Japanese Title: Goodbye Laplace!
Original Airdate: September 16th, 1999
US Airdate: September 30rd, 2000
The one where... Lapras leaves. Bring tissues.
It's piracy on the open seas and Ash and friends must rescue a local school of Lapras from would-be poachers, but how can they be of help when the Lapras, conditioned to fear humans, shun the young Trainers?
Tropes
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Team Rocket get arrested with the pirates, even though they weren’t poaching the Lapras.
- Good-Times Montage: Ash recalls the time he spent with Lapras.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Ash describes Team Rocket to Officer Jenny as the "sneakiest, snakeiest, lying-est losers out there." Jessie takes exception to being called losers while James acknowledges that he got the rest right.
- Identical Twin Id Tag: Lapras' mother is a lighter shade of blue.
- Medium Awareness: Meowth introduces the flashback.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Team Rocket protests that they are victims of the Pirates, they make themselves look bad when Officer Jenny asks them to come down the police station to fill out a report then they run away when she says she’ll also do a background check on them.
- Not Me This Time: Team Rocket aren't the ones poaching Pokémon.
- Put on a Bus: Lapras returns to its school.
- Shout-Out: The title is one to Viva Las Vegas.
