Pokémon: The Original Series · The Johto Journeys arc

EP160 · A Goldenrod Opportunity

コガネジム! スピード&パワー!?

US air. 2001-08-18 JP air. 2000-08-03 Season. Johto League Champions (S4) Position. Episode 160 of 276 in Original

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and his friends are having breakfast at the Goldenrod Pokémon Center when a man approaches them. He introduces himself as the producer of Poké Talk Radio and asks Ash to appear because he earned the Plain.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP160 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 · 12

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.