what episode does aang go to fire nation school

"Listen guys, those kids at school are the future of the Fire Nation. If we want to change this place for the better, nosotros demand to show them a footling taste of liberty."

— Aang to Team Avatar.

"The Headband" is the second episode of Book 3: Fire of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the 42nd of the overall series. It debuted on September 28, 2007.

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Synopsis
• 3 Credits
• iv Product notes
  • 4.1 Transcript
  • 4.2 Avatar Extras
  • iv.3 Serial continuity
  • four.4 Goofs
  • iv.5 Trivia
• v References

Overview

Upon entering the Burn Nation, Aang and his friends steal local clothes in social club to live incognito amid the citizens. Aang wears a headband to hide his airbender tattoos. Afterwards accidentally putting on a Burn down Nation schoolhouse uniform and being accused of truancy, Aang is taken to that school. Enjoying being able to socialize like a 'normal' kid and realizing the value of learning nigh the Fire Nation, he enrolls in the schoolhouse. He later arranges a trip the light fantastic toe party for the rigidly disciplined and cocky-expression lacking Burn Nation pupils. When the school authorities learn about the party, the students help Aang and his friends escape. Meanwhile, Zuko hires an assassin to find and kill Aang.

Synopsis

Zuko tosses and turns in his sleep earlier he somewhen awakens and arises from his bed. He makes his way toward a Burn down Nation prison house and looks distantly toward it. As he stands nearly the entrance, a guard spies him from the roof and demands to know Zuko's identity, but rather than reveal it, Zuko simply walks abroad.

Meanwhile, Aang and the others are traveling through the Burn down Nation, using a combination of waterbending and airbending to hide Appa in a cloud. They take temporary shelter in a cavern and seek out new clothes and so they can blend in with the Burn down Nation citizens, eliminating the need to hide. They find an unattended clothesline and steal some outfits- with Toph modifying her shoes by removing the soles. Aang shyly blushes when Katara appears in her new outfit, only quickly indicates that she has to remove her mother's necklace in order for them to stay hidden. Afterwards, they venture into a bazaar to purchase some accessories, including a new necklace for Katara.

Hibernate claims to exist On Ji's boyfriend.

In town, the group attempts to blend in and act natural, which is somewhat impeded past Aang, who, having traveled through the Fire Nation a century before, claims to be an expert of their customs. He calls people he sees on the street "hotman" and uses other expressions that are clearly out of date. When the others go to purchase food from a meat stand, Aang abstains due to his vegetarianism and goes off on his own for a bit. All the same, he is quickly caught past a group of soldiers who escort him into a classroom. His stolen clothing happens to exist the compatible of a local school and the soldiers assume that he is a truant. The teacher assumes he is a new student from the Fire Nation colonies in the World Kingdom. Aang calls himself Kuzon after his old Fire Nation friend and attempts to blend in at the schoolhouse with partial success. Later failing to practise a proper greeting to the teacher, he fixes it with some hints from a nearby girl. The teacher also informs Aang about the rules against headwear, but he claims that it is to hide an embarrassing scar. After dismissal, he meets a friendly girl named On Ji, besides as On Ji'due south credible boyfriend, Hide, a popular student with a much more ambitious personality. Afterwards a cursory confrontation, Aang winds up making friends and playing a game known as "hide and explode" with Shoji and other children from the school.

Aang, covered in soot as a outcome of the game, returns to the cavern at nightfall, to the relief of Katara, Sokka, and Toph, who were worried by his long absence. The fact that he had been attending a Burn Nation school all day shocks Aang'south friends, especially Sokka. When Aang claims to have enjoyed the experience and wishes to return to the school the next day, Sokka strongly objects. Aang argues that he is obtaining valuable knowledge about the Fire Nation and manages to convince the warrior to allow him to proceed attending the school. Aang joyfully exclaims, "Flamey-O, hotman!" to Sokka, who becomes utterly confused by his statement.

Iroh refuses to talk to Zuko.

Meanwhile, Zuko returns to the prison. When confronted by the guard from the previous night, he aggressively threatens him not to tell anyone about his visit and gain to enter Iroh's cell. Iroh turns abroad from him, showing peachy thwarting in his nephew. Zuko blames Iroh for the latter'due south circumstances and states that the 2 could have returned to the Burn Nation together equally heroes. Iroh withal refuses to speak, sending Zuko into a fit of rage and prompting him to exit.

The adjacent solar day at school, Aang gets in problem for not reciting the Fire Nation Oath correctly, having never previously heard it. The students call back his bumbling through the oath is a funny joke, but the teacher punishes his disruption of the class by calling for a pop quiz on the Fire Nation'south history. The showtime question asks for the yr in which Fire Lord Sozin defeated the Air Nation Army. Aang, confused, asks if it was a trick question and points out that the Air Nomads had no formal military and were defeated past an ambush, much to the class' astonishment. The teacher rejects his claim, equally information technology is not in the Burn Nation's history texts, and states that he could not know that unless he had been there. Aang responds that he will just write down his best guess.

