diff --git a/codeGeneration/src/prog8/codegen/target/cpu6502/codegen/BuiltinFunctionsAsmGen.kt b/codeGeneration/src/prog8/codegen/target/cpu6502/codegen/BuiltinFunctionsAsmGen.kt
index f70e6b157..3c651c0a1 100644
--- a/codeGeneration/src/prog8/codegen/target/cpu6502/codegen/BuiltinFunctionsAsmGen.kt
+++ b/codeGeneration/src/prog8/codegen/target/cpu6502/codegen/BuiltinFunctionsAsmGen.kt
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ internal class BuiltinFunctionsAsmGen(private val program: Program, private val
             "peekw" -> funcPeekW(fcall, resultToStack, resultRegister)
             "peek" -> throw AssemblyError("peek() should have been replaced by @()")
             "pokew" -> funcPokeW(fcall)
+            "pokemon" -> { /* meme function */ }
             "poke" -> throw AssemblyError("poke() should have been replaced by @()")
             "push", "pushw" -> funcPush(fcall, func)
             "pop", "popw" -> funcPop(fcall, func)
diff --git a/compilerInterfaces/src/prog8/compilerinterface/BuiltinFunctions.kt b/compilerInterfaces/src/prog8/compilerinterface/BuiltinFunctions.kt
index f9858c2f4..2fc45e937 100644
--- a/compilerInterfaces/src/prog8/compilerinterface/BuiltinFunctions.kt
+++ b/compilerInterfaces/src/prog8/compilerinterface/BuiltinFunctions.kt
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ private val functionSignatures: List<FSignature> = listOf(
     FSignature("peek"        , true, listOf(FParam("address", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD))), DataType.UBYTE),
     FSignature("peekw"       , true, listOf(FParam("address", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD))), DataType.UWORD),
     FSignature("poke"        , false, listOf(FParam("address", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD)), FParam("value", arrayOf(DataType.UBYTE))), null),
+    FSignature("pokemon"     , false, listOf(FParam("address", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD)), FParam("value", arrayOf(DataType.UBYTE))), null),
     FSignature("pokew"       , false, listOf(FParam("address", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD)), FParam("value", arrayOf(DataType.UWORD))), null),
     FSignature("pop"         , false, listOf(FParam("target", ByteDatatypes)), null),
     FSignature("popw"        , false, listOf(FParam("target", WordDatatypes)), null),
diff --git a/docs/source/programming.rst b/docs/source/programming.rst
index 24f88173e..481211709 100644
--- a/docs/source/programming.rst
+++ b/docs/source/programming.rst
@@ -896,6 +896,10 @@ poke(address, value)
 pokew(address, value)
     writes the word value at the given address in memory, in usual little-endian lsb/msb byte order.
 
+pokemon(address, value)
+    Attempts to write a byte to a ROM at a location in machine language monitor bank.
+    Doesn't have anything to do with a certain video game.
+
 push(value)
     pushes a byte value on the CPU hardware stack. Lowlevel function that should normally not be used.