Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Advanced arc

AG001 · Get the Show on the Road!

Name: Get the Show on the Road!
Released: 2003-11-01

新たなる大地! 新たなる冒険!!

US air. 2003-11-01 JP air. 2002-11-21 Season. Advanced (S6) Position. Episode 1 of 192 in Advanced Generation

Why this episode matters

Key episode in Advanced Generation

May's debut. Picks Torchic from Birch as her first Pokémon. Establishes her Coordinator-not-Trainer angle.

Signature episode for May

May's debut. Picks Torchic.

Signature episode for Max

Max's debut.

Synopsis

What happens.

A young girl named May is riding her bike towards Littleroot Town to receive her first Pokémon from Professor Birch. However, she muses that she would rather just travel the world and is not really interested in training Pokémon.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG001 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · AG001-AG040

Advanced.

Ash arrives in Hoenn, meets May and Max in Littleroot, picks up Treecko, and starts the Hoenn badge run. Team Magma and Team Aqua replace Team Rocket as primary threats.

Read the full Advanced Generation guide

Pokémon featured · 11

Who appears.

Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.

Other episodes in Advanced.

Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.