ash rings professor oak who discourages him by saying that gary and the other pallet trainers have 5 badges and are through celadon city so ash knows he needs more pokemon. when ash and friends run into a mankey who steals ash’s hat after he tries to catch it to make matters worse james of team rocket kicks the mankey evolving it into primape creating more problems but in the end thanks to charmander and pikachu ash gets his hat back and catches the primape.
next time celadon gym.
Harrison’s world 