Pokémon
Racing to a Big Event!
TV Flash files “Racing to a Big Event!” as hour 951 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 13, aired 2017-02-02, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E13: listed hour 951 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 13 of 43 in season 20. It aired 2017-02-02 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair!” (S20E12). Next is “Getting to Know You!” (S20E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Continuing his studies in Alola, Ash soon learns from Mallow about a famous Pancake Race. Intrigued, Ash and all his classmates enter in the special pancake race but while there, he meets the champion from last year, a trainer and her Alolan Raichu. A rivalry soon sparks between Pikachu and the Raichu and the race gets heated. Plus, with Team Rocket having their eyes on the prize, the race may not be as simple as they thought. Who is going to win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Racing to a Big Event! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E13 is listed hour 951 of 1220 — hour 13 of 43 in season 20, season 20 episode 13.
When did Pokémon S20E13 air?
Racing to a Big Event! aired 2017-02-02 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…
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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…