Japanese Title: When Yadon Becomes Yadoran
Original Airdate: October 15th, 1998
US Airdate: October 2nd, 1999
Ash decides to join his mom and friends who are vacationing on Seafoam Islands. While there, he searches out the programmer of the Pokédex to get information about the evolution of a Slowpoke. The mystery of how Slowpoke evolves into a Slowbro is surprisingly revealed when Team Rocket makes their usual bumbling interference.
Tropes
- Birds of a Feather: Psyduck and Slowpoke get along due to how dopey both of them are.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Slowbro looks just as dopey as it was as a Slowpoke, but it's a master of Mega Punch and curbstomps Team Rocket with one punch each.
- A Day in the Limelight: Psyduck gets more focus in this episode due to befriending the Pokémon of the day.
- Delayed Reaction: Psyduck takes 5 seconds to register getting pinched by a Krabby, just like Slowpoke.Misty: Well, I guess it takes quite a while for that big a pain to find that small a brain.
- Forgot About His Powers: Once Slowpoke evolves, it takes a bit for Slowbro remember it knows Mega Punch.
- Identical Grandson: Professor Westwood V looks exactly like Westwood I through IV.
- Insistent Terminology: Professor Westwood insists that he be addressed as Westwood V.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Westwood V appeared to have cut a dashing figure, assuming his portrait wasn't painted to a romantic ideal rather than a true representation of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question.
- Kill Steal: Jessie butts in front of James to catch a Shellder he got the last hit on.
- Pokémon Speak: The "conversation" between Psyduck and Slowpoke.
- The Symbiote: Westwood is researching the relationship between Shellder and Slowpoke, ultimately coming to a mutualism conclusion.
- Villains Out Shopping: Giovanni takes a beach vacation to de-stress after Mewtwo destroyed Team Rocket headquarters in the previous episode.
