History Trivia / PokemonTheSeries

** On Cartoon Network, the anime eventually stopped being promoted and was relegated to early Saturday mornings. With the ratings continuing to fall, Cartoon Network opted to drop the series entirely in early 2017, and Disney XD quickly scooped up the rights when they got the chance, treating it much better by giving it better timeslots.[[note]]Some suggest ExecutiveMeddling and not CN's [[AdoredByTheNetwork/TeenTitansGo infamous obsession]] with ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' played a role in the ChannelHop, however; CN sibling Creator/WarnerBros lost a bidding war that year for the ''Pokémon'' movie rights to their former financing partner Creator/LegendaryPictures, who promptly gave a piece of the pie to their then-current partner, Creator/{{Universal}}. This turn of events may have caused CN to walk out of contract renewal talks in revenge. It ultimately may have been a bad move, though, as Legendary later came calling back to Warner Bros., who agreed to take Universal's piece of the pie in their place.[[/note]]

* TheOriginalDarrin: Nurse Joy's original voice actor Creator/MeganHollingshead left the show after season seven, moving to California. However, she returned to her original role for ''Journeys'', thanks to the dubbing now being primary done in Los Angeles.

** The Watch Disney XD app (later replaced with Disney Now) and website may have more episodes of the show than their original shows, although no show Disney XD has ever run comes close to Pokemon's episode count. The app has almost every dubbed episode up to the present (except for the banned and undubbed episodes), as well as many of the movies.

** The UK, for the longest time, saw little in the way of official releases. ''Pokémon Chronicles'' had a complete release, as did the first six movies (Warner Bros. released the first three movies, Miramax handled ''4Ever'' and ''Heroes'', and Paramount released ''Jirachi Wishmaker''. Miramax eventually released ''Destiny Deoxys'' in 2012). This wasn't helped by the fact that the distribution license kept jumping about between companies - Network (A company that specializes in re-releasing shows from the BBC and ITV libraries) released ''The Rise of Darkrai'' on DVD, and had plans to release other movies and seasons (The website itself had a short-lived Pokémon section), but nothing came to pass. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment UK started distributing the movies years later, with ''Zoroark: Master of Illusions'' being the first release, and their last release was ''Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice'', after which there were no other releases from them. Eventually Manga Entertainment started releasing the films on DVD and Blu-Ray, starting from ''Hoopa & The Clash of Ages'', also having re-released the first three movies and everything from Diamond and Pearl onwards, leaving ''Lucario & The Mystery of Mew'' and ''Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of The Sea'' as the only movies to not have a physical release (As well as being unable to issue rereleases of ''4Ever'' through ''Destiny Deoxys'' as Miramax still hold the rights)). The ''Indigo League'' season was released on DVD and Blu-Ray as well, but no other seasons have been announced so far.

** Malaysia never got the ''Advance Generation'' anime. Any anime after that were hit or miss and were prone to getting ScrewedByTheNetwork after several episodes had aired.
** The Japanese OST has not been officially distributed overseas post ''Best Wishes''. This is likely because of the change of music companies to Sony Music Japan, who is notorious for their tight hold on the properties they own.

** The UK broadcast has also bounced around a fair bit - the show originally launched on Sky One in 1999, and it aired all seasons up to ''Advanced Challenge''. Cartoon Network then took over, airing ''Advanced Battle'' through to ''Diamond & Pearl'', as well as repeating the older seasons on its sister channel Toonami (Later Cartoon Network TOO). The show then hopped once again to Jetix, which started with ''Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension'', and it continued to air when the channel was rebranded as Disney XD, but it was pushed into a graveyard/early morning slot by the time that the ''XY'' season started airing, eventually vanishing from the lineup. Pop MAX (A Sony-owned kids TV channel formally known as Kix! that shows cartoons that used to air on other networks alongside newer seasons of Power Rangers) started showing episodes from ''Black & White'' onward since the start of 2018. On the terrestrial side of it all, it used to air on ITV's CITV kids block, but in its original run several episodes were awkwardly cut into two ten-minute segments. It aired on and off, originally only showing the first couple seasons and a small handful of ''Pokémon Advanced'' episodes. Around 2009/10, it started airing on the dedicated CITV free-to-air channel, where new episodes aired long in advance to those on satellite networks, with some episodes airing weeks ahead of their US broadcast. Whilst it focuses on showing the current season, they air older seasons from time to time, with ''Advanced'' getting a proper run back in 2015.

