List of Pokémon references or spoofs

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This is a list of references to or spoofs of Pokémon:

• The DC Comics series Young Justice shows the character Impulse playing Poxy Monsters, a video game clearly based on Pokémon. In the crossover series Sins of Youth, child villain Klarion the Witch Boy uses his powers to summon Poxy Monsters from video games and a movie theater to thwart superheroes.
• The South Park episode "Chinpokomon" satirizes the Pokémon craze in general. In the episode, schoolkids start collecting toys and playing games similar in name and appearance to the Pokémon fad; partway through the episode, the fad is revealed to be a plot by the Japanese government to take over Pearl Harbor. Also, the character Kenny McCormick has a seizure while playing the Chinpokomon video game, referring to the seizure incidents following the airing of "Electric Soldier Porygon".
• In The Simpsons:
  • In The Simpsons episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade", Homer purchases a satellite TV system. Later in the episode, Bart gets bored while taking his test and imagines that Ms. Krabappel and his classmates turn into, among various other things he watched on TV before, an imitation Pikachu.
  • In the Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", there is a programme called "Battling Seizure Robots", which references the seizure incidents following the airing of "Electric Soldier Porygon".
  • A Simpsons Japanese manga has Mr. Sparkle being chased by Pokémon-like creatures.
  • Homer and Rod and Todd Flanders watch a spoof episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things. Bill Cosby asks a child what he likes to play. The child answers, "Po-kee-mon!", making Cosby do an imitation of a Pikachu.
  • A Couch Gag has the Simpsons portray famous Japanese fictional characters, with Maggie portraying Pikachu.
  • A season 12 episode was entitled "Pokey Mom," which resembles the pronunciation of Pokémon.
• In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Billy and his friends use Grim's magic to bring the character on his "Hokey-Monsters" cards to life and make them pit fight with each other. It gets out of hand when everyone in town wants to use Grim's magic to bring their Hokey-Monsters to life.
• In the show Codename: Kids Next Door when Number One is having a meeting talking about "father" we can see a boy in the seats dressed as Ash Ketchum. He makes a reappearance many episodes later as an active member of the Kids Next Door (albeit as an unnamed background member with no spoken dialogue).
• In the Homestar Runner cartoons there are several references. Sometimes The Cheat is referred to as Cheatachu, due to their short statures and yellow-with-black fur. In "The Cheat Theme Song," there is a Pikachu flying across the screen at one point.
  • In "The House that Gave Sucky Treats" viewers could vote for their favorite Halloween costumes from the toon, with "I choose you, <name>-chu!" as the default subject line for every e-mail.
  • In the e-mail "trading cards" there are several references. The yellow cards with the attack names reference the Pokémon Trading Card Game, as well as "Cheatball", who says his own name like a Pokémon, and the way Stinkoman throws him, resembling a Pokéball. Cheatball may be appearing in other Stinkoman toons as the 20x6 version of The Cheat.
  • In the multiple choice trivia quiz on the site, one question is about the "Homestarloween" party, and it asks who The Cheat dressed up as. While the correct answer is Garfield, one of the choices is Pikachu.
• In a certain episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny becomes a fanatic of the show "PonyoMon", and the devices to capture the "monsters" were simply shells (one of the "monsters" was a penguin), in the episode Johnny Bravo asks his mother if she can give to him money to collect more, maybe a reference to the Pokémon fever to collect them all.
• In ReBoot, Matrix, Frisket, and Bob enter a game known as Pantsu Hebi X (pantsu → underpants, hebi → snake), which Matrix describes as being old when he was young. Frisket reboots to a character with the likeness of Pikachu (complete with "Frisket-chu" sounds), while Bob turns into giant monster (itself a reference to Godzilla) in a smaller container in the style of a Poké Ball (whence Matrix describes "I keep you in that tiny container, and release you to fight for me"). The User in this game seems to have 150 such balls, a reference to the having collected all of the original 150 Pokémon.
• In an episode of Robot Chicken, a Pikachu and a Squirtle start conversing by repeating their names until Squirtle finally erupts into English, annoyed at the ridiculousness of what they are doing, and proclaims kids should just read a book. In another episode, Ash's Pikachu is having a dance party inside his Poké Ball.
• In an episode of The Norm Show, Norm has to counsel a child who believes himself to be Ash Ketchum. Before long, the two face off in a battle which is temporarily halted by Team Rocket. All of Norm's Pokémon were played by his coworkers in costume; a memorable line had Norm asking Danny (in a Squirtle costume) to attack, only to be told, "Actually, I have a rash, and it hurts when I squirtle."
