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Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 5

Shell Game

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AIRED: 10/14/00

Jackie and Jade have different goals after learning the Dark Hand members have stolen an endangered tortoise, which has the Rabbit talisman of super speed encrusted on its shell. And now, the Dark Hand must try to get it out, and Jackie must obtain the talisman and the tortoise before it becomes someone's dinner.moreless

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Hilarious!

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By ZaleIsBackAgain, Dec 23, 2006

Jade makes an unusual discovery on the TV; the rabbit talisman embedded within, ironically, a tortoise. Jackie and Jade go to retrieve it, and run into the Dark Hand, who fared a better job of capturing it. They followed Ratso, who was left behind, and track him down to an exchange to one of Valmont's friends who adores eating exquisite animals, such as Asopp the tortoise. Jackie Chan gets in a fierce fight with Tohru, as well as the Shadowkhan, and rescue Asopp, as well as taking with him the hare talisman.

Flat out hilarious. There were just so many scenes that made you giggle or crack up. One of them was when Ratso's conversation was intercepted by Jade and Jackie, and Jackie fooled Jade into thinking they'd both follow them using a taxi, but Uncle was really inside it to take Jade home. The other was when Jackie Chan was fighting against the dark hand underwater, and the father and son was just watching him as nothing spectacular or abnormal was going on. Though none of those beat out Tohru, when he was using the hare talisman to maximize his speed, and slips directly into the airplane he was going to use to make the getaway with the talisman. The choreography was excellent as always, and incorporated some of the above events with awesome martial arts action.moreless
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Jackie Chan	Himself ("Hey Jackie!" Segment)
James Sie	Jackie Chan/Shendu
Sab Shimono	Uncle Chan
Stacie Chan	Jade Chan

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Ron Perlman	Dr. Karl Nivor	Guest Star
Jeannie Elias	Drew/Ms. Hardman/News Anchor (voice)	Recurring Role
Clancy Brown	Ratso	Recurring Role
Adam Baldwin	Finn	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Trivia: Drew not believing any of Jade's stories will become a running gag throughout the rest of the series.
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QUOTES (3)
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- (After Shendu fires out flames from his mouth)
  Tohru: Whoa, I did not know he could do that.
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- Finn: Whoa! Big man can move!
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- Drew: Yeah, and I bet the snake lady was there too!
  Jade: Viper? Nah, that was in New York!
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NOTES (5)
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- Talisman: Rabbit
  Rabbit talisman was found in a tortoise shell, and it gives you the power of super speed.
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- On tv, just before Finn changes the channel back (as per Valmont's orders), you can see El Toro Fuente raising a championship belt.
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- First appearance of Drew.
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- The turtle in this episode is named "Aesop," after the famous writer of fables, who wrote "The Tortoise and the Hare."
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- The man that Aesop is being sold to is named Karl Nivor, an obvious play on the name of meat eaters, carnivore.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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- Jade: Uhh, what's up, Doc?
  The line is a trademark of Bugs Bunny (also owned by Warner Brothers), who frequently pops up next to another character(usually one hunting him) to say the line. What makes this case funnier is that Carl Nivore is in fact a Doctor (like Hannibal Lecter, see other Cultural Reference).
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- Carl Nivore: American Condor on a plate of Fava Beans (he then makes a sucking sound)
  Carl Nivore seems to be inspired by Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) from "Silence of the Lambs", who says, "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." He even makes the same "slslslsls" sucking sound with his mouth.
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