Pokémon
A Scare in the Air
TV Flash files “A Scare in the Air” as hour 84 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 2, episode 2, aired 1999-02-04, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 84 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 2 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1999-02-04 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Pallet Party Panic” (S02E01). Next is “Pokéball Peril” (S02E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends stop at a convenience store for some supplies for their journey to Valencia Island, and outside Ash participates in a contest and ends up winning blimp tickets to the island! What they don't know though, is that it was a setup by Team Rocket. However, before Team Rocket can plan anything, they lose control of the blimp, and Ash, Misty, and Brock also lose Togepi. Now everyone is in an all out race to find Togepi, dodge the ghost of the blimp, and catch Pikachu before the blimp crash lands.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Scare in the Air sit in the Pokémon guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 84 of 1220 — hour 2 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Pokémon S02E02 air?
A Scare in the Air aired 1999-02-04 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)
Rica Matsumoto voices Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — the ten-year-old whose globetrotting checklist became a childhood operating system in Japanese, then a syndication engine abroad. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s…
- 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…