Mistakes in Pokemon!

Kids' WB would like us to think that they're perfect when it comes to all matters Pokemon. Well, guess what, they're not. In fact, there are some highly interesting mistakes to be found within the episodes of Pokemon, if only you look for them:

• In the episode, "Pokemon Shipwreck", a Dragon Rage attack by the Gyarados sends all of the characters spinning off into the distance. When Team Rocket gets blown into the whirlpool, listen closely. They do NOT yell "We're blasting off again!" as usual. Instead, turn up the volume and you'll hear, over the rush of water, a funny-sounding yell. That's the original Meowth's voice yelling, "Yana Kanji!" which is what the Japanese Team Rocket members yell instead of "Blasting off again!". This phrase translates to "This feels bad!" which makes total sense given the circumstances!

• Meowth Mix reports that Meowth's Japanese voice is also heard in "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak", right before Dexter says, "Still searching".
  She also says that a talking Meowth toy she bought speaks Japanese, not English!

• Alex reports owning a Squirtle toy that speaks Japanese! Supposedly, it has three phrases: 'game, game', 'game' and 'zen, zeni'. And Squirtle's Japanese name is Zenigame!

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  This is one I didn't catch until I saw a screenshot from the episode. In "The Tower of Terror", Jessie and Meowth fall through a hole in the floor and land on top of James, who had already fallen through. When they do, that floor breaks too, and they plummet into the basement. Right before they fall, however, little speech balloons with JAPANESE writing in them appear over Team Rocket's heads. Meowth's balloon says "Nyaa!" which is the Japanese word for "Meow". Under this is a letter N with the symbol for "ya", also meaning "Nya" or "Meow"
  

• Speaking of which, jump ahead to "Go West, Young Meowth". When the rich lady who owns Meowsy pulls away in her limo, notice the license plate: 052-NYA. Meowth's Pokemon number, 52, plus the Japanese "Meow". Makes sense, doesn't it?

• Isn't it strange that so many of these "mistakes" revolve around Meowth? One of the most interesting ones happened a few months ago with the airing of Meowth's Party, the music video. Kids' WB aired the English version of this song ONCE and only once. The following week, they aired the original Japanese version, with no dub! I think this was a great idea. Why shouldn't American fans be able to see the original versions too, once in a while? It's certainly better than seeing the 500,000th repetition of "Viridian City" or "My Best Friends".

• Yet ANOTHER Meowth mistake! I just received "Pokemon the Movie 2000" for Christmas so naturally I HAD to watch it right away. As soon as I did, I caught yet another boo-boo. In "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure", right after Togepi rolls away and right before Meowth starts speaking, I heard this deep, male voice that was DEFINITELY NOT Meowth! Rewinding it several times, and not understanding any of the words, I realized what this must be. You see, in the original Japanese version of this "movie", there is narration through the whole thing (so I'm told) that helps make the whole crazy adventure a lot more understandable. The English dub decided to cut this, but they seem to have left just a second of the original narration in! Check it out!

These are general things that just don't make sense in the show

• In "Pikachu's Goodbye", we see a whole herd of wild Pikachu playing, sleeping, and generally having a good time. Among the group is a baby Pikachu. How can this be, since we know that Pichu is the baby form of Pikachu? Or do Pichu only appear in Johto-Land? Words of wisdom: DON'T create new Pokemon that cause older episodes to become nonsensical!

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  In "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion", Team Rocket captures Ditto because they want it to become
  

  "Dratini, the Pokemon we've never been able to capture"
  That's all well and good, but WHEN did Team Rocket try to capture a Dratini in the first place? True Pokemon fans know that this was in that 2nd "Lost Episode", called "The Legend of Dratini", the same show where Ash catches his herd of Tauros. Guess Kids' WB never felt we needed to know about that, either.

