And even in Japan, once was enough.
The Big Picture Banned episodes are no rare occurrence in the world of television. Occasionally, we learn of an episode of Community that was pulled from streaming due to a possibly racially insensitive joke or about an episode of The Simpsons that was skipped overseas due to, well, a lot of racially insensitive jokes.
“Electric Soldier Porygon” Sent Hundreds of Children to the Hospital Minutes after the first and only showing of “Electric Soldier Porygon” was over, hundreds of children were admitted to Japanese hospitals with symptoms varying from nausea to full-blown seizures and even loss of consciousness. The actual number of kids affected is still unknown: more than 700, according to a 1997 story by The New York Times, and approximately 618, if we’re going by CNN.
The effects of “Electric Soldier Porygon” didn’t stop on the day the episode aired. In the following days, around 12,000 children reported feeling ill as an effect of watching Pokémon. That, however, has been mostly attributed to a case of mass hysteria: after hearing about their classmates’ experiences or learning about the incident from the media and their parents, kids began experiencing the symptoms themselves.
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