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Moving Pictures

EP187   こおったヒマナッツのなぞ!! The Mystery of the Frozen Himanuts!!

First broadcast Japan March 1, 2001 United States January 26, 2002

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ぼくのベストフレンドへ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Template:Incomplete synopsis In their travels, Ash and friends chance upon their old shutterbug buddy Todd, who is now traveling far and wide in search of the dream photo opportunity - a close-up of the Legendary Pokémon, Articuno. Their reunion is cut short when a chunk of solid ice comes falling out of a perfectly blue sky. Out heroes examine the object and discover that a Sunkern is frozen inside. Observing the Pokémon to still be alive, Ash and friends rush it off to be treated at the Pokémon Center...

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.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon 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 (debut)
• Sunflora (many)

Trivia

• This episode marks one of the few times that an item is described by the Pokédex.
  • Other items are the Poké Flute in Wake Up Snorlax! and the Salveyo weed in The Stun Spore Detour.
• This episode is the first, and to date the only, one in which Ash uses an evolutionary stone to make a Pokémon evolve.
  • It also marks the first time that an item belonging to Ash is used to induce a Pokémon's evolution.
• Both this episode and The Light Fantastic share their names with Discworld books.
• This episode references music in the real-world:
  • The episode's English title is also the name of an album by the band Rush.
  • The story of the Sunflora Lodge is based on a song by Tony Orlando and Dawn.

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.

Dub edits

• Todd Snap was named as Todd again due to legal issues 4Kids involving Kellogg's.
• While Ash, Misty and Todd think about how long Sophia's story will be, Brock wonders about if she has any string cheese. The reason for this is not currently known.

In other languages

• French: La photo de mariage
• German. Bewegende Bilder
• Hebrew: אופרת קרח operat hakerakh
• Italian: Nozze d'oro
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Visita ao Vale do Sol
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Fotos de amor
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Las fotos del Recuerdo!

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