Pokemon Episode 7 "The Waterflowers of Cerulean City"

In this episode everyone except for misty seems to be in a hurry to get to the next town. later we find out its because this is where misty is from and the rest of her friends dont know shes a gym leader as well yet.  When they get there ash realizes that misty isnt following them around anymore and he isnt exactly bothered by it so he heads to the gym to get his next badge. The 3 sisters there decide just to give him the badge because they dont like fighting but misty shows up when ash said it isnt right to just take it and ash find out misty is the youngest daughter.  Ash fights misty for the badge but pikachu wont fight for ash because pikachu likes misty as well. This is unfortunate because electric type pokemon have a huge advantage over water type pokemon. I dont think it was right for pikachu to not fight because pikachu is ash's pokemon so he should fight if ash asks him too. Even though pikachu decided not to fight ash still won but i think it would have been a lot easier for ash to win if pikachu had fought. Team rocket tries to suck up all the pokemon but ash beats them, and saves all the water pokemon which earns him his badge. Even though thats how he got his badge im confident if he had used pikachu to fight misty to begin with the battle would have been over way before team rocket showed up but because its a show and they need to fit the entire 30 minutes in they added that little segment.