Pokémon
When Light and Dark Collide!
TV Flash files “When Light and Dark Collide!” as hour 848 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 2, aired 2015-02-07, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E02: listed hour 848 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 2 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-02-07 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Pathways to Performance Partnering!” (S18E01). Next is “An Undersea Place to Call Home!” (S18E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While heading to Coumarine City, Ash & co. encounter a shiny Hawlucha attacking a Snubbull. When they go to help out, they learn that the Pokémon were in fact rehearsing for a play. Not realising this, they interrupt and accidentally hurt the Gallade that is the lead. Due to Gallade being injured, Ash offers to take the place with his Hawlucha, but the two Hawlucha start to fight causing practice to go awry, and when the play begins, Team Rocket appear. Will Ash & Co. be able to help?
Viewer FAQ
Where does When Light and Dark Collide! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E02 is listed hour 848 of 1220 — hour 2 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 2.
When did Pokémon S18E02 air?
When Light and Dark Collide! aired 2015-02-07 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…