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At {{an|Professor Kukui}}'s house, Kukui realizes | At {{an|Professor Kukui}}'s house, Kukui realizes {{an|Professor Burnet}} and {{p|Munchlax}} left their lunches behind. With Kukui needing to attend the Pokémon Battle Study Conference, {{Ash}} offers to deliver the lunches to [[Aether Paradise]] for him. When Kukui leaves, {{an|Lillie}} and [[Hobbes]] arrive aboard a jet. Hobbes explains that {{an|Lusamine}} has been busy since the end of the [[Manalo Festival]], and asks Ash if he could visit her to report his side of the story, which he agrees to do. | ||
Ash, Lillie, and Hobbes arrive at Aether Paradise. {{TRT}} is also there, [[List of Team Rocket's disguises|disguised]] as {{tc|Aether Foundation Employee}}s, hoping to capture the facility's Pokémon. When {{an|Faba}} notices Team Rocket and interrogates them, [[Wicke]] arrives and explains that she recently hired them as Conservation Area employees. As Faba walks off, Wicke hands [[Jessie]] a clipboard to begin counting the Pokémon. Meanwhile, [[James]] is assigned cleaning duty, but soon becomes exhausted. He calls on {{TP|James|Mareanie}}'s assistance, and after poisoning James, she mops the floors with her tentacles. Meanwhile, {{MTR}} is taking a break and listening to several {{p|Whimsicott}} explain the relaxing life they enjoy at Aether Paradise. Meowth has a fantasy of {{an|Giovanni}} surrounded by the Aether Paradise Pokémon, and tells the Whimsicott that they will enjoy living with the Boss. | Ash, Lillie, and Hobbes arrive at Aether Paradise. {{TRT}} is also there, [[List of Team Rocket's disguises|disguised]] as {{tc|Aether Foundation Employee}}s, hoping to capture the facility's Pokémon. When {{an|Faba}} notices Team Rocket and interrogates them, [[Wicke]] arrives and explains that she recently hired them as Conservation Area employees. As Faba walks off, Wicke hands [[Jessie]] a clipboard to begin counting the Pokémon. Meanwhile, [[James]] is assigned cleaning duty, but soon becomes exhausted. He calls on {{TP|James|Mareanie}}'s assistance, and after poisoning James, she mops the floors with her tentacles. Meanwhile, {{MTR}} is taking a break and listening to several {{p|Whimsicott}} explain the relaxing life they enjoy at Aether Paradise. Meowth has a fantasy of {{an|Giovanni}} surrounded by the Aether Paradise Pokémon, and tells the Whimsicott that they will enjoy living with the Boss. |
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Don't Ignore the Small Stufful! (Japanese: ロケット団とヌイコグマ! Rocket-dan and Nuikoguma!) is the 96th episode of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, and the 1,035th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 11, 2018, in Canada on March 23, 2019, and in the United States on March 26, 2019.
Blurb
Ash heads to Aether Paradise to deliver the lunches Professor Burnet and Munchlax forgot at home, and he and Lillie enjoy seeing the Pokémon there. But Team Rocket is there, too, plotting to steal Pokémon while in disguise as Aether Paradise employees. When one of the Pokémon from the conservation area, an adorable Stufful, goes missing, everyone suspects Team Rocket of foul play. But Stufful refuses to leave Team Rocket’s side, and when Bewear appears to whisk them away, everyone learns that Bewear and Stufful are family! This time, Team Rocket’s exit includes a new member of the group: Stufful!
Plot
At Professor Kukui's house, Kukui realizes Professor Burnet and Munchlax left their lunches behind. With Kukui needing to attend the Pokémon Battle Study Conference, Ash offers to deliver the lunches to Aether Paradise for him. When Kukui leaves, Lillie and Hobbes arrive aboard a jet. Hobbes explains that Lusamine has been busy since the end of the Manalo Festival, and asks Ash if he could visit her to report his side of the story, which he agrees to do.
