Pokémon
Battling the Bully!
TV Flash files “Battling the Bully!” as hour 721 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 15, episode 17, aired 2012-06-09, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E17: listed hour 721 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 17 of 49 in season 15. It aired 2012-06-09 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Explorers of the Hero's Ruin!” (S15E16). Next is “Baffling the Bouffalant!” (S15E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On their way to Mistralton City, Ash & Co. get ambushed by the Sunglasses Krokorok, Pikachu's rival. Shortly after this, Ash & co. meet up with a trainer in town who wishes to borrow Pikachu so he can battle and defeat his friend as he doesn't have any Pokémon and he has been challenged by a friend. A problem soon arises however when Ash & Co. learn that the battle is a Double Battle and so the trainer needs a second Pokémon. Krokorok decides to join in with the battle. Who will win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Battling the Bully! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S15E17 is listed hour 721 of 1220 — hour 17 of 49 in season 15, season 15 episode 17.
When did Pokémon S15E17 air?
Battling the Bully! aired 2012-06-09 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…