>>58239609This. It wasn't supposed to be a "holy shit what's that I have literally no idea" thing, it was a "wow, that's Ho-oh, the new Pokemon from the upcoming Pokemon 2 that they've been promoting in ads" thing.
Dumb kids that didn't pay attention to the marketing weren't the audience for its inclusion in episode 1, those kids probably wouldn't know it wasn't in their game anyway.
