Rintoo's Big Flip | Gallery | Transcript |
---|
Rintoo's Big Flip is the eleventh episode of the second season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and the show's twenty-ninth overall episode. The episode premiered on October 16, 2009, as part of Go, Go, Go! Week. There's an acrobats show today and the lead rabbit asks Kai-Lan and her friends to join in the show. But trouble arouses when Rintoo can't attempt a flip. Now his friends have to encourage him to try again until he gets out right.
In production order, it is the eighth episode of the second season.
Plot[]
Kai-Lan and her animal friends are going to a Chinese acrobats show. Arriving at their tent, they meet the six bunny acrobats perform various tricks, including flips and juggling rings with their legs. Their final tricks includes everyone standing on a bicycle. Rintoo, seeing their performance, wants to be an acrobat too, but slips and is stopped by Tong himself, the leader acrobat. Tong states that he needs him and his friends to put on a circus show; Rintoo wants to flip, Kai-Lan wants to spin plates, Hoho wants to stand on a rolling ball. Tolee plans to try the last performance; tightrope walking.
Back at home, everyone starts to practice, but Rintoo instead sits on the grass drawing pictures of the bunny acrobats instead. Hoho tries to practice walking on a ball, but he keeps falling down. Kai-Lan encourages Hoho to keep trying and trying. Eventually, Hoho learns how to keep his balance on the ball and gains his grip. The ants arrive and help Tolee put up the tightropes between the two trees. Tolee, at first, wants the tightrope low to prevent hurting himself if he were to fall off. Tolee gets frustrated over falling off, but he then finally reaches the end of the tree walking on the tightrope. Kai-Lan does her act, plate spinning to conclude their practice.
Kai-Lan returns to Rintoo, who is still drawing on his book. Ye-Ye tells Kai-Lan and everyone else that Tong has returned. Rintoo tries to demonstrate Tong his flip, but because he hasn't practiced; he only jumps up high and falls back down. Kai-Lan catches up with Rintoo, sitting on a rock feeling bad for himself. Rintoo states that he is not doing the show with them, and walks off. Kai-Lan recaps that Rintoo doesn't want to be in the show because he cannot do a flip. They catch up to Rintoo in his home, but he tells him that he wants to be alone.
Kai-Lan remembered that Tolee and Hoho had to practice to get their acts ready. Kai-Lan then finds a solution; "don't give up, you'll see why; you'll get better if you try, try, try.. Kai-Lan tells everyone that they are not going to give up on Rintoo, and start cheering him up via the windows. Rintoo walks outside, where everyone tells him that he needs to try flipping himself. Rintoo finally gets to learn how to flip himself, and they all go to the acrobat show.
Their first act is Kai-Lan doing her plate spinning. Tolee, shyly and slowly gets on the tightrope, and starts walking, but he makes it on the other side. Hoho does his rolling ball performance. Rintoo aims to finish the act with his flip, where Rintoo then gives a high five to his friends. Their final act is making a shape; where the acrobats make a circle shape.
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 圆形yuán xíng - Circle
Quotes[]
- Hoho: "The acrobats, the acrobats. I want to see the acrobats."
- Rintoo: [laughs] "I'm so excited I think I have to roar. Yep, I do. [roars and Kai-Lan and the others join him]".
- Rintoo: "Yep, I'm awesome at jumping. So I'm sure I'll be awesome at flipping. I don't need to practice."
- Rintoo: "Here I go! [does a flip but fails] Whoa! Ugh!"
- All: "[gasps]."
- Rintoo: "I can't believe it! I... can't do a flip! I was sure I can do it. But... I can't! [runs away]"
Trivia[]
- This episode is possibly the second time of which Rintoo had broken down into tears, only this time, he did not really cry, not like the Halloween episode.
- Also, there aren't any hugs in this episode.
- Rintoo's home is different than when it was shown in Safari Pals, as the walls have a striped pattern instead of the arc-shaped pattern. This is also the first and only episode where Rintoo's home is seen from the inside.
- This is also the final episode that aired in 2009.
- On September 30, 2016, when this show was pulled from the Nick Jr. Channel's lineup, this was the last episode to be broadcast.
- This is the first episode where ‘we got it’ does not follow up with ‘I got it’.
Remarks[]
- Rintoo's home is bigger on the inside.
Goofs/Errors[]
- At the start of the episode, when Hoho does a flip on Rintoo’s head, one of his ears is colored white for a single frame.
- A few moments later, the tip of Rintoo’s tail also turns white for a frame.
- While Rintoo and Tong were talking, only them were shown in the previous shot before it closes up to Rintoo, but when it zooms out, Ye-Ye, Hoho, Tolee, and Kai-Lan suddenly appear.