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Episode guide Episode 1 "I Choose You!" Ash Ketchum dreams of becoming the world's greatest Pokémon trainer. He is to be given a Pokémon by Professor Oak but arrives late. Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur were all chosen but there was one left, Pikachu. At first Pikachu didn't like Ash too much, but after an incident where Ash was about to get the crap pecked out of him by Spearows to save Pikachu, Pikachu started to like Ash. Ash rushed Pikachu to the Viridian City Pokémon Centre. And he had Misty, the girl he stole a bike from, right behind him. Episode 2 "Pokémon Emergency!" Pikachu is in bad shape after being beaten up by Spearows and Ash takes it to the Poké Centre in Viridian. While waiting Ash talks to Prof. Oak via telephone and tells him he saw a Pokémon flying over a rainbow. Then Team Rocket debuts as the villains of the series and tries to get the sick Pokémon from the Pokémon Centre with their Pokémon Koffing, Ekans, and Meowth. They are stopped by Ash's Pikachu who shocks them. Ash says goodbye and it's off through the Viridian Forest with Pikachu and Misty close behind. Episode 3 "Ash catches a Pokémon!" Ash enters Viridian Forest and upon his arrival sees a Caterpie and captures it. Misty is scared by the cute little Caterpie (and bugs in general). As time goes by Ash catches a Pidgeotto. Then the usual attack of Team Rocket comes and they try to steal Pikachu. But Caterpie beats Koffing, Ekans, and Meowth. It got a ton of experience from them and evolved into Metapod. Episode 4 "Samurai Showdown" Ash is still wandering through Viridian Forest when he finds a Weedle and battles it. He is about to capture it when a samurai shows up and distracts him. His Pinsir defeats Pidgeotto but then cannot beat Metapod. Metapod has to face the samurai's Metapod next and they just use Harden repeatedly. Then the match is stopped by a swarm of Beedrills. The Beedrills trap the samurai, Ash, and Misty in a cabin and take Metapod captive. In the morning Ash goes to retrieve Metapod but Team Rocket wakes up all the Beedrills. Ash evaded the Beedrills and they chased Team Rocket. Matapod then saved Ash from a stray Beedrill and Metapod evolved into Butterfree and used it's Sleep Powder to knock the Beedrills and Team Rocket out. It's off to Pewter City! Episode 5 "Showdown in Pewter City" Ash goes and heals his Pokémon and tries to defeat Brock, the Pewter Gym leader. Pikachu gets whooped by Brock's Onix and then Ash follows a man to an old shack. The man shows Ash how Brock has to take care of all of his brothers and sisters. Then they take Pikachu to a watermill and power him up using some weird machine. The next day Ash goes to battle Brock again. Pidgeotto gets beat by Geodude, then Geodude gets whooped by Pikachu, then Onix is about to beat Pikachu when Brock tells it to stop because he didn't want to hurt Pikachu. Then the sprinklers go off and Onix is severely weakened but Ash doesn't have the heart to hurt it. As Ash is leaving Brock gives him a BoulderBadge and joins Ash on his quest because he wants to be a great Pokémon breeder. The man Ash saw earlier was Brock's father who left home long ago and he said he would take care of the family while Brock was away. 1 badge Episode 6 "Clefairy and the Moon Stone" Ash and the gang come across Mt. Moon and they see a scientist being attacked by Zubats. Pikachu shocks the Zubats and saves the scientist and Ash doesn't notice at first but Brock captures one of the Zubats. The scientist says he is looking for a Moon Stone which Clefairys supposedly came to Earth on. Then Team Rocket shows up and admits to disturbing the habitat of the Pokémon of Mt. Moon. Then as they are escaping Onix derails them. Then Pikachu and a Clefairy lead the way to a cavern in Mt. Moon and in it is the Moon Stone and a bunch of Clefairys dancing around it. Then Team Rocket tries to snag it but as usual fail and the Moon Stone splits up and transforms some of the Clefairy into Clefables and the scientist says he will live with the Clefairy and protect the Moon Stone. Episode 7 "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City" Misty doesn't want to go to Cerulean and deserts Ash and Brock. Then Ash goes to Cerulean Gym and finds that the gym leaders are 3 sisters that are synchronized swimmers. Ash wants to battle them but their Pokémon are all injured from 3 losses to kids from Pallet. They are about to give Ash the CascadeBadge when Misty shows up and says she is the fourth sister and she battles Ash. The battle is interrupted by Team Rocket who steal the pool water but end up getting sucked into their own machine and get flung into the air somewhere. Then the sisters give Ash the CascadeBadge for saving their Pokémon and Ash and the gang head for Vermilion City. 2 badges Episode 8 "The Path to the Pokémon League" Ash gets overconfident in his Pokémon training abilities and he challenges A.J., a harsh trainer who's won 98 consecutive matches. Ash easily gets defeated, but he then accuses A.J. of being too harsh a trainer, and basically acts like a sore loser. Team Rocket appears to try to capture Pikachu, but they end up capturing A.J.'s Sandshrew instead, and as a result A.J. challenges them and defeats them, marking that victory as his 100th win. A.J. and Ash make up their differences, and they go their seperate ways. Episode 9 "The School of Hard Knocks" On their way to Vermillion City, Ash and his friends encounter some students from Pokémon Technical, a school that teaches Pokémon training and fighting techniques and that allows, upon graduation, permission to enter the Pokémon League without travelling to collect all the badges. Ash and the others take offence at the arrogance of the students, and are challenged by Giselle, the best beginning-rank student. She defeats Misty's Starmie with her Graveller, a Pokémon weak against water. Ash then challenges her, and she matches Cubone, a Fighting-type Pokémon, against Pikachu. After a long and difficult battle, Pikachu defeats Cubone, humbling Giselle. Team Rocket shows up again, but the Pokémon Tech students chase them away, and Ash and his