Pokémon
The Brockster Is In!
TV Flash files “The Brockster Is In!” as hour 655 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 13, episode 33, aired 2011-01-29, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S13E33: listed hour 655 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 33 of 34 in season 13. It aired 2011-01-29 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Semi-Final Frontier!” (S13E32). Next is “Memories Are Made of Bliss!” (S13E34). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With the Sinnoh League behind them, Ash and friends take a ship back to Dawn's hometown of Twinleaf. A crisis emerges, however, when a group of Tentacruel attack the ship and poison many of the Pokémon on board. With no other doctor on the ship, Brock is the only one who can help those Pokémon. Will he succeed before it's too late?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Brockster Is In! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S13E33 is listed hour 655 of 1220 — hour 33 of 34 in season 13, season 13 episode 33.
When did Pokémon S13E33 air?
The Brockster Is In! aired 2011-01-29 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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- Rica Matsumoto as Ash Ketchum (JP)
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- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
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- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
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