Sokka disguises himself equally Mr. Wang Burn.

In band grade, Aang tries to play the tsungi horn and gets chided past the instructor for dancing, which obviously is not considered proper in the Fire Nation. All the same, On Ji is amused by the dance, though when Aang offers to show it to her during recess, he incurs the wrath of Hibernate, who attempts to hit him. Notwithstanding, Aang skillfully evades every attempted accident with his hands behind his dorsum, somewhen getting the clearly outmatched Hide to stumble and autumn over without any bending or fifty-fifty touching him. However, this gets Aang into trouble for "roughing up" a favored student of the Headmaster, resulting in a parent-teacher briefing. Sokka and Katara attend the conference acting as Aang'southward parents, "Mr. Wang Fire" and "Mrs. Sapphire Burn down". Concluding the conference, the Headmaster warns them that whatever more than disruption will result in "Kuzon" being sent to reform school, namely the coal mines. While they manage to succeed in fooling the instructor, Sokka is against Aang returning to school by saying "No more school for you, young man." Aang, however, tells Sokka that this is the first time since he constitute out that he was the Avatar that he has had the chance to be a normal kid and insists that they demand to do something for the children in the school in order to allow them to have freedom of expression for at to the lowest degree a brief catamenia of time. Since these students are the next generation of the Fire Nation, irresolute them might help. He plans to hold a secret dance party in the cavern for anybody in the school, to which Sokka, still wearing his beard, responds with an irritated, "Go to your room!"

Zuko and Mai kiss during their picnic.

Meanwhile, Zuko has a romantic picnic with Mai and they share a osculation. The 2 are interrupted past Azula, who tries to get Zuko to talk to her. He refuses, simply Azula sends Mai away by saying that Ty Lee needs help untangling her braid. Mai complies politely but gives Azula an angry look behind her back. Azula tricks Zuko into admitting that he was visiting Iroh and warns him, with apparent sincerity, not to exercise so, every bit his visiting a traitor would make others suspicious. Withal, Zuko visits his uncle in prison over again. Over again Iroh simply faces abroad from Zuko, who attempts to exist kinder, bringing his uncle food as a gift. He begs his uncle for his advice, explaining that he believes the Avatar to be alive and that he is confused and has no idea what to exercise about it without Iroh'south guidance. When Iroh remains silent, Zuko flies into another rage, berating him, and leaves. Equally he leaves, Iroh continues to remain silent, but a tear runs down his face up.

Aang and Katara smiling at one another subsequently finishing their trip the light fantastic.

Back in the cavern, the children arrive and the school band begins to play. Nonetheless, they are stunned by nervousness, not knowing how to dance, and afraid they will go far problem. Aang demonstrates some dance forms and eventually asks On Ji to dance, which gradually encourages the residual of the students to exercise the same. Sokka states that Aang and On Ji expect good together, to which Katara gives a slightly terse response. The students gradually starting time to freestyle, although Toph, Sokka, and Katara exercise not join in. After, Aang asks Katara to trip the light fantastic. After hesitating, she takes Aang's hand and they perform a combination of Bagua and Northern Shaolin in synchronization, which does indeed appear to be an acrobatic dance based on their bending techniques - the students are all awed. At the stop of the trip the light fantastic toe, Katara and Aang share a moment of what looks similar common attraction. Still, the Headmaster and several soldiers appear on the scene, having been told of the dance past Hide. They effort to catch Aang, but he hides inside the crowd of kids. Considering the soldiers identify Aang with his headband, they are thrown off when they discover several other students wearing the same headband. Eventually, every pupil in the cavern appears to take put 1 on, finer delaying the Headmaster's chase for Aang.

Team Avatar manages to slip away in the opening behind the cave. Notwithstanding, earlier leaving, Aang stops and exchanges smiles with Shoji before running off, closing the opening behind him with earthbending, leaving Shoji shocked and speechless. Some of the soldiers accept defeat and dance as well, much to the chagrin of the Headmaster.

While the group flies off on Appa, Toph compliments Aang on his efforts, which she believes made a serious impact on the students. Katara agrees, thanks Aang for dancing with her and kisses him on the cheek, causing him to chroma. Sokka refuses to take his simulated beard off, challenge, "It's permanently glued to [his] skin".

Meanwhile, Zuko walks into a night alley at night. There he meets a mysterious man with a metal arm and leg, as well as a tattooed tertiary eye. Zuko states his purpose for contacting the man: he has heard the man is capable of doing his job effectively and secretly, and he wants him to track down and eliminate the Avatar.

