← JE029 | Episode | JE031 → Tricks of the Trade  (ソーナンスとポケモンこうかんかい！！) General Other Information Season: Pokémon: The Johto Journeys Char. of the Day: Benny Episode №: #146 Main: Ash Ketchum, Brock, Misty Aired:  May 4, 2000 Recurring: Jessie, James, Benny  March 24, 2001 Opening Theme: Pokémon Johto Minor: Professor Oak Badge(s): Setting: Pokémon: Ash's Pikachu, Ash's Tauros, Team Rocket's Meowth, Ash's Chikorita, Misty's Togepi, Misty's Psyduck, Jessie's/Benny's Lickitung, Benny's/Jessie's Wobbuffet, James' Victreebel, Snubbull, Tauros(group), Gligar, Marill, Sunflora, Sentret, Stantler, Scyther, Hoppip, Butterfree, Farfetch'd, Voltorb, Doduo, Mankey, Starmie, Raticate, Raichu, Sandslash, Wigglytuff, Oddish, Venonat, Machoke, Bellsprout, Golem, Slowpoke, Drowzee, Krabby, Exeggutor, Rhyhorn, Chansey, Magikarp, Hoothoot, Mareep, Ledyba, Bellossom, Quagsire, Pineco, Scizor, Donphan, Blissey Major event(s) Jessie Trades Her Lickitung for a Wobbuffet, Ash sends his Heracross to Prof. Oak's Lab and switches it with his Tauros Pokémon: The Johto Journeys

Episode PlotEdit

With Goldenrod City as their new destination, Ash and co. end up in a town with an annual Tauros festival. While there they meet a boy who wants to trade his Wobbuffet for another Pokémon. Elsewhere Team Rocket comes up with another plan to steal Pokémon. Will it work, will the young man have his Wobbuffet traded for something else, and why does that salesman look familiar?

TriviaEdit

• The Magikarp salesman returns in this episode.
• Despite capturing Tauros in a green Safari Ball, Ash uses a regular red PokeBall to release it here.
• The running of the Tauros event is based on the Running of the Bulls, an annual event that takes place in the real world city of Pampona, Spain, upon which the town in this episode is named.
• From this episode, Kayzie Rogers is a regular as she provides the voice of Jessie's Wobbuffet.
• The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Wooper.

QuotesEdit

• "I'll take it! I'll take it! I... Hey wait a minute, this situation seems strangely familiar. I once bought a Magikarp from this salesman on the St. Anne and he looked an awful lot like... AH! You're that shyster who swindled me before!"

James having Deja Vu.

• "I don't under-... Unless... It must've happened in the real machine. Which means this Wobbuffet belongs to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

~Jessie when she realizes she traded Pokémon.

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