Pokémon
The Frocking Find in the Flowers!
TV Flash files “The Frocking Find in the Flowers!” as hour 886 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 40, aired 2015-11-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E40: listed hour 886 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 40 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-11-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Trip Down Memory Train!” (S18E39). Next is “Lights! Camera! Pika!” (S18E41). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On their way to Anistar City, Serena is practicing for the next Pokémon Showcase and trying out new performances. While doing so, they spot an Eevee dancing in the flowers. With the dance impressing Serena, she goes to befriend it but Eevee is reluctant, causing Serena to come up with an idea to befriend the Eevee. Will she be able to befriend it and create a new performance?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Frocking Find in the Flowers! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E40 is listed hour 886 of 1220 — hour 40 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 40.
When did Pokémon S18E40 air?
The Frocking Find in the Flowers! aired 2015-11-14 and is listed at 30 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…
Filed against
- 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…