From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
| Tricks of the Trade
|
ソーナンスとポケモンこうかんかい！！
Sonans and the Pokémon Exchange!!
|
|
First broadcast
| Japan
|
May 4, 2000
|
| United States
|
March 24, 2001
|
|
English themes
|
Japanese themes
|
Credits
|
Tricks of the Trade (Japanese: ソーナンスとポケモンこうかんかい！！ Sonans and the Pokémon Exchange!!) is the 146th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 4, 2000 and in the United States on March 24, 2001.
Synopsis
Template:Incomplete synopsis
Ash, Misty and Brock are walking down the beach when they see a young trainer and his Wobbuffet. Ash looks it up on his Pokédex and the boy introduces himself as Benny. He says that he is going to the Pokémon Swap Meet to find someone to trade his Wobbuffet to. Misty wonders why he would want to trade his Pokémon and Benny says he likes Wobbuffet and has trained it hard but now he wants a different Pokémon.
James is squirting water at his Victreebel while Jessie is with her Lickitung. Meowth says they should go and see if they could steal some Pokémon, but, unbeknownst to them, Snubbull is following them.
The gang are walking down the road when a herd of Tauros come running by. One of the townspeople says that this is one of the events that happen every year at the Swap Meet, and that anyone who touches one of the Tauros's horns gets a trophy from the mayor. Ash tries, but gets scared and moves out of the way. He then says maybe he'll try next year. All of the Tauros run into a stadium and begin a huge battling competition.
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Wooper
Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Swap Meet
Trivia
- The Tauros competition at the beginning of the episode is loosely based on the traditional Spanish Encierro de Toros, or Running of the Bulls.
- The book Prize Pokémon is based on this episode.
- This episode marks the first of many times in which Wobbuffet successfully uses Counter to reverse a special attack.
- This episode marks the second time a main anime character has traded a Pokémon. The first time was in Battle Aboard the St. Anne!, where Ash traded his Butterfree to a Gentleman for a Raticate, but soon traded back.
- A trainer who wanted to trade an Onix for Ash's Tauros had the same voice as Brock.
- The man who tricked James in Battle Aboard the St. Anne! made another appearance trying to trick him again but James remembered him and ran after him.
- One of the trainers offered to trade Ash a Rhyhorn for his Tauros. Rhyhorn was the Pokémon Ash was trying to catch when he instead caught his second Tauros.
Errors
- When Chikorita uses Razor Leaf and Vine Whip, Wobbuffet uses Counter and is able to reflect it. This is incorrect as both were Template:Type2 attacks (relying on a Pokémon's Sp. Attack prior to Generation IV). The correct counter would have been Mirror Coat since it is used against special attacks and Counter would be used against physical attacks.
- Incidentally as of Generation IV and beyond, both moves are now classified as physical attacks.
- Sentret's ears in one scene are colored light brown instead of the normal dark brown.
- The Magikarp salesman tells James that if he sells each of the 1 billion for 100 dollars, he would have 10 billion dollars. He would actually have 100 billion dollars.
Dub edits
In other languages
Czech
Dutch
European French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Brazil
Portugal
Latin America
Spain
