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Sports Day is the thirteenth episode of the first season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. The episode premiered on August 6, 2008, as part of Nick Jr's week of new sport-filled episodes. In this episode, Hoho and Tolee quit the Dinosaur Games because Rintoo is bragging about being the best and it's making them them feel bad.
In production order, it is the eighteenth and final episode of the first season.
Plot[]
Kai-Lan and her friends are going to a sports event called the Dinosaur Games. Ye-Ye is putting up dinosaur decorations on the trees. The ants give out firefly torches for everyone, where they then run to the starting line. The first game they begin is the jumping game, where Rintoo wins and then celebrates, which upsets Tolee and Hoho a little. The next game is where they find dinosaur floaties in the field, where Rintoo wins again, stating that he's so awesome.
In the running game, the first player to reach the finish line wins. Rintoo wins again and starts bragging, claiming to be better than everyone else. This makes Tolee and Hoho feel bad, and they’ve had enough of Rintoo's attitude, so they decide to quit the games, shocking everyone.
Kai-Lan explains that Tolee and Hoho quit the Dinosaur Games because Rintoo was making them feel bad. Ye-Ye asks what happen at the Dinosaur Games, and Kai-Lan tells him that Tolee and Hoho decided to leave because Rintoo was bragging about being the best. Ye-Ye realizes that Rintoo is indeed bragging and points out that bragging means someone cheers for themselves too much without deeming how it impacts on others.
Just then, Rintoo arrives and announces that it's time to play the next game. However, Tolee and Hoho tell him they no longer wanna play anymore because he has been bragging and making them feel bad. They all then watch the ants' scooter race, where everyone compliments each other and is satisfied.
Kai-Lan offers a solution: "When you win, don't brag about what you did. Instead, say something nice, nice, nice!"
Rintoo then says Hoho is awesome at somersaulting, while Tolee is good at running, which makes them happy again. Everyone then returns to the Dinosaur games to begin the final round, the egg-rolling game. Rintoo storms the finish line again and won, but then he stops, cheering everyone up instead. They arrive at the finishing ceremony, where Ye-Ye gives out medals; Hoho gets the medal for best jumping with somersaults, Tolee gets the medal for straightest dinosaur egg rolling, the Ants get a medal for best scooter racing, Rintoo gets a medal for saying nice things to his friends, and Kai-Lan gets a medal for being the most caring friend. Everyone then goes to a dinosaur-themed slide, where Kai-Lan then gives Ye-Ye a hug.
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 恐龍kǒng lóng - dinosaur
- 开始kai shi - begin
- 预备yu bei - get ready
Quotes[]
- Tolee: I wish Rintoo would stop. He's making me feel really bad!
- Hoho: Yeah, really, really bad!
- Rintoo: I am the best!
- Tolee: That does it! I quit the Dinosaur Games!
- Hoho: Me too! I quit!
- (all gasp)
- Kai-Lan: Tolee! Hoho!
- Ye-Ye: Hoho, you're the youngest. So you get the first Dinosaur Games medal. You win the medal for best jumping with somersaults.
- Hoho: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
- Ye-Ye: 別客氣. Tolee, you win the medal for straightest dinosaur egg rolling.
- Tolee: A medal for me? Wow. 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
- Ye-Ye: 別客氣. Fufu, Sansan, Bubu, you win the medal for best scooter racing.
- Ants: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
- Ye-Ye: 別客氣. Rintoo, you win the medal for saying the nicest things to your friends.
- Rintoo: Yes!
- Ye-Ye: Kai-Lan, you win the medal for being the most caring friend. Whenever one of your friends feels bad, you stop and help.
- Kai-Lan: Ye-Ye, 謝謝.
- Ye-Ye: 別客氣.
- Kai-Lan: Ye-Ye, 树上有一只恐龍.
- Ye-Ye: 不是一直.
- Kai-Lan: 哇, 這麼多恐龍.
- Lulu: 预备, 跳!
- Tolee: Hoho, you went so far.
- Lulu: 预备… 开始!
- Rintoo: Yes! I found the most dinosaur floaties.
- Lulu: Rintoo wins the dinosaur hunt.
- Rintoo: I'm so awesome.
- Kai-Lan: Now everyone needs to take a floaty for the dinosaur race. Hoho, you're the youngest, so you take one first. 一人一直.
- Rintoo: We're ready to race, Lulu.
- Lulu: 预备… 开始!
- Rintoo: Hoho, you're awesome at doing somersaults.
- Hoho: 謝謝, Rintoo.
- Rintoo: And, Tolee, you're awesome at running. You went so fast at the beginning of the race.
- Tolee: 謝謝, Rintoo.
- Hoho: Whoa! 恐龍蛋真的!
- Ye-Ye: 對了. 看, 我化的.
- Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Tolee & Hoho: Ooh! 恐龍滑梯!
- Kai-Lan: Wow, that's the biggest slide I've ever seen.
- Tolee: It looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- Kai-Lan That's my favorite kind of dinosaur.
- Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Tolee & Hoho: Ye-Ye, 謝謝.
- Rintoo: Ye-Ye, Ye-Ye. Your dinosaur slide is awesome!
- Tolee: Really awesome!
- Hoho: Really, really awesome!
- Ye-Ye: (chuckles) 謝謝. That makes me feel great!
- Ye-Ye: Rintoo is bragging.
- Hoho: Bragging? What's that?
- Ye-Ye: Bragging is when you cheer for yourself too much, you don't even think about how it makes your friends feel.
Trivia[]
- There is no “Why” question that leads to the song “We Gotta, Gotta Try to Find the Reason Why”. As a friend, Kai-Lan may have figured Tolee and Ho-ho were too mad to ask, but the Dinosaur Games had to go on.
- There is no “Sing with us” or “He got it” segment.
- This is the first sports-themed episode of the TV series.
- The idea of utilizing torches to start out sports events is a reference to the Olympics.
- This is the final episode of season 1 in production order and the very last episode which aired in 2008.
- This is the first episode to use the Nickelodeon lightbulb logo, which replaces the Nick Jr Productions logo. Starting with this episode, all episodes until Princess Kai-Lan use the Nickelodeon lightbulb logo.
- This was the first episode to premiere on Noggin.
- Ironically, this was also the last episode to ever air on the Noggin channel on September 28, 2009 at 1:00am, before the rebrand to Nick Jr. at 6:00am that day.
- This is the first episode where the title card is tied into something usually most title cards pop out in this case the title card is on a banner to match sports
Goofs[]
- On the first scene, no ribbons are shown on the trees, but on the next shot where it closes up to Kai-Lan, red ribbons appear on the trees afterward.
- On the shot where Tolee walks toward Rintoo after the jumping game, the hill where the audience is disappears, unless it's from the other side, according to the laws of perspective. The perspective of the background changes frequently, with trees in the background and nothing in the background.
- The eggs are shown really close to the starting line, but it takes them 5 seconds to get to the starting line.
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