Japanese Title: Koharu, Wanpachi, and Sometimes Gangar Too
Original Airdate: February 2, 2020
US Airdate: June 12, 2020
Chloe is grappling with ambiguity regarding her feelings towards Pokemon and her future. Meanwhile, the Cerise Laboratory has been plagued by a mischievous Gengar, causing problems for everyone involved.
- Armor-Piercing Question: A classmate of Chloe questions if Chloe doesn't like Pokémon. Chloe mentally notes that she doesn't hate them, but she doesn't like them either.
- Bait-and-Switch: Ash's Dragonite approaches Goh's Scyther and Stantler and it looks like they're going to fight. Then Dragonite leans towards them and gives them some hugs! Awww....
- A Day in the Limelight: This is Chloe's first focus episode.
- Foreshadowing:
- Yamper being loyal only to Chloe. In the climax, Yamper comes in to fight off against Gengar and when Professor Cerise tries to command it to use Spark, it won't.
- One of Talia's illustrations is Chloe hugging Yamper. Sure enough, Chloe hugs Yamper in her bed at the end of the episode.
- Innocently Insensitive: Chloe's classmates ask her question after question on how she's going to take after her father's lab or she has lots of Pokémon in her home or that she's a good battler, not realizing that she hasn't even decided if she likes Pokémon or not and she hates the attention they're giving her.
- Irony: As noted by her family, Yamper is loyal only to Chloe, a girl who has mixed feelings on Pokémon at best.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Just because a parent is doing great work in a particular field doesn't automatically mean their child will be interested in it.
- Sequel Hook: In the final shot of the episode, Gengar is seen on the tower of Cerise Laboratory, hinting that it will be back.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Goh has a dozen Bug-types in the Cerise Park, yet only sticks with Scorbunny (who has Quick Attack, which is useless against Ghosts) instead.
- The Worf Effect: Gengar effortlessly attacks Ash and Goh throughout the episode, yet it finally gets sent packing by a Spark from Yamper. Somewhat justified as it was probably exhausted by all the fighting that day.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Goh captured three Wurmple in the hopes that he'll get both a Silcoon and Cascoon from it. Unfortunately, he only gets three Cascoon.