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  What's that Pokemon... snack? Nobody seems to know WHAT exactly to call the strange little white snacks that have appeared in numerous episodes. In "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad" and "Primape Goes Bananas" they were "donuts" (prompting my FAVORITE James quote, "I wanna donut!"). In "Pokemon Paparazzi" they were "rice balls" which Brock is making, scooping them out of a bucket of rice. In "Snubble Snobbery" they were "popcorn balls" that Brock feeds to the finicky Snubble. But what ARE they? I mean, if they're going to be called donuts, then call them donuts! But don't keep changing the name on us, ok?
  

  • And an answer at last! According to JackalAndromeda, they are a Japanese food called Onigiri. This is a rice ball, normally filled with something, like Umeboshi (Plum) or other things. The green-black strip along the bottom is a peice of nori (Seaweed) She reports that, having had a few of these herself, they are very good. (Geez, why didn't they just SAY so???)

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  In "The Mandarin Island Miss Match", Ash loses to a Pokemon Master named Prima who uses Ice-type Pokemon. PRIMA? Where'd THAT come from? Isn't her name supposed to be Lorelei, of the Elite Four? Even Jessie and James know she's one of the Elite Four trainers ("Prepare for trouble and defeat!" "And make it double for Miss Elite!"). In Pokemon Puzzle League, they did manage to get her name right. But since that game is based on the TV show (as opposed to the Game Boy games), why didn't they at least keep her name Prima, to be consistent with the show?

  • AND not only that! According to Dig, Ash is given credit for a victory over her, which he most certainly did not have! "In 'Wherefore Art Thou Pokemon' the announcer says "fresh from a big victory off Pokemon master Prima, our heroes so and so..."
    Ash did not beat Prima [ isn't she Lorelei? ], she owned his ass with Cloyster, unless of course the victory was him learning some extremely important Pokemon stuff from her."

• In "Roll On, Pokemon", Team Rocket steals Rochelle's young, inexperienced Donfan that has small, undeveloped tusks. However, once Rochelle is reunited with her Donfan, it has huge, full-grown tusks for one scene. Oops!

• Officer Jenny has delusions of grandeur in "The Fourth Round Rumble" when she orders her "Arcanine" to flamethrower-attack TR's balloon... and that little pup's smaller than Growly! It bugs me though, just because Team Rocket shows up, they should be attacked by the cops under the supposition that they're causing trouble? Just not fair...

• Cleevon Spielbunk confuses his dog Pokemon as well... his claim to fame is that he's the "winner of the Golden Growlithe at last year's Flea Collar Film Festival". However, the golden statue behind him is of ARCANINE, not Growlithe! (Thanks to Blackswan15 for this one!)

• On the Topps Pokemon Trading Cards, the Weezing card has a boo-boo on it. The quote about Weezing is, "James once remarked that his toxic Pokemon, 'smells like old sneakers soaked in stinkbug juice, mixed with some rotten eggs and a dead fish with just a touch of skunk fumes!'" Too bad he didn't say this about Weezing! He actually said it about GLOOM in "Pokemon Scent-Sation", after the plant had sucked up all of Koffing's Poison Gas Attack!
  Meowth Mix says that the Pokemon desk calendar gives this quote as a reference to Koffing. Weird.

• Another error on the Trading Cards: on the Krabby card, it says that Krabby was one of the few Pokemon that Ash still had when he washed ashore on the Island of the Giant Pokemon. But this is wrong! Ash lost Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Pikachu on the Island, but he still had Butterfree and Pidgeotto! Krabby was transferred to Oak's lab, remember? The Krabby in ep. 17 was a WILD Krabby that pinched Team Rocket awake after they crashed on the island!

• Looks like Kids' WB's screwing up again! Not only did they mess up the order of Season 3's episodes from the start (showing "Food Fight" before "Misty Meets Her Match", never explaining Ash's 3rd Badge until AFTER its first appearance, but now they're at it again in Johto. They showed 2 new shows today (1/20/01), and obviously got them in the wrong order. In "Chikorita's Big Upset", the gang is traveling to Azalea Town, but in "For Crying Out Loud", shown second, Brock tells Ash that there's a gym in Azalea. Also, we see a closeup of the Zephyr Badge in the 2nd show (and Ash is "fresh from a victory"), but only hear about this briefly in the first of the 2 shows. Mistake? Oh yeah.

