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Wait, Hoho, Wait! is the fifth episode of the first season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, which premiered during the show's first premiere week. Rintoo receives a new package in the mail, a new car, and everyone helps him put it together. But Hoho has trouble waiting and ends up getting in, making the car fall apart. Kai-Lan has to help him learn how to wait while the car is being rebuilt.
In production order, this is the ninth episode of the first season.
Plot[]
Ye-Ye is cooking dumplings with Hoho. While cooking, Hoho asks if they are ready, Ye-Ye tells him that the dumplings are not ready yet and that he has to wait a little bit. This makes Hoho very unhappy.
Just then, the Ants pass by Kai-Lan’s house with a package for Rintoo. Hoho and Kai-Lan then lead the ants over to Rintoo’s house, where they find at Rintoo and Tolee playing with toy cars. Rintoo immediately gets excited when he finds out his package is delivered. The package is revealed to be a purple car and the Ants unload all the pieces. Hoho is eager to ride the car right away, but everyone tells him they have to build the car first.
While Kai-Lan and her friends put together the car, Hoho becomes impatient and asks many times if they can drive the car now. Suddenly, Hoho becomes tired of waiting and jumps into the car, which eventually falls apart. So now they have to build it all over again. So while Tolee and Rintoo repair the car, Kai-Lan decides to help Hoho try to be patient.
They go back over to her house with Ye-Ye, who is still waiting for the dumplings to finish cooking. Ye-Ye tells Hoho that it can be very hard to be patient, and what he does while waiting is sing in Chinese. Kai-Lan gets a solution; "when waiting is really hard for you; just do something you like to do.". When Kai-Lan asks Hoho what he likes to do while waiting, he likes to play Where’s Hoho. As they play, Kai-Lan finds Mr Hoppy in the garden shed, Mr Grasshopper in the pumpkin patch and Hoho up a tree.
After Kai-Lan and Hoho head back to Tolee and Rintoo, the car isn't finished yet. While waiting, Hoho plays his turntables and stacks rocks. The car doesn't move by itself, so it requires a push by everyone. After pushing the car, everyone jumps on the car, with everyone taking turns on the steering wheel, including crossing the blue bridge and even a ride through the skies with ladybugs lifting the car. After the car ride, everyone goes to have dumplings with Ye-Ye, who had just finished cooking after waiting.
Lesson Song[]
When waiting is really hard for you, just do something you like to do!
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 推tuī - push
- 饺子jiǎo zi - dumplings
- 筷子kuài zi - chopsticks
- 汽车 qì chē - car
- 四sì - four
- 五wǔ - five
Quotes[]
- Rintoo: I've been waiting so long for this package! I'm so excited I could roar!
- Hoho: I wanna drive the car now! Vroom! Vroom!
- Rintoo: Here's the first piece. It's in Chinese. It's the number one. 一.
- Tolee: And here's the second piece, number two. 二.
- Kai-Lan: Number three. 三.
- Rintoo: Hmm. Now we need the next piece. It has the number four. 四.
- Kai-Lan: Where's a piece that has this number on it? Yeah, you're right. 四, it's right there.
- Rintoo: Now we need the number five. 五.
- Kai-Lan: Where's a piece that has this number on it? Yeah, you're right. You're a super helper. 五.
- Rintoo: Let's check the instructions. 一.
- Tolee: 二.
- Kai-Lan: 三.
- Hoho: 四.
- Ladybug: 五.
- Hoho: I got it I got it it’s really really true I got it I got it I know just what to do
Trivia[]
- There is also a book based on the episode. Click here to view it.
- This is the first episode which the title reveals the main problem, where it foreshadows Hoho's impatience during the episode.
- This is the third episode of the show's first week of new episodes.
Goofs[]
- After Kai-Lan tickles Mr. Sun, and when she’s laughs, there was another person in the background laughing while Jade Lianna Peters records the lines for Kai-Lan.
- The Chinese instructions imply that there are only three tires, leaving one tire too short.
- When Rintoo opens up the package, his tooth is colored green for a single frame.
- In the scene where Kai-Lan explains to Ye-Ye that Hoho is having a hard time waiting, Hoho’s right ear is colored white after he hops onto the counter.
- Towards the end when Kai-Lan sings the lesson song, Hoho’s tail disappears for a split second.
- The car was implied to be getting close to the blue bridge, but is suddenly much farther on the following shots where Tolee asks Rintoo for his turn to drive. Judging by the speed that they're driving and the distance from the bridge, they shouldn't have taken at least a whole minute to get to the blue bridge.