friends leave for Vermillion City, with a promise to challenge Giselle again someday when they are more experienced. Episode 10 "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" Ash and his companions become lost in the forest when trying to take a shortcut to Vermillion City. Along the way, they find an Oddish drinking at a pool. Misty tries to capture it, but a Bulbasaur appears to defend it. Bulbasaur defeats both Starmie and Butterfree, and escapes with Oddish. When Ash and the others try to follow them, they encounter numerous traps which slow them down, including a collapsing bridge, a pit, and a net. Eventually, they reach a cabin in the woods. The cabin belongs to Melanie, who provides it as a resting place for abandoned Pokémon. Bulbasaur volunteered to protect the Pokémon who stay here, and is angry that Ash and his friends are at the cabin. When Team Rocket shows up, however, Ash helps Bulbasaur to save the other Pokémon and chase off Team Rocket once again. Grateful for his help, Melanie offers to give Bulbasaur to Ash... but Bulbasaur will only do it if Ash defeats him in a Pokémon battle. Ash sends Pikachu, and after a short battle, Pikachu stuns Bulbasaur and Ash catches him. With Bulbasaur as his fourth Pokémon, Ash and his friends leave Melanie and the other Pokémon behind, to continue on to Vermillion City. Episode 11 "Charmander the Stray Pokémon" Still unable to find the way to Vermillion City, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu encounter a Charmander sitting on a rock in the forest. Charmander looks tired and hurt, but refuses to accompany Ash to the nearby Pokémon Centre because he is waiting for his trainer to come back. Reluctantly, they leave him there and continue to the Pokémon Centre. There they discover that Charmander's trainer, Damian, abandoned Charmander and has no intention of coming back. Ash and his friends return to rescue Charmander just as he is becoming weak. They bring him back to the Pokémon Centre to recover, but Charmander escapes into the morning, intending to return to the rock to wait for Damian. Meanwhile, Team Rocket builds another trap intended to catch Pikachu; instead, Ash and the others fall in, leaving Pikachu alone. Jessie and James are wearing suits to protect them from Pikachu's electrical attacks, and capture him. However, Charmander appears and defeats Team Rocket, saving Pikachu. Damian tries to get Charmander back, but he chooses to go with Ash instead, and Ash accepts him. Episode 12 "Here comes the Squirtle Squad" Ash and the others are the victims of another pit-trap... but this one was set by a gang of Squirtles which has been terrorizing a nearby town. Team Rocket also encounters the Squirtle Squad, but Meowth convinces them to help Team Rocket capture Pikachu. Ash, Pikachu, and their friends are captured by the Squirtles and Meowth. Pikachu is hurt, though, and the Squirtles let Ash go to town to get a healing potion for him. With a little help from Jenny the cop, he manages to get back just in time to see Team Rocket betray the Squirtles. Ash helps the Squirtles defeat Team Rocket and win back the trust of the town. The strongest Squirtle, impressed by Ash's trust and assistance, decides to join him. Episode 13 "Mystery at the Lighthouse" Still horribly lost, Ash and his friends find a lighthouse inhabited by Bill, a Pokémon researcher whose expertise rivals even Professor Oak's. They find out that beyond the oceans lives an enormous Pokémon that no one has ever seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is trying to get to the lighthouse by climbing the cliff that it's on, and they have face-to-face with the legendary Pokémon Bill was talking about. Wanting to capture it, they try to weaken it by shooting at them, but they end up chasing it away. Bill hopes that one day the Pokémon will return, and Ash and his friends continue on to Vermillion City (or try to). Episode 14 "Electric Shock Showdown" Ash and his friends finally make it to Vermillion City! While Pikachu recovers at the Pokémon Centre, they notice that there are many injured Pokémon there, and they find out that it's because the local Gym Leader, Lt. Surge, keep on defeating all his challengers with his Pokémon, Raichu. Pikachu and Ash go to the Gym to challenge Lt. Surge, but Pikachu gets completely defeated by Raichu, and he ends up in the Pokémon Centre's recovery room. Nurse Joy suggests that Pikachu evolve into Raichu to be stronger, but Pikachu refuses. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is spying on Ash and his friends, and they're touched by Pikachu's determination. Ash and Pikachu challenge Lt. Surge again, and Pikachu uses his agility to counter Raichu's attacks and manages to defeat her. Lt. Surge and Raichu awards Ash with the Thunder badge and congratulate them for their work. "Drat, we wasted this whole episode cheering for the good guys!" Team Rocket quote. 3 badges Episode 15 "Battle Aboard the St. Anne" While travelling, Ash and his friends are approached by two schoolgirls who offer them tickets for the St. Anne, where a huge Pokémon convention will take place. They gladly accept the tickets, but little do they know that the ones who offered them are Jessie and James of Team Rocket! Their plan was to invite many Pokémon trainers and steal their Pokémon while they're at sea. On board, Ash has Butterfree fight a Pokémon trainer who has Raticate. The trainer ends up goading him into trading the two Pokémon. Ash hesitates because he's been with Butterfree since the start, but he trades anyway. Meanwhile, after James gets suckered into spending both his and Jessie's paycheck on Magikarp. A bunch of Team Rocket members then attack the ship's passengers, stealing their Pokémon, but the trainers unite their Pokémon and manage to defeat them. Ash manages to get his Butterfree back. However, a storm hits the ship, and it sinks while Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket are still inside! Episode 16 "Pokémon Shipwreck" Still trapped aboard the now sunken St. Anne, Ash and his friends declare an uneasy truce with Team Rocket in order to find a way to get back to dry land. After managing to avoid