Pokémon
Currying Favor and Flavor!
TV Flash files “Currying Favor and Flavor!” as hour 973 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 35, aired 2017-07-27, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E35: listed hour 973 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 35 of 43 in season 20. It aired 2017-07-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Crowning Moment of Truth!” (S20E34). Next is “Trials and Determinations!” (S20E36). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lychee and Professor Kukui send the class out to find ingredients for Akalan Curry in groups of two. The team of Satoshi and Mao find their task more challenging than expected, especially in getting past angry Karikiris, an Alolan Parasect and an Alolan Digda. Their search for the final ingredient brings them face-to-face with a Totem Rarantesu. Satoshi and his Pokémon must now battle Rarantesu and its partner Powalen, but there may be more to this than meets the eye.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Currying Favor and Flavor! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E35 is listed hour 973 of 1220 — hour 35 of 43 in season 20, season 20 episode 35.
When did Pokémon S20E35 air?
Currying Favor and Flavor! aired 2017-07-27 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)
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- 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…