Pokémon
Dreams Are Made of These!
TV Flash files “Dreams Are Made of These!” as hour 1104 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 23, episode 20, aired 2020-04-05, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E20: listed hour 1104 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 20 of 48 in season 23. It aired 2020-04-05 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Talent for Imitation!” (S23E19). Next is “Caring for a Mystery!” (S23E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Professor Sakuragi is holding a Pokémon Orienteering event at his laboratory where kids will go through various spots to look for Pokémon. Ash and Go have both been chosen a leaders to guide the children around. Ash gets really focused on the battle part of the event while Go focuses on catching them, furthering their dreams. However, before too long Lugia appears.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dreams Are Made of These! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S23E20 is listed hour 1104 of 1220 — hour 20 of 48 in season 23, season 23 episode 20.
When did Pokémon S23E20 air?
Dreams Are Made of These! aired 2020-04-05 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…