History YMMV / PokemonS1E27HypnosNaptime

** This episode also sparked the multi-series question of ''why,'' if Misty hates having Psyduck so much, she doesn't just release it?

* IdiotPlot:
** Based on the idea that an entire city would spend three days doing absolutely nothing about a crisis involving missing children and half-dying Pokémon. Especially considering all the missing children were found hanging around in the damn park.
** And that's to say nothing about the absurdity of the entire concept of "sleep waves".
** This episode also sparked the multi-series question of ''why,'' if Misty hates having Psyduck so much, she doesn't just release it?

* InferredHolocaust: If the ending is to be believed, none of the kids who thought they were Pokémon died or were otherwise injured. No one who thought they were Magikarp or Goldeen drowned. No one who thought they were Pidgeys or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. Because [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality it's a cartoon]].

* AccidentalInnuendo: When Ash thinks back to his mother and wonders about how she must feel about him being so far away from home, the very ''first'' clip we see is a blatant butt-shot from the infamous swimsuit episode. The [[{{Squick}} implications]] are likely what led to Japanese re-airings showing Delia saying goodbye to Ash at the start of his Pokemon journey instead.
* {{Asspull}}:

** Then there's Misty and the missing children all being hypnotized into behaving like actual Pokemon, when the entire purpose of Hypno's hypnosis was to induce sleep, '''not''' to alter the human minds of those affected.

** Misty's accidental capture of Psyduck is hysterical: she trips over a rock, drops a Poke Ball that rolls over to Psyduck, and the dopey duck gets itself captured after poking it.

* InferredHolocaust: If the ending is to be believed, none of the kids who thought they were Pokemon died or were otherwise injured. No one who thought they were Magikarps or Goldeens drowned. No one who thought they were Pidgeys or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. Because [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality it's a cartoon]].
* NeverLiveItDown: This episode contributed greatly to the perception that Hypno and Drowzee are creepy around children, well before the Pokedex did the same. However, they weren't targeting or kidnapping children: the children falling victim to their hypnosis was an unintentional side effect of them helping members of the Pokemon Lovers Club sleep.

** And to cap it off, no one noticed the hypnotized children hanging around in the park -- or if they ''did'' notice, they didn't do anything about it -- ''for three days.'' After which the kids are absolutely ''fine'' after having spent all that time in the open with no shelter; no malnutrition, dehydration or injuries whatsoever.

** And to cap it off, no one noticed the hypnotized children hanging around in the park -- or if they ''did'' notice, they didn't do anything about it -- ''for three days.''

* {{Asspull}}: The entire notion of sleep waves is bad enough, but apparently both the police ''and'' Team Rocket have the necessary equipment to detect them and to follow the source.

* IdiotPlot: Based on the idea that an entire city would spend three days doing absolutely nothing about a crisis involving missing children and half-dying Pokémon. Especially considering all the missing children were found hanging around in the damn park.

* AccidentalInnuendo: When Ash thinks back to his mother and wonders about how she must feel about him being so far away from home, the very ''first'' clip we see is a blatant butt-shot from the infamous swimsuit episode. The... well, [[{{Squick}} implications]] are likely what led to Japanese re-airings showing Delia saying goodbye to Ash at the start of his Pokemon journey instead.

* IdiotPlot: Based on the idea that an entire city would spend three days doing absolutely nothing about a crisis involving missing children and half-dying Pokémon.

* InferredHolocaust: If the ending is to be believed, none of the kids who thought they were Pokemon died or were otherwise injured. No one who thought they were Magikarps or Goldeens drowned. No one who thought they were Pidgeys or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. Because [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality it's a cartoon]].

* InferredHolocaust: If the ending is to be believed, none of the kids who thought they were Pokemon died or were otherwise injured. No one who thought they were Magikarps or Goldeens drowned. No one who thought they were Pidgeys or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. ''Somehow''.[[note]]Okay, it's because this is a cartoon.[[/note]]

* InferredHolocaust: If the ending is to be believed, none of the kids who thought they were Pokemon died or were otherwise injured. No one who thought they were Magikarps or Goldeens drowned. No one who thought they were Pidgeys or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. ''Somehow''.