This is something that occured to me a while ago...
Think back, if you will, to the episode in the first season where Ash meets his Primape. Primape, at first, steals his hat and Ash freaks out. He has a panic attack and goes on to explain how special the hat was,"how only a few of them had ever been won or sold, or something like that..."
Yet in this episode"or the one before it", he willingly trades in that hat for the new one, without even noticing at all. As far as I know, that new hat had no meaning at all.
Why would he always freak out in the past if it even left his head for a second, just to end up leaving it at home?;
"Sorry, it was the previous episode, but regardless..."
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You do realize that the writers were counting a lapse of about 4 seasons to hopefully "forget" about miniscule details like the forementioned. Kind of like how they're able to make characters simply forget things even happened, despite the fact that they have in fact occurred.
And Ash's wardrobe change was merely to help him look... mature in a way.
It's been quite a while since I've even seen this episode, but some rather new post have made me take a look back at this.
I have to say, for only being about 5-6 episodes since the Silver Conference, the writers were awfully quick in bringing it back up. The choice of character to make that reference makes it funny as hell though.
The classic sibling relationship between May and Max is one of the few things that remains consistent for most of Advanced/AC/AB. BF not as much. I still like how his attitude as a smart guy attitude tends to make him very curious just the same; living it really isn't the same as actually experiencing it.
There's one thing that I noticed about the few episodes between his departure from Kanto, to his first Sinnoh capture; he's so used to calling upon certain Pokemon, that it's become second nature. This changed in Sinnoh obviously, which shows that he become accustomed to a different style, and that the writing is also changed as well.
And last, if not least was something that I just now realized was somewhat similar to another Kanto episode: When Ash goes to challenge the Petalburg gym, but as it turns out, it isn't the first gym, May leaves early on. It then turns out that she is in fact Norman's daughter (and those who played the games as a girl obviously knew that in advance). The same sort of thing happens with Misty, albeit it turns out that she
is the Gym Leader (or at least in the games...).
Not a bad episode, really starts thing off and gets you ready for what's to come ('course, the badge case May gets won't be lasting too long...), and introduces everyone to... well, almost everyone.
edit: let me be clear, I am talking about the dub, alright.
~C_K~