Pokémon
Tanks a Lot!
TV Flash files “Tanks a Lot!” as hour 135 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 3, episode 17, aired 2000-02-03, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E17: listed hour 135 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 17 of 41 in season 3. It aired 2000-02-03 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “For Crying Out Loud” (S03E16). Next is “Charizard's Burning Ambitions” (S03E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Team Rocket's most recent super vehicle, the Arbotank, is their ticket to capturing Pikachu. That is until Togepi and its new found Sentret buddy climb inside and and end up taking it on a joyride. Now Ash. Misty, Brock, and Team Rocket must team up in order to stop the Arbotank and get Togepi back.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tanks a Lot! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S03E17 is listed hour 135 of 1220 — hour 17 of 41 in season 3, season 3 episode 17.
When did Pokémon S03E17 air?
Tanks a Lot! aired 2000-02-03 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…