some disasters in the engine room, they end up adrift on a make-shift raft, nearly starving to death. James, who still has his useless Pokémon Magikarp, takes out his frustration by kicking it in the water; however, Magikarp evolves into Gyarados before his eyes, and Gyarados uses his legendary attack "Dragon Rage" blowing everyone up in a tremendous water spout...... Episode 17 "Island of the Giant Pokémon" Awakening on the beach of a deserted island, Ash and his friends find themselves to be alright... with the exception of Pikachu and several of Ash's other Pokémon, who've disappeared. Team Rocket finds themselves in a similar situation, alive but missing Meowth and their own Pokémon. Meanwhile, the missing Pokémon are wandering around the island, searching for their trainers. Everyone encounters giant Pokémon, who seem to rule the island and are unwelcoming to strangers. Even Ash's Pokémon have a hard time communicating with the giant Pokémon. After an encounter with a run-away mine cart, all of the humans are reunited with their Pokémon. The monster-sized Pokémon are revealed to be nothing more than giant robots, part of a theme park called "Pokémon Land". Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu reach the seaside city of Porta Vista, and head into town to get some much needed rest... Episode 18 "Tentacool and Tentacruel" Unable to catch a ferry to the mainland, Ash and his friends are stranded in Porta Vista. They witness the destruction of a ship in the harbour, and eventually get asked by Nastina, a local millionaire and general "old hag", to rid them of the Tentacools in the harbour. Misty is outraged, but Team Rocket shows up to take the offer. They screw up as usual, but manage to cause one of the tentacools to evolve into a gigantic Tentacruel, which proceeds to demolish Porta Vista. The sea creatures are enraged because Nastina is destroying their homes. With the help of a Horsea she rescued earlier, Misty convinces the Tentacools and Tentacruel to leave the city in peace. With everything back to normal, Ash and his friends catch a ferry to the mainland... Episode 19 "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" The ferry that they boarded stops at a town that is celebrating their Summer's End festival, where they discover the legend of a maiden who turned to stone 2000 years ago while waiting for her love to return. Brock sees the ghost of the maiden and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Team Rocket had sort-of stowed away with the ferry, and James sees the same ghost that Brock saw, and also falls in love with her. An old woman appears, telling them to forget their love for the ghost since it could only bring them doom, but the two can't resist the ghost's lure. Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket discover that the ghost and the old woman aren't all who they seem, and that they're really Gastly, a ghost Pokémon, who's impersonating the maiden to cause trouble. Ash's Pokémon and Team Rocket's Pokémon try to defeat Ghastly, but he keeps beating them. However, once the sun comes up, Ghastly leaves, promising that the maiden will return next summer. Episode 20 "Bye Bye Butterfree" Ash and his friends arrive at the place where Butterfrees find mates. Ash sends out his Butterfree to find a mate, but all the Butterfree's reject him. He finds a cute pink Butterfree who he really likes, but she absolutely rejects him. Ash and his friends try to encourage him to keep trying, and as he's out there trying to court the pink Butterfree, Team Rocket shows up and captures all the Butterfrees. Ash and his friends manage to defeat Team Rocket and Butterfree wins the love of the pink Butterfree. The two Butterfrees leave Ash and his friends, and Ash wishes them the best of luck, even if he's sad that the first Pokémon he ever captured is leaving him Episode 21 "Abra and the Psychic Showdown" Ash must battle Sabrina and her psychic pokémon to get a Marsh badge Episode 22 "The Tower of Terror" Ash tries to capture a ghost pokémon to defeat Sabrina Episode 23 "Haunter Versus Kadabra" Ash finally gets the Marsh badge after Haunter makes Sabrina laugh 4 badges Episode 24 "Primeape goes Bananas" Ash captures Primeape after he gets beaten up repeatedly Episode 25 "Pokémon Scent Sation" Ash saves Gloom and gets a Rainbow Badge 5 badges Episode 26 "Hypno's Nap time" All the children think they are pokémon and the pokémon fall asleep Misty also gets a Psyduck Episode 27 "Pokémon Fashion Flash" Team rocket starts a salon and Pikachu gets a massage. Brock also becomes a breeder student under Suzy the best Pokémon Breeder. Episode 28 "The Punchy Pokémon" Ash enters a tournament with primeape and gives him away to get trained he becomes the P1 champion by the way. Episode 29 "Sparks Fly For Magnemite" A Magnemite falls in love with Pikachu at a power station filled with Muk's Episode 30 "Dig Those Diglett" Ash tries to save some Digletts from some trainers trying to destroy them Episode 31 "The Ninja Poké Showdown" Inside an old castle is the Gym leader Koga who ash defeats to get the Poison Badge 6 badges Episode 32 "The Flame Pokémon-athon" Ash enters a race with a Rapidash on the way to the safari zone and wins this episode his hilarious as Pikachu and Squirtle enter as a team Episode 33 "The Kangaskhan Kid" Ash helps reunite a child with his parents after being raised by a Kangaskhan Episode 34 "The Bridge Bike Gang" Ash must cycle in a storm to get some medicine for Nurse Joy Episode 35 "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion" Ash sees a Ditto which can transform into any Pokémon Episode 36 "The Battling Evee Brothers" Ash crash an Evolution party and the younger brother must decide what to evolve it into Episode 37 "Wakeup Snorlax!" Ash helps clear a stream as a Snorlax is asleep in it and the water can't get into the town and there is no food. Episode 38 "Showdown At Dark City" The gang get caught in a fight between two gyms and have to stop them before they destroy the town. These two gyms are not official and each are determined to eliminate each other before the official arrives. After some persuasion from the Gang they stop and start