well whatever but in the pokemon movie 4ever a boy named sam finds celebi and travels 40 into the future and meets ash and for the rest of the movie they rescue celebi from the pokemon hunter and after do it celebi takes sam back to his time then ash and his friends tell professor oak about his new friend oak says something about sam but ash and his friends did NOT mentioned his name then they ask how does he knows sams name when they did not mentioned it and then oak in his lab hold the drawing of sleeping celebi and pikachu (that sam drawed in the half of the movie) and sayed it seems like it only happened yesterday wich refeals THAT SAM AND PROFESSOR OAK ARE BOTH THE SAME PERSON