Pokémon
Coming Back Into the Cold!
TV Flash files “Coming Back Into the Cold!” as hour 821 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 17, episode 23, aired 2014-06-28, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E23: listed hour 821 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 23 of 48 in season 17. It aired 2014-06-28 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Going for the Gold!” (S17E22). Next is “Climbing the Walls!” (S17E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Reuniting with Alexa, Ash & co. decide to visit the Fossil Laboratory in Ambrette Town, to help Alexa with a feature she is doing. While exploring the laboratories, one of the scientists shows them a recently revived Amaura and Aurorus, two very rare ancient Pokémon. After some time playing with the young Amaura, Ash & Co. go to take a break, which is when Team Rocket sneak in to steal Amaura. Will Ash & co. be able to rescue it and return it to its parent?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Coming Back Into the Cold! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S17E23 is listed hour 821 of 1220 — hour 23 of 48 in season 17, season 17 episode 23.
When did Pokémon S17E23 air?
Coming Back Into the Cold! aired 2014-06-28 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…