** One of the saddest examples. For the original Japanese dub, Takeshi Shudo wanted to [[DoingItForTheArt create a quality show that parents and children would enjoy together]]. Despite this, he was forced to implement elements such as the StrictlyFormula problem/character/villain-of-the-week format that would eventually become a defining aspect of the series much more than anything that Shudo wanted to implement.

* ImageSource:
** TheRival
** ToyTransmutation

* NoDubForYou: Inverted, as the series has never been officially released with Japanese audio and English subs. Most likely due to the fact that the licensor believes the TargetAudience wouldn't be interested in watching it in a language they don't understand, and likely not helped by Japanese home video releases being very incomplete, with a whopping ''four'' episodes of the ''Advanced Generation'' series getting a DVD release. Even when ''Pokémon Journeys'' was released as a Netflix original, English is the only language available, unlike practically every other anime Netflix has licensed.

* AuthorExistenceLimbo: It is widely believed that the reason neither May or Max has had a speaking role in the anime since 2008 is due to May's Japanese Voice Actress KAORI. being forced to retire from acting and singing in 2012 upon being diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphoria.

* WordOfGay: [[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/06/pokemon-character-lesbian-ivy-brock-orange-island-takeshi-shudo-professor-ivy-queer/ Takeshi Shudo believed that Professor Ivy was a Lesbian, which is the reason why Brock left her.]]

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]]
** [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesPikachu Pikachu]]

* NoDubForYou: Inverted, as the series has never been officially released with Japanese audio and English subs. Most likely due to the fact that the licensor believes the TargetAudience wouldn't be interested in watching it in a language they don't understand, and likely not helped by Japanese home video releases being very incomplete, with a whopping ''four'' episodes of the ''Advanced Generation'' series getting a DVD release. Even when ''Pokémon Journeys'' was released as a Netflix original, English is the only language available.

* NoDubForYou: Inverted, as the series has never been officially released with Japanese audio and English subs. Most likely due to the fact that the licensor believes the TargetAudience wouldn't be interested in watching it in a language they don't understand, and likely not helped by Japanese home video releases being very incomplete, with a whopping ''four'' episodes of the ''Advanced Generation'' series getting a DVD release.

* FanNickname:
** "Thunder Armor" for the technique Ash uses against Liza and Tate to defeat them.
** [[spoiler:"Double/Quadruple Counter" for Ash's Dusk Lycanroc's finishing move against Gladion's Midnight Lycanroc; [[SerialEscalation A Counter used to counter the Counter used to counter Dusk Lycanroc's attacks.]]]]

* WordOfGod: Storyboarder Masamitsu Hidaka said that Ash's father is on his own Pokémon journey, and his character would be explored if it is necessary to further Ash's CharacterDevelopment.

* DuelingDubs and TheOtherMarty: The show has been pretty lucky with one consistent dub for the whole franchise (though handled by more than one company). However, the 10th Anniversary Special (''Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon'') got two dubs. The first was for the initial television broadcast, and was notable for being the first production to use [[TheOtherDarrin the new voice cast]] following a change in companies. This dub was so detested that the voice cast was re-evaluated, and a few recasts took place (most notably Ash) for future media. The special was later redubbed with the updated cast (and others, who were now better used to their roles) and included as a special feature on the original Movie 8 DVD.

** The podcast bumper for the original Japanese airing of "Unova's Survival Crisis" gave the audience a telephone poll over which Pokemon they wanted to [[TheBusCameBack return to Team Rocket]]; Wobbuffet, Mime. Jr or Dustox. While we know who won the poll, one has to wonder how ''XY'' would have played if Mime. Jr or even Dustox inexplicably rejoined.

*** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'' has Giorno Giovanna as [[Creator/KenshoOno Alain]], Bruno Bucciarati as [[Creator/YuuichiNakamura N]] (Japanese) and [[Creator/RayChase Professor Cerise]] (both Japanese and English), Guido Mista as [[Creator/KosukeToriumi Saizo]], Narancia Ghirga as [[Creator/DaikiYamashita Goh]], Trish Una as [[Creator/SayakaSenbongi Sobble]], Sale as [[Creator/KaitoIshikawa Kiawe]], Ghiaccio as [[Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto Gladion]] and Prosciutto as [[Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki Raihan, Barry and Ippei]]. [[Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi Diavolo]] provides various Pokémon.

* BannedEpisode: So many that [[BannedEpisode/{{Pokemon}} it has its own page.]]

** Malaysia never got the ''Advance Generation'' anime. Any anime after that were hit or miss and were prone to getting ScrewedByTheNetwork after several episodes have aired.