EP146

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 Ash, Misty and Brock are walking down the beach when they see a young trainer and his Wobbuffet. Ash looks it up on his Pokédex and the boy introduces himself as Benny. He says that he is going to the Pokémon Swap Meet to find someone to trade his Wobbuffet to. Misty wonders why he would want to trade his Pokémon and Benny says he likes Wobbuffet and has trained it hard but now he wants a different Pokémon.

James is squirting water as his Victreebel while Jessie is with her Lickitung. Meowth says they should go and see if they could steal some Pokémon, but, unbeknownst to them, Snubbull is following them.

The gang are walking down the road when a herd of Tauros come running by.

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.

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

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 (Jessie's, received in trade from Benny; new; debut)
• 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 Encierro de Toros, or Running of the Bulls.
• The book Prize Pokémon is based on this episode.
• This episode marks the first of many times in which Wobbuffet successfully uses Counter to reverse a special attack.
• This episode marks the second time a main anime character has traded a Pokémon. The first time was in Battle Aboard the St. Anne!, where Ash traded his Butterfree to a Gentleman for a Raticate, but soon traded back.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Czech: Výměnný bazar
• French: Mélanges et échanges
• German: Die Pokémon-Tauschbörse
• Hebrew: ?רוצה להתחלף rotzé lehitchalef?
• Italian: La fiera
• Mandarin: 果然翁與神奇寶貝交換大會
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Os Truques do Negócio
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Engaños en el intercambio
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Bazar de intercambio!

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