• In the Everybody Loves Raymond episode "The Adventures of Hackidu" (aka "Hackidu"), there is a trading card game called Hackidu. In this episode, Raymond tries to stop Ally from trading her entire "Hackidu" deck for a "Scramisaur" card, which is a very rare card and worth a lot of money. At one point during the episode, Marie gives a description of Scramisaur saying something about mountains and stones that resembles a Pokémon. At another, Frank and Raymond describe the rise of the fad by talking about the show leading to the card game and the like. In the pre-finale retrospective, the woman talking about Debra Barone mentions Pokémon as well.
• In Drawn Together, the character Ling-Ling is described as one of many "battle monsters", speaks in a pseudo-Asian language, and is designed to look similar to Pikachu. In one scene, Ling-Ling is shown killing someone who looks exactly like Ash Ketchum, and he also states at one point that he is here "to destroy all and give children seizures", another reference to "Electric Soldier Porygon".
• In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush Threepwood finds a "LeChuck'Achu PirateMon card" in a chest of confiscated items at a school for pirates.
• In the "Gallery of evil" on Neopets, the monster in the book has a Pikachu in its mouth. You can still see it online to this link. [1]
• In Kermit Kombat, Bob the cat is convinced that Rocky is dating a Pikachu. At the beginning of Kermit Kombat 2 Part 3, she decides that it is impossible as Pikachu is a fictional character, then adding "Right Squirtle?" followed by a Squirtle confirming.
• In the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember, there is a person seen in a Charmander costume fleeing as Austin crashes through a Godzilla-like parade float. On Pokémon.com, it says Pikachu and Charmander are in the scene. Also, in a deleted scene, other people are seen in Meowth and Celebi costumes as Austin arrives at Tokyo.
• In an Episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert lists people in involved in a scandal, many of whom were Pokémon.
• In an issue of the Bart Simpson comic, there is a story called "An Anime Among Us", in which Bart gets hit on the head with the infamous "Mr. Sparkle" box, and has a fantasy about him being a "Pocket-Gob" trainer. He is wearing attire strikingly similar to Ash's, and trains his pocket-gob, Santa-choo, a hybrid of Pikachu and his dog, Santa's Little Helper.
• On the February 1, 2006 installment of American Idol, a contestant sang the Jigglypuff lullaby, attempting to immitate Jigglypuff's voice.
• An episode to another one of 4Kids Entertainment's shows, Mew Mew Power is entitled "Mew Two", a possible reference to Mewtwo.
• In 2004, Kids' WB! made commercial bumpers during Yu-Gi-Oh! known as the "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Extreme Close-Up" where they closed in on part of a Yu-Gi-Oh! monster and eventually backed away as you guess what the monster is. This was probably inspired by the "Who's That Pokémon?"
• Also, the Viewtiful Joe commercial bumpers feature Kevin Michael Richardson asking questions about the show and answering them as they return to the show. This might be inspired by the "Trainers' Choice" from Seasons 7 and 8.
• In on one episode of The Parkers, one kid wanted to trade his Pokémon cards to his date for a date with Nikki.
• The Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Tough Break" features a toy gnome known as "Gnomekop", and Jade mentions that everyone is collecting them and when you get its counterpart, "Turbo Troll", the two will fight. "Gnomekop" is a slight backward misspellation of Pokémon, and the talk of collecting them also seems inspired by Pokémon, as well as Jackie complaining that he can't go anywhere without seeing Gnomekop. In the episode "A Jolly J-Team X-Mas" Jackie gets Jade a video game whose name seems to be taken from some video games, known as "Ultramoose 2: Antler Gear Solid: Yellow Version". While "Antler Gear Solid" is a parody of Metal Gear Solid, "Yellow Version" is probably a reference to Pokémon Yellow. Also, in the episode "The Good Guys", when Finn, Chow, and Ratso fall off the cliff and hang from a branch lamenting, that is a parody of Team Rocket's lament in some episodes where they blast off and before the closing credits they are seen hanging from a branch talking about how they are failures..
• According to the Doctor Who novel, The Slow Empire, the Eighth Doctor is convinced that Pokémon are real and part of an evil mind-control plot by the industrial-military complex to subvert the infant pattern-recognition reflex with junk data. It's also implied in several novels that The Doctor has encountered Pokémon in his adventures throughout all his lives
• On an episode of Saturday Night Live, in the Hardball sketch, Tracy Morgan, portraying Harry Belefonte, did a news report and said, "Pokémon is the slavetrade, Pikachu is the slavemaster."
