Pokémon
Mounting an Electrifying Charge!
TV Flash files “Mounting an Electrifying Charge!” as hour 979 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 41, aired 2017-09-07, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E41: listed hour 979 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 41 of 43 in season 20. It aired 2017-09-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!” (S20E40). Next is “Alola, Kanto!” (S20E42). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Charjabug Races are very popular in Alola and Sophocles is a huge fan. Wanting to enter with his Charjabug, Sophocles recruits Ash and Kiawe to team up with him to enter a race, but his Charjabug seems very docile and doesn't move fast in the car. Wih lots of training done, when the day of the race comes, it proves to be tough for Sophocles. Would he be able to win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mounting an Electrifying Charge! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E41 is listed hour 979 of 1220 — hour 41 of 43 in season 20, season 20 episode 41.
When did Pokémon S20E41 air?
Mounting an Electrifying Charge! aired 2017-09-07 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…