Pokémon
Get the Show on the Road!
TV Flash files “Get the Show on the Road!” as a desk essential hour — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 6, episode 1, aired 2003-03-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 277 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2003-03-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Hoenn Alone!” (S05E65). Next is “A Ruin with a View” (S06E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Get the Show on the Road!”. Get the Show on the Road!: later-region restart as franchise grammar — the adventure that never quite finishes.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the land of Hoenn, a girl named May travels to Prof. Birch's lab. She is attacked by a wild ghost pokemon called Duskull. Scared, but unharmed, she travels on her bike to the lab in Littleroot Town.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Get the Show on the Road! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 277 of 1220 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did Pokémon S06E01 air?
Get the Show on the Road! aired 2003-03-15 and is listed at 30 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…