Pokémon
Pokémon Double Trouble
TV Flash files “Pokémon Double Trouble” as hour 110 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 2, episode 28, aired 1999-08-12, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E28: listed hour 110 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 28 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1999-08-12 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Pokémon Food Fight!” (S02E27). Next is “The Wacky Watcher!” (S02E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends finally arrive on Kumquat Island, the location of the final Orange League Gym Battle. Before Ash can go to the gym, Team Rocket attacks the beach in the Robo-Rhydon. However, Luana, the Gym Leader arrives and defeats it for them. Ash challenges her to a battle and she agrees. However, it will be a double battle, a brand new experience for Ash, will he be able to beat Luana and win his final Orange Leage Badge.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pokémon Double Trouble sit in the Pokémon guide?
S02E28 is listed hour 110 of 1220 — hour 28 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 28.
When did Pokémon S02E28 air?
Pokémon Double Trouble aired 1999-08-12 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…