


In 2015, the song was voted to be part of the annual Dutch Top 2000 radio marathon, after a call-for-action on Facebook went viral within the country. During the 2012 primary election, Paige himself performed a parody of the song in support of the Republican candidate Ron Paul. Afterwards, Smosh's video was removed on YouTube due to a copyright notice. It became the most viewed video on the site before being surpassed by " The Evolution of Dance". In November 2005, the Internet comedy duo Smosh recorded a video for the song on YouTube.

Although he was reluctant at first, he saw the show's potential when he took his son to premiere of the debut episode in Columbus Circle.
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Meanwhile, when first approached about the theme song, Siegler initially saw the show's concept as "incomprehensible" before realizing that the series was about friendship. It is derived from the Japanese tagline "(ポケモンGETだぜ!, Pokémon getto da ze!)" Furthermore, "Gotta Catch 'em all!" came from a series of contenders, which included "Catch 'em if you can" (which made it in an earlier version of the theme song). Īccording to Norman Grossfeld, the then-president of 4Kids Productions, the line "Gotta catch 'em all!" was created as a "tagline for marketing purposes that would also be included in the theme song". Although the theme song premiered on the debut episode " Pokémon, I Choose You!" on September 8, 1998, Jason Paige was called back again in 1999 to produce an extended version of the theme song for the album Pokémon 2.B.A. David Rolfe, the vocalist for later themes of the series, played the guitar while Jason Paige provided the vocals. Siegler and Loeffler wrote the lyrics to the song while Siegler (previously a bassist for bands including Todd Rundgren's Utopia and Hall & Oates) produced the track, also playing keyboards, bass, and drums.
