Pokémon
Hassle in the Castle
TV Flash files “Hassle in the Castle” as hour 167 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 4, episode 8, aired 2000-09-21, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E08: listed hour 167 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 8 of 52 in season 4. It aired 2000-09-21 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Carrying On” (S04E07). Next is “Two Hits and a Miss” (S04E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In order to escape the rain, Ash and friends go inside a nearby castle. They venture into the castle and they discover it is actually a clinic where the doctors use pokemon to heal the patients. Team Rocket sneaks into the castle and steals some of the food. When they are discovered, they dash towards another room. Dr. Anna tells them not to go in there, so she and Brock follow them, but then the entrance to the dungeon becomes blocked. While Ash, Misty, and Anna's assistant go to find the entrance to the dungeon in the forest, Brock and Anna must survive the booby trapped maze in order to get out of the dungeon in one piece.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hassle in the Castle sit in the Pokémon guide?
S04E08 is listed hour 167 of 1220 — hour 8 of 52 in season 4, season 4 episode 8.
When did Pokémon S04E08 air?
Hassle in the Castle aired 2000-09-21 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…