YMMV / A Chansey Operation!

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: When Meowth is upset over his missing forehead charm, Chansey brings him a bunch of random items, with the last one being a Venonat. In Japanese, this is because his charm is called a koban and she's bringing him things that rhyme with the word (a rice bowl/gohan, a Go board/goban, a police substation/kōban, and a Venonat/Kongpang). But since this doesn't work in English, instead it seems like the joke is that Chansey is bringing him a Venonat because she's given up and has no idea what he wants.
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  • Some overseas viewers have expressed confusion at the hospital being closed and only having one doctor. But in Japan, hospitals aren't open 24 hours a day and they tend to have very little staff outside their normal operating hours.
  • Doctor Proctor using superglue to treat injured Pokémon may seem like a particularly blatant case of Artistic License – Medicine, even if one makes allowances for the fact that he's used to practicing on humans. However, superglue does have legitimate medicinal applications and is used in both human and veterinary medicine.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Acting as impromptu doctor to a bunch of Pokemon is this for Brock when he decides to change his life goal from Pokémon Breeder to Pokémon Doctor. As of the anime's Pokémon Legends: Arceus side special, he's now an official doctor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: While checking Pikachu's throat for the apple lodged inside of it, the apple sounds like it has a heartbeat… 20 years later we'd actually get a Pokémon that's a living apple.
• Retroactive Recognition: In the English dub, Doctor Proctor is voiced by J. David Brimmer making his voice acting debut. He would later voice the likes of Crocodile, Odion/Rishid and even come back to Pokémon as Crasher Wake and Wulfric.
• Strawman Has a Point: While the episode treats Doctor Proctor's protest against having his hospital commandeered as bad (and his casual attitude is admittedly cruel), he's absolutely right - he's a physician, not a veterinarian (or the Pokémon equivalent). He has little knowledge about their reactions to certain medicines or proper temperatures, if he had to do a major operation there would be no guarantee that he would have the faintest idea which major organs did what, never mind that a large number of the Pokémon are very dangerous and hard to control (Ash and company had to use their own Pokémon to subdue several of them, and one ended up accidentally sedating Doctor Proctor himself). If anything, he's being more responsible than the trio or Nurse Joy.