Credits

• Written by:
  • John O'Bryan

• Directed by:
  • Joaquim Dos Santos

• Starring:
  • Zach Tyler Eisen - Aang
  • Mae Whitman - Katara
  • Jack DeSena - Sokka
  • Jessie Flower - Toph
  • Dante Basco - Prince Zuko
  • Dee Bradley Baker:
    • Appa
    • Momo

• As well starring:
  • Grey DeLisle - Azula
  • Cricket Leigh - Mai
  • Jeanne Sakata - Ms. Kwan
  • Tinashe Kachingwe - On Ji
  • Matthew Underwood - Hide
  • Noah Luke - Shoji
  • Jim Ward - Headmaster
  • Phil Proctor - Music teacher

• Additional voices:
  • Dee Bradley Baker
  • Paul Butcher
  • Grayness DeLisle
  • Noah Luke
  • Phil Proctor
  • Matthew Underwood
  • Jim Ward
  • Mae Whitman

Production notes

Transcript

Master article: Transcript:The Headband

Primary article: Avatar Extras for Volume Three: Burn

Series continuity

• Sokka's "Wang Burn" beard makes 2 more appearances during the series: once in "The Runaway" and some other time in "Nightmares and Daydreams".
• This is the last time Katara'due south hair is in the Book 1 mode; she is seen wearing it down for the remainder of the series. She does, however, briefly render to the original manner in The Rift Part One.
• In the episode "Avatar Solar day", after Sokka lost his boomerang, he said it was similar losing a part of his identity similar if Katara lost her hair loopies or Aang lost his arrows. In this episode, Katara stops sporting hair loopies to better alloy in and does not wear them until the Invasion, and Aang "loses" his arrow past covering it up so no one can identify him equally the Avatar.
• Although Iroh is seen, he does not talk. He does not speak until "The Avatar and the Fire Lord".
• When Aang and Katara are dancing, they circle i another with their wrists crossing and their hands flexed, which is exactly the aforementioned motion Zuko and Lieutenant Jee perform in "The Storm" when they prepared to fight. This indicates that some of the basic forms for firebending and waterbending are the same, which ways some of the children at the party could possibly recognize the technique if they themselves are firebenders. The motility could accept stemmed from the fact that they were doing Northern Shaolin, which combines elements of many other martial arts.
• Aang is the second person to play the tsungi horn in the series, the first beingness Iroh. Zuko can also play this instrument, however, he does not enjoy doing so, seeing as he refused to play during music night on his ship when his crew was commandeered by Zhao.
• The music played past The Flamey-Os is played again later on in the tertiary book, at Chan'southward political party in "The Embankment". The song was played a 3rd time in "Sozin's Comet, Office i: The Phoenix King" when Zuko and the gang traveled to the World Kingdom tavern, looking for June.
• This episode is the third time in which Aang blushes upon seeing Katara in a new outfit.
• Kuzon, which Aang uses as a embrace name, was start mentioned in "The Blue Spirit" when he talked to Zuko.

Goofs

• When the kids state on the island and enter the cave, Appa enters forth with them, even though he does non like going clandestine or into whatever caves or tunnels they come up across.
• In i snapshot, before the gang steals dress for themselves, Katara's eyes are dark-brown instead of blue.
• Katara claims the silk robe to wear, yet she takes a long skirt and a one-sleeved tank peak instead.
• Soon after first putting on her new attire, before she changed to her new necklace, part of Katara's hair was incorrectly colored equally role of the background.
• When Toph is customizing her shoes so that she can run across, she only breaks the sole off one of her shoes.
• When the school appears for the first time, Fire Lord Ozai'due south statue is solely brownish-blackness in coloration, but subsequently the scene in music grade, some parts of the statue are a gold color.
• When Aang first enters the classroom, there are sixteen seats, and all are filled already. The second solar day he comes to form, he has a seat of the 16 seats, so ane person is missing.
• When the bell rings and the students file into the courtyard, one student appears twice.
• When Hibernate is standing adjacent to On Ji and talking to Aang, in that location is a female student behind and to their right and a male pupil to their left walking away from the schoolhouse building and toward the camera, in their management. When the photographic camera cuts to a side-view of Aang every bit Hibernate leans over him, it shows the male educatee walking on by the group. However, when the view cuts back to Hide and On Ji as they turn away, it still shows the same girl and boy behind them walking away from the schoolhouse. When the camera cuts back to Aang and Shoji runs upward to him, information technology shows the aforementioned female educatee on the left of the screen nevertheless walking toward the lens from the background.
• While showing a close-upwardly of Aang in conversation with Shoji, the hair of a boy and a girl passing in the background is colored partially majestic. Afterward a close-up of Shoji, Aang is shown once again and the aforementioned boy and girl with the purple hair pass him by again.
• When Aang comes back after playing hibernate and explode, the soot on his face does non move as his oral cavity moves.
• Toph'south Fire Nation outfit is reddish with aureate stripes. In the scene where Aang first comes back from school, her outfit does non have the gilded stripes.
• When Zuko enters Iroh'south prison cell, there is no stool in the room. After the commercial pause, however, at that place is a stool that Zuko ends upwardly burning.
• When the class begins a pop quiz, Aang's paper is on his left-hand side. In the next scene, it is directly in forepart of him even though he had not moved it.
• When Ms. Kwan starts request most the Air Nomad Genocide, there is a kid that does not have a book or pencil, merely when Aang answers her question, the kid has them.
• When Aang answers Ms. Kwan's question, he does non have any pencil with him. When he sits downwardly to write his answer, notwithstanding, he does.
• When Zuko and Mai are having a romantic picnic, Mai is seen wearing gloves, only after Azula says that Ty Lee needs help untangling her complect, she is not wearing gloves anymore.
• When Toph tells everybody to stop bending, there is no table made of rock in the heart of the cavern, but when the kids arrive, there is.
• When Aang starts to persuade everyone to dance, one member of The Flamey-Os does not move.
• When Aang starts telling people to dance, ane educatee appears twice in one shot.
• When Katara and Aang kickoff their dance, many of the kids behind them are missing the black outer layer part of their school uniform below their belt.
• When the Headmaster and Hibernate show upward at Aang's party, there are only 3 guards with them, one man and two women. However, when Headmaster orders the guards to stop dancing, an additional female person guard is shown moving to the music
• When the Headmaster interrupts Aang's party and tells the guards to stop borer their feet, none of the kids are playing music, yet music can still exist heard.

