Pokémon
An Undersea Place to Call Home!
TV Flash files “An Undersea Place to Call Home!” as hour 849 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 3, aired 2015-02-07, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E03: listed hour 849 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 3 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-02-07 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “When Light and Dark Collide!” (S18E02). Next is “A Stealthy Challenge!” (S18E04). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While fishing in the Muraille Coast, Ash hooks a Skrelp who manages to poison Pikachu. Rushing for help, he finds a pair of marine archeologist who are willing to help Pikachu. While helping Pikachu, they tell Ash & co. that they are looking for a luxury liner which was said to sink around this area. Ash & co. decide to help out, but Team Rocket overhears this and want to reach the ship first to get the treasure. Who will get there?
Viewer FAQ
Where does An Undersea Place to Call Home! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E03 is listed hour 849 of 1220 — hour 3 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 3.
When did Pokémon S18E03 air?
An Undersea Place to Call Home! 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…