Writer:	Tim Hedrick
Director:	Lauren MacMullan
Star:	Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo/Various Others),  Mae Whitman (Katara),  Jack DeSena (Sokka),  Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang)
Recurring Role:	Jason Isaacs (Zhao),  James Garrett (Avatar Roku)
Guest Star:	John Kassir (Chey),  Keone Young (Jeong Jeong)

Character Debuts: Chey (edit) This episode aired in the UK on 8/10/06 (8 October 2006). (edit) Zhao wears a new uniform in this episode, which would appear to be given to high-ranking officers such as Generals and Admirals. (edit) This is the first time we "see" Fire Lord Ozai's face, even though it is only in puppet form. (edit) This is the first time Aang even attempts firebending. At the end of the episode, however, he foreswears never attempting to learn it again. (edit)

Zhao: So the Avatar was here, and you let him slip away.
Soldier: Yes, sir. But other than that, the festival went off without a hitch. No fights, theft was way down.
Zhao: I don't care about your local crime rates! (edit) Aang: I did it! I made fire!
Katara: Aang, that's great, but you should take it slow.
(The fire grows)
Katara: Careful!
(The fire shrinks)
Aang: Now that's firebending!
(Aang shoot the fire)
Katara: Aang, you'll hurt yourself!
(Aang continues to play with the fire)
Aang: Wonder how that juggler did it?
(Aang spreads the fire in a circle and accidently burns Katara.Then she starts screaming and then starts sobbing after Aang burnt her hands)
Aang: Katara! I'm so sorry!
(Sokka zooms in)
Sokka: Katara, what's wrong!? What did you do?
Aang: It was an accident! I was... Katara, I'm so...
(Sokka takes him down to the ground)
Sokka:(angry) I told you we shouldn't mess around with this! Look what you did! You burned my sister!
(After that, Katara runs away, still sobbing) (edit) Aang: Whoa! Wild shot!
Zhao: I'll show you wild! (edit) Admiral Zhao: Stand and fight, Avatar!
Aang: Oh, were we fighting? I thought you were just getting warmed up.
Admiral Zhao: I was!
(blasts some poorly aimed fire attacks at Aang)
Aang: Man! They'll make anyone an admiral these days! (edit) Chey: )Sees everyone has left) Hey, where'd everybody go?! (edit)

The heading of the Fire Days Poster reads "Celebrate the Fire Festival!" The first sub-heading reads "Traditional Fire Nation cuisine". (edit) According to Jeong Jeong's wanted poster, the Fire Nation decription could be translated as follows: Jeong Jeong is a former Fire Nation captain, about 65 years old, white hair, seemingly not dangerous but he is a firebending master. People who want to capture him must be careful. (edit) Based on the Chinese text of Jeong Jeong's wanted poster, the word "Firebending" is written as "ÖÆ»ðÊõ", which is roughly translated as "The Method of Controlling Fire." (edit) The riverboats Zhao and his men use are made primarily out of highly flammable wood, when in all other cases, the Fire Nation navy are shown to make use of almost entirely ironclad vessels. (edit) When Aang lands on the stern of the final boat with his arms behind him, the front of the ship has no decorations, but when Aang jumps off the boat before Zhao howls in rage, the front of the ship grows spikes. (edit)

The way Chey speaks of Jeong Jeong is very similar to the way the Russian, or the harlequin as some refer to him, regards Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. It's a older book, detailing the main character's, Marlow's, journey into Africa to get Kurtz, a chief of one of the stations in the jungle who became wild. Anyway, there's this guy, who is only called the Russian, that meets Kurtz and idolizes him, saying, "this man has enlarged my mind," and other similar things. It is just similar to the situation with Chey and Jeong Jeong, since both are out wandering in the woods as well, although with a band of deserters, and Chey seems to idolize Jeong Jeong with the same reverence that the Russian does Kurtz. The only ironic thing is that Jeong Jeong hadn't become savage, like Zhao had, unlike Kurtz in the novel, who did become uncivilized. (edit) When dispelling the Firebender magician's fire dragon, Aang performs the same move as the silhoutted Airbender in the opening intro. (edit) When Roku visited Jeong Jeong's in his vision, he lit up a small tree to emphasize his instructions. This is most likely a reference to Biblical tale of Moses and the burning bush, in which then outcast, future prophet also received instructions by means of a spiritual epiphany. (edit) Chey's name maybe a play for Che Guevara, an Argentine-born Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. (edit) Some of Chey's lines poke fun at Dennis Hopper's psychodelic monologues from the film Apocalypse Now. (edit)