A Goldenrod Opportunity- Ash Misty and Brock finally get to Goldenrod City after a lot of getting lost and sidetracked. Misty and Brock are absorbed in the sights of the city, Misty: shopping malls, Brock: girls (as usual. Ash is concentrating on getting to the gym as soon as he can. The others finally agree that is more important and they head off, but when they get there the gym is closed! The kids decide to wander the city until it opens the next day. They're trying to find the galleria because it sounded like a fun place to hang out but they're lost. Pikachu has and idea and runs off, the kids follow, pikachu accidentally collides with a clefairy. A cute girl comes and asks if her clefairy hurt anyone, she picks up pikachu and kisses it on the head to help its "boo boo". Brock bashes his head against the wall and asks her if she'll kiss his boo boo too; Misty drags him away as usual. The girl says her name is Whitney and she says she'll show the kids around the city and help them find the Galleria. Whitney keeps getting them lost and they accidentally run into the haircut brothers from G/S version, they offer to cut pikachu and clefairy's hair but the kids decline and run out still trying to find the galleria. Meanwhile Team Rocket is in a Grocery store pigging out on some free samples, they go a little over board and eat stuff that wasn't free and get introuble with a store worker. They have to work to pay off their debts and they see clefairy wander by, they eagerly sneak after it so they can catch it and give it to the boss. Finally the kids give up trying to find the galleria and decide to find some place to eat instead. Whitney says she'll show them to a good hamburger joint, but she accidentally finds the galleria instead. Suddenly they realize clefairy is missing, apparently it was a little behind the others and Team Rocket captured it. Whitney, Ash, Misty, and Brock see Team Rocket and they chase them. Team Rocket runs into the Magnet Train Station and try to make their getaway in a train, however, there aren't any trains at the time because the track isn't quite complete. The villains see a push car and hop on it, the push the lever as fats as they can but the car goes really slowly. Ash tells pikachu to stop Team Rocket; it doesn't even have to run to keep up with them. Pikachu’s about to use thundershock but they say that won't be necessary and hand over clefairy, on their way out they swipe pikachu in the bag instead and begin to push the car again. This time Whitney tells her clefairy to use Metronome and clefairy makes a gust attack, getting pikachu back. Pikachu thundershocks the evil trio and it makes their car get charged up, they zoom off into a tunnel. Whitney comments that she would love to battle Ash, but Ash says he trying to save his pokemon's energy for a gym battle tomorrow. Whitney says that's no problem because she can open the gym for him; the kids are confused until she tells them she's the Goldenrod Gym Leader. Back at the gym, Whitney send out her nidorina to battle Ash's cyndaquil, nidorina starts off with poison sting but cyndaquil uses flame-thrower and burns the needles. Nidorina then uses tackle attack; cyndaquil stops it with flamethrower. Whitney then calls out her clefairy, she tells it to use metronome. Ash is prepared for the worst but suddenly clefairy begins to hop around, Whitney cries "Oh No! It's imitating magikarp and using splash attack!" Cyndaquil flame-throwers and clefairy keeps hopping out of the way, it can't keep up the pace and Whitney recalls it. Whitney then sends out miltank, Ash thinks this is going to be a push over and orders cyndaquil to use tackle. Miltank uses roll out and bashes cyndaquil around quite abit; it can't even get an attack in! Ash recalls it and sends out totodile, totodile is totally overcome by the attack and goes down in one hit. Ash sends out pikachu but it too gets defeated! -to be continued...



A Dairy Tale Ending- Ash, Misty, and Brock are in the pokemon center, Ash's pokemon are going to be fine and they hop up to greet him. Whitney rushes in cheerfully and is glad his pokemon are ok, she tells them to come along with her today and they agree. She takes them to a miltank dairy which is owned and run by her uncle Milton. They get to see the pastures and taste some miltank milk and cheese. They are totally enchanted by the milk, it is so good! Team Rocket spots the dairy and runs in to raid the fridge of the miltank products, Whitney catches them in the act and they dash out with arm loads of food. Whitney sends out her miltank to stop them, then kids continue on with their tour. They see how the miltank are milked and they get to brush them, Ash gets kicked by an ornery miltank. Then Whitney decides to show them how she and miltank train, miltank stands at the top of the hill and rolls down then it uses the speed to go up the hill, it does this for a while making itself faster and stronger. Team Rocket is still watching them from above in their new barrel shaped vehicle. They roll toward the dairy and the kids prepare for battle. Team Rocket captures Whitney's miltank and Ash's pikachu, pikachu tries use use thundershock to escape but it's no good. Team Rocket's contraption advances toward the dairy, ready to capture the rest of the miltank, Ash sends out cyndaquil and it rams the machine, sending it into a spin. Ash then sends out totodile and it sprays water at the ground to blast some ditches for Team Rocket to fall into. The plan works and they free miltank and pikachu, pikachu sends Team Rocket blasting off again with it's thunder! Uncle Milton and Whitney are grateful Ash saved the dairy and ask if there is anyway for them to repay him. Ash asks if he could battle miltank, if he wins he can have a rematch at the gym. Whitney says sure and they begin right there in the pasture. Ash uses cyndaquil first and it rams miltank just like it did to Team Rocket's barrel machine. Miltank isn't phased by the attack and keeps on rolling, cyndaquil keeps tackling and tiring miltank out. Finally cyndaquil has to be recalled and he uses totodile, totodile makes ditches with it's water gun, just like it did when they were fighting Team Rocket. Totodile uses it's water gun to blast itself up high and it lands on miltank's back, it has to keep running to stay on while miltank's rolling.totodile gets knocked off, then totodile tries to slow miltank with it's water gun, but that doesn't work, totodile gets hit and faints. Ash tries pikachu now, miltank is getting slowed down by the ditches totodile made, pikachu hides down in one of the holes and waits for miltank to roll over it. Right when miltank is above the hole pikachu rams it upward and sends it flying up. miltank un rolls and pikachu uses thundershock to win the match! Instead of giving Ash a rematch, Whitney breaks down and gives Ash the badge. Whitney says it doesn't matter if he beat her in the gym or not, it was the battle that counted. Ash gets his Plain Badge and continues on his journey.



The Bugs Stop Here- Ash, Misty, and Brock see a bug catching tournament at The Goldenrod National Park. Ash decides to enter eagerly, while in line at the sign-up booth they spot Casey, their old friend, and her cute chikorita. Ash and she are acting very competitive toward each other, both arguing that they would be the ones to catch the best bug type. Meanwhile, Jessie and James are arguing with the sign up booth man, he won't let them enter the competition because they're over 16 years of age. Jessie is shocked that she looks so old, they jump the man and steal his costume that looks like a venomoth. Jessie puts it on and tries to attract some bugs with it. A nice venomoth comes to them but it flies off because Jessie isn't very attractive to it. Back in the woods of the park, Ash finds a weedle, he's about to try and catch it in his lure ball but Casey comes, injures it with chikorita, and captures it. Ash is pretty mad she stole his chance, but he wanders off in search of another. Casey comes along and sees a scyther, chikorita is pretty worn out now, but it loves Casey so much it obeys her and attacks the scyther. Scyther gets really ticked off and swipes it's scythes at chikorita. Chikorita jumps onto scyther's head and hangs on for dear life. Ash comes and tells Casey it's not right to force chikorita so hard, Ash taunts scyther and it chases him away from Casey. Casey looks for chikorita because it has seemed to run off. Misty and Brock have been watching the whole time on a big screen TV outside of the park. Togepi has wandered off and Misty's really worried. Brock sees togepi on the big screen TV, it must have wandered into the park! The two run into the park and find Casey; they too scold her for what she's been doing to poor chikorita. Meanwhile togepi has found chikorita and they seem to be having a little discussion about what's been going on. Misty, Brock and Casey find the pokemon, Casey really regrets pushing chikorita so hard and chikorita forgives her. Somewhere else in the park, Ash has lost scyther, he sees a bunch of glowing red eyes in the darkness. They turn out to be beedrill and they chase him. Ash throws a park ball at one of them, but the beedrill bats it away. Pikachu uses thundershock to weaken it and then Ash captures it. Suddenly Ash falls in a pit, he doesn't worry too much because Team Rocket does this often andit's never so bad. But this time bars seal him up on every side of the pit. Team Rocket lifts him in his cage with the balloon and begin to make their getaway. Pikachu tries thundershock but he accidentally hits Ash and can't seem to get Team Rocket. Casey, Misty, and Brock see the balloon and run to it. Casey tells chikorita that it has to try it's hardest even though it's worn out so they can save Ash and pikachu. Chikorita responds with a "CHIKO!" and hops to the ground in a fighting stance. It begins to glow and it evolves into bayleef. Bayleef uses razor leaf and cuts the cable the cage was hanging from. Ash escapes and pikachu thundershocks Team Rocket, sending them blasting off again! Ash wins the bug catching competiton with the beedrill he caught, he gets to keep the beedrill, plus he gets a sunstone! Ash sees Casey feeling abit down and since she likes yellow pokemon with stripes, he gives his beedrill to her.



