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Mirroring the efforts at pages like Wikipedia in pop culture, below is an altered list of the entries curently present at List of Pokémon references or spoofs. Unchanged entries are those that should stay, italicized entries are those that are questionable in their relevance, notability (e.g. many examples of comic book/mag refs, but only first ones should remain), or citability. Those that are struck through should probably be removed.

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

• 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 "Dennō Senshi Porygon".
• 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 "Dennō Senshi Porygon". In another episode, 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 babble incoherently. This would latter on be used as a fad on ytmnd. Finally, the couch gag for the episode 'Tis the Fifteenth Season, the family cosplays as anime characters, and Maggie is dressed as Pikachu.
• 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, 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 "Dennō Senshi Porygon".
• 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.
• On the February 1, 2006 installment of American Idol, a contestant sang the Jigglypuff lullaby, attempting to imitate Jigglypuff's voice.
• The September 1999 issue of "Nickelodeon Magazine" had a set of tear-out prank Pokémon cards called 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 in eBay auctions. Nick Mag's mascot, Zelda Van Gutters, was included too, as the card "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. The remaining card, "Cow", has a description that says, "What am I doing in this game? I am not a monster, I'm just a cow. Just let me chew my cud."
• 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.
• 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 existence during the third generation.
• In an issue of the Archie Sonic comic books, Sonic the Hedgehog complains about a fad called "Pokémon" ("Well, I've had enough of 'Pokémon', but you don't see me complaining."). 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 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.
• 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 Mountain mentions that Keaton is getting popular lately, which could be a reference to the Pokémon fad.
• In the Philippines, Willie Revilliame song "Ang Cute ng Pokemon" is based on the game franchise.

• 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.
• ""Weird Al" Yankovic" wrote a song called "Polkamon", which, as the name implies, is like a Polka version of the Pokérap. 4Kids Entertainment decided to use this song in the closing credits to the Pokémon 2000: The Power of One movie.
• The role-playing game Big Eyes, Small Mouth has a supplement called "Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters," which features rules and systems for characters and campaigns in a setting revolving around training monsters for combat. It features artwork, rules mechanics and setting descriptions that simultaneously spoof Pokémon (as well as similar series like Digimon) while giving the material the proper treatment it deserves in order to play such games. The title itself references at least two of the most common criticisms of Pokémon. The cover of the book depicts a trainer encouraging a scratched-up monster to continue fighting a vicious rooster-like creature. An alternate version of the same book uses a more family-friendly piece of artwork and removes the word 'Cockfighting' from the title (partially due to complaints from parents about the appearance of the words 'cock' or 'cockfighting' on the cover of the book), although the internal content is the same. The d20 version of Big Eyes Small Mouth includes a character class called "Monster Trainer."
• The Pokémon TV theme song is unlockable in Donkey Konga.
• The character design of The Cheat from Homestar Runner was modified by The Brothers Chaps to resemble Pikachu after the Pokémon anime made its debut in America. In The Cheat's Theme Song video, when the singer says "who's the guy that looks like The Cheat", a Pikachu flies by onscreen. In the anime universe of "Stinko Man K: 20X6", The Cheat's equivalent is "Cheatball", a Pikachu parody, who only says his own name like a Pokémon. Cheatball debuted in the e-mail "trading cards".[1]
• An episode of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends entitled "Eddie Monster", Eduardo runs away from Foster's Home and bumps into Terrence. Terrence convinces Eduardo to participate in Extremeasaurus (a type of imaginary friend created by an unruly teenager to cause destruction) fighting. Once Mac, Bloo, Coco and Wilt convince Eduardo to come back home, Terrence tosses Mac, Bloo, Coco and Wilt into a large crate which is housed a Pikachu-esque Extremeasaurus, complete with electric powers.
• A couple of episodes of Codename: Kids Next Door had shots of a boy in Ash Ketchum's pre-Hoenn outfit.
• An episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy features a card game known as "Hokey-Monsters", an obvious reference to Pokémon. In the episode, Billy and Irwin ask Grim to bring their "Hokey-Monsters" to life, when everyone finds out and does this too. Mandy creates her own "Hokey-Monster" which eats all Hokey-Monsters.
• On YouTube, Smosh did a lipsyncing video of the Pokémon TV theme song that is the second most viewed video on the site and has been mentioned in various media.