Pokémon
Wobbu-Palooza!
TV Flash files “Wobbu-Palooza!” as hour 175 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 4, episode 16, aired 2000-11-16, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E16: listed hour 175 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 16 of 52 in season 4. It aired 2000-11-16 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Mountain Time” (S04E15). Next is “Imitation Confrontation” (S04E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Breaking for lunch at a spot in the forest, our heroes notice a nearby Wobbuffet and begin to look around for it's teammates, Team Rocket! Although there's no sign of Team Rocket, everywhere they look there are more Wobbuffet popping up. They follow them to a Wobbuffet Village and find out the village is about to have their annual Wobbuffet fair. During the festival a group of punk crash the festival, and due to festival rules, no one can battle inside the village during the festival. They must now find a way to stop the punks, and the solution maybe something they had never suspected.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Wobbu-Palooza! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S04E16 is listed hour 175 of 1220 — hour 16 of 52 in season 4, season 4 episode 16.
When did Pokémon S04E16 air?
Wobbu-Palooza! aired 2000-11-16 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)
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- 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…