to rebuild the town with none of them becoming an official gym. Episode 39 "March of the Exeggcutor Squad" Melvin is a magician who tries to do illusions by using an Exeggcute which is a Psyhcic pokémon. But Melvin takes advantage of Ash's help and Ash is used as a slave to pull a cart full of Pokéballs which Melvin plans to capture a heard of Exeggcutor. Unfortunately the hypnotize each other and get confused. They stampede back to the town but Charmeleon stops them with Flame-thrower and then evolves into Charizard. Episode 40 "The problem with Paras" Team Rocket and the gang help a trainer evolve here Paras into a Parasect to make a potion which increases intelligence and revives the Pokémon. Pikachu has to fake a loss along with Charizard who ends up frying Paras, but in the end after some help with confidence from Team Rocket Paras evolves. Episode 41 "The song of Jigglypuff" Misty discovers a Jigglypuff with a sore throat and help it to sing in return the Jigglypuff sings it's song but no one can stay awake not even other Pokémon in the end they Take it to Neon Town where nobody sleeps but it doesn't' work. Episode 42 "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon" While digging for fossils Ash and team Rocket fall down into a cave below the Grandpa Canyon but some prehistoric Pokémon lurk there and attack. There is some help from Jigglypuff and Charmeleon evolves into Charizard. Ash also picks up an ancient Pokémon egg. Episode 43 "A chansey Operation" Pikachu gets a bit of apple stuck in his throat and has to be taken to a human hospital, while there Nurse Joy phones asking the hospital to take some Pokémon involved in a bus crash. Guess who was involved? Team Rocket they end up arriving with their Pokémon and help heal the others. There is a good bit when Meowth complains of losing his charm and his beat senseless by Chansey. Episode 44 "Holy Matrimony" Team Rocket find out that James' parents are loaded and the only way he can get the money is to get married to Jessie-Bell. Jessie and Meowth try to persuade him to get married and in the end they run away from it. Episode 45 "So near, yet so Farfetch'd Misty loses all her Pokémon from a thief who bumps into her and swaps bags. With some help from Psyduck who escapes she finds the thief and he is apprehended by Officer Jenny Episode 46 "Who gets to keep Togepi?" The egg which Ash found contains the ancient Pokémon Togepi and everyone wants it even team Rocket and in the end their is a tournament. The final is with Meowth and Ash. Ash wins but the first face Togepi saw was Misty's who Togepi thinks is it's mother, so Misty get Togepi. Episode 47 "Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden " After a battle with a Ryhorn something funny happens to Bulbasaur and is taken to the Pokémon Centre. Nurse Joy figures out Bulbasaur is evolving. During the night it sneaks away to go evolve at the Mysterious Garden. Ash and everybody else gets up and follows it. They get into the Garden and watch Bulbasaur talking to Venasaur, all the other Bulbasaurs evolve but Ash's refuses. Episode 48 "The Case of the K-9 Capers " Ash enrols Pikachu into a K9 Police school with Officer Jenny. While training Team Rocket dress up as Jenny and use a megaphone to imitate her voice. They also neutralize the real jenny's voice with a gas. In the end the Growlithes remember and respond to Jenny and attack Team Rocket. Episode 49 "Pokémon Paparazzi" Team Rocket employ someone to capture Pikachu but little do they realize the boy is a photographer and is going to capture Pikachu on film. Team Rocket dress up great in it as old people. Unfortunately every time Pikachu gets his photo he uses thundershock and gets everyone. Episode 50 "The Ultimate Test" Ash decides to a test which could end up in him winning instant entry in to the pokémon league. Ash sits the written exam and ends up 3rd bottom in the league table (above Jessie and James). But when it comes to the practical exam ash gets Team Rockets Pokémon (not really theirs but the same type), Ash manages to win one battle before Team Rocket stops the fight after they try to steal the Pokémon. The exam is stopped and the exam is cancelled. With the choice to sit it again Ash passes and decides to leave and do it the honest way. Episode 51 "The Breeding Centre Secret" I'LL GET ROUND TO WRITING THIS ONE Episode 52 "Princess vs Princess" aka "Battle in the Festival" The Princess day is when all girls are in control, there is huge discounts in stores, food is free and all men must carry large heavy bags of shopping. Jessie captures a new Pokémon Lickitung, there is then a battle to become the Princess and in the end it's down to Jessie and Misty, Ash and Brock also lend there pokémon to Misty, Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Vulpix. In the end Misty wins with Psyduck. The prize to get all princess doll sets which are pokémon dressed up. PIKACHU'S JUKEBOX IS INTRODUCED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Episode 53 "The Purr-fect Hero" aka "Childrens Day" The gang let some kids play with there Pokémon. The kids play with Pikachu's face and Ash grabs him and Ash get shocked. The pokémon seen to be relaxed when playing with kids. We hear a sad story about a boy who wants to meet a Meowth. Team Rocket also do a crummy Magic Show to steal Pikachu and it works. Weezing is also used as a VolleyBall, lol. Meowth pretends to be a hero and Pikachu is saved. Episode 54 "Riddle Me This" Ash and the gang arrive at Cinnabar Island there followed by everyone's favourite character Jigglypuff. On the island is a gym, the leader is Blaine, They look for a place to stay, but there is no where to stay apart from the Riddle Inn. We see Gary fall asleep after Jigglypuff sings, its really funny. Ash fines the gym in the volcano. First Squirtle is beaten by Eevee, then Pikachu beats Ryhorn then Magmar attacks Pikachu with Fire Blast and then a CLIFFHANGER!!!! Episode 55 "Volcanic Panic" We get a recap of the last episode and then we are left where we left off. pikachu is beat but Ash is determined not to give up. Team Rocket appear trying to capture Magmar with a freeze ray gun but all the cold