History Funny / PokemonGo

** With the [[https://pokemongolive.com/img/posts/halloween2017_loading.png 2017 Halloween event]], you can notice some spooky Pokémon (Murkrow, Dusclops, Gengar, Banette and Sableye) doing SuperSentaiStance on the top. You won't be laughing much if you don't notice some {{Cheshire Cat Grin}}s.

** With [[https://pokemongolive.com/img/posts/halloween2017_loading.png 2017 Halloween event]], you can notice some spooky Pokémon (Murkrow, Dusclops, Gengar, Banette and Sableye) doing SuperSentaiStance on the top. You won't be laughing much if you don't notice some {{Cheshire Cat Grin}}s.

* Anytime a Gym is being defended by a single, low-CP Pokémon, usually out of desperation, just wanting the defender bonus, or using it to grind the Gym's Prestige. This is especially hilarious if it's a 10 CP, the lowest possible rank for Pokémon. Some players do it as a TakeThat toward whatever Team they captured the Gym from.

* You can find Pokémon in all sorts of places, whether it be outside, your room, your bathroom, or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick your crotch]].
** What's even funnier is finding a [[LethalJokeCharacter Magikarp]]. You can find it in your shower, your kitchen sink, or even a place miles away from water!

* The spreading meme that ''Pokémon Go'' - [[http://gizmodo.com/sore-legs-become-pandemic-as-pokemon-go-players-acciden-1783402931 by forcing people to go outside and physically hunt locations for Pokémon]] - may well end the obesity crisis.
* Although some stores began banning people from entering if they were searching for Pokémon, the [[https://www.facebook.com/woolworths/photos/a.166694780069328.42426.147632815308858/1131576946914435/?type=3&theater Australian arm of Woolworths]] outright embraced the game on Facebook, with hilarious pseudo-tips on Pokémon hunting and sightings across their stores.
-->'''Woolworths''': Don't confuse 'Oddish' for 'Radish'. One goes great in a salad, [[{{Squick}} the other not so much]].\\
'''Woolworths''': (''[[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153768861502291&set=p.10153768861502291&type=3&theater About a photo of a Clefairy standing next to a cigarette display]]'') We don't think [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Clefairy]] understands that [[LogicalWeakness too much smoking]] leads to [[{{Pun}} Koffing]]. In some cases, even [[{{Pun}} Weezing]]!

* Passing [[https://twitter.com/antijokeapple/status/752884274420908032 around on Twitter]]:
-->'''Manager during interview''': "So why do you want to work for us?"\\
'''Applicant''': "Oh, I'm not asking for the job. There's a Mewtwo here."\\
'''Manager (hyperventilating)''': "WHERE?"
* Transportation authorities in the U.S. started posting "Don't Pokémon Go and drive" [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] on their LED signs along freeways.

* Someone found a Pidgey on their stove... while they were cooking eggs. And [[http://static0.thethingsimages.com/cdn/578/503/70/cw/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screenshot-60.png two screencaps]] from the phone at the perfect timing show said Pidgey looking at the pan with the eggs in it, then back at the user.
-->'''Caption''': I don't know if I should catch it or apologize.

* Stock investors seemingly being unaware that Nintendo merely has a roughly ''one-third'' ownership of the Pokemon Company and is otherwise not really involved in the development of ''Pokémon Go'' which is handled by Niantic, causing a huge spike in their market cap, [[YankTheDogsChain a good chunk of which dropped away]] [[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160722e.pdf after Nintendo clarified the situation.]]
* One player found a lure in the middle of the water and kayaked out to it against all better judgement. By the time they came back to shore, another player asked them about the lure out there, and made quite a pretty penny charging people for using their kayak to get to the lure.
* Another player has a Vape store cashier that basically acted as their area's Pokemon Professor. Also files under SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments as well, since he was genuinely helpful in showing people popular places to search and gave tips out as well.
* As in VideoGame/PokemonXAndY, Pikachu is the only Pokemon in the game who uses PokemonSpeak, meaning amidst all the bizarre and sometimes creepy cries of the Pokemon we see in the game, every time Pikachu shows up you'll hear it shout "Pi-KA-chu!" It's as hilarious as it is adorable.
* A minor one, but Niantic's updates of the game usually have [[MemeticMutation "Minor text fixes"]], 1.31's manages to subvert it by having "No text fixes". They also seem to do other minor fixes, most likely to keep the joke alive.
* As noted on the main page under VideoGamePerversityPotential, you can have the team leaders say some rather [[http://i.imgur.com/MpZBGV6.jpg unusual lines]], since they refer to your Pokemon by its nickname.