Air Time-Ash, Misty, and Brock are in Goldenrod City and a strange man runs up to them. He's wearing colorful clothes and dark glasses, he tells Ash (in a very lively way I might add) that he is invited for his interview at radio tower. It turns out anyone who beats Whitney gets interviewed, Ash is a little suprised, but the group walks back to the radio tower. Meanwhile Team Rocket is famished, they see the radio tower and think it's a department store. They run to it eagerly hoping to get some food, but the man at the front stops them and explains it's not a department store. Team Rocket dresses up in some strange costumes and and the man lets them through this time because he thinks they're movie stars going to be on the show. Back with Ash, Misty, and Brock, Ash is making a phone call to professor Oak to tell him the news. Ash is already a bit nervous about the show, and Professor Oak makes it worse by telling him that the director called his mom, and his mom told everyone in pallet he was gonna be on the radio! Now Ash is shaking in his boots as the kids go into the radio booth with none other than DJ Mary! Meanwhile, Team Rocket is digging around a supply room looking for some valuable tapes or something. They're pretty much wrecking all the recording that were stored in boxes, suddenly a guy comes in, Team Rocket drops what they're doing and stares in fright of getting arrested. Instead the man grabs them and tells them he's been waiting for them all day! He thinks they're some sort of ventriloquist act that was supposed to go on the radio. Jessie and James lie and say they are the act and pretend meowth is their ventriloquist dummy. Mary interviews Team Rocket just like they were supposed to come, meowth making wisecracks the whole time. Mary thinks the meowth dummy is really realistic but she doesn't know it's real. After Mary's done interviewing Team Rocket, Ash is next up. Like I said, he's really nervous and keeps making mistakes, saying "This is Ash and I'm pikachu" or "I'm pallet and I'm from Ash!" . DJ Mary understandingly turns off their mikes for a moment and tells him to imagine he's in a pokemon battle, and just answer all her questions. Mary asks him a series of pokemon related questions and Ash imagines her as an opponent he was battling. He answers every one of the questions in a challenging way as if he was saying it to a person in a battle. The interview is over and Ash has done well, suddenly the same man who spotted Jessie and James in the supply room runs up holding an armful of damaged recordings. It turns out they were the material to be played that afternoon and now they had nothing to play. The director tells Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, and James to read the scripts and perform the radio show live instead of using the tapes. The story sets off:.....

DJ Mary: Narrator
Ash: Prince Goldenrod
Misty and Brock: Prince Goldenrod's companions
Jessie and James: The villains / king and queen impostors

(The story is shown as if it is really happening instead of them just reading it, the kids are dressed in funny costumes and talk in old English, Ash has a suit similar to Robin Hood, Misty is very a costume much like what she wears everyday except it's red and much more fancy, no overalls. Brock is wearing a blue robe; Jessie and James are dressed like a king and queen)

Prince Goldenrod and his friends are returning home after a long battle with the gyarados guild, they fly on Prince Goldenrod's mighty charizard. They approach Goldenrod Castle and find the whole city of Goldenrod has been covered with sand! Prince Goldenrod is astonished and sees the King and Queen (his mom and dad) standing in front of a partially buried castle. He asks them what happened but they seem to change the subject and act happy to see him. The King and Queen lead Prince Goldenrod and his friends into the castle, one of the prince's companions (Misty) comments on how odd the king and queen are acting. The trio agrees, but they keep heading up some stairs that they were walking up. Prince Goldenrod realizes something is wrong when he asks them what happened and they seemed to be uncaring. They arrive at a room at the top of the stairs where the King and Queen open a box on a podium. The Master Stone is inside of it (The Master stone is some sort of stone that keeps peace in the land) the king and queen unveil themselves as villains and Prince Goldenrod suspects they're from the gyarados guild. Jessie screams out no! She changes the script so that they are from Team Socket (instead of Team Rocket so their cover isn't blown). DJ Mary scolds Jessie for changing the script, but they continue on with the story. Prince goldenrod and his companions try to stop the villains from making off with the Master Stone, the two baddies dash out the front door> The heroes follow them but stop when they see a hole in front of the castle. Prince Goldenrod believes it may be a whole that leads to the depths of the underworld. Suddenly, Jessie screams out no! She changes the script to where the hole is a time warp to the future! DJ Mary is getting ticked off, but still they continue on with the story. The heroes jump into "the time warp" following the villains to the future. The future is full of strange buildings and those glass tubes that you see on the show futurama often. Prince Goldenrod, his companions, and the two villains float in midair as they argue. Jessie and James tell meowth to transform into a rocketship (another script change) meowth looks at them in disbelief and James, with his crazy imagination, tells meowth he was changed into a cyborg pokemon in the future. Meowth turns into the rocket and the two villains make their getaway in him. DJ Mary is upset at how unruly the two were being, keeping changing the script like that. DJ Mary suddenly makes a script change of her own, as she is the narrator. "What Team Socket didn't know", she says, "Is that brave Prince Goldenrod hitched a ride on their rocket as they made their getaway." Jessie and James are mad at how she used this against them. Prince Goldenrod uses his faithful chikorita to cut off some parts of the meowth rocket. This sends the Rocket crashing back to earth. Jessie suddenly makes another script change and say that the rocket didn't fall to earth it fell into another time warp, apparently warping them to present time. (Outside of the story, inside of the radio tower) Team Rocket takes off their goofy movie star costumes and captures pikachu. Mary continues with the story, saying Team Socket was actually Team Rocket and they've just stolen Prince Goldenrod's pikachu. The kids dash up the stairs after Team Rocket and Mary follows along with a microphone. Chikorita retrieves pikachu and pikachu thundershocks Team Rocket. As usual they go blasting off again! In DJ Mary's words: The hero's defeat the evil Team Rocket and the Master Stone returns, making the sand disappear and Goldenrod city is returned to normal. This ends the radio show. The director exclaims that this was the best show ever and they should do this everytime!



Type Casting-
Trying to reach Ecruteak City our heroes are stopped in their tracks, unable to cross a bridge-less river. As they walk the bank, they see an old fisherman and strike a bargain, a ferry-ride across the river in exchange for an elusive Sudowoodo! As they comb the nearby mountains in search of one of these unique Pokémon they run into two research scientists arguing over Sudowoodo's type. Join Ash and the gang as they encounter this truly versatile Pokémon and attempt to determine what type Sudowoodo really is!



Fossil Fools-(I came in kinda late on this episode, I missd some of the very begining) From where I came in, it seems the kids had been going through a a museum and looking at fossils of pokemon with one of prof. Oak's old students, Foster. Meanwhile Team Rocket has decided to start their own bottled water buissness, they're pumping water out of a resevoir, but something clogs their pump. James is commanded to repair the pump by Jessie and meowth. Back at the museum, Foster decides to take Professor Oak and the kids through a place which is fixed up to look like it's in prehistoric times, a model aerodactyl flies over head. It's so realistis the kidz think it's real. Foster then lead them onto another exhibit in the prehistoric habitat, they stop a a small lake. Foster tells him that his big discovery might come out of the lake if they're quiet. Everyone stands like stone watching the lake eagerly. Suddenly shadows appear under the water and two omanyte and an omastar come out of the pond. They swim to shore and Foster holds his hands out ot them. The cute lil' critters start to pat his hands with their tentacles, Professor Oak is astounded and the kids laugh at the cute "robots". Pikachu walks over to the omanyte and they start to touch him with their tentacles, frightened, pikachu runs back to Ash. Ash laughs and tells pikachu they're only robots, Oak has a look of disbelief on his face and asks Foster if the omanyte are real. Foster says yes and everyone freaks out, the omanyte and omastar get startled and burrow into the sand with only their shells sticking out. Foster tells them they're still shy since they've only been aorund people for a few days now. The omanyte and omastar come out, Misty is marveling at how cute they are. Foster tells them that the pokemon came to him one day and began to live in the lake. He wants the prehistoric display to be open to the public, but he's afraid people might hurt or capture the omanyte and omastar. Meanwhile James is still trying to fix their water pump, Jessie and meowth sit on the ground drinking their own bottled water. James suddenly finds the problem, and omanyte was stuck in the pump! Jessie doesn't seem to care for the pokemon, but James tells her how valuble it is bcause it's said to be extinct and she perks up right away. they start their pump again and they start to suck up even more omanyte and omastar out of the lake. Back at the museum, a fellow scientist runs up to Foster and tells them that their water isn't working. They run down to the resevoir and find out that the water pressur is too low because Team Rocket is taking water from the lake! They also see that Team Rocket is going to sell all the omanyte and omastar. They have a big battle and the omanyte and omastar finish off Team Rocket with a blasting water gun. The supposedly extinct pokemon go back to the lake and burrow under the mud where they can be safe and free. Foster realizes that the omanyte and omastar in the exhibit only came there because they wanted to get away from Team Rocket. They decide to let them free and open the exhibit.