starts to break up the Volcano, Magmar tries to block the hole but with no success, Charizard who Ash can't control finally listens and helps fill the wholes followed by Onix and Geodude, even Pikachu helps. After they finish another battle is held above the Volcano, Magmar and Charizard fight and after a huge battle Charizard wins. That's Now 7 badges Episode 56 "Beach Blank-Out Blastoise" The episode begins with the gang running for the last ferry leaving Cinnabar Island. They almost make it when they crash into a Wartortle. Pikachu unleashes Squirtle who starts talking to its fellow Pokémon. Suddenly, Squirtle puts on his Squirtle Squad Sunglasses and the two turtles swim off into the ocean. Ash and the gang follow promptly behind where they are lead to a small uncharted island. Upon landing on the beach, the gang finds a bunch of turtle shells surrounding a larger turtle shell, belonging to a Blastoise. Ash goes up to the Blastoise and falls asleep, the same thing happens to Wartortle. Pikachu delivers a huge thundershock that wakes everyone up (except the Blastoise). Brock learns from the Squirtle that they were on an island uniquely for turtles. All the turtles lived under the Blastoise King. One day the Blastoise went out swimming but never came back. The turtles found it and brought it back, but then they all fell asleep, that's when Ash came. Brock decides to give Blastoise a physical when Jigglypuff squirts out from its Hydro Cannons. Jigglypuff sings and everyone falls asleep. The scene switches to Team Rocket, who are in a Gyarados sub. They want that Blastoise! They send Meowth in on a rope, but when he gets near, he falls asleep. Jesse uses a grappling hook and manages to catch the Blastoise. Team Rocket disappears into the ocean with Blastoise.... Back to Ash! Ash and the Gang wake up to find the Blastoise missing. They follow the large scar in the ground that Team Rocket made while dragging away Blastoise to find the Gyarados sub. Meanwhile, inside the sub, Team Rocket is arguing over who gets credit for the amazing find when out of nowhere, Jigglypuff pops up and puts everyone to sleep. The turtles take the sub and swim it back to the shore. Team Rocket wakes up and attacks the turtles with the Gyarados sub! Squirtle and Pikachu water gun/thundershock the Blastoise and it wakes up! It protects the turtles from the sub and holds the sub down. Then all the turtles water gun the sub and Blastoise uses hydro pump! The sub goes flying into space and so does Team Rocket.. but what goes up, must come down... crashing into the ocean! Just then they realize Jigglypuff was still in that sub! Squirtle swims off into the ocean and returns with Jigglypuff. Hurray! Squirtle saves the day! When Jigglypuff comes to, it starts singing and puts everyone to sleep! What a way to end the episode... Episode 57 "The Misty Mermaid" Ash, Brock, and Misty are in Viridian city so Ash can earn his earth badge. They're by the fountain so Misty's Horsea can swim around. They notice that Horsea doesn't look to good and that he should have more swimming space than the fountain. Misty decides to go to the Cerulean Gym to let Horsea swim in the big pool there and to visit her sisters, Ash and Brock go with her. Outside the gym Ash notices a poster about an underwater ballet starring a mermaid, Brock really wants to meet her and Ash says that the mermaid looks like Misty except for the hair style. They enter the gym and all say hi, then Misty's sisters tell Misty about the play and Brock wants to meet the star and they say that you already have and turn his head towards Misty. Misty at first will not agree to be part of the show, but is persuaded to by her sisters, Brock, and Ash. Team Rocket is walking by outside when they notice the underwater ballet, and they want to attend, James says he took a few modern dance lessons before and does some weird poses. Meowth then tells them to think about all the water pokémon they could steal at the show. Misty's sisters are showing her what to do, then when the show starts there are a huge line up of people coming. The first scene shows Misty diving in dressed like a mermaid and playing with seel, behind the scenes Team rocket ties up two of Misty's sisters playing the bad guys and they go on stage, James is wearing a dress and Jesse another fancy ballet outfit, after they say their motto and something about stealing the water pokémon James says to Jesse that next time they're going to steal men's clothes. The audience is clapping loudly and Ash and Brock run out of their seats to help Misty against Team Rocket. They dive in and Jesse sends out her Arbok, Misty uses horsea, but the bubble attack doesn't affect Arbok, horsea then uses smokescreen and Ash send out his squirtle to battle. James sends out Weezing, but it runs out of breath really fast and rises to the top. Misty's 3rd sister finds the other two when Ash and Brock run by her saying you don't have to go out there are real villains and unties them, she sends out Misty's psyduck, which enters the water nicely, but rises to the top as fast as Weezing, they mention something about 'embarrassing pokémon'. Meanwhile a Seaking is attacking Arbok, but he evades her attacks too. Then seel comes to fight, the sisters never knew he was strong and never used him in battle, but he attacks Arbok while doing so evolving into dewgong He freezes Arbok and wins the battle. Then the gang heads back to Viridian so Ash can earn his Earth Badge Episode 58 "Clefairy Tales" The episode starts with Jigglypuff walking down a road surrounded by trees. She is singing her song making a caterpie and a Pidgeotto fall on the ground behind her asleep. She markers up her face and then in the sky she sees a U.F.O. sort of thing and it crashes into the trees ahead. Jigglypuff goes to investigate and the door to the U.F.O. slowly opens revealing Clefairy. It then shows Ash pigging out on ice-cream with one vanilla cone and one with the bottom scope chocolate and the top strawberry. Brock and Misty are having a vanilla cone too when all of the sudden a clefairy comes out to them, they are all surprised and Misty runs after it to catch it, so Brock and Ash