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The Games
- Your partner Pokémon livens up Oak's classic introduction by essentially photobombing the entire sequence.
- After being caught, the Poké Ball zooms toward the lab on Pikachu/Eevee power, and it will bounce if you don't choose its ball.
- One Lass in Viridian Forest starts her battle with the typical innocuous conversation starter you've come to expect... and ends the battle by saying she didn't actually want to fight. She was trying to have a polite conversation. Turns out the Player Character is just as twitchy as any other youngster.
- Remember the Youngster on Route 3 who said he liked shorts? Here, he'll be overjoyed to point out that you're wearing them too!
- Checking in on your Pikachu or Eevee after every Team Rocket encounter will have them completely and utterly exasperated by what just happened.
- The lab assistant that originally gave you the Exp. All/Share for catching enough Pokémon lost the item he would've given you (as Pokémon in Let's Go gain experience with the Exp. Share built in). In his panic, he quickly takes off his coat for new outfits for you and your partner.
- On the S.S. Anne, Blue proves the NPC from XY right. He's got "Bonjour" down, but he still says "Smell ya later" when he leaves.
- Coach Trainer Mable mentions the abandoned power plant off Route 10 is only the second least-desired posting for a Coach. Makes you wonder what the worst is.
- If the demeanor of the coach stationed there is to be believed, it’s likely Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town.
- Sometimes, it's the little things; in the Cinnabar Gym, the two paired Pokemon statues just inside the entrance have Blaine's sunglasses and mustache on them.
- Heck, the Gym itself. You still have to answer quiz questions, but to match the gimmick, the entire Gym has now been reworked into a full-on game show with a studio audience.
- When your rival asks who to ask about the Viridian Gym's locked door, one of the choices is your partner Pikachu/Eevee. After your partner responds with their Pokémon Speak, your rival states that it's a great idea... only to admit that even if it was helpful, he has no idea what they said.
- You can also point towards the Old Man nearby, who confusingly wonders why you think he'd know anything.
- When you meet Brock in Celadon, he’ll tell you that he's there to talk to Erika, since Gym Leaders are supposed to check in on each other from time to time, but then proceeds to tell you that the girls in the Gym "turned [him] away for some reason". While you later discover that it's just because they only allow trainers with "cute" Pokémon in, it's not hard to suspect that there’s another reason the girls would've kicked Brock out...
- On occasion, Jessie and James can be found in Celadon City's Game Center... and outright ignore you, providing an in-universe example of Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer, as the two plus Meowth are too caught up in their game.
- One would think Jessie and James would easily get into Sylph Company's HQ. Of course, the Rocket Grunt guarding the front door doesn't let them through on the basis that he doesn't recognize them. So, they rush past the guy, making the Grunt so dizzy that he can't stop the player from just walking past him.
- Professor Oak seems to forget Blue's name near the end of the game... right in front of his own grandson. Blue dryly comments that "no one laughs at that joke anymore."
- After beating Lance, he states that you have one more challenger to face. Professor Oak shows up at that moment and Lance hypes him up as the Champion, much to the shock of your in-game character... only to immediately say he's kidding seconds later, with Oak doing a Face Fault. Doubly funny if you recognize it as a Development Gag to when Oak was intended to be one of the final bosses in Red/Blue.
- Golem's rolling animation if you set it to follow you around in the world. It looks almost exactly like the Player Character is perpetually running away from a boulder, Indiana Jones-style.
- Snorlax's riding animation is your Trainer and Pikachu/Eevee clinging to its big belly (like a Totoro). Hopefully, it won't trip.
- Green really wanted to catch Mewtwo. Needless to say, she's not at all happy when you catch it before her, and she forces you into battle. That's not funny so much as it is an excuse to fight a long-forgotten character. What is funny is when you beat her, she apparently decides that if she catches you, she can have Mewtwo by proxy. Cue her throwing five separate Poké Balls at you before giving up and just asking politely before running off. By the time she does this again during a rematch you can have with her later, you get the sense she's deliberately trolling you.
- After defeating the Elite Four and the credits roll, the post-game begins with a cutscene of your character staring up at the sky, with text saying that your world is expanding. This is interrupted by Ronny, the first non-rival trainer you fought on Route 1, calling to you:"Hey, sorry to bug you while your world's expanding."
Meta:
- Initial information about the game leaked two months early
... on April Fools' Day of all days, so nobody believed the original poster in the slightest. - The ability to ride Pokémon originally extended to all Pokémon, but eventually the feature was scaled back to only include large Pokémon.Masuda: At one point we had people ride on the backs of smaller Pokémon, and we felt sorry for them.
- At the end of the trailer showing the Master Trainers, it plays a scene facing off against the Metapod Master, knowing full well said battle is going to be a chore for... obvious reasons. Also doubles as a Brick Joke, as it is a reference to the fourth episode of the anime.
- In the final days before the games were released, Pokémon changed their official Facebook page's profile picture to that of Pikachu and Eevee's tails sticking out of a bush of leaves. Cue a lot of dirty jokes from commenters who stated that this is how Jolteon are made.
- "New Discovery: Rare Footage of Meltan in the Wild!"
- Several Meltan bumping their heads together with a "clonk!" sound effect when they all crowd around a pile of screws they're excited to eat. Then, the camera pans to reveal another Meltan eating the researcher's fork.
- Another trio of Meltan is seen happily swinging from a metal lamp hanging on the ceiling, until two of them fall off.
- Everyone in the comments section complaining about how the researcher in the video is wasting paper by only writing one sentence on each page.
