Writer:	John O'Bryan
Director:	Lauren MacMullan
Star:	Makoto Iwamatsu (Uncle Iroh),  Dante Basco (Prince Zuko),  Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo/Various Others),  Mae Whitman (Katara),  Jack DeSena (Sokka),  Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang)
Recurring Role:	James Sie (Oyaji (Kyoshi Leader))
Guest Star:	Jason Miller (X) (Scary Prisoner),  Malachi Throne (Colonel Mongke),  Julianna Rose (Little Fire Nation Girl),  Jillian Henry (Koko),  Byron McKittrick (Crazy Foaming Guy),  James Hong (Mayor Tong),  Jennifer Hale (Avatar Kyoshi)

Military Debut: Rough Rhinos (edit) Translations:
-The writing on the "Birth of Kyoshi" painting means 'on this day, Avatar Kyoshi split open the ground and created Kyoshi Island. Our culture is forever changed by this violent incident which happened to the world' (edit) Character Debuts: Colonel Mongke, Mayor Tong (edit) When the map displays the Earth Kingdom being turned green to symbolize Chin's conquers, every portion is affected save Ba Sing Se. This signifies that Chin was never able to conquer Ba Sing Se, no doubt because of its strong defenses. (edit) This episode is the first appearance for the Rough Rhinos, a group of travelling Fire Nation soldiers. Each of the five members rides a ferocious three-horned komodo rhino and is a master of a different weaponry. (edit)

Sokka: What is this?
Mayor Tong: That's our new festival food, unfried dough. May we eat it and be reminded of how on this day the Avatar was not boiled in oil. (edit) Mayor Tong (when the Rough Rhinos invade): You, Avatar, do something!
Aang: Gee, I'd love to help, but I'm supposed to be boiled in oil.
(Mayor Tong moves the Wheel of Punishment)
Mayor Tong: There! Community service! Now serve our community and get rid of those rhinos! (edit) Old Man (slurring): We used to be a great society before you killed our leader. (pointing to himself) Now look at us!
Aang (cringing in revulsion): Huh! (edit) Avatar Kyoshi: I killed Chin, the Conquerer. A horrible tyrant, Chin was expanding his army to all corners of the continent. When they came to the neck of the peninsula where we lived, he demanded our immediate surrender. I warned that I would not sit passively while he took our home, but he did not back down. On that day, we split from the mainland. (Kyoshi seperates the peninsula from the mainland and moves it out to sea. Chin yells angrily at her before falling off the cliff to his death) I created Kyoshi Island so my people could be safe from invaders. (edit) (Guard looking at the tourture wheel)
Guard: Looks like boiled in oil. (edit)

Sokka: Oh, I see. There's time to get your scrolls and time to get your staff, but no time for my boomerang.

Katara: (cheerfully) That's correct!

That's pretty cruel and uncaring coming from Katara when her brother has just lost his most treasured possession akin to Katara losing her mother's necklace and is accusing them of not caring about him.

(edit) As Katara calls attention to the Kyoshi float, right before she raises her arm to point at it, you can see a tiny sliver of the outer edge of her right half of the collar disappear- you even see the float pass through it. (edit) When Sokka calls out "Wait, my boomerang!", you can see the beads at the beginning of Katara's hair loopies move up and down, detaching from her hairline and then moving back multiple times in rhythm with the movement of the hair loopies in the wind. (edit) On "the Wheel of Punishment", before Aang rolled the wheel, "community service" wasn't beside "boiled in oil," but when the major himself rolled the wheel, the two were beside each other. (edit) While Katara is telling Mayor Tong about their evidence outside of Aang's cell, the right side of Katara's white collar turns blue like her outfit. (edit)

Sokka's "detective hat", with it's two wing-like projections resembles an Imperial Chinese Magistrates/Judges cap. Chinese Magistrates were responsible for investigating the crimes in their district as well as presiding over the trials themseves. (edit) Chin the Great could be seen as a mix between Alexander the Great, and Mao Zedong.

Chin, much like Alexander the Great, had a great empire, but over the years after his death the empire fell apart. Also, much like Mao Zedong, he caused a group of people to leave a nation to go live on an island away from the policy's, and on the mainland. (edit) Chin the Great's height could be seen as a play on Napoleon Bonaparte, as Napoleon was a man who was the leader of a great army with contrastingly short stature who sought to create a grand empire by subjagating neighboring nations under his rule, similar to Chin goals in regards to the Earth Kingdom. (edit) On the mural, following the familiar word Avatar, appear to be the words chǔ nǚ which in Chinese mean 'virgin.' This possible allusion to Queen Elizabeth I of England who was known as the 'Virgin Queen' could be a possible Chinese name for Avatar Kyoshi. (edit) Chinatown
The town of Chintown and its mayor are a play off the early American Chinatown enclaves which were historically run by a social organization of Chinese immigrants, commonly referred to as Tongs.
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