The Arrival of Skullgreymon

With his new found crest, Tai's behaviour takes a turn for the worst as he attempts to force Agumon to digivolve further, though he soon learns his lesson the hard way.

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Synopsis
After receiving his crest, Tai begins acting strangely. He begins force-feeding Agumon massive amounts of food in order to make him digivolve further, much to Agumon's complaining. Joe's tag then leads everyone to a nearby coliseum-style soccer stadium. Just when everybody (except Tai) begins to relax, Etemon attacks with a Greymon, and everybody except Agumon becomes trapped, forcing Agumon to digivolve. But, in his current state, Agumon (now Greymon) is easily beaten up by the other Greymon. Meanwhile, Joe finds the Crest of Reliability in the ground, which opens a hole in the floor, allowing the group to escape their prison. Almost as soon as he is out, Tai tries forcing (his) Greymon to digivolve by placing himself in danger. Greymon does Digivolve, but into a corrupted digivolution known as SkullGreymon. SkullGreymon has no trouble defeating the other Greymon, and begins attacking the others. After defeating them in their digivolved forms, he runs out of energy, and reverts back Koromon. Tai realises his mistake in forcing him to Digivolve further, and the group continue their journey.

Dubbing changes

 * Joe's crest was renamed the Crest of Reliability in the English dub. In the Japanese series, it's the Crest of Honesty.

Miscellaneous trivia

 * It's revealed that Tai and Sora play for the same soccer team, giving evidence that Tai and Sora knew eachother before the events of the series.
 * Agumon become's the first Digimon of the group to reach the Ultimate level, though his true Ultimate form appears later, in The Earthquake of MetalGreymon.
 * This is the only episode in the series where Greymon digivolves into SkullGreymon. The one other episode in which this happens is in the next series, Digimon Adventure 02, in the episode called The Emperor's New Home.
 * SkullGreymon announces the episode title in the Japanese episode.