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Mass Hip-Po-Sis (Japanese: 迷子のヒポポタスを助けろ！ Save the Stray Child Hipopotas!) is the 44th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on August 23, 2007 and in the United States on January 5, 2008.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Hippopotas

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Rhonda
• Sinnoh Now (Staff)
• Giovanni (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Hippopotas (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and Because the Sky is There are used as background music.
• Jessie frequently mispronounced Hippopotas's name. (In the dub, it's a different way each time.)
• It is also one of the few episodes since EP146 in which Jessie's Wobbuffet didn't appear.
• Professor Oak's lecture returns.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Mothim
  • Pokémon senryū: ガーメイル　おてがみかいたよ　eメイル Gāmeiru, otegami kaita yo, imeiru "Garmeil, it wrote a letter, an email"
• Ash narrates the next episode preview.

• The road constrution sign that was written in kanji was left unedited in the dub.

Errors

Dub edits

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