• And now, in the "Fire Pokemon!" sequence to advertise the shows, there is a HUGE glaring error. When the brainiac of an announcer is calling off various Fire Pokemon, he mixes up Vulpix and Ponyta (which he pronounces "Pony-TA"). Who hired that guy, anyway???

• In "All That Glitters", when Ash is talking about how {cheesiness} all the Pokemon worked together as a team to win all those badges... they belong to them all...{/cheesiness} Ash says one of his Pokemon was SCYTHER?????

  Then there's a clip of Ash's Cyndaquil battling BUGSY's Scyther, and Ash thinks it was his own. MORON! If ANYONE had a Scyther it was Tracey, and let's face it, that Pokemon wins the award for "most useless Pokemon ever"! Hm, what was it Oak said? The Pokemon grows to resemble its trainer...? ;)

• In "Moving Pictures", Ash's Pokedex says that a Sun Stone evolves Gloom into Vileplume. Nope, it evolves into Bellossom with a Sun Stone! Guess the batteries are running low...

• In that same episode, Ash says, of Articuno, "I wonder if it's really real?" Doesn't this kid remember the 2nd movie at ALL? I can understand that he wouldn't recall Mewtwo, since the psychic cat erased his memory, but Lugia never messed with his mind! He saw, and narrowly avoided, an Articuno once before!
  
  

• In Trainer's Choice, Ash the Twerp informs us that Seviper evolves from Arbok. Completely wrong... maybe he thought Jessie's Arbok "evolved" into her new Seviper? What an idiot.
  
  

• Mistakes from MeowthMix:
  • Meowth Mix has found several mistakes in the First Pokemon Movie: first, one trainer calls his Pidgeot a Pidgeotto; then, Jessie and James call Scyther an Alakazam; finally, Meowth calls Sandslash a Sandshrew! Doesn't anybody check over this stuff?

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    In "Case of the K-9 Capers", Jessie uses a voice-changer to sound like Ash (to trick Pikachu). Unfortunately, she speaks in Ash's voice BEFORE switching on the voice-changer. Oops!

• Mistakes from PKMNALL:
  • In "Battle Aboared the St.Anne"- Listen closely when the group of Charmanders Flamethrower those Rockets away- one of them screams "MMMEEOOWWTHHH!!!!"in Meowth's voice!

  • In "Beauty and the Beach" - during the part where Squirtle and Starmie pose as a UFO, Brock calls Starmie Staryu.

  • In "The Flame-Pokemon-athon" - After Ash and Ponyta are blown away by Electrode's Explosion and Squirtle and Pikachu run up to them, listen closely -Squirtle says"zeni, zeni", his Japanese name "Zenigame" in his Japanese voice!

  • In"Princess vs Princess" - Where was Togepi? This episode came after "Who Gets to Keep Togepi" even on the Japanese version too, I think, but no Togepi.
    • Silver Vaporeon writes: "Togepi came after this particular episode was made. I think it was due to the fact that Pocket Monsters stopped airing for a while and picked up again after a few months (sorta like why they didn't show the Christmas special in March and held it until the following December, etc). but I am not sure. Anyways, they had this episode made BEFORE they found Togepi but the episode was planned to be aired on Girls' Day. However, if they had shown the episode as it was supposted to come out, the episode would be aired BEFORE Girls' Day in Japan and that wouldn't make any sense. So they held it back for a while as the episodes supposedly after this one were aired. When Girls' Day came, they aired it. But between this time frame, Togepi was introduced. So that's why its not in the episode: its another episode shown out of order."

  • In "Volcanic Panic - When Misty calls for Starmie to come out, Staryu does instead.

  • In "It's Mr.Mime Time" - The title read "It's Mr. Mimie Time", but Ash said "Mr. Mime Time"

  • In "Pokemon 2000" - During "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure" when all the Pokemon are singing and dancing, Poliwhirl says "Poliwrath" if you listen closely.

