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title_en= Mass Hip-Po-Sis|
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'''Mass Hip-Po-Sis''' (Japanese: '''迷子のヒポポタスを助けろ！''' ''Save the Stray Child {{tt|Hipopotas|Hippopotas}}!'') is the 44th episode of the {{series|Diamond & Pearl}}, and the 510th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on August 23, 2007 and in the United States on January 5, 2008.

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== Synopsis ==
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First, {{Ash}}, {{an|Dawn}} and {{an|Brock}} encounter a {{p|Hippopotas}} trapped on a cliff. It appears scared and they decide to help it get down from it.
Ash and the {{Ashfr|gang}} climb up the cliff, and use a rope to support Ash down onto the platform where Hippopotas is. Ash tries to reassure Hippopotas, but it bites his hand. He redraws it quickly, and {{AP|Pikachu}} slides down the rope, and comforts Hippopotas, with success.
Ash then hoists Hippopotas onto his head and is lifted onto the cliff by Brock and Dawn. The gang find that Hippopotas really wanted to get the fruit on a tree, but fell in the process, so Ash gets a fruit for him, which Hippopotas devours whole, with the words "hippo hippo (gug)". Ash, Dawn and Brock came across {{si|Rhonda}} and her Sinnoh Now Staff who are making a film about Hippopotas. Rhonda tells them that a male {{DL|Recurring wild Pokémon in the anime|Hippopotas}} got lost from his family, so they decide to help him to return with his family, but [[Team Rocket]] have their eyes locked on him. Hippopotas is soon lured into a trap by Team Rocket, and is brought into their balloon. He engages in a {{m|Yawn}} attack, resulting in {{MTR}} fallling asleep. Then, Brock also gets hit by a yawn, followed with Dawn, saying "Mom, I won..." which Brock responds by saying, "a contest, she means."

The gang are walking across the river, when Team Rocket tries to get at Hippopotas, only to crack the bridge, sending Hippopotas, Ash, and the gang, into the water.

It is known that Hippopotas hate water, so Hippopotas struggles to get onto the surface, but in vain. Then [[Ash's Buizel]] rescues it. The scene is skipped to a scene where Dawn is drying Hippopotas while Ash is drying his own body. They decide to take Hippopotas to the nearest [[Pokémon Center]], and hurry off. 

At the Pokémon Center, [[Nurse Joy]] asks Ash and the gang to gather nice, dry sand for a bath for Hippopotas, which they do. Afterwards, Hippopotas is soaked in the sand, and shows signs of recovery. They decide to "discharge" it front the Pokémon Center.
On their way out, they see a pair of sand salespeople (which actually are Team Rocket) and decide to let Hippopotas try the sand, before buying it. Then, Team Rocket closes the bag, but, before they do, Hippopotas rushes out.
The group heads off to a large desert, where they see Hippopotas footprints. They sense that Hippopotas are near, when Hippopotas calls out to them, resulting in plenty of Hippopotas popping out of the soil.
They leave Hippopotas there, but, before that, Ash tosses him a fruit, which it gobbles down. Our heroes wave goodbye, resulting in Ash being hit by a yawn, falling asleep.

== Major events ==

=== Debuts ===
==== Pokémon debuts ====
* {{p|Hippopotas}} ([[Recurring wild Pokémon in the anime#Hippopotas|anime]])

== Characters ==
=== Humans ===
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Brock}}
* {{an|Dawn}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* [[Sinnoh Now]] Staff
** {{si|Rhonda}}
**{{si|Jack}}
* [[Giovanni]] (fantasy)

=== Pokémon ===
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Piplup}} ({{OP|Dawn|Piplup}})
* {{p|Turtwig}} ({{OP|Ash|Turtwig}})
* {{p|Aipom}} ({{OP|Ash|Aipom}})
* {{p|Staravia}} ({{OP|Ash|Staravia}})
* {{p|Buneary}} ({{OP|Dawn|Buneary}})
* {{p|Pachirisu}} ({{OP|Dawn|Pachirisu}})
* {{p|Buizel}} ({{OP|Dawn|Buizel}})
* {{p|Sudowoodo}} ({{OP|Brock|Sudowoodo}})
* {{p|Croagunk}} ({{OP|Brock|Croagunk}})
* {{p|Happiny}} ({{OP|Brock|Happiny}})
* {{p|Cacnea}} ({{OP|James|Cacnea}})
* {{p|Hippopotas}} ([[Recurring wild Pokémon in the anime#Hippopotas|anime]]; debut)

== Trivia ==
* Music from ''[[M08|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'', ''[[M09|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'', and ''[[Because the Sky is There]]'' are used as background music.
* Hippopotas is seen riding atop Ash's head (at Ash's insistence), despite weighing over one hundred pounds.
* Jessie frequently mispronounced Hippopotas's name. (In the dub, it's a different way each time.<!--Not sure if it's different each time in the original as well...-->)
* It is also one of the few episodes since ''[[EP146|Tricks Of The Trade]]'' in which [[Jessie's Wobbuffet]] didn't appear.
* [[Professor Oak's lecture]] returns.
* Professor Oak's lecture: {{p|Mothim}}
** [[Pokémon senryū]]: ガーメイル　おてがみかいたよ　<big>e</big>メイル ''Gāmeiru, otegami kaita yo, imeiru'' "{{tt|Garmeil|Mothim}}, it wrote a letter, an email"
* {{Ash}} narrates the next episode preview.
[[Image:KanjiDub.jpg|thumb|Kanji left in the dub.]]
* The road construction sign that was written in {{wp|kanji}} was left unedited in the dub.
* The same Hippopotas from this episode appears in ''[[DP065|Sleight of Sand!]]''.
* When Jessie states that she wants a script change, Meowth says "they'll call [[Cassidy]]".  Coincidently, in the next episode this same Hippopotas appears in, Cassidy is in it.

=== Errors ===
* When Rhonda met up with Ash, Dawn and Brock, she was holding the microphone in her right hand and waved them with her left hand. The next screenshot, it was reversed, but after that it switched again.
=== Dub edits ===

== In other languages ==
* European Portuguese: '''{{tt|Hipó-Teses em Grande!|High chances!}}'''
** The word "hipó-teses" is a combination of the portuguese words "hipopótamo", which, in english, means "hippopotamus", and "hipóteses", which, in english, means "chances"/"possibilities", so, the Portuguese title, may be translated as ''High Hippo-Chances!''  
* Finnish: '''{{tt|Massahippoosi|A mass hipposis}}'''
* German: '''{{tt|Mit Seifenblasen ins Traumland!|With bubbles into the dreamland!}}'''
* Italian: '''{{tt|Un Hippopotas in pericolo|A Hippopotas in peril}}'''
* Iberian Spanish: '''{{tt|¡El Hippopotas perdido!|The lost Hippopotas!}}'''
* Latin American Spanish: '''{{tt|¡Hip-Po-Sis masiva!|Massive Hip-Po-Sis!}}'''
* Dutch: '''{{tt|Massa Hip-po-se!|Mass Hip-Po-Sis!}}'''
* Brazilian Portuguese: '''{{tt|Hipótese Hipnótica!|Hipnotic Hypothesis!}}'''
* Czech: '''{{tt|Hromadná hrošáda}}'''
** The word ''hrošáda'' is combination of Czech words ''hroch (hippo)'' and ''rošáda ({{wp|Castling}})'', so Czech title can be translated as ''Mass Hippo-Castling''
* Polish: '''{{tt|Hippo-problem|Hippo-problem}}
* French: '''{{tt|Sieste obligatoire|Mandatory nap}}'''

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