Two Hits and a Miss- Ash, Misty, and Brock are walking along the road when sudenly a tauros comes rampaging towards them. They jump out of the way, but Ash sees a guy ahead in the road who could get hit though. Ash takes a shortcut through the bushes and gets to the man before the tauros does. Ash throws out bulbasaur to stop it, bulbasaur makes tauros get tired out by making it run around a bit, then it grabs tauros' feet with vine whip and uses sleep powder. The old guy Ash saved is very impressed and takes Ash and co. to his fighting pokemon dojo. The man's name is Kenzo San and he is the Shi Hahn (probably misspelled, there are a lot of confusing words in this episode) of the dojo. However, Kenzo is getting too old to be the Shi Hahn anymore, he needs someone to take over for him. He has a granddaughter, but Kenzo sees her as insufficient for the job. She is training with her hitmontop and some other trainers in the dojo. Kenzo calls his grandaughter, Tsusuga, over to him, he anounces that Ash will be the new Shi Hahn instead of her. She is outraged and Ash is astounded, Tsusuga argues with her grandad and Ash is quite embarrased that this fight is over him. Suddenly a boy shows up at the door, his name is Shiro, andhe wants to defeat the Shi Hahn of the dojo. Tsusuga reconizes him as the "Dojo Destroyer", he goes around to every dojo and wins battles with the Shi Hahns so he can win their plaques. He says he has 11 plaques and he wants to have 12 so he can open his own dojo and have respect among his students. Kenzo accepts the challenge and he and Shiro go to the battle feild, Shiro chooses hitmonlee, and Kenzo chooses machoke. Kenzo hurt his back while throwing out the ball, and machoke hurt his back when he came out of the ball, you can see they've both gotten old. Tsusuga tells Kenzo that she should battle in his place, he's in no condition to battle, Kenzo doesn't want her to battle because he sees how she is inexperienced. But there is no other way, so Tsusuga gets to battle hitmonlee with hitmontop, hitmonlee and hitmontop seem to be a pretty good match, they seem equal. Finally, when it looks like hitmontop might lose, Team Rocket comes in their meowth baloon and tries to capture their pokemon. Ash's bulbasaur and pikachu take care of them, and Shiro decides that since the battle was interupted, they would continue tomorrow. Kenzo comments on how Tsusuga would have lost anyhow, Tsusuga insures him that she is better than Shiro and Ash alike. Kenzo insists she train better, and that she have a battle with Ash. Tsusuga thinks nothing of it and has the confidence she would win. Hitmontop, spins and uses triple kick, bulbasaur dodges all three kicks, it grapples onto hitmontop's head and feet with it's vines. Bulbasaur then slams it hard, tsusuga had lost, she couldn't understand why. Kenzo harshly tells her that Ash and bulbasaur are a team. Tsusuga argues that hitmontop and she are a tem too, Kenzo tells her that just because you own a pokemon doesn't make you a team. He also tells her that when she commands hitmontop to spin like that, it can't see the opponent or tell what it's next attack will be, she's putting her hitmontop in danger without knowing it. Tsusuga finally realizes that she thinks about what the attack will look like instead of the damage it does. She asks Ash to help her train hitmontop some more, Ash agrees and the next day Shiro and Tsusuga begin their battle again. This time hitmontop matches hitmonlee hitfor hit, and then some. It beats the hitmonlee very badly and Tsusuga is very pleased, as is Kenzo. Team Rocket returns a second time and tries to capture hitmontop anmd hitmonlee, hitmonlee tries to attck them but victreebel puts it to sleep with sleep powder. It's up to hitmontop now, hitmontop kicks them up and pikachu finishes them off. Kenzo sees that Tsusuga's training has paid off and decides she would make a fine Shi Hahn.



Carrying On-Ash, Misty, and Brock are wandering along on their way to ecruteak city. They hear some cries and look up to see a fearow attacking a pidgey. Ash calls out noctowl, noctowl uses it's hypnosis to make the fearow think noctowl's a charizard. The fearow flies off in fright. The pidgey falls from the sky, the kids rush to help it and they bandage it ' s wings. They see the pidgey is wearing a little cap and has a bagpack on and decide to take it to the nearest town and find it's trainer. When they get to the town, they see tons of pidgey wearing little bags and flying all over the place. A boy runs up to the and acuses them of hurting the pidgey they found, the kids explain they helped the pidgey and the boy thanks them.The boy introduces himself as Malakey, Malakey invites the trio to come to his home, where his grandpa runs a pidgey postal service. The pidgey put the mail in their bags and fly to people's homes to deliver it. The grandpa thanks them for saving their pidgey and they have some lunch, Malakey goes out to check on the pidgey, and the kids begin a disscussion with the old man. Ash suspects that Malakey will get to take over the family bussness when the grandpa retires, the man says Malakey won't get to take over because when he retires, the bussness is shutting down. Ash, Misty, and Brock want to know why, Malakey loves the pidgey and he would be great at taking it over, the grandpa explains that the world was a different place when he started the pidgey bussness, he can't compete will e mail and other postal services. The grandpa doesn't want to break the news to Malakey because he would be so sad though. Suddenly they get a phone call from nurse joy, she's asking if the pidgey flock left yet because she hadn't recieved the medicine they were supposed to be delivering. Malakey, who just wandered in, is upset and his grandad is too. Malakey runs out to their shed and pulls out their old pidgey training blimp. Malakey pedals it and the kids get in the back, they fly throguh the sky looking for lost pidgey, Ash gets noctowl to help them. Meawhile, Team Rocket is sucking up the pidgey one by one with a vaccuum, they see the "twerps" and veil their ballon with a smoke machine to make them look like a cloud. Team Rocket are choking on the smoke, but their plan works pretty well, noctowl hears the pidgey Team Rockt captured chirping and knows they're inside of the cloud. Noctowl and the pidgey the kids helped, blow away the smoke revealing Team Rocket. They have a battle in the air, Jessie using arbok, the poison pokemon almost falls, but Jessie , James, and Meowth catch it by the tail just in time. Noctowl uses hypnosis on arbok and Team ROcket to make them think arbok's poison sting is hitting the pidgey blimp. The blimp really floated closer to Team Rocket's hot air ballon to bust the pidgey out of the bag. Team Rocket wakes up from their trance only to realize all the pidgey have gotten free. The whole flock of pidgey and noctowl peck the hotair ballon popping it, and Team ROcket goes blasting off again. In the end, Malakey's grandpa sees how much Malakey likes working with pidgey, and decides to continue his bussness and let Malakey take over!



Hot Water Battle!-Ash, Misty, and Brock trudge on, the heat is really getting to them. They see a bunch of aimpom eating bananas in a tree. Ash looks at them hungrily and walks toward the tree, however, he slips on a banana peel and falls in a lake! Brock and Misty walk over to the lake but Brock slips too, he also falls in the lake. The find out the lake is really a a nice warm hot spring. They decide to spend the day their and relax. They call out all of their pokemon and play with a beach ball, they have fun bouncing it around untill totodile hits it too hard and it smacks cyndaquil in the face. The ball bounces off into the forest, chikorita yells at totodile for being so dumb, cyndaquil joins in the arguement and the three pokemon start to fight. Ash is so stupid he thinks the three are just playing, Misty knows they're not and tells Ash to get them to stop. Ash asks them if one of them wants to go get the beach ball out of the woods, all three of them run off searching for it. Finally the three pokemon see the ball, an aipom is balancing on it, chikorita, totodile, and cyndaquil try to get it back but aipom walks on top of the ball making it roll with him on it! The three persue the aipom, meanwhile team rocket is searching the hot spring rumored to be around here some place. Jessie and James carry big baskets of fruit on their backs, they might be lost but they still enjoy the food around there. Suddenly a snorlax comes and picks up the basket that is on James' back, james is still strapped on to the basket and it looks like snorlax might eat him too!. He slips out just in time and snorlax eats all the fruit in his basket. Snorlax leaves, but Team Rocket coloapses on the ground in dispair, suddenly chikorita, cyndaquil, and totodile dash by chasing the aipom, Team Rocket decides to go after them. The three pokemon run into a cave, the trio of villians runs after them, but snorlax is behind them too and it blocks the exit of the cave so everyone is trapped!. There's a fork in the path ahead, chikorita and cyndaquil take one way and totodile takes the other. Team ROcket comes to the fork too and meowth takes the same path as totodile did and Jessie and James take the other. Meowth comes to a dead end and totodile is there too, meowth pulls out a net and tries to get totodile. Suddenly the cave shakes, snorlax is outside of the cave banging his body against the wall. Stones are caving in inside lof the cave, and meowth and totodile get trapped in the dead end. Meowth abandons tying to catch totodile and gives up hope of getting out of the cave. Totodile comforts him and uses water gun to try and blast the rocks. Meanwhile chikorita and cyndaquila re also trapped someplace else in the cave, they escape their enclosure and go searching for totodile. Jessie and James, blow a hole in a cave wall to get outside, they finally found the spring, but angry aipom are in the water. The aipom don't want them to get in their spring so the hurl bannanas and nuts at them. Jessie and James scurry up a palm tree to avoid the attacks.Chickorita and cyndaquil are still in the cave looking for totodile, they see soem water coming through some cracks in a rock. The two figure it's totodile and pull away the rocks so he can get out. Meowth and totodile are relieved to see the others and they do a little group hug thing. They eventually find their way out., but meowth pulls out his net again and catches all three of them. Back at the other entrance snorlax rams himself against the wall, causing a rocke to split where Jessie and James are. Water comes out of the rock and a tidal wave washes Jessie and James from the tree. It looks like Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile are now property of Team Rocket untill, a tidal wave comes bursting out of the cave and washes them away also, along with snorlax too! Ash is getting worried by now and he and his friends go off in search of the 3 pokemon. They see the in the river haning onto snorlax for dear life. They climb on to snorlax's belly and cause two trees to fall so they can grab onto them and not fall off the upcoming waterfall. They are reunited with Ash and Team Rocket falls off the waterfall. Everyone goes back to the hot spring pikachu sees the ball floating in the soprings and gets it. Everyone is happy again passing it around.




