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1	!!Japanese Title: Celebi: A Timeless Promise
2	!!!Original Airdate: August 9, 2020
3	!!!US Airdate: December 4, 2020
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5	A vacation trip to Johto with his parents leads to Goh recalling a time where he met a boy named Horace and how they searched for the Time Traveling Pokémon, Celebi.
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9	* ADayInTheLimelight: This is a Goh-focused episode; no Ash and Pikachu seen at all!
10	* BaitAndSwitch: Goh thinks that Horace abandoned him...turns out Horace fell ill with a fever and couldn't make it.
11	** Constantly staying in his room to monitor Mew? Again, a focus to not make new friends and to never feel hurt or pain.
12	* ChekhovsSkill: Sunflora's use of Razor Leaf, which a young Goh used to cut through the tall grass.
13	* {{Foreshadowing}}: What caused Goh and Horace to return home for the night is seeing Horace shiver. This is a hint as to why he couldn't see Goh the following day; he was ill with a fever.
14	* {{Forgiveness}}: After reading a letter from Horace and realized why he broke his word when they were little, Goh decided to forgive him and gets to see him again as a Pokémon Trainer.
15	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: This is the first episode in the main anime that neither Ash nor Pikachu appear.
16	* GreyRainOfDepression: It starts raining when Goh realizes that Horace isn't showing up.
17	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Goh realizes he had been a total jerk to Horace when he finds a letter in Celebi's shrine and learns that Horace fell ill and didn't ''intentionally'' stand him up.
18	* NeverBeHurtAgain: Implied to be why Goh captures lots of Pokémon; to never be hurt when human friends reject him.
19	* PoorCommunicationKills:
20	** Horace couldn't arrive to meet up with Goh due to a sickness. When he finally got better a few days later, the latter had already gone. He returns a year later to drop a letter in Celebi's shrine, despite not considering the idea that Goh may ''never'' return to Ilex Forest. If he had asked his parents tell ''Goh's'' parents the truth, or he actually ''traveled to Vermillion City himself'', this mess probably could've been avoided.
21	** On the same vein, Goh never told anyone what happened, who probably would've helped reassured him that it was all a mistake.
22	* ThePromise: Both Goh and Horace promised to meet up again to search for Celebi. But when Horace didn't show up, Goh took it ''badly''. It takes Goh finding a letter in Celebi's shrine to learn the truth -- Horace fell ill and couldn't make it.
23	* SkywardScream: Goh unleashes one when he realized that Horace wasn't going to see him again.
24	-->'''Goh:''' '''HORACE, YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!!'''
25	* TitledAfterTheSong: The dub title is named after the Music/CyndiLauper song.
26	* WhamLine: Goh finding Horace's letter which reveals the truth as to why he couldn't make it.
27	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: This episode shows Goh three years in the past when he befriended another boy named Horace.

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