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Moving Pictures (Japanese: こおったヒマナッツのなぞ!! The Mystery of the Frozen Himanuts!!) is the 187th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 1, 2001 and in the United States on January 26, 2002.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Todd Snap returns for another three-episode arc.
• Ash uses the Sun Stone he won at the Bug Catching Contest back in The Bug Stops Here.

Debuts

• Sunkern

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Todd Snap
• Sophia
• Marcello

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Pineco

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Articuno
• Sunkern
• Sunflora (many)

Trivia

• This is one of the rare times that an item gets scanned in the Pokédex. Normally, Pokémon get mentioned in the Pokédex. Other cases this has happened was with the Poké Flute in Wake Up Snorlax! to wake up a Snorlax and the Salveyo weed in The Stun Spore Detour to help Ash and Tracey recover from a Vileplume's Stun Spore.
• This is the first time a Pokémon (Sunkern) uses Sunny Day.
• This is the first episode of Todd Snap's second appearance.
• It is the first and to date the only episode in which Ash uses an evolutionary stone to make a Pokémon evolve (wild Sunkern → Sunflora). What is more, this is the first episode when an item belonging to Ash was used to evolve a Pokémon, although in this regard the episode is not unique.
• Both this episode and EP185 share their names with Discworld books, in this case Moving Pictures.

Errors

• In the dub, the Pokédex says that the Sun Stone is used to evolve Gloom into Vileplume, while in the games the Sun Stone evolves Gloom into Bellossom. The Leaf Stone is the item that will evolve Gloom into Vileplume.
• After seeing Articuno's picture in the PokéDex, Ash says that he wishes it were real, and not a legend. Ash should already know that Articuno is a real Pokémon, as he encountered one in the second movie. However, since the movies are of questionable canon, this may not be considered a true error.

Dub edits

• Todd Snap was named as Todd again due to legal issues Template:4Kids didn't want with Kellogg's.
• While Ash, Misty and Snap think about how long Sophia's story will be, Brock wonders about if she has any string cheese. The reason for this bit of random humor is currently unknown.

In other languages

• French: La photo de mariage
• Italian: Nozze d'oro
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Las fotos del Recuerdo!
• Spanish: Fotos de amor

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