  • In "Pokemon3" - During "Pikachu and Pichu" when Voltorb pops out of the pile of tires it says "Electrode"

• Mistakes from TRRules275:
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    Ok. There's the same mistake in two episodes, "The Ultimate Test" & "Battle Aboard the St. Anne." In The Ultimate Test, when Jessie says "It's an Arbok when it's all coiled up!", looked closely at her eyes. They're green instead of blue! And in Battle Aboard the St. Anne (At least I think That's the episode) when TR is dressed up like those girls & James has blonde hair & Jessie has orange, her eyes are green there, too!

• Mistakes from Dawn Brunink:
  • In the pokemon episode "Mystery at the Lighthouse", if you look closly on the doors of Bill's lighthouse there is a picture of Mewtwo. How could that picture be on the door when Mewtwo wasn't created yet?

  • When Ash gets the ZEPYR BADGE he opens up his vest to look at it. It is on the right side where the badges he got from the Orange League, but when they the badge those badges are gone. Where did they go?

  • In the first movie, when Team Rocket is looking at the screen it shows a picture of a Scyther but they said it was Alakazam. Also, Meowth calls Sandshrew a Sandslash.

  • In Giovanni's office there is a picture of Mewtwo, when Mewtwo hasn't even been created yet.

    My theory on that: the Mewtwo that survived may not have been the first one they tried to clone. Hence there may have been many Mewtwos before him... but who knows?

• Mistakes from "Dizzy Valley girl: Jadesfire2":
  • "I forget the name of the epi, but it was in the Pkmleague battle epi where Ashy-boy fought that girl with the Bellsprout; (I think it's "The Fourth Round Rumble") It's either right before the commercial or right when it comes back on (I forget whether it's before or after Who's That Pokemon), but for like a second you can see what looks like a battle stadium with a grass field and in the corner are kanji Japanese letters. This was probably what they did in Japan right before the commercial and a second of it got left in."
    
    

• Mistakes from Halia:
  • "This isn't actually in the anime, it's in those stupid Pokemon novels by Tracey West. First, she says Jessie's eyes are gray. Then green. Then gray again, then PURPLE. What's with her!? They're blue! >O She also said once that James had blue eyes as well, and his eyes are just about the most attractive feature of his!"
    
    

• Mistakes from MichelleH16:
  • "There is one error in the first movie in which you have to watch very closely to see it. When the trainer with Pigeot flew off, and then immediately after showing all three trainers after when the habor master speaks; the trainer with the Pigeot is shown riding a Fearow instead. What happened to Pigeot?"

  • "Another error, this one in the second movie, Ash is the only one introduced, and yet, Melody knows Misty's name when she says "Oh, and Misty, try not to get jealous." Was there a time lapse there in the film that no one knows about? Also, The caption displays Tobias as being the old man, but he was never introduced."
    I've noticed this kind of thing happens often... for instance, how did Brock know the name of the girl with the Wooper when she never introduced herself? We'll never know... psychic abilities, perhaps?

  • "Also, where the heck did Maren come from? She just mysteriously appears in the movie, and Ash & co. are friends with her. A lapse somewhere in the series perhaps?"

  • "Shamoti island is referred to as that where Melody lives, but yet, the small little island where the shrine and Slowking are is also mentioned as being Shamoti Island. So, which one is really Shamoti?"

  • "If you look closely, Professor Ivy's skirt changes colors three different times when she is pictured during the helicopter scene."
    
    

• Mistake from Rocketqueen64:
  • "Do you know about those macaroni and cheese Pokemon shapes? There are little Pokemon on the back of the box that you can cut out. It also had their names too. I noticed that they forgot to dub. It wasn't in kanji, but instead of saying "Sentret," it said "Otachi.""
    
    

• Mistake from Jessica:
  • "I noticed that in one episode, FOWL PLAY, that there was a dubbing mistke. When Ash threw his Pokeball and Lureball, he said "Cyndaquil!" when he threw the lure ball, and "totodile!" when he threw the pokeball. I thought totodile was in the lure ball!"
    
