YMMV / Hypno's Naptime

• Accidental Innuendo: 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 implications are likely what led to Japanese re-airings showing Delia saying goodbye to Ash at the start of his Pokémon journey instead.
• Ass Pull:
  • 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.
  • Then there's Misty and the missing children all being hypnotized into behaving like actual Pokémon, when the entire purpose of Hypno's hypnosis was to induce sleep, not to alter the human minds of those affected.
  • 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 without shelter or food; no malnutrition, dehydration or injuries whatsoever.
• Funny Moments:
  • Misty's accidental capture of Psyduck is hysterical: she trips over a rock, drops a Poké Ball that rolls over to Psyduck, and the dopey duck gets itself captured after poking it.
  • Hypno's bulging eyes when Jessie and James ensnare it in their whips are also pretty amusing.
• Fridge Logic:
  • Why did an entire city 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 park?
  • This episode sparked the multi-series question of why, if Misty hates having Psyduck so much, she doesn't just release it?
• Inferred Holocaust: 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 Pidgey or Butterfree jumped off rooftops thinking they could fly. Nope, none whatsoever. They all survived. Because it's a cartoon.
• Never Live It Down: This episode contributed greatly to the perception that Hypno and Drowzee are creepy around children, well before the Pokédex 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 Pokémon Lovers Club sleep.
• Unexpected Character: Psyduck becoming Misty's Pokémon comes out of left field as it is neither the primary focus of the episode nor are there any hints for it to join Misty.