Pokémon
Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit!
TV Flash files “Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit!” as hour 795 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 42, aired 2013-11-16, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E42: listed hour 795 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 42 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-11-16 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Go, Go Gogoat!” (S16E41). Next is “Survival of the Striaton Gym!” (S16E43). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While waiting for the boat to take them to the next island, Ash & Co. decide to take a break and have a picnic. However, while the Pokémon are playing, Iris misunderstands the conflict and erroneously scolds Emolga, which makes Emolga fly off angry. However, when it lands, it finds itself by Team Rocket, and defeats them. This causes them to urge Emolga to join them, which it accepts. However, when they appear in front of Ash, Team Rocket manage to capture Axew. Will Iris be able to get Axew back and apologise to Emolga?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E42 is listed hour 795 of 1220 — hour 42 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 42.
When did Pokémon S16E42 air?
Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit! aired 2013-11-16 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…