follow. Meanwhile something steals their backpacks and ice-cream from the table. The gang comes back and all notice their stuff gone. Ash cries I never got to taste the chocolate! They decide to report it to Officer Jenny and there is a huge mob surrounding her. All of them are reporting items stolen. One of them is a professor and he believes aliens are doing it. Who would steal buttons of coats and baby's bottles? he shows them a picture of a U.F.O. spotted 3 days ago and a man in the crowd says he saw it too. The Professor gets really worked up and demands he tell him all he knows. The man (being shaken to death) manages to say he say it just outside the forest. The professor has a so called alien detector and The gang follows him to help instead of waiting doing nothing. The detector goes off and a spaceship comes down infront of them, two aliens walk out silently and take pikachu from Ash and walk back into the ship. Ash yells he wants his pikachu back. It shows inside the ship the aliens taking off their suit to reveal Team Rocket. Jesse and James are holding pikachu when the professor below sees that the ship is a fake being pulled up by a rope. The gang cuts the rope and the ship falls down and Ash gets pikachu back. They keep walking when the detector goes off again and they see a Clefairy. Jigglypuff comes and the two pokémon lock their stares and Jigglypuff doubleslaps clefairy a lot. Clefairy before leaving runs up and grabs pikachu Clefairy then runs away and Ash, Misty, and Brock follow. They are lead to a dead end and wonder where clefairy went. They notice a sewer lid and go down down down. When they reach the bottom the gang notices a huge space craft the clefairy have made with the stolen items from the people. Brock says he'll go back and tell Officer Jenny about it and leaves. Team Rocket are hiding behind a rock and Jesse asks James 'are you thinking what I'm thinking?' And James asks 'Well what are you thinking?' Jesse replies. 'We could bring the boss a spaceship full of clefairy and pikachu.' :Amazing,' James says, 'Were you reading my mind or was I reading yours?', 'Good question,' Jesse replies then they go in to the craft. Inside the craft Ash finds pikachu, but he is unconscious. Then Clefairy surround it and Jigglypuff goes into battle with them. They both use doubleslap a lot and all the clefairy leave. Jigglypuff then goes to the control room with the professor and see another clefairy. The ship will be blasting off soon and the clefairy is at the control panel. The professor walks up muttering ingenious and breaks something. 'OOPS he says and tries to fix it.' Clefairy and Jigglypuff meanwhile are again locking stares and both use doubleslap allot. Jigglypuff then sings and in the other room Misty says to Ash, 'What's that?' Ash replies, 'Jigglypuff singing a song I always get tired of' and they slump down to the floor asleep.' Just then the ship takes of. Up above the ground Brock is with Officer Jenny saying 'Do you want me to believe that Clefairy are the thieves stealing people's items to make a spaceship. The ground rises and the spaceship flies out dropping all the stolen items on the ground. Way above ground everybody in the craft wakes up and the end part of the space ship containing Team Rocket falls back to earth. Misty and Ash open the door to get out and Ash looks down to see all the buildings below. when a high one came up They used bulbasaur to swing over to it. The ship then crashes later on in a forest near a fishing area and the fisherman surround it and then the professor walks out in a cardboard box thinking he is on the Clefairys planet and asks are you from the place the clefairy live? Or something like that and the episode ends making us wonder if Ash will ever get the last badge he needs. Episode 59 "The Battle of the Badge" Ash and co. are at the gym and Ash says it's been a year since he's last been there when Gary drives by and says that Ash probably doesn't have enough badges to get into the pokémon league, Ash says he has 7 badges, but Gary has 10. Gary demands to battle and charges ahead of Ash to earn another badge. The leader, Giovanni uses Golem first, Gary Nidoking. They both use tackle, but Nidoking wins. Then Giovanni uses Kingler and Gary uses Arcanine. He wins again. But then Giovanni wants to show him the most powerful pokémon and uses Mewtwo! The pokédex Gary uses has no info and not even a picture. Gary uses both Nidoking and Arcanine, but of course loses. Meanwhile outside, the gang are waiting and Togepi jumps on Ash, Ash thinking it is pikachu takes him, but when he sees him he throws Togepi up in the air and Togepi lands on a pole and on to a roof top. Togepi lands on James bum and he accuses Meowth of kicking him, Meowth says he wouldn't waste his time on doing so and they get in a fight. Then Togepi says 'Togepi' and they notice him and try to pick him up to take to the boss. Togepi walks away across a wooden plank and Jesse follows after it, but of course the board breaks and Jesse falls down, Togepi makes it to the other side though. Misty and the gang are still looking for Togepi and Misty is strangling Ash saying it was all his fault. Then they hear a noise saying 'Togepi and they turn around and see a door. They open it and it ends up in the gym. They see Gary and all his fans lying on the ground. Ash props Gary up in his arms and asks what happened. He tells him about mewtwo and that it is an evil pokémon. There has been an accident reported to Giovanni and he has to leave with Mewtwo and leaves Jesse & James in charge of the gym while he is gone. He gives them his pokémon and leaves. Jesse and James go to the gym where everybody is surprising them that Team Rocket has a gym. Ash has to go into some raised balcony thing that when your pokémon feel pain in battle the trainer feels just as much pain. Ash uses Squirtle, but Team Rocket use three pokémon at the same time, Machamp, Kingler, and Rhydon. Squirtle loses making Ash feel lots of pain, he uses bulbasaur with similar results. Pidgeotto then makes Team Rocket feel pain and Meowth has a device to blow away the competition if they're going to lose Gary, sees this