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The Hula Duck Dance Party is the nineteenth episode of the second season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and the show's thirty-eighth overall episode. The episode premiered on May 28, 2010, during Nickelodeon's Summer Luau play date. The gang is heading down to Hula Duck Island for a dance party. Everything turns out fine, until Tolee gets upset about being left out of the games. His friends have to find a new game that everyone gets to play.
In production order, it is the thirteenth episode of the second season.
Plot[]
Today, Kai-lan and her friends are going to a dance party on Hula Duck Island. Upon arriving, they bring fruit and join in the fun, starting with a game of musical chairs. Since Hoho is unfamiliar with the game, he asks how to play. Kai-lan explains the rules: the Hula Ducks will play music, and as they do, everyone dances around the chairs. When the music stops, they must quickly find a chair to sit on. Because there aren't enough chairs for everyone, anyone who doesn't get a chair is out until the next game.
During the first round, Tolee lags behind, and despite Hoho's encouragement to try again, Tolee sadly sits out. In the second round, the Hula Ducks move the game to the water. Unfortunately, Tolee slips and is eliminated again. Overcome with sadness, he sits alone, his hood pulled over his head, lamenting that he can't play with his friends and starts to cry.
Kai-Lan recaps why Tolee is crying because he can't play with his friends. While talking about the game, they suggest changing the game where they all get a chair, and where everyone gets to play, seeing that there is only four chairs, leaving one chair short. Kai-Lan finds a solution; "let's find a way for everyone to play." Kai-Lan meets with Tolee, and tells him to play musical chairs again, stating that they changed the musical chairs game to hide-and-seek chairs, where everyone gets a chair.
Tolee joins everyone and where they find chairs and place them together, and then they all sit on the chairs. He becomes happier that he's able to play with his friends now. Tolee tells Kai-Lan that he loves it where they can all play together. Right after Tolee said this, the ladybugs then made the chairs fly up in the air, night then falls and everyone arrives at the party with everyone else, where Ye-Ye gets a flying chair as well.
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 跳舞tiào wǔ - Dance
Quotes[]
- Tolee: Oh, no! There's no chair for me! I-I wanna play with everyone.
- Kai-Lan: Remember what happened before Tolee started crying? The first time we played musical chairs, Tolee didn’t get a chair. The second time we played musical chairs, it happened again. Then he started crying.
Trivia[]
- The dragon dance is a reference to "Dragonboat Festival".
- Musical chairs is a party game where players must get a chair after the music stops, with the next rounds having one chair removed, with the final round having only one chair.
- This episode is the second time when Tolee cries, the first one being "Pandy's Puddle". This is also the final episode where someone cries.
- Lulu's tutu from "Ni Hao, Halloween" makes a return in this episode.
- This is the first and only episode where the "We Got It" solution is changed partway through, from "let's find a way for everyone to play" to "we found a way for everyone to play."
- This episode marks the final appearances of Lulu, the Ants, and the Hula Ducks.
- This is the final normal episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan in terms of both production number and airdate, as the last two episodes, "Princess Kai-Lan" and "Journey to Monkey King Castle" are double-length.
- The lesson "Let's find a way for everyone to play" is reused in Stompy Rides Again.
- This episode was shown at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on November 3, 2012. [1]
Goofs/Errors[]
- Rintoo lipsyncs to Hoho's line; "We get to dance in the water!".
- When Kai-Lan talks to Tolee with her hand on the hood, her animation suddenly cuts forward, as if it's missing several frames of animation, making it look instantaneous.
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