Agreed. It was just a ripoff of "A Scare to Remember" from AG, only with Iris' Emolga and Iris in place of Ash's Pikachu and Ash, to be blunt!
Of course, TPCi's dub just made it that much worse.
BTW, XY looks to be DP 2.0 so far. It sucks: however, it IS better than Da! though, so there's that, but it's very bad compared to OS, AG, or the remainder of BW.