    

• Mistakes from Dig:
  • "In pokemon the movie 2000, when Ash's mom finishes telling Ash that he's her world, the music starts and shows all of their faces right? Including Tracey's. Once the music stops, Professor Oak and Professor Ivy arrive at the exact same spot. Here's the mystery, why didn't Tracey get excited that Professor Oak was there - I mean it was his chance to meet him, and I thought Tracey idolized Professor Oak. Then in the episode 'a tent situation', Tracey goes on about how he can't believe he's finally going to meet Professor Oak and when he does - he gets all bubbly. If memory serves me correctly, didn't pokemon the movie 2000 take place before 'a tent situation' - weird, huh?"

  • "in "Showdown at the Poke Coral", Gary was amazed to see that TR's Meowth could talk. How could this be when he heard TR's Meowth talk in "The Battle of the Badge" [ where he heard TR's Meowth's plan to blow up Ash's side, then reply to TR's Meowth while stopping him from pressing the button ]?"

  • In "Tracey Gets Bugged", when Ash and the gang leave the pokemon centre, Nurse Joy's lips move but she says absolutely nothing!

  • In "Pikachu Re-volts", when Drowzee was doing a metronome, Ash appears to be shouting but no voice comes out of his mouth.

    Yeah, I noticed this too. I'm wondering if he said anything in the original. You see, Pikachu and Togepi have the same names and voices in both the original and the dub. So if Ash/Satoshi was saying something there, wouldn't it be difficult to sample Togepi's metronome voice clearly? So I think this may have been intentional...

  • In "Challenge of the Samurai", where Team Rocket finish saying the motto and chase Ash, they jump off the boulder first - with Meowth - but Meowth was right next to Ash!
    
    

• Mistakes from Kitty:
  • "In 'Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?' After Team Rocket are defeated, they call back their pokémon. BUT Weepinbel goes into Jessie's pokéball, and Arbok goes into James's pokéball!"

  • "In the pokémon manga 'Days of Gloom and Glory', pages 27 and 28 are the wrong way around! In one frame Team Rocket are celebrating that they're going to win, then on the next page the gloom suddenly do a giant solar beam, they go blasting off and Florinda asks Potter if he's alright. On the next page, Team Rocket are on the ground and Florinda tells the gloom to do a solar beam, then on page 29 Potter says he's fine..."

    Probably unchanged from when the original Japanese manga was printed.
    
    

• Mistakes from Alex:
  • "In First Pokémon Movie: When the explosion occurs that releases all of the originals, you see them running across the screen. If you look at Vaporeon, you will find he hasn't got a tail fin!"

  • "In the short film Pikachu and Pichu, a Voltorb pops up in Smeargle's artistic little hideout and says "Electrode!" Later they show every single Pokémon that lives in this hideout and there is not a single Voltorb to be seen - they have all became Electrode! Maybe the voice is the first thing to change in evolution, and the Voltorb evolved?"

  • "Tape the second English opening. Pause the tape when Jenny and Joy ride by on the jet-ski. Put it in slow motion. (one frame at a time if possible) One frame after the jet-ski goes by, is a picture of Giovanni! (the leader of Team Rocket) At normal speed you can't see it at all!

    Explanation: Lots of the scenes in the English openings are from the Japan version. (they just rearrange them) In the Japan version, the scene with Team Rocket is right after the jet-ski. They just cut one frame out of the next scene by accident"

  • "On all the shows, before a commercial break, they will show Who's that Pokemon? Well if you have the right tools, freeze it right before "Who's that Pokemon" comes on. If you do it correctly, you will notice the first frame of the Japanese "Who's That Pokemon" segment. This doesn't work on all episodes, it's mainly in the first series."

  • "Exeggcute's Evolution
    In this particular episode, Misty agrees to become the sidekick of a magician who thinks he's terrible. The magician uses his Exeggcute to hypnotize Ash into using his Pokémon for capturing some Exeggutor. Suddenly, the magician's Exeggcute start to evolve .. BY THEMSELVES! If anybody has played the Pokémon red/blue/yellow versions, Exeggcute don't evolve unless you give them a leaf stone. In the Pokemon Movie 2000, the Exeggcute *do* evolve with a leaf stone."
    