Ash, Lillie, and Hobbes arrive at Aether Paradise. Team Rocket is also there, disguised as Aether Foundation Employees, hoping to capture the facility's Pokémon. When Faba notices Team Rocket and interrogates them, Wicke arrives and explains that she recently hired them as Conservation Area employees. As Faba walks off, Wicke hands Jessie a clipboard to begin counting the Pokémon. Meanwhile, James is assigned cleaning duty, but soon becomes exhausted. He calls on Mareanie's assistance, and after poisoning James, she mops the floors with her tentacles. Meanwhile, Meowth is taking a break and listening to several Whimsicott explain the relaxing life they enjoy at Aether Paradise. Meowth has a fantasy of Giovanni surrounded by the Aether Paradise Pokémon, and tells the Whimsicott that they will enjoy living with the Boss.
Elsewhere, Burnet and Munchlax are ecstatic to have their lunches now with them. Then Rotom uploads its Manalo Festival data onto the Aether Foundation's system. Wicke offers Ash a tour of Aether Paradise, and the young Trainer happily obliges. Elsewhere, with the Pokémon all accounted for, Team Rocket agree to start their large scale plan but are interrupted when Ash arrives on the scene. Pikachu looks up at Team Rocket, and the trio quickly flees to avoid being detected. However in their escape, the list of Pokemon flies out of Jessie's back pocket and lands at Faba's feet. Ash and Lillie enter the Ditto play space, and one of the Ditto approaches Pikachu and soon transforms into him, only it still maintains its facial expression. Wicke adds that the Ditto is almost ready to graduate. The term "graduate" perplexes Rotom and Ash. Burnet explains that they care for the Pokémon at Aether Paradise before returning them to the wild. As Team Rocket walk down a corridor a Stufful starts following the group. Meanwhile, Faba runs over to Lusamine with the count list in hand, and he exclaims that Stufful is unaccounted for. Then Lusamine, Wicke, Brunet, Ash and Lillie agree to split up and search for Stufful. Rotom's Pokédex on Stufful entry alarms Ash, but Wicke and Burnet assure him that Stufful is harmless. In a flashback, Wicke explains that she first met Stufful during one of her solo patrols. She heard its cries and soon found Stufful was trapped under a fallen tree. In an act of desperation, Wicke dug through the dirt to make a gap big enough to rescue Stufful. Wicke tears at the thought of Stufful going missing, so the search party begins.
Team Rocket continues to walk away from Stufful and eventually stop. Jessie questions why it's following them, but James then suggests that Jessie should catch Stufful. Jessie throws her Poké Ball, but Stufful sidesteps it. She tries a second Poké Ball, but Stufful ducks this time. Jessie attempts to capture Stufful for a third time, but the Pokemon headbutts the Poké Ball into Jessie's face. Jessie scolds Stufful, but the Pokémon instead jumps onto Jessie's face and begins smothering her. Wicke, in a frantic voice, makes an announcement over the loudspeakers to alert everyone that Stufful is missing from the Conservation Area. Meowth and James overhear the announcement and fear that they will be caught red-handed attempting to steal Stufful and lose their chance to catch all the other Pokémon. Meanwhile, Jessie struggles to free herself of Stufful, and the Flailing Pokémon manages to latch itself onto Jessie's hair. As Ash and Lillie appear behind them, Team Rocket are run away to maintain their covert operation. The group rush passed Faba, who quickly notices Stufful attached to Jessie's hair. Team Rocket are eventually stopped on a walk bridge and surrounded by Lusamine, Wicke, Burnet, Faba, Lillie and Ash. Faba demands to know why the thieves ran, with the accusation shocking Team Rocket. The quartet contemplates their actions and they decide to launch into their motto.
With their true identities now exposed, Rotom demands that Stufful be returned. Jessie yells out that she would return Stufful, but it is attached to her. The answer only infuriates Ash, and he has Pikachu launch a Thunderbolt attack. As the electricity begins to reach into the air, Bewear crashes through the glass ceiling to rescue Team Rocket. As it is about to scoop up the group, Stufful captivates Bewear's attention. Suddenly Bewear lets out a shrill of joy, and Stufful jumps into its arms. The scene shocks everyone, and Meowth reveals that Bewear is Stufful's mother. Everyone is overjoyed for the pair, and Stufful waves to Wicke and the others. Bewear does the same before bundling Team Rocket in her arms and jumping onto an Aether Foundation helicopter. Bewear breaks off the helicopter's rotor blades and hands to it over to Stufful. Stufful promptly begins twirling the blades in its hands, and this allows Bewear to return to her Melemele Island den. Wicke, in particular, is relieved to see Stufful returned to its mother's arms and takes a moment to reflect.
