IL027: Hypno's Naptime

Synopsis
The group enters Hop Hop Hop Town just as children are disappearing in the town. They go to the Pokémon Center and notice the Pokémon are not feeling well. Officer Jenny soon picks up sleep waves on her radio. They track the source to a huge mansion on the top of a building where inside a Hypno and a Drowzee are sitting on a table. The people there have been using Hypno as a sleep aid and this has been generating sleep waves that was sapping the energy of the Pokémon in the center. Misty takes a look and starts acting like a Seel. Misty leaves the building and runs to a remote forest area where all the missing children were hypnotized into thinking they were Pokémon. They use Drowzee to reverse the hypnotism and also notice it wakes up Pikachu. They take Drowzee to the Pokémon Center and the Pokémon recover too, all except for a Psyduck. Psyduck keeps following them and when Misty falls, a Pokéball rolls towards it. Psyduck gets in and becomes Misty’s newest Pokémon, although she wished it had not.

Trivia
Ash remembers his mother and Professor Oak saying goodbye to him and his friends. However, this happened in Beauty and the Beach, an episode which was banned.

The line "We have to fill the half hour" is one of many cases of breaking the fourth wall in the series.
 * Misty also breaks the fourth wall when she responds to the narrator's congratulations at catching Psyduck: "Don't congradulate me!"

One of the children hypnotized by Hypno wore an outfit similar to that of Tracey Sketchit.

The book Psyduck Ducks Out is based on this episode.