Writer:	Aaron Ehasz
Director:	Ethan Spaulding
Star:	Makoto Iwamatsu (Uncle Iroh),  Dante Basco (Prince Zuko),  Jessie Flower (Toph),  Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang),  Mae Whitman (Katara),  Jack DeSena (Sokka),  Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo/Various Others)
Guest Star:	Mae Whitman (Lu Ten)

Character Debuts: Lu Ten (edit) This is the first time Iroh creates lightning, but in The Storm he redirects it whilst on the boat. (edit) This is the first time Zuko makes tea for Iroh, instead of the other way around (apparently, Zuko does not make it well). (edit) This episode aired in the UK on 02/12/06 (2 December 2006). (edit) When Aang wants to get the beasts attention to protect Sokka, he climbs a rock and starts making a dance similar to the one he did in the episode The Deserter, when he ruined the firebender show. (edit)

Sokka: (after Aang climbed up a mountain and comes back down) Please don't leave me again.
Aang: I won't. (edit) Sokka: (tries to get the apple with his boomerang which results in just falling to the ground) Now come back, boomerang. (edit) Toph: That's the problem. You've got to stop thinking like an Airbender. There's no different angle, no clever solution, no trickity-trick that's going to move that rock. You've got to face it head-on, and when I say head-on, I mean like this! (leaps directly into a boulder and shatters it with her head) (edit) Zuko: Great! I'm ready to try with real lighting!
Iroh: What, are you crazy? Lighting is very dangerous.
Zuko: I thought that was the point: you teaching me to protect myself from it!
Iroh: Yeah, but I'm not going to shoot lightning at you! ... If you are lucky, you will never have to use this technique at all. (edit) Aang: I guess I just panicked. I don't know what to say.
Toph: There's nothing TO say! You blew it! You had a perfect stance and perfect form! But when it came right down to it, you didn't have the guts! (Toph pokes Aang and makes him fall backwards)
Aang: I know, I'm sorry.
Toph: Yeah, you are sorry! If you're not tough enough to stop the rock, you could at least given it the pleasure of smashing you instead of jumping out of the way like a jelly boned wimp! Now do you have what it takes to face that rock like an earthbender!?
Aang: No, I don't think I do. (edit)

When Aang attempts to airbend Sokka from the crevice, shadows of the tree's leaves appear on Aang even though there are no shadows on the ground and the sun isn't at the right angle; after the attempt, the shadows don't return. (edit) When Katara is suggesting that Aang take a break and her hands are on his shoulders, the beads that are pinned into her bun can be seen at the sides of her head but her bun nor braid are seen. (edit) After Sokka plunges deeper into the small crevice after dropping his machete, his hair comes a little undone, but when we return to Sokka, his hair is normal. (edit) After Zuko shouts to the sky that he can take it and give it back, the camera pans from left to right behind him; his burnt ear is normal. (edit) When Toph hands Sokka's club to Aang before his rock smashing training, his sash is also around his waist. But during an upclose shot of him trying to smash rocks, his sash is missing from his waist. (edit)

Iroh's description of the "sea of chi" during his explanation of how to redirect lightning is drawn directly from the Taoist practices of Chi Kung and Tai Chi, of which waterbending is based. (edit) Aang's slight annoyance towards Katara when she interrupts his meditating is similar to that of the reaction of the sorceress Raven on Teen Titans. In the show, Raven meditates daily to keep her demonic powers in check and is interrupted or questioned by her teammates (usually Starfire and Beast Boy) almost as constantly. Whenever this occurs, she usually responds with an annoyed and usually rude or sarcastic quip, most often along the lines of, "Trying to meditate here," a line that Aang echoes. (edit) Zuko tempts the sky to strike him with lightning, which resembles what the character Cassius did from the play, "Julius Ceaser." (edit) When she magnetized pieces of rock to her body, Toph had a striking resemblance to the Thing, the Marvel Comic strongman who possessed a monstrous, craggy exterior that looks as if made of orange scales or plates that are often mistakenly referred to as "rocks." The Thing is a founding member of the fictional superhero team Fantastic Four, as well as one of Marvel Comics most recognizable characters. Zach Tyler Eisen (voice of Aang) later drew comparisons to the appearences of the two during a brief interview. (edit) Despite the Eastern-mythology based spirits that have been pre-established within the Avatar world, both Zuko and Sokka heavily suggest towards addressing a "God" source at certain points of this episode. For a more comedic atmosphere, Sokka, obviously desperate to be freed from his crevice, as well as to change his "karma"; Zuko, for a more serious tone, resembled a typical rant predominately delivered by tested characters. (edit)