Pokémon
The Mystery Menace
TV Flash files “The Mystery Menace” as hour 104 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 2, episode 22, aired 1999-06-24, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 104 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 22 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1999-06-24 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Get Along, Little Pokémon” (S02E21). Next is “Misty Meets Her Match” (S02E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and the group have finally made their way to the city of Trovitopolis, which has a ferry to Trovita Island, the location of the next Orange League Gym. However, the town is not as normal as they think, apparently a monster is in the sewer and has taken Ash's Bulbasaur. Now Ash, Misty, and Tracey must venture into the sewers to find this so called monster before the city's mayor and his SWAT team close off the sewers and trap them.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Mystery Menace sit in the Pokémon guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 104 of 1220 — hour 22 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did Pokémon S02E22 air?
The Mystery Menace aired 1999-06-24 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…