Sometime later, there is another hole in the Conservation Area's roof, and helicopter blades sit atop a tree canopy. Wicke walks through the Conservation Area and stops after spotting a leaf full of honey lying on the ground. The mysterious gesture startles her, but the culprit is not revealed.
Major events
- Jessie tries and fails to catch a Stufful that starts to follow her around.
- Bewear is revealed to be Stufful's mother.
- For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Lillie
- Jessie
- James
- Giovanni (fantasy)
- Professor Kukui
- Gladion (photos)
- Lusamine
- Faba
- Professor Burnet
- Wicke
- Hobbes
- Aether Foundation Employees
- Pilot
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Whimsicott (US and international), Stufful (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
- Rowlet (Ash's)
- Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
- Torracat (Ash's)
- Popplio (Lana's; photo)
- Marowak (Kiawe's; photo)
- Vulpix (Lillie's; Alolan; Snowy)
- Mareanie (James's)
- Silvally (Gladion's; photos)
- Munchlax (Professor Burnet's)
- Jigglypuff (anime)
- Bewear (anime)
- Solgaleo (Nebby; photos)
- Drampa (Grandpa Forest)
- Lunala (anime; photos)
- Necrozma (anime; Dusk Mane and Ultra Necrozma; photos)
- Naganadel (anime; photos)
- Stufful (anime)
- Ditto (×5)
- Whimsicott (×5)
- Sandile (multiple)
- Swanna
- Exeggcute
- Finneon
- Quagsire
- Cutiefly (×3)
- Ivysaur
- Fletchling (multiple)
- Spinarak
- Boldore (multiple)
- Exeggutor (Alolan)
- Sudowoodo (×6)
- Petilil
- Ribombee (×3)
- Miltank
- Snorlax
- Trapinch
- Elekid
- Psyduck
- Sandygast
- Braviary
- Jigglypuff (×6)
- Petilil (multiple; flashback)
- Pikipek (×4; flashback)
- Herdier (flashback)
- Wishiwashi (Solo Form; ×4; flashback)
- Braviary (×2; flashback)
- Spearow (multiple; flashback)
- Ledyba (fantasy)
- Bonsly (fantasy)
Trivia
- Poké Problem: The Pokémon that grabs on to me in today's episode is...?
- Host: Jessie
- Choices: Boldore, Stufful, Whimsicott, Sandile
- Answer: Stufful
- This is the last episode to air before the release of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.
- This is the first episode of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon to have a boss fantasy.
- Bewear is confirmed to be female in this episode.
- Jessie uses an Arbok-shaped pen, which is a reference to the Arbok she once had.
- Professor Kukui, Ash, Rotom, and Dartrix narrate the preview for the next episode.
- The English dub title could be based on the idiom "don't sweat the small stuff".
- Team Rocket reads the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the English dub.
Errors
Dub edits
- Bewear and Stufful are said to be "family" rather than explicitly mother and child, leaving the relation between the two ambiguous in the dub.
In other languages
Language | Title | |
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Mandarin Chinese | 火箭隊與童偶熊! | |
Dutch | Stufful zoekt zijn familie! | |
Finnish | Stufful kadoksissa! | |
Hebrew | !לא להתעלם מסטאפול הקטן | |
Korean | 로켓단과 포곰곰! | |
Polish | Nie ignorujcie małego Stuffula! | |
Brazilian Portuguese | Em busca de Stufful! Conto de um Stufful perdido! * | |
Russian | Мал Стаффул, да дорог! | |
Spanish | Latin America | ¡Stufful y el Equipo Rocket! |
Spain | ¡Stufful, el Pequeñajo! | |
Thai | แก๊งร็อคเก็ตกับนุยโคกุมะ! | |
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This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation. |
- Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon episodes
- Episodes written by Aya Matsui
- Episodes storyboarded by Hiromasa Amano
- Episodes directed by Yoshitaka Makino
- Episodes animated by Rei Yamazaki
- Episodes animated by Maiko Katsuki
- Episodes by multiple animation directors
- Episodes focusing on Team Rocket
- Episodes in which a Legendary Pokémon appears
- Episodes in which an Ultra Beast appears
- Episodes which aired in Canada before the United States