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Wish Upon a Star Shape
ピィとピッピとながれぼし！ Py and Pippy and the Shooting Star!
Broadcast dates
Japan	May 2, 2002
USA	May 3, 2003
Theme songs
Opening	Believe in Me
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Ready Go!
Ending	ポケッターリ・モンスターリ
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Assistant director	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura

Wish Upon a Star Shape (Japanese: ピィとピッピとながれぼし！ Py and Pippy and the Shooting Star!) is episode 246 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 2, 2002 and in the United States on May 3, 2003.

When a Cleffa falls out of a crashing Clefairy spaceship, Phanpy brings it back to its friends. However, the Cleffa is being chased, not just by Team Rocket, but also PMC - an organisation with unknown motivations.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• The Pokémon Mystery Club

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Ken
• Mary
• Oswald (flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Voltorb (US and international), Py (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Phanpy (Ash's)
• Goldeen (Misty's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Corsola (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Crobat (Brock's)
• Pineco (Brock's)
• Cleffa (evolves)
• Clefairy (many; one newly evolved)
• Jigglypuff (anime; flashback)
• Snorlax

Trivia

• The Clefairy are the same group from Clefairy Tales.
• The English title of this episode is a reference to the phrase Wish upon a Star.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Mystère autour d'une étoile filante
• Italian: Misteri dal cosmo
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Un deseo con forma de estrella!
• Spanish: Pide un deseo a un estrellado