    

• Mistake from TRLGurl:
  • "In "Challenge of the Samurai" in the cabin where their sleeping, When Ash is thinking about Matapod, he has his bag next to him. The Bag does not has his name "Ash" on it, instead, it says "Satoshi" His Jap Name."
    
    

• Mistake from JamesKojiro:
  
  
  • "In the "Double Trouble" music video, they have one frame with Psyduck and Slowpoke as James is saying 'To extend our reach to the stars above'!"
  WOW! You can really see this if you watch the video frame-by-frame. I don't know how this got in there... there aren't even any shots from "The Evolution Solution" IN that video!!!
  
  

• Mistake from Mew13:
  • "I spotted a mistake in the First Movie! Ya know when the trainer releases his Gyarados into the water when it's raining and stuff? When the Gyrardos's head comes back up, for one frame it's lips are BLUE!!!! Freaky!"
    
    

• Mistake from Doggiegirl30:
  • "The biggest mistake I've ever found in Pokemon revolves around Gary and Ash in the first episode. In the first episode, when Ash runs up and pushes away Gary's cheerleaders, Gary and Ash have a little conversation in which Gary says "Well, at least ya got the chance to meet me!" So, this shows they have never met. If that's true, how come the "Deluxe Pokemon Handbook" says on the page about Gary that Ash and Gary grew up next door to each other and have been rivals ever since they met? And, I've also heard from several sources that Ash and Gary were friends until around the first episode Gary started acting like a bully and not liking Ash."
    
    

• Mistakes from Neko Kit Su:
  • "In the episode "The Mystery of Mount Moon", listen closely to the scene where you get to see the Clefairy and Clefable dancing. Right at the beginning of the scene, it sounds like "Pi-pi!", and when they cut to show Ash [and] the rest, it happens again. Kind of funny, considering that the Japanese names for Clefairy and Clefable are "Pipi" and "Pikushi" (Pixie)"

  • "In a VERY recent episode of Pokemon, from the Advanced series, they did a typo in "Who's That Pokemon!". It was Girafarig, and it said 'This Pokemon has a tale that bites.' It should really read 'This Pokemon has a tail that bites.'"
    
    

• Mistake from Inuyashatogepi:
  • "In "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokemon" for a few seconds (can't remember when), all the triangle outlines on Togepi are red. Then they change back to blue and red."
    
    

• Mistakes from Mini Marianne:
  • "In Pokemon Fashion Flash, When James grabs Misty and she calling for Psyduck, look at James' arm. You'll see Misty neck become part way on it. Freaky... Also notice when Misty's asking herself that question about if she wanted her face to look like Frankenstein that from the arm socket to Misty's hair, James' arm disappears. What's keeping it up?"

  • "In Bulbasaur the Ambassador,when Ash calls Prof. Oak's and he explains the problem at the lab and tells Ash he needs Bulbasaur,Tracey chimes in,mentioning that Bulbasaur used to take care of other Pokemon in that village In Bulbasaur and The Hidden Village.But how could Tracey have known? The only Pokemon's past that I recall Ash and Misty ever telling him was Squritle's.And I don't believe Ash ever told Prof.Oak."
    
    

• Mistake from Silver:
  • "one of the mistakes I've noticed in the first movie wasn't noticed by anyone else <.< U know in the first movie, the dude with the pigiot (sry, I don't remember his name =P Been a while since I watched it)? Well, throughout the whole movie they kept calling his pigiot a pigiotto... U'd think his trainer would be able to tell the difference by now, wouldn't u? lol..."
    
    

• Mistake from Josh Bates:
  • "In the episode where Ash battles Pryce for a gym badge Misty says "This is Ash's first battle on ice" or something like that. But! In the Pokémon League first series, Ash is on the ice field."
    
