Pokémon
The Right Place and the Right Mime
TV Flash files “The Right Place and the Right Mime” as hour 408 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 8, episode 40, aired 2006-04-15, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E40: listed hour 408 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 40 of 52 in season 8. It aired 2006-04-15 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Scheme Team” (S08E39). Next is “A Real Cleffa-Hanger” (S08E41). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Finally Back in Pallet meeting with Misty, Tracey, May, Max & Professor Birch, Ash reunites with his old Pokémon. After spending some time with his old friends, Ash discovers that Team Rocket have another plan to try and steal the Pokémon. Can they be stopped?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Right Place and the Right Mime sit in the Pokémon guide?
S08E40 is listed hour 408 of 1220 — hour 40 of 52 in season 8, season 8 episode 40.
When did Pokémon S08E40 air?
The Right Place and the Right Mime aired 2006-04-15 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…