Pokémon
Gotta Catch a Roggenrola!
TV Flash files “Gotta Catch a Roggenrola!” as hour 690 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 14, episode 34, aired 2011-09-24, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E34: listed hour 690 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 34 of 48 in season 14. It aired 2011-09-24 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!” (S14E33). Next is “Where Did You Go, Audino?” (S14E35). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On their way to Nimbasa City, Ash and friends come across a group of Roggenrola who are being targeted by Team Rocket. When Team Rocket reveals their plan for the Pokémon they decide to stop them and save the Pokémon.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Gotta Catch a Roggenrola! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S14E34 is listed hour 690 of 1220 — hour 34 of 48 in season 14, season 14 episode 34.
When did Pokémon S14E34 air?
Gotta Catch a Roggenrola! aired 2011-09-24 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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- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
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