Pokémon: The Original Series · The Johto Journeys arc

EP149 · The Fire-ing Squad!

もえろゼニガメだん! ほのおのように!!

US air. 2001-04-21 JP air. 2000-05-11 Season. The Johto Journeys (S3) Position. Episode 149 of 276 in Original

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and his friends continue towards Goldenrod City. Brock reads his guide and informs everyone that the Onix Tunnel, a mountain pass filled with Onix, is close by.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP149 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · EP119-EP160

The Johto Journeys.

Misty rejoins, Brock returns, Tracey takes the Prof. Oak assistant job. The original trio travels Johto. Pace is slower than Kanto; the arc lingers on creature design and side characters.

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Pokémon featured · 18

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 The Johto Journeys.

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.