and runs after him hitting it out of his hands. Ash then uses pikachu and Pikachu's thundershock beats all their pokémon. Ash wins and all his pokémon surround him and they hug each other, Gary sees this and thinks Ash is a pretty good pokémon trainer. Togepi is by the device Gary hit out of Meowth hands and presses the buttons. The gym starts to fall in and Team Rocket won't give Ash his badge, when they are blasted off the badge falls out of Jesse's hand and Ash catches it. When they leave the gym they say good-bye to Gary and are off to the pokémon Misty asks Ash where it is, but Ash doesn't know. Brock suggests professor oak so they are off to Pallet Town to go visit him. Episode 60 "Mr. Mimie" Ash is speeding ahead of Misty and Brock trying to keep up with him on their way to Pallet Town. He makes a phone call home, but gets the answering machine. Ash is suddenly stopped when he slams into an invisible wall. Misty and Brock can feel it too, but not see it. Ash looks up and sees a Mr. Mime. It's climbing up the wall. Ash takes out his pokédex and it says it is a rare pokémon with limited info. It is using it's attack panti mime which makes a clear wall. Ash is about to catch it when a female trainer runs in and says please let me catch it. Ash says why should he, but Brock holds him back and he starts to struggle. When they turn around they see Mr. Mime running away. Brock asks why The trainer wants Mr. Mime and she brings them to a pokémon circus which is hers and shows them here Mr. Mime. She had trained him so hard she said he just gave up yesterday. (Mr. Mime is stuffing his face with popcorn) 'I want the Mr. Mime to train and make this one jealous and maybe he'll perform again.' Brock then vows to give her a Mr. Mime and says to Ash if I can't catch one I'll make it. Ash asks how he'd make one and then we see inside the circus tent Ash dressed in a big Mr. Mime outfit. He protests, but Misty & Brock talk him into it. The circus owner starts to train Ash and whips him over and over again. Ash now knows how the Mr. Mime felt. After it shows the day of the circus and it is full, Ash walking in like Mr. Mime sees his mom in the stands. Just as the show starts the lights go out and Team Rocket swings on the trapeeze bars while saying their motto. the then steal Ash (Mr. Mime) in their hot air balloon and Meowth says 'Good-bye you clowns,' and James says, 'That's a good one!' In the circus ring Ash's mom comes up to Misty and Brock and says ' That was Ash wasn't it?' Misty and Brock say yes, but she isn't worried. She says once Team Rocket finds out Ash isn't a pokémon they'll let him go and invite them home for lunch. They leave saying it was delicious. When they've left the Mr. Mime at the start of the episode is outside the window. Ash's mom thinking it is Ash lets him in and gives him lunch. Meanwhile Team Rocket are in some cabin saying their plan worked because those bratty kids weren't there to stop them. Ash at this moment breaks out of his ropes he was tied with and takes off the Mr. Mime head. Team Rocket exclaims it's have twerp and half Mr. Mime. Ash says he's Ash and that he's outta here. Ash leaves and takes Team Rockets' hot air balloon leaving them stomping mad below. When Ash reaches home he enters and says 'I'm home mom.' Ash's mom says 'I already know' and looks out in the other room and sees both Mr. Mimes. Ash takes off his Mr. Mime suit and says he's Ash. Ash'd mom then says, 'No wonder I didn't think you'd eat your food as politely.' Ash then falls down as he always does when insulted or made fun of. He then asks Mr. Mime to help the circus out . He doesn't say yes until Ash's mom says I'll make you a good dessert! Team Rocket is at the circus before everybody else and captures everything in their nets except the female trainer and her Mr. Mime. They are running away. Team Rocket aims their net at them, but just before shooting Ash jumps in the way. He orders Raichu to thunderbolt the tank, (they have to use that because Ash stole their balloon) It doesn't affect it though because it is made of rubber. Ash then tries Charizard, but he doesn't listen and just lays down on the ground. The Mr. Mime with Ash's mom then uses his panti mime to stop the truck from running Ash and pikachu over. The other Mr. Mime is jealous and when Team Rockets turns around he builds a wall on the other side. They keep doing it until Team Rocket in boxed in a whole tower of walls. They fire all their missiles to try and get out, but are blasted off again. The female trainer's Mr. Mime then agrees to go back to circus training and Our Heroes go back to Ash's house for dinner. Mr. Mime stays with Mrs. Ketchum and is helping her make dinner. Misty is teasing Ash about Mr. Mime doing the chores and Ash not and he says he can too. The the narrator ends the episode by saying, 'Mr. Mime now knows what Ash has for years, Home Sweet Home!' Christmas Episode "Holiday Hi-Jynx" The episode starts off showing Jesse sleeping in bed waiting for Santa Claus. Santa Claus comes through the window and gets caught in a trap set for him by Jesse. It turns out that James was dressed as Santa Claus and they were just trying it out. Then it shows why Jesse doesn't believe in Santa Claus. When she was little a Jynx came down the chimney and Jesse had just thrown her favourite doll across the floor and broken it. The Jynx picked it up and put it in her sack and went back up the chimney. then Jesse started to cry and it goes back to modern time. Ash, Brock, and Misty are walking down the beach when they see a Jynx. They crawl on the ground up closer. The pokédex says it is a strange pokémon with its special attack the lovely kiss which puts the receiver asleep. Ash wants to catch it and sends out pikachu. Pikachu uses thundershock, but Jynx kisses it and puts it to sleep. Ash then sends out charmander and uses flame-thrower. Ash throws a pokéball, but it won't capture it, he's going to try another one, but Misty stops him and says maybe Jynx is holding her owner's boot. Jynx gives Misty the boot and it has a picture of Santa Claus in it. Jynx then uses her psychic powers to show her what happened to her. It shows her sitting on