    
• Mistakes from Rosemary151:
  • I forget which episode this was in, but on the "Who's That Pokemon" it was Mantine and they said it was the heaviest Johto Pokemon, but Steelix is the heaviest Johto Pokemon.
    
    
  • In "The Wayward Wobbuffet", when the boat is about to crash into the bridge, Ash sends out Totodile from a pokeball instead of a lure ball.
    
    
  • In "Just Waiting on a Friend" Brock said he used to have a Ninetales even though he never did.
    
    
  • I'm not sure if I remember this one exactly, but in the first Lake of Rage episode they said something about Ash being about to get his sixth badge (which he already had), which was the Glacier badge and it was the last one.
    
    
  • Almost every episode with Pidgeot they pronounce it "Pid-jee-ot", but in the episode where Pikachu got stuck to the electromagnet (can't remember the name, I think it was Hoenn Alone) they pronounced it like "Pidjit"- even Ash, who had a Pidgeot at one point!
    
    
  • In Pokemon 4Ever, Misty complains about having a twisted knee, then in the next scene she's walking perfectly fine. Wouldn't that hurt a lot?
    
    
  • In the episode where Ash battled Jackson, Brock said something about Magneton using Icy Wind, which it can't even learn legally.
    
    
  • This one has bugged me ever since I saw it. Everyone who plays the games knows that Ground Pokemon are weak against water and immune to electric. In "Hatching a Plan", Phanpy is hurt by Pikachu's electric attack, then later it was perfectly fine after it fell in the river.
    
    This always bugged me as well. The shows don't follow the game's type advantages/disadvantages very closely, and often have Pikachu's electricity hurting Ground Pokemon. TR's Pokemon suffer worst from these mistakes, with Arbok's Poison attacks barely fazing Chikorita/Bayleef, while they should cause lots of damage!
    
    
• From Nicholas:
  • In the episode, "Pokemon; I choose you!" look where Pikachu runs ahead of Ash. When a Spearow runs into the back of Ash, rewind and go frame by frame when Ash finishes the word, "i'll." Just before the screen goes white for 2 frames, you'll see, right when the Spearow runs into him, his eyes will be replaced with stars for 2 frames.
    
    
  • In the episode, "The Waterflowers of Cerulean City," pause and go frame by frame immediately after Ash says, "Look at that line!" (after the underwater show). For 1 frame and 1 frame only, an image of where one of Misty's sisters asks about them borrowing Pikachu, and Ash saying no. Immediately after that, you'll see everyone looking out the window.
    
    
• From Josette:
  • In the episode, "Why? Why Not!" when Ash goes over the badges he won, he says he got his Glacier Badge from Falkner and his Glacier Badge from Pryce. I noticed that the first time it aired. The people must have made an error when translating. Ash got the Glacier Badge from Pryce and the Zepher(sp?) Badge from Falkner.
    
    
• From Virtual151:
  • In the first mini-movie Pikachu's Vacation if you look frame by frame at the back ground Pokemon when Sqirtle and Marill are racing when the camera is facing to the side of the lake there is an unidentified Pokemon looks a bit like Entei in gold version but just a little and it's definitely not an Entei its too small. So then what is it?
    
    
  • tdhyliard writes: "He said that there was a pokemon that looked like an Entei, but it was smaller that an Entei, well I have the book and they have 16 pictures of the movie, well it shows Marril and Squirtle about to be side to side, well the picture in the backgroud [on land] from left to right are: Exeggutor, Oddish, Growlithe, Paras, Ventonat, Ninetales, Pinsar, EEVEE [it was just the eevee's ear's and it's eyes are shown], ane Eletore.
    
    In the short movie there is a mess up when Squrirtle accadently swims onto Goldeen look in the background, there is no pokemon in it!"
    
    
• From Dragonslayerboy:
  • Hi, I just found a mistake in the old pokemon episode, hypno's naptime! The mistake is that when nurse joy says "the flame on this Charmander could go out any minute", she has more hair than usual. I mean, the 2 circle-ish things that are hair (and that's hanging down from her other hair) are filled with pink, and it's not the backround. See for yourself.
    
