Let me see if I can try and make the point that I’m trying to make more clear
In the episode “Challenge of the Samurai”, Misty was seen in a bikini in that episode, and Ash was receiving non-stop put downs and criticism in that episode.
Then, in the episode “Beauty and the Beach”, Ash not only got clocked for making a single unintentionally offensive comment, but the rest of the episode was pretty hard on him as well, and Misty was wearing nothing but a swimsuit for the majority of that episode
In the episodes “Dig those Diglett” and “Riddle me this”, Misty was seen enjoying the feel of a good hot spring and the entirety of those episodes involved Ash being shown up, getting talked down to and being made to look bad in one way or another
Then there was the episode about the slowpoke evolution and the following episode about the surfing thing, Misty was in a swimsuit in both of those episodes too and Ash got the short end of the stick in both of them
Then there was the ‘Double Trouble’ episode in the second season, Misty was in a swimsuit then as well and the very first thing that she basically does in that episode is deliver a back-handed insult towards Ash.
Then in the Johto region seasons, there was the “Shadow of a drought” episode which had Ash get accidentally bludgeoned by Squirtle’s water gun right after we saw Misty in a bathing suit. And I’m pretty certain that somehow the “Hot water battle” episode had something within it to put Ash down in someway or another