Charizard's obedience during movie 2

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Probably got brought up a bunch before but whatever.

I think I've figured out what's the case.

The Pokémon anime airs on TV Tokyo, at 7 PM. Has been since April of 1998.

As we all know, sometimes that brings it into conflict with the airing of baseball games. Sometimes they have to push back an episode so that the game can finish if it goes into extra innings or takes too long.

So what if that's what happened? The movies are always canonically put between the episodes that air around them. If a baseball game went into overtime, though, and pushed back an episode, it would've made it impossible to move the date of the movie, and if it happened close enough to its release, would've made it impossible to do a one-hour special to make up for it.

But that's just a theory. Anyone got old baseball schedules or TV Tokyo schedules? Or a memory that goes back that far? I'm thinking that's what happened on July 8, 1999.

Feel free to call me a moron if I'm wrong, though.
 
Your theory seems plausible. And your not a moron, that's what the forum is for!
 
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It was only off by one week, anyway. What's the big deal?

If anything, the first movie was way more out of whack. It clearly takes place after Satoshi has defeated the Tokiwa City Gym, but it was released on July 18, 1998, between "Gardie the Police Dog" and "Shutter Chance Pikachu", which both aired before Satoshi-tachi even got to Guren Island, let alone Tokiwa City. (And Lizardon was obedient in that movie too, or at least when the plot needed him to be.)
 
I honestly think it was left ambiguous at to whether Charizard was obedient at that point in time or not. Not to mention something a lot of people forget: Charizard was gradually warming up to Ash (pun unintended) throughout all of OI anyway. Charizard Chills was just the cataylst to full obedience.
 
Jesse GS the II said:
It was only off by one week, anyway. What's the big deal?
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The big deal is that it was off by only one week, and thus, there's a possibility that a baseball game could possibly explain it.

Movie 1... well, there's one pretty good explanation for that: Porygon. I dunno when stuff started coming out to advertise it, but surely it was in the works when that crap happened in December of 1997. They know what episode will be aired around the release date. Heck, movie 1 probably happens after Ash released Pidgeot, considering it doesn't appear at all.
 
TTEchidna said:
Movie 1... well, there's one pretty good explanation for that: Porygon. I dunno when stuff started coming out to advertise it, but surely it was in the works when that crap happened in December of 1997. They know what episode will be aired around the release date. Heck, movie 1 probably happens after Ash released Pidgeot, considering it doesn't appear at all.
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IIRC, Pidgeotto appears in the Pikachu short.

I always thought Movie 1 would take place during the pre-League chill period at Pallet Town. They did do some random traveling during that time, and in Movie 1 they are alongside an ocean front.
 
Even when Charizard didn't listen to what Ash said, he did follow orders when facing strong or worthy opponents... and Mewtwo fits the category.
 
No episode aired on July 8th, 1999.

That would probably be the day you'd want to focus on to see whether or not a baseball game was playing that day.
 
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