Pokémon
The Fortune Hunters
TV Flash files “The Fortune Hunters” as the last listed hour of season 3 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 3, episode 41, aired 2000-07-27, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E41: listed hour 159 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 2000-07-27 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Psychic Sidekicks!” (S03E40). Next is “A Goldenrod Opportunity” (S04E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A Pokemon Fortune Telling boom turns out to be a Team Rocket plot to steal Pokemon from local trainers. The engineers of this plot, though, are not the Team Rocket regulars, but by the formidable Butch and Cassidy. Now it is up to Ash and friends to stop them.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Fortune Hunters sit in the Pokémon guide?
S03E41 is listed hour 159 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 41.
When did Pokémon S03E41 air?
The Fortune Hunters aired 2000-07-27 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…
Filed against
- 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…