Pokémon
Take the Lombre Home
TV Flash files “Take the Lombre Home” as hour 339 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 7, episode 23, aired 2005-01-29, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E23: listed hour 339 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 23 of 52 in season 7. It aired 2005-01-29 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Disguise Da Limit” (S07E22). Next is “True Blue Swablu” (S07E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The heroes, who are thirsty, wander the land. Brock shows them a spring, but it ran out of water. They go to the village, but find it deserted. Just as Lotad falls in a well and gets risen up, it evolves into a Lombre. Much to the heroes' surprise, the villagers start coming out of their houses and pray to Lombre and start cursing a Solrock, believing it is the reason for the local drought. In order to prove them wrong, the heroes decide to investigate.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Take the Lombre Home sit in the Pokémon guide?
S07E23 is listed hour 339 of 1220 — hour 23 of 52 in season 7, season 7 episode 23.
When did Pokémon S07E23 air?
Take the Lombre Home aired 2005-01-29 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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