• In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Cuckoo for Coco Cards", Bloo mentions that he collected all 150 of the Foster's trading cards. This might be a reference to the original 150 Pokémon. A Pikachu lookalike, complete with electricity, is also seen in the episode "Eddie Monster".
• In the newspaper comic "Ink Pen", a boy looking like Ash (and wearing a similar hat) summons 'Smokémon' out of a gray-and-white ball, and yells,"Flavor blast!" kind of like Charizard and his Fire Blast. Later in the comic, 'Smokémon' is referred to be a 'cute anime kids sensation'.
• In MAD Magazine issue #386, there is a spoof of Pokémon called 'Hokéycon', which satirizes many aspects of the franchise. The same issue features a "How should we kill this Pokémon?" poll regarding Pikachu, which is the main theme of the magazine's cover. Coincidentally, the issue number is also the number of Pokémon in existance during the third generation.
• In the "Reality Check" sketch on an episode of MADtv, the two fat ladies mentioned Pokémon being a fad once.
• A Nickelodeon Magazine had a set of prank Pokémon cards known as Jokémon cards, such as "Rare-izard", whose description is "This card is so rare, it almost doesn't exist. It will cost you everything you and your parents own." This is a possible reference to the first edition Charizard cards which were worth thousands on eBay auctions. Nick Mag's mascot, Zelda van Gutters, was put in too, as "Zelda", who evolves into "Zeldasaur" and then again into "Zilla". The HP is a number involving the monster such as "30,000,000 BC" for Zeldasaur. One monster, "Hokey-Pokey-Bird" had a "Put left foot in" attack that does 5 HP damage, a "Takes left foot out" which does -5 HP, and "Shakes it all about" which has what looks like a shaking 5.
• In the Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episode "The Fall of Halekulani and the Winter of Discontent", when Bobobo summons the Bo-Ninjas, their attacks are similar to Pokémon attacks, such as Bubblebeam, Flamethrower, and Thundershock. Also, sometimes one character throws another character into the air, the character that gets thrown in the air says a phrase and then hits a twinkling star in the sky. This is a reference to when Team Rocket gets thrown in the air by another character, always yelling the phrase "Team Rocket's blasting off again!"
• The latter above reference also often occurs in Duel Masters, usually by Rikuda getting thrown into the air.
• In an issue of the Archie Sonic comic books, Sonic the Hedgehog complains about a fad called "Pokémon". This is noteworthy because Sonic was created by SEGA, and at the time of that issue's publication, SEGA and Nintendo were still rivals.
• In one episode of Recess a series of Japanese monster cards resembling Pokémon cards, called Monstickers, become playground currency.
• In the FoxTrot comic strip, Jason is said to have all the Pokémon cards except for one, later revealed to be Charizard. He later obtains this card. Most likely, Jason had all the cards of the first generation, seeing as the strips mentioning Jason's love of Pokémon were published in that time period.
• On Jimmy Neutron, Carl has a poster of a pink creature somewhat resembling a Jigglypuff in his room. The same creature is found on a sticker on his lunchbox in another episode.
• On the finale of Power Rangers: S.P.D., Cruger defeats a monster named Pokeymon which is a refence to the name of the show.
• In an episode of Pelswick, a trading card game called "Brainsuckers" becomes popular, and is a reference to how some people would pay ridiculous amounts of money for rare Pokémon cards.
• In one of the Jigsaw Jones books, a kid gives Jigsaw a Diglett card.
• In an episode of Beast Machines the vehicon general Jetfire uses the phrase gotta catch em all while in pursuit of the Maximals.
• In Galactic Civilizations II one of the "moral choices" available that decides your moral leanings discusses the use of "capture spheres" to capture and contain examples of local wildlife which are then pitted against each other in death duels. One of the choices references there being "118 to collect".
• In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, when you talk to Zelda with the Keaton Mask on, she said "What a cute little mouse? Oh, it's not a mouse?" Keaton is a legendary fox, but the mask looks like Pikachu. Zelda may have been referring to that. Also, the guard outside Death Mounain mentions that Keaton is getting popular lately, which could be a reference to the Pokémon fad.
• In Beetle Bailey, there is a comic strip where Beetle and an unknown soldier sneak into Sarge's room. He comes in and yells, "Stop looking at my Pokémon cards!"