** You can even nickname your Pokemon with a hilarious ShoutOut. For example, nicknaming [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Zubat or Koffing "Team Skull"]], or [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Jigglypuff "Smash Brothers"]].

* While looking around for Pokemon, a guy found an ''18-inch'' '''sex toy'''. ''Someone'' must have left it there...

* In the Generation 2 update, some players will find it funny when a Gym is an AmazonBrigade of [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Blisseys]]. Especially those who prefer badass-looking Pokémon will find themselves laughed by those [[PerpetualSmiler perpetually-smiling]] BadassAdorable {{Stone Wall}}s who are a pain for them to fight.
* With the introduction of Raid battles, most of the Pokémon featured are fully evolved mons, except for the first-tier difficulty that only features second stage starter Pokémon... and ''[[ButtMonkey Magikarp]]''. While the variety of Pokémon available in each Raid tier may change over time, Magikarp has consistently been part of the first-tier difficulty raids.
* [[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pokemon-go-arrest_us_578d412fe4b0a0ae97c30bfb This idiot]] was caught on an outstanding arrest warrant because he was so absorbed in ''Pokémon Go'' that he wandered over to the police station that was looking for him.

* When you complete seven days of field research tasks, you get the chance to capture a legendary with your full supply of Pokeballs (rather than the limited number of Premier Balls from a raid). Legendaries also have low catch rates, and many have very large target circles. All of this means that if you have a '''Make 3 Excellent Throws In A Row''' field research task you need to complete, it can be more optimal to use Entei's face for target practice, halfheartedly lobbing dozens of low quality Pokeballs at its nose, than to actually try to catch it.

* Shiny Psyduck became catchable around the same time ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' was released. WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck becomes blue in [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monstropolis]]. It didn't take fans very long to point out the coincidence of catching one blue duck before fighting alongside another.

* The Secrets of the Jungle event in December 2020 is led by [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Jessie and James]] instead of Professor Willow. As they muse over finding the supposed Protector of the Jungle, they notice you and think you're an assistant sent by Giovanni to help out. You're basically dragged into helping the duo [[ButThouMust regardless on how you feel about them]].

* Team GO Rocket leaders versus Team Valor/Mystic/Instinct leaders. Arlo who ''really should know better'' sends a Scizor against Candela's Rapidash (Scizor has a x4 weakness to Fire, Rapidash has a x2 bonus to the same), and Spark somehow fights Sierra's Houndoom to a standstill with an ''[[CherryTapping Elekid]]''.

* Team GO Rocket leaders versus Team Valor/Mystic/Instinct leaders. Arlo who ''really should know better'' sends a Scizor against Candela's Rapidash (Scizor has a x4 weakness to Fire, [[ForMassiveDamage Rapidash has a x2 bonus to the same]]), and Spark somehow fights Sierra's Houndoom to a standstill with an ''[[CherryTapping Elekid]]''.

* The game will tell you to "try something longer" if you attempt try to enter a Trainer name that's too short, [[DevelopersForesight or if you enter]] [[http://web.archive.org/web/20170902015836/http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/144/815/e82.jpg this]].

'''Woolworths''': (''[[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153768861502291&set=p.10153768861502291&type=3&theater About a photo of a Clefairy standing next to a cigarette display]]'') We don't think [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Clefairy]] understands that [[LogicalWeakness too much smoking]] leads to [[{{Pun}} Koffing]]. In some cases, even [[IncrediblyLamePun Weezing]]!

** Then after awhile they go into their motto, only for James, who is typically TheDitz of the trio to realize you're not listening to them. Afterwards they spot Celebi, but considering you're already there they simply decide to make a run for it rather than face you for it.

* One that happened early in the introduction of Team Go Rocket was with Flying-type Go Rocket Grunts. Since [[MythologyGag all of their quotes are taken from appropriate specialist trainers from early entries in the series]], Niantic decided to use "Battle against my bird Pokémon!" from one of the Bird Keeper trainers from ''Red and Blue''. It made sense for the original game's trainer to say that, as they used Pidgey, Spearow, and their evolutions (all based on real-life birds). Team Go Rocket, however, solely used the Zubat line with occasional use of Charizard and Dragonite - a line of mammals and two reptilian dragons. This would seem like FridgeLogic, but given that Flying-type Rocket Grunts were seen as [[TheGoomba one of the easiest types to fight]], the player base quickly came to the conclusion that [[WhatAnIdiot the grunts were just that dumb.]] Niantic caught on eventually, however, and modified the quote to be talking about "Flying-type Pokémon" instead.

-->'''Caption''': I don't know if I should catch or apologize.