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Typical Pokemon haunted house filler episode formula:
>Ash and co. find an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere while fleeing a storm/night
>Weird shit happens
>Ash, who has had this happen a number of times before, forgets that Ghost Pokemon are a thing and they like playing pranks on people
>It is revealed that the weird shit is Ghost Pokemon playing pranks because their parents are dead
>shockedpikachu.png
>No one learns a damn thing
>Repeat next series, or in XY's case, three times within the series
SM's haunted house filler episode:
>Alola gang makes a haunted house for Lana's sisters
>Weird shit happens
>Acerola, a Ghost type specialist with a real ghost bff identifies when Ghost Pokemon enter and start doing weird shit because Ash is still too much of a retard to recognize patterns
>Ghost Pokemon hypnotize Ash and Alola gang because they're dicks and want to take children away
>They go on a hypnosis-based adventure with cameos from every Ghost Pokemon until Lana manages to wake everyone up from the dream
>pikachubaseddepartment.png
>No one learns a damn thing
>Repeat in Journeys when Goh needs to catch Ghost types, probably
I generally hate these episodes, but SM had a nice subversion of the formula at least.
