Does Ketchum sound like Catch em?

I thought that's always the allusion the translaters are trying to draw all along... usually the names have something to do with the character *except 2 terrible one, both starting with m and are siblings of each other*

Like Tracey Sketchit and etc... there's some character descriptions within the names (but very minor descriptions...)
 
Ketchum always have meant to be catch' em.
Just as Sketchit in Sketch it and Smoochum as Smooch 'em.
 

Funny how I've thought about that, too, lol. Well, I adored Ash back in the day (and uh...still do ^_^) and I wondered how to spell his last name. I was a slow child, lol. I wrote it down "literally". Like Catchem. It wasn't until later I caught on and found out it was spelled Ketchum. Sort of like a pun, don't you all think?
 
Not even Close,

Catch em' (kat chem)

Ketchum ( Ket chum )

See the difference. I dont lol.
 
This is such old news... What took you so long to figure that one out?
 
That was so obvious Shining Arcanine.
You mean you haven't noticed it all this while?
My brother and I often make fun of his name by calling him "Ash Ketchup" instead :D :P
 
Of course, Americans always do unworthy stuff like that.
I wonder what their last Japanese names are.
 
Wasn't that the same episode that Brook was known to the rival gyms as Caeser Salad?
 
No, he actually called himself "Tom Ato" in that episode. oo;
 
jynx said:
Well, he did call himself ketchup in the episode with Electabuzz and Scyther
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Well, I could see where you got that from. He did space out for a second while he was looking at Pikachu being all obsessive with the ketchup... O_o; And then he said "Ketchup..." But, like it was already posted, he called himself Tom Ato, Misty as Ann Chovy, and Brock as was also pointed out, Caesar Salad. ^_^
 
Lol, I think that I realised this several months after I got into it, and read where someone said that. I'm certain that they made his last name 'Ketchum' to fit in with the phrase 'Gotta catch ?m all!' It's so obvious! ^_^
 
Remember Ash's Pikachu was holding a katchup bottle and Ash wanted to disise his name to Ketchup.. lol.. thats soooo funny... Classic!
 
Ann Chovy was a reference to anchovy, and brock's fake name was caesar salad. Little food theme going on. there was a Hitmonchan in that ep... hey, my top 3 faves were in there, Electabuzz and Machoke too! YAY!
 
I think anchovy is a kind of fish. (Fits Misty's pseudonym too well :P)
 
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