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Lulu's Cloud is the fourteenth episode of the second season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and the show's thirty-second overall episode. The episode premiered on March 22, 2010, as part of a week of brand-new episodes. Lulu has invited Kai-Lan and her friends for a play date at her house up in the sky. Everyone is excited, all of them except Hoho, who fears that he won't enjoy anything because it's all different to him. Kai-Lan & the kids at home have to help him overcome his fears so that he can have fun with his friends.
In production order, it is the eleventh episode of the second season.
Plot[]
Kai-Lan gets a scroll invitation to Lulu's house in the sky. She then tells her friends, Hoho, Rintoo, and Tolee to come along as well. They then ride on Mr. Dragon to the sky to Lulu's house, which is settled on a cloud. Everyone bounces on the clouds, but Hoho doesn't like how the clouds bounce. Lulu then opens the entrance to her house, but Hoho is unhappy over how different Lulu's house is. At Lulu's house, the house uses balloons to get up to higher floors instead of normal stairs. When Kai-Lan asks Hoho what balloon he wants, he says that he wished he could use stairs instead. Everyone except Hoho floats up to the second floor, except for Hoho, where he unhappily arrives last.
Arriving to Lulu's playroom, Lulu then gives everyone rhino hats, but Hoho chooses to rather wear his round leaf hat instead. Kai-Lan, Tolee, and Rintoo then play rhino romp, while Hoho just sits down. After the four plays rhino romp, Lulu then gets everyone to the kitchen where they have snacks, where she brings to everyone lychee fruit. Hoho then says that he wants to go home, where he then heads to the bench and sits down.
Kai-Lan recaps that Hoho wants to go home because everything is different. Kai-Lan watches out the window to watch Rintoo and Tolee try out Lulu's cloud see-saw, where the balloons lift the see-saw up and down. Tolee is at first scared to try it, but then Lulu encourages him to try it, where he eventually does and likes it. Kai-Lan finds a solution; "when you're scared of something different, just try it, try it, try it, because you might like it.".
Kai-Lan tells Hoho that he should try lychee fruit because he might like it. Hoho goes to try lychee fruit, where he then enjoys. Everyone then comes back inside, where Hoho states that being different doesn't mean it's scary, it can be super exciting. Hoho then tries rhino romp, where everyone then joins along too.
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 气球qì qiú - balloon
- -紅气球hóng qì qiú - red balloon
- 綠气球lǜ qì qiú - green balloon
Quotes[]
- Kai-Lan: "Lulu's. We're at Lulu's."
- Tolee: "We're standing on a cloud."
- Rintoo: "This is amazing."
- Kai-Lan: "Look, there's Lulu."
- Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Tolee & Hoho: "你好, Lulu."
- Lulu: "你們好. 請進.
- Kai-Lan: "Come on. Let's go into Lulu's house."
- Hoho: "Wow, Lulu's house is different."
- Rintoo: "This place is awesome. Your stuff is floating."
- Kai-Lan: "It's super, Lulu."
- Lulu: "謝謝."
- Kai-Lan: "Hoho, what color do you want?"
- Hoho: "Kai-Lan, I really wish I could use the stairs to go up to the playroom. But if I have to take a balloon, a green one, I guess. 綠气球."
- Kai-Lan: "Now I want a red balloon. -紅气球."
Trivia[]
- This is the second time Ye Ye has made a minor role. The first time was in the near end of Kai-Lan's Snowcoaster.
- The "Let's Find Out Why" and "We Got It" scenes occur notably late in this episode, as the former scene occurs 15 minutes in the episode, and the latter comes 18 minutes in the episode.
- This is the second episode to use CG animation. CG animation was used for Mr. Dragon, where he is in 3D. The first episode to do this was Kai-Lan's Trip to China.
- When the characters are riding on Mr. Dragon, they appear in the very same depth as he is.
- When the clip of Lulu tying a balloon to her horn is shown, it disappears for a brief moment, with bits of the string glitching.
- the same We Got It solution in Kai-Lan’s trip to China is sung a little bit differently, this time in D major.
- This is also the last time the solution song is in D major.