Not as Seen on TV

Not as Seen on TV is the ninth episode of Digimon Tamers. It is preceded by A Question of Trust and followed by The Icemon Cometh.

Plot
Guilmon has just digivolved to Growlmon. Takato thinks he's a vicious monster now, but it turns out he still isn't. He says he wants to go back to being Guilmon, so he and Takato head back to the park to figure out how to dedigivolve. He is too big to fit into his cave. In the forest, Takato tries his digivice and Digi Modify, but Growlmon won't dedigivolve. Takato tries to dedigivolve him by scaring him, then comes to the conclusion that since Digimon are data, digivolution adds a bunch of data, so he only has to lose data to dedigivolve.

Growlmon runs some laps and walks on his hands, but although he gets tired out he doesn't dedigivolve. Takato tries to cool him off with a pool of cold water, hoping that it will get rid of some of his energy, but this doesn't work either, so Takato takes him to an unknown area to spend the night, and hopefully he will be Guilmon again when he wakes up. Takato runs into Jeri and asks her for help, wording it to avoid mentioning Digimon or digivolution, leading Jeri to think that Takato fell in love with a girl who got taller, making him feel goofy next to her so he wishes she were short again.

That night, Calumon finds Growlmon and wants to play with him and Takato. Growlmon knocks on Takato's window and wakes him up. Takato gets Henry and Terriermon and asks Henry of a place he thought of earlier. Henry suggests the tunnel where Guilmon disappeared, saying that the digital zone that captured Guilmon before was a fluke. So they take Growlmon down to the tunnel, but shortly after they leave, Impmon appears and shoots fireballs at him to chase him out.

The next day, Takato, Henry, and Terriermon look for Growlmon. Terriermon finds him, with kids sliding down his tail like a slide. When Takato and Henry arrive, Growlmon is gone. They find him in the trees, where he tells them about Impmon attacking him. Eventually Growlmon fought Impmon off, walked to the park, and fell asleep. Takato and Henry decide to paint Growlmon in the forest with camouflage paint to hide him until he dedigivolves.

Rika and Renamon arrive, and Rika says any Digimon who wanted to could find Growlmon in a heartbeat. Renamon demonstrates this, and soon after it rains, making the paint run off Growlmon. Rika finds used water-based paint for camouflage to be pathetic, and leaves with Renamon. Takato says he can't afford oil-based paint. Then a rainbow appears, and Growlmon dedigivolves into Guilmon. Henry says that the rainbow must have pulled digital matter out of him.