Pokemon Episode 9 "The School of Hard Knocks"

This episode revolves around a school where instead of traveling around and fighting gym leaders for badges kids can go to school and based on their scores earn badges. The school is a pokemon school but like any other school there is bullying. A kid that got a low test score is seen being made fun of by the girl with the highest test score. Misty gets mad at this and decides to fight her. The girl sends out a rock type pokemon after misty sends out a water type pokemon. Normally this would make the girl an idiot but since the rock type pokemon gravler was at such a higher lever than the water type pokemon starmine graveler won because of its sheer advantage in level. Outraged Ash challanges the girl and sends out pikachu. The girl accepts and sends out cubone who is very strong against electrical attacks. After getting beat up ash tells pikachu to fight back however it can. Since electric attacks dont work pikachu bites and scratches at cubone and ultimatly uses cubones bonemerang attack against it. Pikachu wins the match because cubone knocked itself out because it had been disoriented and hit itself with its own attack when it was returning. This shows that pikachu has learned another great skill and i think this is what makes pikachu interesting, the fact that it gets smarter and smarter seemingly with every match.