Pokémon: The Original Series · Indigo League (Kanto) arc

EP040 · The Battling Eevee Brothers

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US air. 1998-10-27 JP air. 1998-04-16 Season. Indigo League (S1) Position. Episode 40 of 276 in Original

Synopsis

What happens.

On their way to Cinnabar Island for his seventh Gym battle, Ash and his friends are walking through a forest when Pikachu hears a Pokémon's cry. The group locates the source of the cry, an Eevee tied to a post inside a tree hollow.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP040 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · EP001-EP082

Indigo League (Kanto).

Ash collects eight Kanto badges, faces rival Gary Oak, and competes at the Indigo Plateau Conference. Misty and Brock complete the original trio. Team Rocket's Jessie / James / Meowth introduced in EP002.

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Pokémon featured · 20

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.

More from this arc

Other episodes in Indigo League (Kanto).

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.