Pokémon
Type Casting
TV Flash files “Type Casting” as hour 164 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 4, episode 5, aired 2000-08-31, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E05: listed hour 164 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 5 of 52 in season 4. It aired 2000-08-31 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Bug Stops Here” (S04E04). Next is “Fossil Fools” (S04E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends come across a river where the bridge across it has been washed out due to a recent storm. They see a man in a boat nearby and ask him for a ride. He says he will give them a ride if they can find the pokemon Sudowoodo. They begin their search and come across Marie and Pierre, two scientists who are also after Sudowoodo, trying to figure out what type it is. Realizing they must be related to the guy with the boat, they join them on their quest to find Sudowoodo. However, Team Rocket are also hot on their trail planning to find Sudowoodo first.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Type Casting sit in the Pokémon guide?
S04E05 is listed hour 164 of 1220 — hour 5 of 52 in season 4, season 4 episode 5.
When did Pokémon S04E05 air?
Type Casting aired 2000-08-31 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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