Pokémon
Get Along, Little Pokémon
TV Flash files “Get Along, Little Pokémon” as hour 103 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 2, episode 21, aired 1999-06-17, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E21: listed hour 103 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 21 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1999-06-17 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?” (S02E20). Next is “The Mystery Menace” (S02E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While traveling across Mandarin Island, Ash and friends must stop and rest because of a thunderstorm. During the storm they notice a bunch of Magnemite absorbing the lighting. After the storm they find their trainer Ethan who explains that he collects the electricity from lighting and delivers it to towns. Following the storm, a town is left with out power and the Pokemon Center needs it soon. However, Ethan is injured, and now Ash, Misty, and Tracey must help him get to the next town while fending off Team Rocket and keeping track of his sneaky Magnemite #6.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Get Along, Little Pokémon sit in the Pokémon guide?
S02E21 is listed hour 103 of 1220 — hour 21 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 21.
When did Pokémon S02E21 air?
Get Along, Little Pokémon aired 1999-06-17 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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- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
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- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
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