SM016

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They Might Not Be Giants!

SM016   EP955 小さな三匹、大きな冒険！！ A Small Trio on a Big Adventure!!

First broadcast Japan March 2, 2017 United States July 1, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 高橋知也 Tomoya Takahashi Assistant director 高橋知也 Tomoya Takahashi Animation directors 難波功 Isao Nanba 宮田忠明 Tadaaki Miyata No additional credits are available at this time.

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

They Might Not Be Giants! (Japanese: 小さな三匹、大きな冒険！！ A Small Trio on a Big Adventure!!) is the 16th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 955th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 2, 2017 and is scheduled to air in the United States on July 1, 2017, as part of a three-hour special.

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

• Lana's Popplio is revealed to know Bubble Beam.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui (fantasy)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Meowth (Team Rocket) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)
• Magnemite (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's)
• Machop (Trainer's)
• Makuhita (Trainer's)
• Rockruff (Trainer's)
• Litten (anime)
• Bewear (anime)
• Stoutland (anime)
• Pikipek (×2)
• Wingull (multiple)
• Dugtrio (Alola Form; image)

Trivia

• Pokémon QR Code: Bounsweet
• Poké Problem: Which of these is the detestable Pokémon that gets in our way in today's episode?
  • Host: Meowth
  • Choices: Turtonator, Litten, Togedemaru, Tapu Koko
  • Answer: Litten
• This is the first Sun & Moon series episode in which Team Rocket successfully blasts off.
• This is the first episode since its debut where Rotom Pokédex doesn't give any new entries.
• Rotom Pokédex narrates the preview for the next episode.
• This episode was followed by a preview of the twentieth movie.
• The dub title is a reference to the band They Might Be Giants.

Errors

• When Team Rocket first appear, Jessie's Mimikyu and James's Mareanie are shown in front of Team Rocket's Secret Base, but in several shots later, they are nowhere to be seen.
• When Stoutland is looking over Rowlet, the ring around Rowlet's wings is too high to make it unable to fly.
• In a couple of scenes, Mallow's Bounsweet disappears from the scene.

Dub edits

In other languages

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