SM012

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SM012   EP951 課外授業はヒドイデ！？ The Extracurricular Lesson is Hidoide!?

First broadcast Japan January 26, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 直井由紀 Yuki Naoi 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: 課外授業はヒドイデ！？ The Extracurricular Lesson is Hidoide!?) is the 12th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 951st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 26, 2017.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Jessie and James try and fail to catch a Cloyster and Carvanha, respectively.
• Team Rocket decide to make Bewear's den their base of operations in Alola.
• James catches a Mareanie.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Mareanie (James's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Professor Kukui
• Matori

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Mareanie (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's; new; debut)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Rockruff (Professor Kukui's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Mareanie (multiple; debut)
• Wingull (multiple)
• Cloyster
• Corsola (×5)
• Carvanha
• Alomomola (multiple)
• Chinchou
• Luvdisc (multiple)
• Barboach
• Staryu
• Shellder
• Mankey
• Primeape
• Pichu (×2)

Trivia

Jessie and James's lures

• Poké Problem: What Pokémon will become a companion of Team Rocket in this episode?
• James does the Dare da? lead-out. His voice is weakened, as he is poisoned by Mareanie at that point in the episode.
• Ash, Mallow, Lillie, Lana, Sophocles, Kiawe, and Samson Oak narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Jessie and James use a Ekans and Koffing lure respectively in this episode. This is likely a reference to the Ekans and Koffing they once owned.
• Ash and his classmates wear their swimsuits throughout this episode.
• This episode reveals that Jessie does not like Matori, similar to Meowth disliking Giovanni's Persian.
• This is the first episode since the Original series that Team Rocket fairly defeated Ash's whole current Pokémon party.

In other languages

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