    
• From Jeremy Quinn:
  • In the episode where Ash catches Primape, he complains about it taking his hat and that he could never replace it. If he loves it so much than why does he freely give it up for another one before going to Hoenn?
    
    
• From OcelotInTheWild:
  • On the Arcanine trading card *the ones that were cheap*, it said that Arcanine first appeared in the "The Flame-Pokemon-athon" episode. I only saw Growlithe! Definate Mix-up!
    
    
  • Remember the episode when Ash tells the Professor about Ho-Oh? Well, if you looked closely at the stone picture on the wall with 4 legendaries, only Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Arcanine *yes, it is a chinese legendary, not really a mistake there*, Ash points toArticuno and says that it is the legendary he saw...is he blind? When did a gold legendary turn blue! Ash has serious mental issues...
    
    
• From Penguin Gengar:
  • On the back of the 1st Handbook (the red one) it says, "did you know that the swirl on Poliwhirl's stomach changes direction when it evolves into Poliwag?" However, it evolves into Poilwrath. Also, on the Poliwag page, it says when Poliwag evolves into Poliwhirl it switches! Also, another Poliwrath glitch: It says it can only learn Body Slam after it becomes Poliwrath; however, if you check tha attack list, it is listed there for Poliwag and Poliwhirl also!
    
    
  • In the 2nd Handbook (the purple one) Rhyhorn/Rhydon are not in the Rock/Ground Section. They are in a seperate Section called Ground/Rock. In the 3rd Handbook (the yellow one) it says they are int he Rock/Ground Section.
    
    
  • Also, they say in the 3rd one that Mantine weighs the most (485 lb.) out of the whole second season. However, Steelix weighs the most (882 lb.) by a lot!
    
    
• From Jemma:
  • in one episode(i cant remember the name of it), Traceys hair turns red for a second and his head band turns brown. This also once happened with ash.
    
    
  • The second mistake i found was in the episode before they left for Valencia Island. Professer Oak tells them to go get a pokeball off "him". You'd think he would know that shes a woman. Then a few seconds later, he says "she" Cant be make up his mind?
    
    
• From Chatori Shimizu:
  • In the movie where Deoxys comes out, I noticed that Tooi's pants were red for 1/2 a second, then changed back to white. When I looked it carefully, it really was red for 1/2 a second.
    
    
  • In the episode Hoenn Alone, first, the man Ash meets is about his height, then at the end of the episode, the man's height grows until he is about half taller than Ash! Freaky!
    
    
  • In the first movie of Mewtwo, how did Ash loose his cap at the sea, and regained it at the palace? In one screen, I didn't see his cap at all, and it appeared mysteriously. Magics?
    
    
  • In the movie of Lugia, Ash didn't die even though he fell from high above. Stupid Cartoons!
    
    
  • In the second episode, Ash calls his mom and tells her he reached the city, but after three seconds, Oak calls the pokemon center and asks Ash he had really been to the city. How can Ash's mom tell Oak in three seconds? Telepathy? This is scary!
    
    
• From LatiasSoliel:
  • In pokemon, the first movie, the pirate-like trainer sends out three pokemon at once, one of which was Golem. Pikachu's attack should have bounced harmlessly off the ground/rock type, but instead the single attack faints all three.
    
    
• From Mewninetytwopoinfive:
  • "In one of the Pokemon novels by Tracey West, West says that Professor Ivy's hair is brown. Her hair isn't brown, it's purple."
    
    
  • "In another novel by West, she says the girl with the Woopers has black hair. Huh? That girl's hair is blue! Tracey West has so many f***ing mental issues."
    
    
  • "In the Anime, there is a HUGE blazing error. Vivi Winstrate, who is about Max's age, has a Marill, but in the epi where Ash catches his Taillow, Max whines to Brock saying how he's too young to have a Pokemon. So why does Vivi have a Marill? Hey, I didn't know Vivi's a criminal!!"

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