MissingNo.
**MissingNo.** is the famous glitched Pokémon that Jokermon used to disrupt Rank’em Up Rodeo. Bingo describes it as a fabled, glitched-out Pokémon made of chaotic pixels and recalls that encountering it in the original Pokémon games could corrupt a save file.
Role in halfwayokay
Bingo had previously avoided adding MissingNo. to the ranking, but Jokermon made it the center of Episode 203: So Thick With Pebbles. After the riddle challenge, Jokermon declared MissingNo. his favorite bug and cursed the ranking app so that every generated Pokémon would be MissingNo. (YouTube)
Bingo reluctantly ranked MissingNo. at number 12. The application immediately went “bananas,” asked him to reboot, and reopened as a detailed pixel-art adventure based on his apartment and neighborhood. Bingo reacted with genuine surprise and awe, then said this adventure would become Rank’em Up Rodeo’s new format. (Watch the event - YouTube)
Why it matters
MissingNo. is the in-story bridge between Jokermon’s riddle takeovers and the later explorable Rank’em Up world. The crash was not merely a visual joke: it permanently changed how Bingo encountered, caught, and ranked Pokémon in the segment.