Episode Summaries - Page 1
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Pokémon I Choose You!
Ash Ketchum from Pallet slept in because of his broken alarm clock. When he arrived, he met Gary and Prof. Oak. The only Pokémon left that he could have chose was Pikachu. Pikachu wasn't very cooperative, so Ash tried to catch some Pokémon himself. 
He gets a Spearow mad as it calls its other fellow spearows. The spearows go and chase Pikachu and Ash. On the way, while they were running away they met Misty and borrowed her bike. It started thundering as the spearows caught up. Ash tried to save Pikachu, but Pikachu saved Ash instead. The thunder struck Pikachu which made a giant explosion. The storm disappeared as they saw an unknown flying-type Pokémon fly over the rainbow. After that, they then walked to the next town to the Pokémon Centre.
Pokémon Emergency
When Ash arrived at the Pokémon Centre to get Pikachu healed, Team Rocket appears. With Misty which caught up to Ash for her bike tries to help Ash but fails. Pikachu then stands up, fairly healed electrifies Team Rocket with the help of other Pikachu. One of Team Rocket's pkmn, Koffing, gets its smoke caught in the electricity which causes an explosion to the Pokémon Centre. Ash, Pikachu and Misty then journey into the Viridian Forest and encounters a Caterpie.
Ash Catches a Pokémon
Ash catches Caterpie and then catches a Pidgeotto the day after. Team Rocket appears once again to catch the "rare" Pikachu. Team Rocket uses Koffing once again and splatted some stuff at Pikachu's face. Pikachu couldn't see, which ment it couldn't battle. Ash then uses Pidgeotto, but loses the battle. Leaving Caterpie and Pikachu left, Ash uses Caterpie. Caterpie successfully defeats Team Rocket as it evolves into Metapod.
Challenge of the Samurai
A weedle appears, Ash wants to catch it, but the Samurai comes and stops him from doing so. They have a battle, with Pinsir and Pidgeotto, but Pidgeotto loses once again. 
Ash then uses Metapod, and Pinsir loses. The samurai then takes out HIS metapod, they battle for a long time, yadda. A beedril swarm comes and scares the heck outta Ash and the Samurai. They flee, forgetting about Metapod. A beedril takes Metapod away but Ash was hopeless to get it. They then found metapod, but the beedril found them, so they had to run for it again. They ran to the Samurai's place and stayed there for the night. Early in the morning, Ash went out to get Metapod. Team Rocket appears and makes alot of racket waking the beedril. Ash goes and gets Metapod while the beedril gets Team Rocket. A beedril unexpectedly came and attacked Ash, but Metapod took the blow instead. Metapod then evolves into Butterfree, using sleep powder, it gets all the Beedril and Weedle asleep. They then leave Viridian Forest and journey to Pewter.
Showdown in Pewter City
Ash arrives at Pewter City and battles the Pewter City gym leader, Brock. He loses to him, but Flint helps Ash by supercharging Pikachu. 
They arrive back at the Pewter City Gym, battling with Geodude Ash uses Pidgeotto but loses(it figures). Ash then sends in Pikachu, wins and battles Onix. Pikachu still scared of Onix uses its electricity everywhere, setting the ceiling on fire. The smoke detectors detect the fire and start spraying water on Onix. Pikachu then uses electricity and fries him. Ash then gives up and leaves. Brock comes back and gives him a Boulder badge. Flint then comes, takes off the disguese (Brock's father) and takes Brock's place, as Brock then goes to journey with Ash too.
Clefairy and the Moon Stone
Ash, Brock and Misty see a guy getting attacked by Zubat, Pikachu electrifies the Zubat. 
The man, introduces himself as Seymour the Scientist. The PKMN in Mt.Moon are all confused because of the lights in the cave. Team Rocket comes and tries to get a moonstone from a clefairy, but Ash, Brock and Misty stops them from doing so. Team Rocket doesn't give up and comes back later stealing the core of the moon stone. They gets stopped eventually but this time the clefairy use their metranome attack, blowing Teamrocket and the moonstone. As Team Rocket blasts off, the moonstone then gets broken into little pieces letting some clefairy evolve. They then leave mt.moon and then towards Cerulean City.
The Waterflowers of Cerulean City
They soon arrive at Cerulean City, Misty, who doesn't seem that happy to be there leaves the party temporarily and so does Brock as Ash goes to the Cerulean City Gym. When he arrives he finds a water show instead of a pokémon gym, feeling a bit confused he searches the place and finds the three sensational sisters. The three sensational sisters were surprisingly the gym leaders, so Ash demanded a battle, but the gym leaders didn't have any more Pokémon left to use. Misty suddenly appears and challenges Ash, but Team Rocket suddenly appears. Pikachu saves everyone as the three sensational sisters reward Ash or actually Pikachu for saving them. Brock comes back as they journey on once again.
The Path to the Pokémon League
Lost somewhere... Ash finds a Pokémon gym which was not licensed by the Pokémon League. He then challenges the gym leader there called AJ, but gets beaten. 
A bunch of screaming was heard inside the Pokémon gym, Ash and the others peeks inside and finds a pokémon training room-type thing. Team Rocket sneaks in finding Sandshrew and Pikachu rolled up into a ball, so they mistakenly take Sandshrew. Sandshrew soon finds out that it was kidnapped and goes back to the gym with Meowth unconcious biting on his tail. Team Rocket comes back to take Meowth and Pikachu back but AJ battles them and wins. AJ closes down the gym and decides to go be a Pokémon Trainer to earn badges.
The School of Hard Knocks
It was a foggy day... the three get lost again so they stop to take a break. Ash was assigned to go find some wood to start a fire, but while he was at it, 
he found a boy being bullied by some other kids. Ash went to do his courageous work to try to stop them from giving the boy a hard time with all the questions of Pokémon. The fog then disappears as a huge building appears in front of them. Soon after they find out that the building was Pokémon Technical for the rich kids to go learn without travelling for badges. Misty, who wants to defend her gym's reputation, battles the boy, Joe, to teach him a lesson. Misty wins the battle but Giselle the most popular girl in the beginner's class comes and battles Misty. Misty loses, Ash then battles using Pikachu and wins. Team Rocket comes for a split second but gets beat up. They wave goodbye and leave.
Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village
While the group was resting, they find a Oddish. They battle it, but a Bulbasaur comes and stops them, running away after. Then continue their journey 
passing a bridge, but the bridge breaks as Brock falls into the water. The others go and find him, encountering many traps but lastly they get stuck in a net. Brock appears, helps them down and introduces them to a girl. She owned a house that was used like a Pokémon Spa to heal injured pokémon. Bulbasaur comes to try to push Ash away from the hidden village, because it thought that Ash was trying to attack the Pokémon. Team Rocket appears and tries to suck up the pokémon into their gigantic floating stadium. Ash helps the Pokémon in the house, as he uses Pidgeotto to blow them away. Bulbasaur then realizes that Ash isn't a bad guy and wants to battle him. Ash wins and gets to keep Bulbasaur too.
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