on the Enju City Gym Leader Matsuba, who showed Satoshi and his friends the Burned Tower, one of the city's most important landmarks, and explained the legend of the mythical Pokémon Houou.

During the Pokemon Game Arena segment, each of the cast discussed how to get various Pokemon or information about Pokemon like Laplace in HeartGold and Soul Silver. Akiyama also reminded the audience that the Nintendo DS Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver Music Super Complete (ニンテンドーDS ポケモン ハートゴールド&ソウルシルバー ミュージック・スーパーコンプリート) CD set was now available.

A new password was announced on the show that unlocks Hikozaru. Passwords can be enter in the home village and unlock rare Pokémon.

Password	Pokémon	Level	Code Obtained from:	Day Announced	Picture
Y3Y= -@X@ W%H# =+-F	Hikozaru	Level 41	Pokemon Sunday	2009-11-01

A separate page has been created to keep track of all the passwords for the Pokemon. It will be updated as new codes become available. Click here to visit the Password page.

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