The following tropes are associated with this episode.
Bullying a Dragon: Team Rocket continues to attack Dawn's aggressive Piloswine which then causes it to evolve into Mamoswine (though this is mainly because it learned Ancientpower earlier). Naturally, this does not end well for them.
Butt-Monkey: Poor Pipulp. He was at the receiving end of most of the slapstick in this episode especially by Dawn's Piloswine.
No-Sell: After evolving into Mamoswine, it takes absolutely no damage from Sonic Boom by Jessie's Yanmega (which it previously did when it was a Piloswine).
Wham Episode: After just one episode, Dawn's Piloswine already evolves into Mamoswine, but is still as disobedient as ever.
