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Dragon Summit

Episode Number: 9    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday April 1, 2005    Prod Code: 115
Jake, Fu Dog and Grandpa go to meet the Dragon council on the other side of the world. Jake has to pass two out of three tests - Courage in Flight, Knowledge in Battle and Using Dragon-Fire.
However, he meets an Australian snob, who keeps pranking him and annoying him. The #1 villain, the Dark Dragon is living in a cave nearby, though.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Brandon Sawyer
Director: Christian Roman
Star: Keone Young (Jake's Grandfather),  Dante Basco (Voice of Jake Long)
Recurring Role: John DiMaggio (Fu Dog),  Jeff Bennett (Councilor Kulde, Dragon Student, Brownie #1),  John DiMaggio (Brownie #2, Dwarf, Elevator Operator),  Lauren Tom (Councilor Chang)
Guest Star: Clancy Brown (Dark Dragon),  Clarence Williams III (Councilor Andam),  Adam Wylie (Fred),  Keone Young (Brownie #3)

Notes

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According to Director Steve Loter, the members of the Dragon Council are:
-Councilor Andam of Africa
-Councilor Kulde of Europe
-Councilor Kukulkhan of Central America
-Councilor Omina of Atlantis
-Councilor Chang of Asia (edit)
Jake is the first American Dragon and is also the first to be trained by family. (edit)
Councilor Chang is working with the Dark Dragon and is spying on the other dragons. (edit)
In this episode, Jake meets his new arch-enemy, the Dark Dragon. (edit)
Councilor Chang seems to have an arrow on her head just like Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Actually Dante Basco (Jake) and Mae Whitmen (Rose/Huntsgirl) plays Prince Zuko and Katara on that show. (edit)

Quotes

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Councilor Kulde: (reading Jake's misdoings) Using shape-shifting spells for personal gain, revealing dragon identities to humans, taking a soul-sucking Nix to a school dance...
Fu Dog: Hey, can you blame the kid? She was hot! (edit)
(the ice sculpture of Fu's head slides over to him after Jake blows it up}
Fu: ... Heeeeey!! (edit)
Jake: (as Jake drags Fu's huge bag around) Yo, Gramps! I'm the American Dragon, not the American bellboy! (edit)
Fu: Officially I'm against retaleation but unofficially, let me introduce something I like to call "Fu's bag of gags" (edit)
Dragon Council Woman: Any questions?
Fu: Yeah, is this plasma? Looks like plasma.
(dragon council stares at Fu) (edit)

Trivia

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How did Jake know Huntsman was #4 villain, no one told him and the statues weren't in any certain order?

Just because we can't read the base of the statue, doesn't mean Jake can't. I'm probably says #4 as well as a few other things. (edit)
Fred the Austalian Dragon is yellow dragon, but he wears mostly green and the dragon always wears their color in the clothes.

True, but that hasn't been stated as a rule but then again because Australias national sporting colors are green and gold, that may be the reason. (edit)
Because Disney aired this episode out of order, the events in 'Shapeshifter' were discussed before the episode actually aired. (edit)
When Grandpa does his little "That what Grandpa talking about!" thing during the second test, we see two Egyptian dragons. (edit)
When Fred shoots the beehive down, his dragon head has his regular human eyes. But every other time we see his head he has regular dragon eyes.

Reply: Dragons can call on certain dragon parts when they don't want to use their full dragon form. We see that all the time from Jake. (edit)

Allusions

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Jake: I got tall dark and ugly.

This is an allusion of the famous saying tall dark and handsome. (edit)
Dark Dragon: Appearance
Dark Dragon's appearance matches the appearance of the dragon form of Malificient, from the Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty (edit)
I thought this episode was A LOT like "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". There were three magical tasks, the last task turned out to be a trap for the main character set up by a dark agent(Chang/Barty Crouch Jr.), and in both the main character returns with news that an old foe returns that everyone thought gone forever and he's not believed. (edit)
Title: Isle of Draco
Isle of Draco is named after the Latin word 'dragon'. Which suits the fact that dragons live on the island. (edit)
Councilor Chang: It is time for you student to receive the trials.
This episode contains many similarities to Star Wars most notably with the Jedi Council and the Dragon Council. They also have a similar training style of Master and apprentice where one older dragon teaches a younger one. The other obvious one is the use of three tests called the trials much like Jedi Padawans must undergo before the Council in order to advance. Also comparisons are seen as the dark cloaks that councilor Chang and the Dark Dragon wear are similar to the ones worn by the Sith. Even a similar situation where the Dark Dragon shares the Island secretly with the Dragon Council like the Sith Lord Darth Sidious lived on the same planet as the Jedi Council. The Dark Dragon is even thought to be gone forever much like the Sith were thought to be extinct by the Jedi. (edit)
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Community Reviews (12)

 
9.3
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Dragon Summit
"Adventurous"
Jake has to pass three tests...
Continue » Posted Jul 18, 2007 1:24 pm PST
10.0
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"Exciting"
In this episode Jake Meets the Dragon Council! and Jake meets the Dark Dragon!
Continue » Posted Jun 15, 2007 11:31 am PST
9.5
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"A very special episode"
This is just a good episode
Continue » Posted Jun 13, 2007 8:18 pm PST
10.0
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"Fine example"
Jake meets the Dark Dragon while meeting the Dragon Council.
Continue » Posted Feb 25, 2007 12:37 pm PST

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"Painful to watch"
Why's everybody always picking on Jake
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