Trivia

• The not-canon Chibi short Swamp Skiin' Throwdown originally aired just prior to this episode.
• Aang uses the belt from the school uniform every bit a headband, but no one seems to find this strange as he claimed on the first day that he had an embarrassing scar. When the Headmaster searches for Aang in the cave, all the students wear their belts as headbands to aid his escape. Aang wears it with the emblem upside-downwardly; according to an extra in this episode, he does this to resemble his arrow.
• The music played when the chapter page is shown is the same music that The Flamey-Os play at the dance party.
• The history teacher refers to the Air Nomads as the "Air Nation" and mentions their "army", revealing more of the Burn down Nation's extensive propaganda campaign.
• The dance party scene and the basic plot of the episode, a free-spirited swain teaching self-expression to the youth of an oppressive town, is loosely based on the 1984 picture Footloose.
• This episode marks Combustion Homo's showtime appearance.
• Katara and Aang contain "bending" moves into their trip the light fantastic.
• One of the trip the light fantastic toe moves Aang performs is the "Phoenix Flight". This foreshadows Ozai crowning himself Phoenix King and using an armada of airships to assail the Earth Kingdom.
• The leg movements in Aang'southward "Phoenix Flight" dance resemble those of Kazachok, a traditional Ukrainian and Russian folk trip the light fantastic toe.
• When Aang leaves the grouping as they get into the store selling meat, one woman is seen wearing some of Toph's disguise wearing apparel.
• Mai shooting a dirty look at Azula is a precursor to the events that take place in the Boiling Stone when Mai liberates Sokka, Zuko, and the other fugitives from the gondola, betraying her alliance with Azula.
• The dance that Katara and Aang do is based on Ba Gua Zhang and Northern Shaolin, co-ordinate to Sifu Kisu.^[ane] Some influences from the Bagua mode of the airbenders include the "circle-walking" motions and the 2 performers mirroring each other. "Avatar Extras" confirms Capoeira to be a verified influence.
• On Ji never once stated that Hide was her swain. In fact, she was never seen grin while he was with her.
• After stealing their disguises, each team member buys an accessory that resembles what they each usually wear: Katara's necklace, Toph'south hairpiece, Sokka'due south wolf tail, and Aang dons a headband over his arrow.
• Aang's pasta drawing of Fire Lord Ozai appears in "Nightmares and Daydreams" in a fantasy boxing.
• The scene where all the kids are wearing their belts as headbands to confuse the guards into thinking they were Aang/Kuzon is similar to the historical event where over six thousand revolting slaves said they were Spartacus in order to protect him from the Romans.
• This episode was already in pre-product by 2006, equally evidenced by a post on Bryan Konietzko's Tumblr.^[two]
• This is the first episode in which Iroh appears without any lines.
• Information technology is ironic how Ms. Kwan bows to Aang every bit a style of showing him that they bow to their elders when Aang is in fact 112 years sometime at this time.

References

1. ↑ Kisu. Bagua in Avatar.
2. ↑ Konietzko, Bryan. Tumblr, May 25, 2012.

redmondoftelith.blogspot.com

Source: https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/The_Headband

Share :