Pokémon
Wake Up Snorlax!
TV Flash files “Wake Up Snorlax!” as hour 41 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 1, episode 41, aired 1998-04-23, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E41: listed hour 41 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 41 of 82 in season 1. It aired 1998-04-23 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Battling Eevee Brothers” (S01E40). Next is “Showdown at Dark City” (S01E42). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends continue on their journey, and grow tired and hungry. They decide to stop at a town up ahead, but the town has barley any food left as the river has dried up, causing them to have no water to grow any food. Driven by the promise of a meal, the three friends head up the river to find the source. When they find the source of the river, they find out that the river flow is being blocked by a sleeping Snorlax! They convince the owner to play his pokeflute to wake up Snorlax, but the river still does not flow, as there is a mess of vines blocking the passage. They try to cut them away, but there are way too many, so they decide to wake up Snorlax again. However, this is easier said then done, especially when Team Rocket come to steal Snorlax.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Wake Up Snorlax! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S01E41 is listed hour 41 of 1220 — hour 41 of 82 in season 1, season 1 episode 41.
When did Pokémon S01E41 air?
Wake Up Snorlax! aired 1998-04-23 and is listed at 22 minutes.
Do I need the games first?
The TV series is one engine with the games and cards, not a homework prerequisite. U.S. breakthrough is 1998 anime syndication as childhood OS.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, and a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime lands in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards — catch, train, argue about types. Kids’ TV as collection ritual, gym-badge serialization, and the rare cartoon that still prints money because the adventure never quite finishes.
The work, first: a young trainer, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Based on Game Freak/Nintendo games, the anime's U.S. TV breakthrough in 1998 (Kids' WB and syndication) detonated a multi-platform kids' empire: games, cards, films, toys, one engine. Satoshi Tajiri and Kunihiko Yuyama's world turned anime into mainstream American children's programming. Rica Matsumoto and Veronica Taylor as Ash across languages; Ikue Otani's Pikachu. Catch, train, argue about…
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- Rica Matsumoto as Ash Ketchum (JP)
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- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
Veronica Taylor was early U.S. Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime landed in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards:…
- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
Ikue Otani voiced Pikachu as a childhood operating system — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, anime landing in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s kids-TV…