However, when they get there, the lanterns are all dark and unlit. 1. Romance, loss, contentment, longing, pain, joy—”The Tales of Ba Sing Se” leaps from laughter to tears with the graceful dexterity of the last airbender himself. Next And the tales end with Momo on a search for Appa, interrupted by a pack of stray cats that resemble tiny panthers. Book There's nothing quite like watching the tales of Ba Sing Se. As Zuko slams the doors to his room, a crack near the left handle disappears. This is "15 The tales of Ba sing se" by rodolfo on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. ", he retracts his comments and tells them to run. After their awkward dinner, Jin pulls Zuko off to one of her favorite parts of the city, the Firelight Fountain. The boy stops crying as Iroh sings to him, and he proceeds to thank Iroh by pulling his beard and laughing. He sets up some rocks and pulls out materials from the basket he purchased earlier. When Katara wakes her, Toph presents herself with her hair a mess and her body covered in dust, which she calls a "healthy coating of earth", and considers herself to be ready. This episode focuses on the little events that each character does on his or her own in Ba Sing Se. Tales of Ba Sing Se is an anthology episode like 23 Short Films About Springfield or The Ricklantis Mixup, just showing our characters having little mini-adventures while putzing around Ba Sing Se. The shopkeeper asks his customer what his reasoning is, and Iroh claims that it is for a special occasion. Jin, however, messes it up before they leave. However, Iroh instead infers that the girl, named Jin, simply has a crush on Zuko. Katara and Toph have a girls' day out; Iroh helps people in town before celebrating the birthday of his dead son; Aang helps a zookeeper build a new zoo; Sokka accidentally ends up in a poetry club; Zuko goes out on a date; and Momo searches Ba Sing Se for Appa. Alternative: Zuko Alone. This is a perfectly constructed and beautiful episode. The zookeeper thanks Aang for helping him but advises him to stick to saving people rather than animals. Notes: Hey ya'll, just throwing out a TW for abuse because we're finally digging into what the deal with Zuko is (and of course, you can't mention Zuko's backstory without mentioning his dad, so that's why). After counting the syllables and realizing his mistake, a guard kicks him out of the class and back onto the street, causing Sokka to change his mind about liking poetry. ^_^ Many of them are also partially starved. Katara, believing it to be the only appropriate action, finishes with her own parting shot by washing the girls downstream with a large wave. Momo's "escape" only succeeds in landing him among a crowd of people watching a street artist with a pair of dancing monkeys; the man seizes Momo, outfits him with a hat, and places him with the monkeys, thinking him to be a monkey himself due to his shortsightedness, making an amusing trio of small dancing primates. Iroh helps out in the community and mourns his dead son and Aang transports Animals out of the city and makes a larger zoo outside the walls of Ba Sing Se with earthbending. This FAQ is empty. Search for "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" on Amazon.com, Title: Momo curls up in a footprint left by Appa. Seeing an Appa-like shadow on the ground, he wraps the fur around his wrist and takes off after it, only to find a lone cloud. "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is not the only great standalone episode of … -Each segment/tale has different writers, who are regular crew members, but, with one exception, has only this episode as a writing credit. In a shot of the Five-Seven-Five Society when Sokka falls through the window, seven girls are shown to be part of the club, excluding Madame Macmu-Ling: six girls watching the stage, sitting in two rows of three, and one girl on stage. The writers for each segment are regular crew members, but, with one exception, has only this episode as a writing credit. Hog monkeys destroy a shop, various animals attack the citizens, and the cabbage merchant has his cabbages eaten by a rabaroo. Iroh accepts a date on Zuko's behalf. He shaves it again in ", The haiku contest Sokka has with Madame Macmu-Ling is an Avatar World equivalent of a modern-day. Zuko leaves the shop, polished in nice clothes and slicked back hair that took Iroh, according to Zuko, ten minutes to fashion. September 29, 2006 She is also disgusted with the commonplace message his haiku presents and presents the rules of haiku to him in a much more formal tone. 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