Can't say so because of Team rocket, they make Pokemon fun to watch, as well as Pickachu, so a Pokemon fad wouldn't be so bad.

I remember when my nephew used to collect Pokemon cards.  Around that time i remember watching the Chris Rock show on HBO when they showed a fake Pokemon card. The character on the card was named "Stabbanigga"!

My friends and I call them-ITS CRAPPY MAN!

my son was into pokemon. i hated it. i thought it was a waste of money. it was an expensive interest. the price of those cards are ridiculous. where are all the cards now? either thrown in a drawer or in the garbage.

Ugly nasty little things!

I was 17 when I started playing Pokemon. I played my nephew's game boy and I was hooked, it is a good strategy game but as far as the cards, the movies and all that other stuff, it got overexposed and everyone got sick of it. But as far as it being a good game with strategy, I give it 2 thumbs up.

They should have just kept it as a game. The games are very addictive and still a lot of fun, but their efforts to make Pokemon a phenomenon ruined it. The cartoon could have been decent if every episode didn't have the exact same plot.

Pikachu, your cute and all, but don't go away mad, just please go away. Thanks.

I don't agree with ClassicTVFan much, but he's dead on here. Pokemon is no fad, it's a phenomenon of the highest degree. It has waned a bit, but it is still strong.

Pokemon, about to enter its sixth season on the unstoppable Kids WB, is nowhere near a fad, but now an animation and video gaming legend. Two new games are flying on for the Nintendo's super-handheld, the Game Boy Advance. Also, three games are coming for the Nintendo GameCube! The creator of Pokemon hopes to elevate Pokemon to the level of Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny. As far as I'm concerned, its already there! Does a FAD produce seven motion pictures and 300+ episodes? I think that qualifies more as as a saga or legacy.

I spent a bit of money on those @#%*ing cards. (seemed like a good idea at the time). But thnk god i realised my mistake and gave the god *#@* things to my brother. Note to CTVfan it is a fad that is the reason why it's almost gone. MOST of the people who watch this trash are younger kids who don't know any better.

It's not for me but if it makes some people happy then so be it. I see nothing redeeming about it except as others have said to milk money out of children and their parents. I never thought the little(whatever the little freak happened to be) was appealing. What could be trash or an annoyance to some, could be treasure to another.

I would like to congratulate pikachan for kicking te habit (somewhat). Witnessing the rise of the pokemon phenomenon to me is like watching the end of a bad horror film where the villian is in their final moments but just won't DIE! I predict that it will be another five years (at the most) before this crap fades into obscurity forever.

I am SO glad that I'm off Pokemon cards and toys. I only play the video games (which started this whole fad!!) now. This whole thing about collecting the cards and toys is stupid when you think about it. The video games(Game Boy) are the only thing i ever play. An awful fad indeed!!! NOTE:It's spelled PokeMON! NOT pokeMAN!(Typo there! fix it!

Highly annoying, but I have to hand it to them, it's a great marketing ploy to have a few hundred little monsters to collect in card form, about a dozen little video games based off it, TV episodes to collect and movies to boot. The worst thing was that awful Pokemon Snap game, where all you do is take pictures of the animals. Are they for real? I admit, it was cute at first, but honestly, the concept is much in the same spirit as dogfighting in real life: capturing animals and forcing them to fight for you in tournaments. (Yeah, you can say the Pokemon WANT to fight for you, but the people who participate in dog fights feel the same way). Pretty demented if you think about it. It's also sad that children can roll off the stats of any given Pokemon without blinking but still not be able to locate their home state on a map. Still, I dislike Power Rangers even more than this, though.

Pokeman caused a lot of misery in our family. Those cartoons encouraged children to run right out and buy all of those Pokemon products. the cards in particular were a headache since they were packaged like baseball cards you never knew which ones were in there. REal fun time to have your kid get mad because he already had the cards in this pack and now he wanted his allowance back. ARRRRRGGGGHH. glad they are not as popular.

Pokeman is an utterly cynical marketing scam designed to yank the money out of children's pockets. Everything connected with this despicable product is designed towards this goal. It is as creative as a laundry soap commercial, and as entertaining as an episode of My Mother the Car. To compare this with the brilliance of early Disney or Warner Brothers is like comparing Milli Vanilli with Eric Clapton.