Pokémon
Dummy, You Shrunk the Kids!
TV Flash files “Dummy, You Shrunk the Kids!” as hour 1021 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 21, episode 40, aired 2018-07-26, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E40: listed hour 1021 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 40 of 49 in season 21. It aired 2018-07-26 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “All They Want to Do is Dance Dance!” (S21E39). Next is “The Shape of Love to Come!” (S21E41). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Aether Foundation member Faba has returned to the Pokémon School. He has come to show off a machine that will shrink anything, no matter how big. However, the machine malfunctions and Ash, Lillie & Sophocles get shrunk down and due to trouble, get stuck outside. Will Ash & Co. get back to the school and get back to full size?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dummy, You Shrunk the Kids! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S21E40 is listed hour 1021 of 1220 — hour 40 of 49 in season 21, season 21 episode 40.
When did Pokémon S21E40 air?
Dummy, You Shrunk the Kids! aired 2018-07-26 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…