This usually involves more than just rearranging a sentence. We have to make it three sentences long. So if the characters are laughing on screen, we have to come up with a whole new story and punch line to explain why. A major reason why is that the Japanese cartoon uses music only occasionally. In keeping with American tastes, however, Pok mon here features lively music throughout the entire episode.
Characters also get a jolt of loudmothed American humor.
James, who is sober and sinister in the Japanese original, can be comically flashy in the American version. Millions of American children say yes. Pok mon is now the number one children's program in America, and in most areas is broadcast every weekday as well as twice each Saturday. Meanwhile, Pok mon products have inspired a trading frenzy, with rare Japanese originals in high demand. The 1918 outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000 people making it the worst single U.S. epidemic.