Departure for a New Continent

The kids receive a call for help from a far off continent called Server, and set about building a raft to take them across the ocean.

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Synopsis
The mysterious man turns out to be Gennai, who lives on a nearby continent called Server. He tells the kids of other evil on his own continent which needs defeating, but it will only be possible to defeat with the power of certain crests and tags capable of making their Digimon digivolve once more. So, the group set about building a raft, and with the help of familiar faces on File Island, they're on the ocean in no time. However, they're soon consumed by the black gear possessed Digimon, Whamon. When they pull a black gear out of his stomach, they're thrust out of Whamon's blow hole, and the raft is in pieces. Whamon offers to take them to Server, but first takes them to the location of the tags which Gennai spoke of. After fighting past another possessed Digimon, Drimogemon, they find the tags, and set off once again to Server, on the back of Whamon.

Continuity errors

 * When the other Digimon come to help, Izzy recognises Elecmon, T.K. recognises Frigimon, and Tai recognises Centarumon, despite never seeing them before.
 * As soon as Drimogemon appears, T.K. announces his name, even though he's never seen him before.

Digimon references

 * The Digimon that come to help the DigiDestined are all from previous episodes.

Real-world references

 * Whamon's swallowing of the kids raft appears to be a parody of a similar moment from the story of Pinnochio

Miscellaneous trivia

 * Tai announces the episode title in the Japanese episode.
 * The discovery is made in this episode, that the kids' Digimon can digivolve beyond the Champion level, using the power of Crests.
 * Drimogemon is the last Digimon to be possessed by a black gear.
 * In the English dub, the music normally played during digivolution is changed to the actual Digimon Opening Theme (though with some of the vocals cut out). This remains throughout this series, and the next series.
 * This is the first English dub episode to be written by Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz, who would go on to write and co-write many English dub episodes of Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02, plus Digimon: The Movie.