Hassle in the Castle-Well the kids are wandering along like usual when it starts to rain, the storm is getting really bad and they need to take shelter. They see a castle on a cliff and decide to go there. They go inside and look around, wondering if anyone's home. They hear voices coming from a room and go inside. They see a man getting a massage from a machoke, a mareep giving a man electric therapy for his muscles, and a girl getting her leg bandaged by a spinarak. A woman doctor comes and asks them if they have an apointment. Brock immediately flirts with the doctor. She ignores him and goes off to tend to another patient who's getting a "zubat scan". The zubat uses it's supersonic attack to do a scan on a person's body. Brock shows Doctor Anna his zubat, the two zubat hit it off very well. Brock says that she and him could be just like their zubat. Doctor Anna really doesn't care, and goes about her bussiness. Ash mentions he's hungry and Doctor Anna treats them to lunch. Meanwhile Team Rocket bust into the therapy center and sneak around a bit. Meowth smells food and they go into another room with all sorts of yummy things on a table. They start to pig out on everything, when suddenly Ash, Misty,Brock, and Doctor Anna walk in to get their lunch. Team Rocket shoves all food in a sack and make their getaway. The group follows them, with Doctor Anna and Brock in the lead. Doctor Anna warns Team Rocket not to go down the hallway, but they do anyways. Brock wamts to act all macho so he follows Team Rocket. Doctor Anna goes after him to try and stop him from going that way, but it's too late. A trap in the floor makes them slide all the way down to the basement. Jessie, James, Meowth, Doctor Anna, and Brock land in the dark basement and the way they came in closes. They're all trapped, but Brock notices that their zubat came down with them so they might be able to help them find a way out. Doctor Anna pulls out her laptop and has her zubat do a supersonic to show the safest route through the mazes of the basement. Brock's zubat helps too and they make their way toward the safest path. Suddenly the scan shows that both of the paths in front of them are dangerous. Jessie gets tired waiting for them to figure out which way to go, so she runs down one of them all by herself. A wall bashes down on top of her, it turns out that when someone goes down one of the paths and set off the trap, the other path becomes safe to go down. Meanwhile, Misty, Ash, and a nurse who worked for Doctor Anna, look at a map of the basement mazes for the exit. They see the exit is in the middle of the woods, so the crew makes their way to where it would be to try and help Brock and the others. Back in the basement, Team Rocket admires the two zubat and decide they want to steal them. Brock, Doctor Anna, and Team Rocket find the exit, but the door is stuck, Ash, Misty, and the nurse are have dug away the dirt to find the door, and they push on it to get it to open. Team Rocket, nab the zubat in their bag, but they can't get away because the door won't open. Brock's pineco uses selfdestruct and blows the door open. Brock and Doctor Anna climb out, the zubat got away in the confusion of it all and everyones' happy. Suddenly a rope snares pikachu and Team Rocket climbs out. James uses weezing to make a smokescreen so they could escape, but the zubat blow away the smoke with whirlwind. Jessie throws out arbok to battle them with, Brock's zubat uses supersonic on it and confuses it. Arbok starts shooting poison sting at Team Rocket.Arbok shakes it off and gets back into the battle, weezing too. Suddenly zubat evolves into golbat, it uses supersonic and confuses them both. Doctor Anna had her laptop out to measure the supersonic, the wave was so powerful it started to overload her computer! Pikachu gets freed and uses it's thundershock on the vilians, sending them blasting oof again. Brock pleads to let him stay with Doctor Anna and help her with her work. Doctor anna says she was impressed with brock's golbat, but it's too powerful. It overloaded her computer because it was so powerful and she tells him he should stick to being a pokemon breeder.




Hook Line and Stinker!- The scene begins with evryone and their pokemon relaxing at a pond. A poliwrath comes along and starts bullying Misty's poliwhirl. Misty's pretty ticked off, then it's trainer comes and insults her and her pokemon even more! Misty challenges him to a battle, but he says he has more important things to do that day and walks off. The trio leaves the pond and goes back to the path, they see a bunch of people with fishing pole walking by. They ask a random boy what's going on and he tells them all about a seaking catching contest that's being held today. Ash, Misty, and Brock follow the people to the competition, Misty sees the mean boy there and he insults her even more. He says that if she entered the contest she would lose because she's a wimp. Misty enters to show him up, and Ash does too for the fun of it.First prize is a whole lot of chocolate bars and a nice trophy. They get in their boat, loned out to them for the contest, and speed out onto the lake to catch their seaking. Ash and Misty fish patiently, but that bully keeps coming along and laughing at them just to bust their chaps. The y see him catch a seaking with ease, but then he let's it go. He explains that he and poliwrath do that just to warm up, then he speeds off. Misty and Ash are still fishing patiently, they haven't caught anything yet. Misty notices the winds are changing and says they should head north because the seaking will swim that way because of the winds. They start their boat and start to head north, along side of them is the bully. Misty yells at Brock to make the boat go faster so that he won't beat them to the good fishing spots. The boy also speeds up, Misty pushes Brock out of the way and takes hold of the wheel. She drives the boat like a maniac and Ash and Brock are scared to death. Right in the way of the race, Team Rocket are fishing, Misty swerves to avoid hitting them, but the boy jumps his boat right over head of their boat making it to the fishing spots faster. Ash, Misty, and Brock stop to ask Team Rocket, whose boat was over turned by the waves, if they're ok (they don't know it's Team Rocket), Team, Roket says their just fine and Ash, Misty, and Brock go about their business. They eventually find where the mean boy went to and begin to fish there.They see him land a gigantic seaking, he brags, asking if Misty had even caught a single one yet. Misty just turns her nose up and keeps on waitng for a seaking. Finally she pulls up a huge one, poliwhirl weakens it for her and she captures it. The competition is over and everyone's fish is being weighed. Misty and the boy have a tie- both their seaking are the same size. The person in charge of the contest says that they have to have a battle to break the tie. Misty uses her poliwhirl and the boy uses his poliwrath. Poliwrath is beating poliwhirl pretty badly at first, but suddenly Team Rocket intrudes and steals the chocolate bars. ASh gets pikachu to take care of them and bulbasaur catches the bag of choclate. They continue the battle, poliwhirl still not doing so well, but Misty gives him a little pep-talk and he regains his confidence. Poliwhirl does great at dodging poliwrath's attacks and making his attacks hit right on target. Poliwhirl finishes off poliwrath with a fearsome bubblebeam and Misty wins all that chocolate. She decides to give the chocolate away to her sisters, Brock's family, Ash's family, but not Ash. Ash starts to have a hissy fit and Misty enjoys seeing him get all worked up.




Beauty and The Breeder- Ash, Misty, and Brock are at the pokemon center. Brock is checking his e mail at a nearby computer, he's very excited because he has an e mail from suzy. Apparently there's a pokemon beauty contest in a nearbey town and Suzy is going to enter, but she has no pokemon to enter. Brock wants to go off to the contest and let her use vulpix. SO the kids go there and Brock brushes vulpix so Suzy will think he's taken good care of it. Brock puts on a white tuxedo and has roses for Suzy, he and vulpix see her and rush up. Suzy is very happy to see her vulpix again and she loves the roses that brock gives her. Misty's run off and they go to find where she went, it turns out she was looking at a boy's beautiful ninetales. Misty annoys the boy and he yells at her, Suzy tells him he should be flattered that she likes it. Suzy and the boy, whose name is Zane, have been friends a long time. Brock is a little jealous of him, but tries not to show it. Suzy suggests that she and Brock enter the competition as partners since Brock has been taking care of her vulpix for so long. Brock is more than happy to do it and Zane seems to get a little ticked off. Meanwhile, Jesse and James dress up incognito, (James looks simply smashing, his hair is in a pony tail and he's wearing stylish clothes) they fix up meowth and their other pokemon for the competition. Brock, Suzy, and Zane wait backstage for their turn to go out and show off their pokemon. The announcer calls out number one and the first person goes out with his marill. However, Jesse and James grab him and stuf him in a closet so they can go. The crowd simply loves their pokemon and their lively performance, Officer Jenny kicks Jesse and James out when she finds the trainer in the closet and tells them not to come back. Many people have gone now and it's getting close to be Brock and Suzy's turn, suddenly to suspicious pokemon doctors bust in the back door. They tell them they must have their pokemon examined or they'll be disquallified. Reluctantly the contestants hand over their pokemon to be treated, the doctors take the pokemon out the back door and lock it behind them so the trainers can't get out. Of course the doctors are really Jesse and James and they lock the pokemon into a truck. The trainers try to open the locked back door to get to their pokemon, they can't leave to go out on stage since it's locked and people are wondering why no ones out on stage. Brock calls out geodude to break down the door and they see team rocket getting away with their pokemon in the ballon. Vulpix and Ninetales take care of team rocket with firespin and look magnificent while doing it I would say. Zane sees how grest Suzy and her vulpix is and asks her if she would open up a salon with him. Suzy thinks it's a good idea, but she asks Brock what he thinks. Brock swallows down his true feelings and says he thinks it's a swell idea. Then it's agreed and Zane and Suzy agree to become partners in buissnes. After Suzy leaves, Zane tells Brock how much he admires him. He says that he was very jealous when Suzy told him how great Brock was and now he sees that he really is good and isn't jealous anymore. Brock and Suzy go out on stage and show off vulpix, vulpix stays behind with Suzy.




