Pokémon is an animated anime series in that started in Japan and later on was moved to America and is still around today. It is also a large series of video games released by Nintendo and various Pokémon movies have been released. The first few were released in theatres while others afterwards were releaseed straight to DVD. Pokémon has also been referenced a few times on the Simpsons.
References
Episodes
| Image | Season | Episode number | Episode name | Description |
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10 | 226 | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" | Bart is watching a show called Battling Seizure Robots which is a Japanese show that gives viewers seizures. This is a reference to the Pokémon episode "Computer Soldier Porygon" which gave more than 635 of Japanese children seizures on December 16, 1997. |
| 12 | 258 | "Pokey Mom" | The title of the episode. | |
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12 | 268 | "Children of a Lesser Clod" | Homer, Rod and Todd watch an imitation Kids Say the Darnedest Things on television, and Bill Cosby asks a kid, "What do you like to play?" The kid replies, "Pokémon!" to which Cosby replies, "Pokémon?! Pokémon with the Poké and the Mon and the guy with the thing who comes out and he's like..." and rambles on. |
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14 | 294 | "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" | While Bart is taking a test his mind is focused on satellite television and he has a vision everyone in his class is a television character and one classmate is turned into a Pikachu. |
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15 | 320 335 |
"'Tis the Fifteenth Season" "Fraudcast News" |
During the couch gag every Simpson family member is a Japanese television show character and Maggie is Pikachu. In Germany Pikachu's current voice actor is the same one who voices Maggie in the German version of "The Simpsons" along with Lisa who is Sailor Moon in the couch gag and Sailor also appears to be voiced by the same voice of Lisa, Maggie, and Pikachu. Lisa was also, at the time, voiced by Sailor Moon's voice actress, Patricia Acevedo, in the Latin American dub. |
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21 | 455 | "Postcards from the Wedge" | Bart is seen watching an imitation Pokémon anime on television, starring Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, and he asks himself, "How does this show stay so fresh?" |
Comics
- In Issue #7 of the Bart Simpson comic book series, there is a cartoon called "What's New Porkymen", where a Pikachu parody called "Pikanose" hypnotizes the viewers. In this case, Maggie is the one who is hypnotized after watching him. While under the influence of her new "master", Maggie thinks that she is on a mission to conquer all the wild animals she can find at the Springfield Wild Animal Preserve.