• In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a spell is put on Harvey to make him a hothead, and he attacks a schoolboy in the corridor, who drops his cards. When Harvey is restored, he shouts to the boy he attacked, "Hey, you dropped your Pokemon cards!" We can also see that he is holding a Zubat card.
• In an episode of "Grounded For Life" Sean's dad Jim refers to everything in the shop being about "Pokee men" and what not, an obvious mis-pronunciation of "Pokémon".
• Danny Phantom uses the catchphrase "gotta catch 'em all."
• In Banjo-Tooie, Bottles' son, Speccy, is wearing a hat similar to Ash's Kanto/Johto/Orange hat.
• In the online comic "Kevin and Kell" Coney hunts a pikachu and Kell refers to it as junk food.
• In an episode of The Hughleys, Darryl warns his kids to not look into Pikachu's eyes or else they might get a seizure, an obvious remark to the Electric Soldier Porygon incident.
• In the comic strip Zits, Walt asks Jeremy if he is interested in Pokemon. Jeremy makes a dopey, sarcastically happy face and replies that he loves Pokemon, as well as Barney and Sesame Street.
• In a commercial for the HGTV show Designed to Sell, A kid is playing the Nintendo GameCube. On the TV screen, it show Swampert's name, partially visible. That means that the kid is playing Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness or Pokemon Colosseum.
• In one episode of Arthur a spoof of Pokémon cards is shown when Binky asks Muffy if he can have her Stinkachu card. This of course refering to Pokemon cards.
• In an episode of Kerching!, Mrs Lewis tells Omar that her record is as important to her as his "Gadgemon" cards are to him. This is probably a reference to either Pokémon or Digimon.
• In the Philippines, Willie Revilliame song "Ang Cute ng Pokemon" is based on the game franchise.
• In Spongebob Squarepants, the clock in the Rock Bottom Bus Station looks somewhat like a pokeball.
• From Assault onward, the Star Fox character Slippy Toad began to wear a red and white baseball cap that resembles Ash Ketchum's, minus the symbol. Since Star Fox and Pokémon are both Nintendo properties, this is probably a self-referential easter egg.
• On one of the Sonic's Playhouse shorts that can be found on Youtube, a turtle says to Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower, "Hey guys! I just got a new Pokeemon card! It has a Voltorb on it!" Shortly after that, Sonic wrestles the turtle.
• In the book Freaks, Geeks and Asperger's Syndrome, the author repeatedly mentions the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
• In an episode of the Powerpuff girls the one that the girls are dressed up as superheros and they're late, at one part the Mayor looks at his watch and we can plainly see a picture of Jigglypuff on it.
• In the movie See Spot Run, James mentions Charizard trying to burn him in a dream. Gordon says "I thought Pikachu was the Pokémon." James then talks with Gordon about who they'd be if they were Pokémon, including "Fart-in-bed-achu."
• In the movie The Pacifier, through various shots of the house, there is a Pikachu doll on a shelf.
• In an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Dewey is trading Pokemon cards to another boy in exchange for candy.
• in an episode on Yes, Dear, Greg refers to Jimmy as a "man with more Pokemon cards than credit cards". Then Jimmy replies with, "Soon that Pikachu card will be worth a lot of money some day"

• In a song by grindcore/cybergrind band Agoraphobic Nosebleed entitled "Osaka Milk Bar," there is a fictional reference to Japanese rabbis mixing liquid LSD and baby formula, and feeding it to infants "like nipple-fed Pokemon."
• On Being Ian, Ian, Sandi and Tyrone create a short movie about an alien reminding people about safety, telling them not to drive cars etc. and saying that if they do not have better safety in 24 hours, they will destroy the Earth. Whenever an violent explosion appears on the screen, the screen rapidly flashes colours, another reference to Electric Soldier Porygon. Notably, when the kids show it to the rest of the students in their class, Andy (a kid in the background) appears to be unconscious during the "seizure scene".
• In The Fairly OddParents movie "Channel Chasers", the show "Maho Mushi" is a parody of certain anime such as Dragon Ball Z and Pokémon. The Pokémon reference is seen with the creatures that show up on the screen, one after another, as Timmy is watching and imitates them. This could be a reference to the Pokérap.
• The English Monster Rancher anime also has a rap of its monsters, which may have been inspired by the Pokérap.
• An ANA Boeing 747 had Pokémon such as Pikachu, Clefairy, and Mewtwo painted on it. On the engine's sides, Pokéballs are painted on it.