An Easier Pill to Swallow-The trio is wandering along the road to Ecruteak City. Ash has got bad cramps from walking, a little man named Old Man Shuckle, comes and gives Ash a few pills. Ash takes them and a big poof of smoke comes out of his mouth. He passes out and Brock and Misty try to wake him up. Ash wakes up, his cramps are totally gone, Old Man Shuckle tells them he uses secret medicine, Brock is very interested and wants to know all about it. Old Man Shuckle takes them back to his home where he shows them all the herbs and stuff he uses to make his medicines. He then leads them to a shed where several strange pots are kept on shelves. Misty picks one of them up and something comes out of the pot and touches her. Misty drops the pot and Old Man Shuckle explains that it isn't a pot, it's a pokemon called shuckle. He goes on to tell them he uses the shuckle to make a juice that has healing properties by sealing fruit in their shells untill it turn into juice. All his shuckle are regular shuckle, but if he could find a purple shuckle, he could make a special medicine from it's juice that would make you be able to tame any pokemon. But Old Man Shuckle is getting too old to go out and look for it like he used to. Brock says he'll help find the shuckle if he gets some of it's juice. Old Man Shuckle agrees and calls his belsprout, Spoopy, to help them collect regular shuckle and search for the ellusive purple shuckle. Spoopy finds shuckles by sniffing their scent and can also tell if their juice is ripe by their scent. Spoopy moves very quickly and the kids can't keep up with him, spoopy throws all the shuckle with ripe juice out into the road and runs off. Misty and Ash are stuck picking up all the shuckle and Brock runs after spoopy, spoopy lifts up logs and and rocks looking for shuckle. He finds the purple one and talks to it. Brock and Ash and Misty finally come running up and see the purple shuckle. Team Rocket sees it too and steals the poor pokemon. Meowth, Jessie, and James drink the shuckle's juice because they're thirsty, meowth suddenly cuddles up to James and won't let go of him. The kids tell old man shuckle that team rocket stole the purple shuckle, suddenly they see a whole bunch of shuckle wandering around the road. The kids thought that shuckel was a shy pokemon but here it is walknig around, Old Man Shuckle explains that Team Rocket must've drank the purple shuckle's juice because all the shuckle are leaving suddenly. They follow the shuckle and find team rocket, Old Man Shuckle explains that when you drink the juice without other herbs added it makes pokemon swarm to you for three days and three nights. and that pokemon are highly sensitve to feremones, when they drank thejuice it made them put out fermones that attract pokemon. Now the shuckle are all over Jessie and James, they lick jessie's stomach and she screams. Jessie tries to get the shuckle off of her by sending out arbok and wobbuffet, James sends out victreebel, but their pokemon swarm up to them and won't stop hugging them. They recall their pokemon and ask Ash to please blast them off, he tries to but pikachu starts hugging on Jessie. Old Man Shuckle throws out a powder that neutralizes the feremone for a short time, pikachu thundershocks Team ROcket, and Ash, Misty, Brock, and Old Man SHuckle, take the purple shuckel back to his house. Old Man Shuckle tries to give brocking the taming potion but he won't take it saying that he wants pokemon to like him by theirselves instead of using a potion. Old Man Shuckle agrees and the kids continue on their merry way. Meanwhile, Team Rocket are in the bushes surrounded by pokemon, they wish they never drank the juice.




Power Play"
When a blackout hits a town on the road to Ekruteak City, our heroes realize it puts the Pokémon in the local Pokécenter in jeopardy. Wanting to help nurse Joy and the ailing Pokémon, the gang takes on the task of finding out what went hay-wire at the power plant. Before they can help restore the power however, they have to overcome the latest Team Rocket invention: The Mecha-Robo-Wobbuffet! See how Ash and Pikachu team up with Gary and his Umbreon in order to overcome Team Rocket and restore power to the grateful town.



Episode 415 "Mountain Time"
Enjoying a beautiful day hiking through the mountains on the road to Ekruteak City, Ash and Pikachu chase after a Ledian that speeds by them. As they pursue it along the trail, they round a bend and get hit full-blast by a Gust from Pidgeotto! Meeting the Ledian and Pidgeotto's owners, the gang finds out they've run into the Mountain Patrol, in the midst of a training session. Find out what happens when mountain-patrolman, Benji and his courageous Ledian lead Ash, Misty and Brock on an important search-and-rescue mission!




Wobbapalooza -Ash, Misty, and Brock find a wobbuffet festival where everyone celebrates about wobbuffets.Everyone there has a wobbuffet including officer Jenny. Some one has been beating up some wobbuffet and the town blames it on Team Rocket, however a woman (whose name I have forgotten) comes and defends Team ROcket. She tells the villagers that Team Rocket wasn't the ones that did it and they believe her. Jessie shows the woman her wobbuffet, who is wearing a cute headband. the woman send out her very strong wobbuffet that everyone in town admires. It turns out that three fighting pokemon trainers were the ones beating up the wobbuffets and they come back to beat up all the wobbuffet in town. A boy who's with Ash, Misty, and Brock says that the bad trio came last year too and trashed their town because no one would battle them. The boy runs to get the woman with the strong wobbuffet who defated the guys last time. Jessie, James, and Meowth are raiding the festival food pantry and see the woman run by, they wonder what's going on. Ash, Misty, and Brock challenge the guys to a battle and are about to fight when the boy, the woman, and officer Jenny come running up with their wobbuffet. The woman says that she didn't expect the three boys to ever come back since she beat them so badly last time. Officer Jenny, whose wobbuffet has a cute police hat on, tells them that battling is not allowed in the town that day because of the festival. They go on to explain that since wobbuffet never attack first, there are no battles on the day of the festival to commemerate wobbuffets. The whole town is mad at the trio of fighting pokemon trainers, but they can't fight back today. The boys say that if they won't battle with them, then they would trash their special wobbuffet festival statue that the town made. The statue is huge and shaped like a wobbufet, it's very important to everyone but no one can stop them. Team Rocket watches the fighting pokemon tear the statue up, they want to do something about it since the lady was so nice to them earlier.They land near the statue in their ballon and challenge the fighting types to a battle, Officer Jeny says it's the rule that they can't battle, but Team Rocket doesn't care and fights anyways. Arbok and victreebel get beat up by the boys' machoke, hitmonlee, and primeape. Jessie send out wobbuffet to battle them and beats their butts. The townspeople are greatful, but Officer Jenny is still mad they broke the rule. Team ROcket flies off in their balloon so they wouldn't get arrested, but no one chases after them because they did something good for a change. But just when you thought Team Rocket had reformed, they fly off with the festival food they stole, Officer Jenny chases them out of town and fights them because battling is only prohibited inside the town, Team Rocket goes blasting off again and the townspeople invite Ash, Misty, and Brock to the party, they have fun dancing and stuff.




Imitation Confrontation- Ash, Misty, and Brock stop in at a pokemon center and are looking for nurse joy, but she isn't there. Suddenly a chansey and Nurse Joy step out from a hallway, Brock runs up to her and says she's just an imposter, and not the real nurse. Nurse Joy laughs and says, that she knew she couldn't fool Brock. Ash wonders how she knew his name and she giggles a little bit. Her chansey chages back into a ditto and she rips off her Nurse Joy desguise. Duplica! The kids are excited to see their old friend again. The real nurse joy comes out of the examination room and gives Duplica another ditto saying it was perfectly healthy. The kids see her other ditto and ask why it was getting a check up. Duplica introduces her new ditto as Mini-Dit and she wants to do a demonstration of what's wrong with it. She tells Mini-Dit to transform into pikachu, it does and looks perfectly normal. The kids don't see what wrong with it, still Duplica asks someoen to send out a really big pokemon. Brock sends out his onix, Mini-Dit tranforms perfectly into an onix, but it stayed the same size. It can only transform into miniature versons of large pokemon. The little onix is really cute though, pikachu pets it on the head. Duplica explains that she was in town for a pokemon acting competition, and she and her two ditto were entering in it. Ash and she decide to have a battle, totodile aganst ditto, Suddenly a hole blows in the roof of the pokemon center and gas pours out. Team Rocket comes out, James dressed like Ash and Jesse dressed as Duplica, they say their motto, but wobbuffet does the "meowth that's right" part. Meowth is off sneaking around, he comes up behind the unsuspecting kids and and snatches Mini-Dit. Then Team Rocket flees the scene. No one knows Mini-Dit was stolen. Duplica notices a while later, they search the whole center and still can't find it. That's when they figure Jesse, James, and Meowth must've stolen it. Team Rocket comes up with a plan for Mini-Dit, they would transform it into a little arbok and take it to the next town to trade it for a rare pokemon, then they would steal Mini-Dit back, make it transform into something else and trade it again, then they would steal it back again and keep doing that untill they get a mess of rare pokemon. Meanwhile, Nurse Joy runs up and tells the kids she just recieved word some one was trying to trade off a mini arbok in the next town. Duplica knows it's Mini-Dit and they rush to save it. Team Rocket is getting no luck in trading, no one wants to offer a rare pokemon for the cute arbok, they only offer non rare ones. Ash, Misty, Brock, and Duplica find Team Rocket and question them, James wants Ash to trade pikachu for the arbok, Meowth runs up and tells them they'll blow it if they do that. Everyone sees meowth and finds out the people are really team rocket. Ash gets Mini-Dit back and Duplica and her two ditto battle with Team Rocket. Mini-Dit is wobbuffet and ditto is arbok. James tries a sneak attack to get pikachu but ditto uses wrap attack on weezing and stops it. Jesse thinks that since Mini-dit is a smallerwobbuffet, her big wobbuffet can win. However, Duplica knows that wobbuffet can use mirror coat and jessie doesn't, Mini-Dit wows the crowd as it shoots back all the attacks. Ditto and Mini-Dit then transform into pikachu and the three pikachu use thunder on Team ROcket, they blast off again. Duplica shows off her two ditto at the acting competition, everyone laughs at the site of the little ursaring that Mini-Dit turns into. Ash and Duplica decide to resume their battle, The End.




