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Tricks of the Trade

EP146   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 Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ポケモンはらはらリレー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis At the Pokémon Swap Meet, our heroes befriend a young Pokémon trainer who’s having difficulties finding a trading partner willing to accept his Wobbuffet. When Jessie inadvertently deposits her Poké ball across from his in the exchanger, this young trainer gets more than he had bargained for...

Major events

• Ash sends his Heracross to Professor Oak's lab and briefly uses one of his Tauros.
• Jessie accidentally trades her Lickitung for Benny's Wobbuffet.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Magikarp salesman
• Benny

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Wooper

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Benny's; traded to Jessie; debut)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's; received in trade from Benny; new)
• Tauros (Ash's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Lickitung (Jessie's; traded to Benny)
• Snubbull (Madame Muchmoney's)

Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Swap Meet

• Butterfree
• Raticate
• Raichu
• Sandslash
• Wigglytuff
• Oddish
• Venonat
• Mankey
• Machoke
• Bellsprout
• Golem
• Slowpoke
• Farfetch'd
• Doduo
• Drowzee
• Krabby
• Voltorb
• Exeggutor
• Rhyhorn
• Chansey
• Starmie
• Scyther
• Tauros
• Magikarp
• Sentret
• Hoothoot
• Ledyba
• Mareep
• Bellossom
• Marill
• Hoppip
• Sunflora
• Quagsire
• Pineco
• Gligar
• Scizor
• Donphan
• Stantler
• Blissey

Trivia

• The Tauros competition at the beginning of the episode is loosely based on the traditional Spanish Corrida de Toros, or bullfighting.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Mélanges et échanges
• German: Die Pokémon-Tauschbörse
• Italian: La fiera
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Bazar de intercambio!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Os Truques do Negócio
• Iberian Spanish: Engaños en el intercambio

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