a iceberg polishing Santa's boot, then the ice breaks and she floated here. Ash & CO. promise to get her back and Jynx tries to kiss him. Up above Team Rocket is watching and decides to follow them to Santa Claus. They make a raft and use Ash's Squirtle and Misty's pokémon to move the raft. The pokémon then get pooped and Ash swims for a while. When a huge wave comes Ash is under water and he hears a voice. it is a Lapras speaking to him and promises to take them to Santa Claus. When they are in view of Santa's House Team Rocket appears in their Gyarados submarine says there motto exhausted from peddling the sub and freezing in the cold up there. They set of a net and capture Lapras and Our Heroes. It then shows Jesse and James looking inside Santa's house, they see lots of Jynx presents and the real Santa. They enter and show the boot to Santa when Ash comes in and says don't listen to them they're on your naughty list. Anyway Team Rocket ties up santa and makes the Jynx pile all the present into the sub so he won't be hurt. They also tie up Ash. Misty and Brock. Jesse is telling Santa why she is taking the presents because of the doll and Jynx reads Jesse's mind and goes away and comes back with her 'dolly'. Santa tells her Jynx only took it to fix, bt when they came back to deliver her presents he was powerless because she didn't believe in him anymore. Jesse starts to cry and Santa tries to talk her into giving back the presents, she'll wreck everybody's Christmas. Jesse replies, 'I'm grateful, but not that grateful.' Team Rocket turns to leave when Lapras tells them that they can't steal Christmas and freezes the sub. Ash then sends out charmander to burn their ropes and tells him to use fire spin on the sub. The sub thaws out and Team Rocket starts to leave. Ash says he's really sorry, but Santa says it's okay and gets the Jynx to use their psywave power to empty the sub of the presents and send Team Rocket away. Then it shows Santa in his sleigh pulled by a ponyta and says Merry Christmas and flies off. Then Ash says, ' Oh no! I didn't tell Santa what I wanted for Christmas!' Lapras tells them Santa knows and Jynx gives them each a present, even pikachu and Lapras has promised to take them back to shore. It show Team Rocket all beaten up lying in bed waiting for Santa Claus, Jynx throws them a lovely kiss and puts them to sleep it's to be continued Episode 61 "Battle in the Poké-Canal" Ash is woken up in his house in Pallet by a dream that a giant pokéball is sucking him in which turns out to be Mister Mimie vacuuming his face. Ash is in the same pyjamas he was in in the first episode one we should have all seen. He comes downstairs for breakfast and his mom asks if he slept all right. he replies fine except for Mr. Mimie vacuuming him. (Mr Mime is Ash's mom's nickname for Mr. Mime) His mom says that Mr. Mimie vacuums anything that is dirty and Misty says Ash should take a shower more than once a week. Ash's mom then asks Mr. Mime to get some vegetables from the garden and Ash mumbles that used to be my job. Brock then mentions visiting Professor Oak and Ash says ahh I almost forgot! They run over to his house and ring the doorbell and they see Gary sitting in a chair. Gary says I thought you'd come here, just a lot later. Professor Oak says that they are the two top trainers out of the four from Pallet Gary with 10 badges and Ash with 8. While he says that gary and Ash point at eachother each thinking he shouldn't be the best. Gary, Professor Oak, and Ash then lecture eachother about the ways to train pokémon. They start to talk about the pokémon league and Gary asks Ash where it is knowing he won't know. Brock tells them that's why they came and Gary says how they meet twice a year in the same spot, right then Ash is down in a begging plead asking him to please tell him where it is. Professor Oak says it is on the Indigo Plateau in two months Professor Oak then shows all the pokémon they have each caught, Gary having over 150, (some the same) and Ash having quite a few, most tauros from the safari zone. then Professor Oak explains how he spends his days and researches on the pokémon. When he gives Ash and Gary back their pokédex Ash has seen over 100 and Gary has seen 60. Ash is jumping for joy, but Gary says he catches the pokémon first before getting to know it. Team Rocket has almost given up and mumbling we have to get that pikachu, they wonder what the boss will say if he will fire them, but they realize if they quit first he can't fire them so they say they quit. Then the building they are standing by, (A Team rocket building) Mewtwo blasts out of it flying through the air leaving the building in ruins. The boss sees Jesse and james and asks them what they are doing there. Jesse makes James answer and he says we were just in the neighbourhood. Jesse asks what we can do for him and he says do your job for a change. When he leave Jesse and James start to cry, he has given us so much confidence they wail. then they are more determined than ever to catch pikachu. They arrive at Ash's house to get an attack from Mr. Mimie cleaning them with the vacuum. They pretend they want to tape Ash as a future pokémon star and she tells them He and his friends are at professor Oak's house. Meanwhile Gary and Ash are just about to battle over their squabble of different techniques in raising pokémon when Team Rocket comes Professor Oak is astounded by a talking Meowth and asks him to talk more, there is a bit of fighting of who says what in the motto, Meowth getting stomped on a lot then Ash send out pikachu and Gary is about to send a pokémon out when Ash's herd of Tauros runs them down and blasts them off again. Brock mentions they always have a catching exit. When they are gone Ash asks Gary to battle, but this time he refuses. Gar says to train hard and they both say that the other one will lose. Ash says that he is going to practice really hard and then Professor Oak says he can start now and asks him to repair the fence his tauros wrecked, he makes Brock and Misty help and says it will strengthen your friendship and training. Then the episode ends and we all look forward to the Pokémon League! Home