The Trouble with Snubbull- The kids have stopped at a river for a drink. Ash thinks he sees snubbull on the other side, Misty thinks it was just a wild one, but Ash says it had ribbons on it's ears. Mean while Jesse, James, and meowth are wandering about in the woods. Snubbull sees meowth and chomps down on his tail like she always does. Meowth screams that he hates snubbull and flings her off of his tail into the bushes. Snubbull is mortified that meowth hates her. Anyway, Ash, Misty, and Brock continue down the road to Ecruteak, suddenly they see an injured man in the road. They stop to help him and give him some water; the man looks awfully familiar. Brock remembers suddenly, the man is Jeeves, the butler, from Madame Muchmoney's estate. It turns out he was wandering the woods searching for snubbull with Madame Muchmoney. Madame swings down from a vine like Tarzan suddenly and greets the kids. She says that she and Jeeves have been scouring the land searching for her snubbly-wubbly. Ash comments on how he thought he saw snubbull earlier, Madame Muchmoney gets excited and the kids decide to help her search. Meanwhile, snubbull is wandering about, still upset over meowth. She sees something rustling in the bushes and thinks it's meowth coming to apologize. A tail that looks some-what like meowth's pops out and snubbull bites it. As it turns out the tail really was a mankey's tail; the mankey is really mad and beats snubbull up. Madame Muchmoney and the gang come along and see snubbull all beat up in the road. They rush it to the pokemon center, Nurse Joy says snubbull is fine, just a little shooken up. But something else seems wrong with snubbull, she's sad about meowth still. Nurse Joy says snubbull should stay overnight so she can do some tests on it. Overnight, snubbull sneaks out of the pokemon center and goes to find meowth again. Team Rocket is hiding in the bushes and over hears that snubbull is missing. They think they could get a big reward from the rich lady if the return it. And it would be easy to capture because they have meowth as bait. They tie meowth up to a tree and wait for snubbull to come; snubbull comes along and finds him tied up, but doesn't go after him. Jesse and James are confused; Snubbull suddenly evolves into granbbull. Meowth isn't looking forward to being bitten by her and struggles out of his ropes. Jesse sends out arbok to battle it, granbbull sees arbok's coiled tail and bites it, thinking it's like meowth's. Meowth pushes a button on a control he has and a big meowth mech comes out of the woods. Team Rocket climbs aboard and they show granbbull the meowth mech's tail. Granbbull happily bites the giant meowth tail and won't let go. They try to get her off and put her in a cage but it's got a death grip on the tail. Madame Muchmoney, Jeeves, Ash, Misty, and Brock come running up and see team rocket and granbbull. Madame knows the granbbull is her's because of the bows on it's ears. They think team rocket is trying to steal granbbull but team rocket explains they were finding it for her. the kids don't believe it, and remain suspicious. Meowth turns on the tail shock so granbbull will let go, it doesn’t work. Meowth then accidentally hits the tail missile button, which makes the tail blast off. Madame Muchmoney jumps in the way of the missile to save granbbull. Granbbull is touched and battles team rocket fiercely. Pikachu finishes them off with thunderbolt and they blast off.




Episode 419 "Ariados, Amigos"
Ash, Pikachu and Brock take a break by the lake while Misty heads deeper into the forest with Togepi. As Misty picks the local flora, Togepi wanders over to a very strange looking bush, it appears to have legs...spider legs! Summoned by Misty's shrieks, Ash and Brock discover an Ariados in the bush. Just then, a trainer from Fuschia City appears on the scene. She explains she's training with this Ariados to learn the special art of Pokémon Jujitsu. Accepting an invitation from the trainer, the gang joins her for a day at the Pokémon Jujitsu Academy. Find out what happens as Brock and Pineco blow the lid off a technical class, Ash is critiqued on battle techniques and Misty gets all wrapped up in Pokémon health, beauty and nutrition!




Episode 420 "Wings 'n' Things"
It's a sunny day on the road to Johto when our heroes encounter a Yanma....a troublemaker of a Yanma! When Yanma steals Ash's hat, the gang chase after it as it returns to it's trainer, a young boy named Zachary. Although Ash gets his hat back, even Zachary can't control Yanma's antics. After Yanma breaks every window in town with its Sonic Boom attack, Zachary's father forces Zach to return Yanma to the wild. A moment too late, Zachary realizes he can't abandon his friend. Will Zachary be able to find Yanma and learn what it takes to become a true Pokémon trainer?




The Grass Route- Ash, Misty and Brock are finally getting near Ecruteak City, they're wandering through a field full of grass pokemon. They see a cute skiploom running by and follow it. The pokemon runs up to it's trainer, Eiphram. Eiphram greets the kids, he asks if Ash has any grass types. When Ash says yes, Eiphram challenges to a battle with his skiploom. Ash chooses chikorita; chikorita totally kicks skiploom's butt. Eiphram is upset, but he takes Ash and co. back to his house. Eiphram's parents own a nursery and use grass types to care for the plants. Eiphram talks of a grass pokemon tournament tomorrow and that he wants skiploom to enter. First prize is a trophy and a bunch of leaf stones. He trains his skiploom outside, Ash says he'll enter too, but he doesn't need to train cuz he's sooo experienced. Team Rocket hears of the contest too, and decides to enter. James with his Victreebell, and Jesse with meowth in his old sunflora disguise. Ash is the first battle; he wins the match with bulbasaur easily. Then it's Eiphram against James; Skiploom has troubles but beat him. Then it's Ash against Jesse and her "strange" sunflora. Meowth uses scratch on bulbasaur; everyone wonders how a sunflora could use a scratch attack. Bulbasaur uses razor leaf and tears off meowth's sunflora disguise. Team Rocket is revealed and disqualified. Bulbasaur uses vine whip to blast them off again. The battles continue until they're down to the finalist. The last battle just happens to be between Eiphram and Ash. Bulbasaur beats up skiploom and it looks like it will lose. Suddenly, skiploom uses solar beam and blows bulbasaur away. Eiphram wins the tournament and all the leaf stones. They claim that skiploom must've gone up a level to have learned solar beam like that. The kids take their leave and go on to Ecruteak.




Episode 422 "The Apple Corp!"
Catching a sweet scent on the breeze, Ash and Pikachu follow their noses to a nearby apple orchard. As Misty and Brock follow, they warn the trainer and his Pokémon against eating apples that don't belong to them. No sooner is this said than Pikachu is caught red-handed with couple of cores! Once Ash proves Pikachu's innocence to the orchard owner, he and Pikachu track down the real thieves, a band of hungry Pichu forced into the orchard due to low amounts of wild growing fruit. Find out how Ash and Pikachu teach them team-work and help create a symbiotic relationship between the Pichu and the proprietor!




Episode 423 "Houndoom's Special Delivery"
When Team Rocket attacks our heroes as they travel through a mountain pass, Weezing's Smoke Screen attack separates Togepi and Misty. Togepi wanders away as Misty, Ash and Brock try to locate the pint-sized Pokémon. Finding Togepi scared and alone, a passing Houndoom becomes its temporary care-taker and brings Togepi home to its trainer. Will Misty ever be reunited with Togepi?




Episode 424 "The Tower Inferno"
Arriving in Ekruteak, Ash immediately heads to the Gym to challenge it's leader for his next Johto League badge. Our heroes soon realize this isn't a normal gym....it bursts into flames as soon as they enter! Trying to douse the flames with their water Pokémon, they find out the blaze is bogus. It's actually the Gastly, Haunter and Gengar instigating the illusion. Find out how these Ghost-Types end up helping our heroes when Togepi and Pikachu get lost among the ruins. Plus, don't miss the "Gastly" lesson they teach Team Rocket!




Episode 425 "From Ghost to Ghost"
Anxious to acquire the next Johto League badge, Ash challenges Ekruteak City's Gym Leader, Morty. However, Ash has seen Morty's Ghost-type Pokémon in action and is a little worried about battle strategies. In a discussion with Nurse Joy, Ash realizes his secret weapon against Morty's Pokémon is his Noctowl. Find out what special strategies Ash and his Noctowl employ in a head-to-head battle against the skilled Gym Leader and his fear-provoking Pokémon!




Episode 426 "Trouble's Brewing"
Enjoying a quick snack at a local cafe, Misty notices a poster featuring a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. As she tells Ash and Brock she's always wanted to attend one, a young trainer named Sakora walks in. Misty asks Sakora about the poster and Sakora explains her three sisters run the theme park. As Sakora leads Ash, Misty and Brock on a tour of the theme park, she decides she would like to accompany our friends on their Johto Journey. Her sisters say she can go if our heroes can beat them in a Pokémon battle. Will Sakora get to fulfill her dream of becoming a Pokémon master?



Episode 427 "All That Glitters!"
On their way to Olivine City, Brock and Misty break for lunch while Ash polishes his Johto League badges. As he shines each one, he sets them on the tree stump in front of him. Three Murkrow emerge from a nearby bush and perform a synchronized song and dance for our heroes. Delighted by the impromptu entertainment, the gang is shocked when the Murkrow grab Ash's badges and fly away. Will Ash be able to track down the Murkrow and reclaim his badges or will the Murkrow prove too adroit for Ash?




Episode 428 "The Light Fantastic"
On the dry and dusty road to Olivine City, our heroes notice beautiful lights shining in the sky ahead of them. Realizing they are coming from just above the dried up lake on Remoraid Mountain, they run to the Remoraidian Ruins. Although the surrounding area is utterly arid, our heroes take note of the plentiful plant-life. What could be causing this change in climate? Does it have something to do with the lights above the bone-dry basin?




Episode 429 "UnBEARable"
As our heroes pass through a dense forest, Brock explains some pretty scary Pokémon hang out in this neck of the woods. Searching for a safer place to sleep than the forest floor, the gang find an abandoned shack and settle in for a good night's sleep. When Misty hears a noise outside, our heroes investigate and a Teddiursa slips into Misty's sleeping bag. Could this cute and cuddly Pokémon possibly be the forest fright Brock mentioned earlier?




Episode 430 "Moving Pictures"
On their way to Olivine City, our heroes run into their old friend and shutterbug, Todd! As Todd and our friends catch up, a frozen Sunkern falls from the sky. The gang take it to a nearby lodge and, with the help of the old woman who runs it, thaw poor Sunkern out. The old woman explains she and her husband go to a valley with hundreds of Sunflora (the evolution of Sunkern) every year on their anniversary and have their picture taken. Tragically, this being their 50th wedding anniversary, they won't be able to continue the tradition because all of the Sunflora have disappeared. Where have all the Sunflora gone?




Episode 431 "Spring Fever"
As Todd and our heroes take a lunch break on a rocky mountain top, a Swinub rushes at them from a nearby crevasse. Misty is startled and drops her lunch. As the Swinub quickly swipes it, two more appear followed by a pint-sized girl named Peggy. She explains her father uses the Swinub to sniff out hot springs for hotels wanting to build resorts. Unfortunately, the Swinub's sniffers haven't been up-to-snuff and they haven't honed in on a hot spring in months. When Team Rocket try to steal the Swinub, the ensuing battle is just what they need to warm up to the search for hot springs!




Episode 432 "Freeze Frame"
On their quest to capture Articuno on film, Todd and our heroes run into a frozen Jigglypuff! Ash uses his Cyndaquil to defrost the melodious Pokémon. When Todd asks Jigglypuff if it has seen Articuno, Jigglypuff nods towards Snow Top Mountain. Undeterred by the incredible height and icy conditions, the gang heads up the mountain where they run into a Pokécenter. Both Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy explain the legend of Articuno; Centuries ago, a group of travelers were lost on the mountain. Certain they would perish, they almost gave up hope but an Articuno appeared and guided the group to safety. As a tribute, they created a statue of Articuno that still stands today. Some say that anyone traversing Snow Top Mountain is protected by Articuno. After hearing the story, Todd is convinced there are Articuno on the mountain and continues his vertical journey. With Ash and Co. in tow, a blizzard kicks up and temporarily blinds the group. Brock and Misty want to stay put and let the blizzard pass, but Todd and Ash are determined to continue. Little do they know, directly ahead of them is a cliff edge and a deadly drop. Will Articuno come to their rescue? Is this Legendary Pokémon really the guardian of the mountain, or is it merely a legend?




Episode 433 "The Stolen Stones"
On their way to Olivine City, our heroes pass through a dangerous looking canyon full of unstable boulders. When the rocks begin to give-way in an avalanche-like fury, a few fiery Pokémon rush to the rescue. Once out of harm's way, Ash, Misty and Brock find they've been rescued by Ramona, her brother Kegan and their three Arcanine. Ramona explains she and her brother were passing through the canyon on their way to deliver a bag of Fire Stones to a town holding a Fire-type Pokémon contest. Intrigued by the agile Pokémon, Ash is interested in learning how to ride the Arcanine. Before he gets far, Team Rocket shows up and steals the bag of Fire Stones. Ramona, Kegan and the gang must split up with the Arcanine to find Team Rocket and reclaim the rocks. Ash and Kegan team up, but after falling into one of the nasty trio's traps, Kegan is unable to guide Arcanine. Ash must rapidly learn how to ride if they are to recover the Fire Stones and save the Pokémon competition.




Episode 434 "The Dunsparce Deception"
On the outskirts of a small town, our heroes run into a young boy named Bucky. He tells our friends of his woes in trying to capture a Dunsparce. It seems the Dunsparce are indeed sparse in this area, at least they are now. When Bucky was out of town visiting his grandpa, a swarm of them came through and every kid in town caught one. Although Bucky still tries to participate in the Dunsparce games by using his Caterpie, Caterpie just can't compete. While Ash and Co. make good on their promise to help Bucky find one of these snake-like Pokémon, Team Rocket pulls a scheme in town to rid the children of their Dunsparce. Will Team Rocket get away with the Poké-napping this time or will our heroes, joined by their new friend, Bucky, be able to triumph over Team Rocket and spare the Dunsparce?




Episode 435 "The Wayward Wobbuffet"
Knowing our heroes are still en-route to Olivine, Team Rocket lies in wait. Dressed as scientists, they explain they've just repaired the amazing "Poké Pod." To test it out, Pikachu is placed in the pod and locked in tight. When Team Rocket reveals their true identity and runs, Ash and Co. are in hot pursuit. When our heroes catch up to Team Rocket, there isn't a Poké Pod or Pikachu in site! Realizing Wobbuffet was hiding for the handoff, Ash chases after it. In Wobbuffet's rash retreat, it trips dropping the Pikachu containing Poké Pod and falls into the rapids of a nearby river. Since the only way to release Pikachu from the Poké Pod is to possess the key around Wobbuffet's neck, it's an all-out race to reach Team Rocket's blue bad-boy first. This proves problematic as Wobbuffet plummets over waterfalls, wanders through forests, gets taken for a ride on the roof of a run-away truck, blows for miles in a hot-air balloon and falls helpless to the helm of a speedboat! Who will reach Wobbuffet and the key first?




Episode 436 "Sick Days"
The morning sun shines brightly upon our heroes and their Pokémon after spending the night next to a sparkling stream. Ash and his Pokémon wash up for breakfast and notice Brock kneeling over a pot of porridge on the campfire. After asking what's on this morning's menu and getting no response, Ash places a hand on Brock's shoulder. Brock's only response is to fall to the ground! Misty discovers that Brock has a fever and tries to convince him to spend the day resting in bed. Brock finally agrees and tells them there are directions on how to perform his chores in his notebook. As Ash and Misty begin the day's chores they easily become overwhelmed. They must cook, do the dishes, feed the Pokémon, haul water, gather and split wood and even polish Brock's rock Pokémon. Certain disaster seems eminent when Ash decides to speed up the polishing process with his Totodile's Water Gun! Will Ash and Misty be able to perform all of Brock's chores, take care of the Pokémon and fend off Team Rocket's nighttime attack all on their own?




Episode 437 "Ring Masters"
As Ash and company pass through an intriguing little village, they notice a Feraligatr in the midst of a battle. Drawing closer, they see the Feraligatr defeat one opponent after another, but it never seems to tire! When the gang meets the Feraligatr's trainer, they find out that Pokémon battles in this town are of a different breed. Here they practice the art of Pokémon Sumo. Oversized Pokémon are taught to wrestle and are forbidden from using special attacks in Sumo matches. As luck would have it, the Sumo conference is being held the following day. True to his nature, Ash decides to enter the conference, certain he can win. He is surprised, however, to find out he must use a Pokémon that weighs at least 80 kilograms. For Ash, that means only one Pokémon...Snorlax! Although Snorlax makes the weigh-in, it doesn't seem to be interested in moving towards the ring, let alone battling. Watch the surprising turn of events as Ash cleverly uses Snorlax's "guts" to his advantage.




Episode 438 "The Poké Spokesman"
The kids are wandering along the road to Olivine City. Pikachu seems to be moving a bit sluggish and they wonder what's wrong with him. A man seems to pop out of no where and tell that pikachu is tired out because of minerals in the soil that absorb his electricity. The kids are puzzled as the man bends down and speaks to pikachu- "pika Pika Pika chuuuu". Pikachu talks back to the man and he tells Ash and co. that pikachu said he was tired out. The man, whose name they learn is Simon, leads them to his little rest stop so pikachu can rest. Simon tells Ash, Misty, and Brock that there will be a small fee for talking to pikachu and allowing them to use the rest stop, but he realizes he forgot to mention that when he first talked to pikachu so he decides not to charge them. Officer Jenny drives up and confronts Simon, accusing him of swindling people by pretending to talk to pokemon. Simon denies it and tells Officer Jenny he only charges people to use the rest stop and all because he needs the money to keep it looking nice. Team Rocket has been hiding under some benches at the rest stop and they pop out wanting Simon to talk to their pokemon. Jenny thinks that jessie and james are really butch and cassidy and want to arrest them. Suddenly a bunch of smoke bombs fly from the sky. The smoke clears and Simon is gone. Team Rocket, although the bombs weren't theirs, use the confusion of the smoke to get away. Jenny takes the kids to the pokemon center so pikachu can get some help. They don't know whether they believe that Simon is a crook or not. Meanwhile, Simon is in a cabin with a gang of thugs. The leader of the thugs is the real con-artist and thinks that Simon is too. None of them believe Simon really has the ability to talk to pokemon and try to get him to join their gang. Simon escapes and goes to the pokemon center to check on Ash and his pikachu. Ash tells Simon he'd better leave because Officer Jenny wants him arrested. Simon says he wanted to know how pikachu was doing and once he finds out, he's leaving town. Ash wants to know if Simon is telling the truth about talking to pokemon. Simon says that he is pretty sure he understands pokemon and he understands him, but he can't talk to them the way he used to. He begins a story about how when he was little the was a tornado heading straight for the farm where his family lived. His dad grabbed him and threw him down into the cellar so he wouldn't get hurt and slammed the door shut. Simon said he cried and cried because he was alone and worried about his dad. Suddenly he heard some voices behind him telling him not to cry. He cried out "Who's there?!" and the three voices answered: "pidgey!", "Rattata", "and oddish!" A pidgey, rattata and oddish came out from behind some boxes and they talked and talked on until the tornado was gone. His dad opened the cellar door, Simon turned around to bring his friends with him, but they were gone. Their farm was gone and he never sawthe pokemon again. Nor was he able to speak to them so well anymore, so he lost confidence. Ash semmed to fell sorry for Simon.Suddenly a bunch of magneton and magnemite fill the sky. The gang of con-artists are underneath of them, laughing. The Pokemon begin to suck up the electrical energy and shutdown the pokemon center. The leader says that if Simon doesn't come with them, they'll take all the electricity. Nurse Joy busts out and tells them how wrong it is but they don't listen. Simon says that he'll try and talk to the pokemon, even if he's not so good at it anymore. Team Rocket are floatng overhead in their balloon, they wonder if SImon could really do it, especially meowth because he had sort of taking a liking to Simon since he knows how it is to learn another language. Simon begins a revelling speech and the magneton and magnemite drop to the ground and disobey their trainers. The gang leader gets mad and tries to kick one of the magnemite but pikachu electrifies all the magnemite and magneton so the thugs can't even touch them. Pikachu then finishes them off with thunderbolt, Team Rocket gets hit as well though. Cops arrive and arrest the gang, Simon goes to Officer Jenny to be arrested, but she tells him how Nurse Joy said what he had done for the pokemon center. She believes his ability to talk to pokemon now, and apologizes for accusing him. The kids say their goodbyes and continue along to Olivine. Simon wanders off as well, he suddenly sees a meowth along the road and decides to talk to it. The meowth tells Simon he can understand him and he gets so happy and decides to stay in the pokemon translating business. it turns out it was Meowth from team rocket just doing something nice.




Episode 439 "Control Freak!"
As our heroes and their Pokémon enjoy another fine meal prepared by Brock, Golbat begins to act strangely and flies away. Brock, Ash and Misty chase after the Flying-type and end up at an archaeological dig. When they meet the intelligent and beautiful archeologist, Tierra she explains her ultra-sonic equipment had just been destroyed and perhaps its errant waves attracted Golbat. She also tells our heroes of an ancient golden mask and scepter, once belonging to a queen who had the power to control all Pokémon. She is now looking for a buried temple said to contain these two priceless artifacts and asks Brock if his Golbat will use it's Sonic attack to help her locate the exact placement of the temple. Overhearing our heroes, Team Rocket employs their latest mechanical menace, the Dig-a-Tron to beat the gang to the temple. When Jessie dons the mask and scepter she has the power to control all Pokémon, even Pikachu! What will become of the Pokémon under Jesse's rule?




Episode 440 "The Art of Pokémon"
As our heroes enter the historic city of Whitestone, they notice it appears to be made of marble! Brock's guide book explains this phenomena. Generation after generation in Whitestone has painted all of the buildings white. After so many years, the layers have given the impression the city is made of marble. Just as the gang enters the city, they notice a band of Smeargle running amok, painting every bare wall in site with their tails. Dexter quickly explains these Pokémon express themselves by painting and the color in their tail depends upon the Pokémon's mood. Just then, the townsfolk appear in an angry mob, demanding the Smeargle stop this graffiti. Before the scene gets out of control, a famous artist appears to claim the Smeargle. All are astonished to find out this world famous abstract artist uses Smeargle to create his masterpieces. He begs the townspeople to allow the Smeargle to express themselves. Apparently, the Smeargle have been through a creative dry-spell and he hopes they will find a way to create beautiful artwork once again. Will the artist, Smeargle and townspeople find a way to live in harmony?




Episode #441 "The Heartbreak of Brock"
At the end of a long day, our heroes search for a Pokémon Center in a small town near Olivine City. Unable to locate one they ask a local lady for directions. She explains the nearest Pokémon Center is ten miles away! Too exhausted to extend today's journey, the gang decides to set up camp in a local park. As he gets water from a nearby fountain, Brock notices a Nidorina approaching to take a drink. Running after Nidorina is her trainer, who trips and almost falls into the fountain. She is narrowly saved by Brock and immediately falls head over heals in love with him. Introducing herself as Temaku, she insists Brock and his friends stay with her at her father's house. How will Brock handle a large does of his own medicine from the smitten Temaku?




Episode #442 "Current Events"
Nearing Olivine City, our heroes notice a field full of windmills. Brock explains the windmills are used to generate electricity. Deciding the breezy windmill field is a nice place to take a break and get some fresh air, our heroes release their Pokémon from their Poké Balls and begin to set up a picnic. When Ash and Chikorita go looking for firewood, they stumble upon a concrete building with the front door wide open. Curious, the duo enter and are promptly locked in when a strong gust of wind shuts the heavy electric door. Hearing Ash's cries for help, Pikachu races towards the building, followed by Brock and Misty. While Brock contacts the electric company for help, Ash decides to descend the floors of the compound and locates the building's power-source. He and Chikorita must battle their way through the scores of security systems in place...Electric-type Pokémon!




Episodes 443 "Turning Over A New Bayleef"
Taking a rest from their exhausting expedition, our heroes settle down in a small field near a stream to enjoy a mid-day meal. Ash releases his Pokémon from their Poké Balls so they too can enjoy a well deserved break. Overly excited to see Ash, Bayleef runs towards him at full-tilt. Inadvertently, Bayleef uses Tackle Attack and knocks Ash for a loop. When Bayleef's uncontrollable affection becomes too much for Ash, he looses his temper and says something spiteful. Ash tells Bayleef to "go away and stay away!" When Ash can't find Bayleef after lunch, the gang goes on a search and rescue mission. With Pikachu following Bayleef's scent, the crew winds up at an old woman's house. She explains how she found Bayleef, hurt and weak near the river's bank. When Ash tries to re-claim his Pokémon, Bayleef simply ignores him. It is clear Bayleef would rather stay with the kind old woman and her Pokémon than continue the journey with Ash. Will Ash be able to win back Bayleef's trust and affection?




Episode #444 "Doin' What Comes Natu-rally"
When our heroes stumble upon a one-day street performance, they get to see all types of Pokémon with unique skills. Anxious to know the future, Misty volunteers to have her fortune read by Natu. A young boy named McKenzie and his Pokémon, Natu begin the reading but make several mistakes. Embarrassed, McKenzie runs away with Natu before Misty's future is revealed. The gang follows McKenzie and suggests he wear a mask during his performances to help boost his confidence. Misty explains if he wears the mask no one will know who he is. McKenzie's father likes the idea too, believing the mask will lend an exciting element to the performance. When McKenzie returns to the stage, will he and Natu be able to remember the routine and use Natu's Future Sight to tell patron's fortunes?




Episode #445 "The Big Balloon Blow-Up"
When our heroes happen upon an unusual formation in the middle of a grassy field, Brock believes it is a crop circle...placed there by aliens! Just then, something comes hurtling out of the sky towards them. A far away voice calls down an apology for almost hitting Ash with the object. Skyler, a boy training for a hot air balloon race, introduces himself to the gang and explains he was practicing for the upcoming event. Getting a marker as close to the center of the large, circular target by throwing it from the hot air balloon is one aspect of the competition. Intrigued by the hot-air balloon racing circuit, Ash quickly makes up his mind to enter as well. When Brock reminds him they don't have a chance of winning without a hot air balloon, Skyler's father says he has something to help them out. Pulling a balloon out of his shop, he begins to fill it up and to our heroes surprise, it's a Pikachu shaped hot air balloon! When Team Rocket decides to enter the race as well, Jesse and James sabotage several of the balloons the night before the big event. With only Team Rocket, Ash and Skyler in the running, who will end up winning the grand prize?



Episode #446 "The Screen Actor's Guilt"
Strolling through downtown, our heroes notice a mob of girls chasing someone down. Suddenly, a man in a black cape and hat runs up to Ash and gives him a package to hold. He tells Ash to stay put because he'll be back for the package shortly. As the mob approaches, the mysterious man runs away with the girls in hot pursuit. Our heroes stand stunned by this interesting turn of events. As they do, the package in Ash's arms wiggles open to reveal a Smoochum! When our friends decide to try and track down Smoochum's trainer, they pass by a theater showing the opening to a brand new Brad Van Darn movie! Realizing this is the same person who gave Ash the Poké package, the gang decides to return Smoochum to Brad during his in-person appearance at a nearby theater. Believing Brad's Smoochum doesn't fit the macho image of the movie star, Brad's manager tells Ash to keep the Pokémon because Brad has no interest in Smoochum anymore. What will become of Smoochum now?