The Zodiac Zoo / The Four Dragons

Season 1, Episode 32, Aired

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#13201 The Zodiac Zoo The three kittens are boasting about who will make the best lion, so Nai-Nai interrupts them to tell them their correct zodiac. Dongwa's born on the year of the monkey, Sagwa's born on the year of the dog (Heh, same zodiac as me. Interesting - ed), and Sheegwa's born on the year of the Rat. Nai-Nai then relates to them the legend of how things came to be. It all started a long time ago, when the jade emperor wanted to see who'se the fastest animal in the kingdom. This causes everyone in the kingdom to start bickering among themselves. So, the emperor declares a race. The sequence of the racers who finish will be the sequence of the zodiac. The other animals all put on a 'What? Me worry?' attitude, except for the rat. Using his cunningness and dilligence, he finishes first in the race. The ox comes in second, and the tiger, third. These was followed by the rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. The kittens are now interested, so she shows them a scroll with a picture of all 12 animals of the zodiac in order. #13202 The four Dragons The story starts out with Nai-Nai finishing a story of the four dragons. The kittens are enthusiastic about the story now, until the alleycats come along. So, they decide to put on a play based on the story. Sheegwa's the Pearl Dragon (Okay, I'm starting to hate Final Fantasy VI - ed), Dongwa's the Long dragon, Sagwa's the Gold dragon and Fu-Fu's the mysterious black dragon. Shei-Hu's the Jade Emperor, and his cousins are the peasants. The story starts off with the dragons playing in the sea one day, when they hear the peasants cry - there has not been any rain for weeks, and their crops are dying. So, they go see the Jade Emperor, a selfish meanie. He makes an empty promise, so the dragons take things to their own hands and makes it rain. This angers the jade emperor, and he imprisons them inside four mountains ('Tis beginning to sound like something that came out of the classic epic "Journey to thw West" - ed). But the dragons refused to sit still and watch others suffer, and tranforms themselves into the four great rivers of China. Finally, the alleycats are interested, but one dragon story a day is enough.moreless

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      • All interstitial content is actually recycled from "Fur Cut / Magistrate Loses His Post."

      • The teaser for "The Four Dragons" is slightly misleading in that shows something that happens later in the story before something that happens earlier in the story.

      • In the story sequences in "The Zodiac Zoo," the dog, monkey and rat characters speak respectively with Dongwa, Sagwa and Sheegwa's voice actors.

      • Nice, but "The Zodiac Zoo" left out one rather important detail: Why wasn't the cat listed in the zodiac. This is probably because there were many different excuses, but all related to the Rat: one was because the cat told the rat to wake it up on the day of the race, but the rat didn't do so on purpose, causing the cat to be late and disqualified. The other, which I found floating around the 'net, was far more sinister: The rat drowned the cat by pushing it into the water while they were both riding on the ox's back (A brighter sub-variant of this version of the tale which is offered on Wikipedia states that the cat did not drown, but eventually made it to shore. However, because the cat made it to the finish line too late, it was disqualified). Either way, it is also the reason a cat does not get along with a mouse.

      • From this episode we can deduct that Dongwa's 2 years older than Sagwa, and Sheegwa is 2 years younger than Sagwa

      • In this episode, Sagwa is said to be born on the year of the dog. In Arthur, the voice of Sagwa, Holly Gauthier Frankel, does the voice of a dog - to be specific, Fern, who's a poodle type dog.

      • The stories related in these two episodes are based on real Chinese legends.

      • The dragon in "The Zodiac Zoo" sounds awfully familiar.

      • What About You? Segment: A girl talks about a flying leopard, then Fu-Fu talks about the unicorn.

      • Curious Cat Segment: Animals - especially the Dragon

      • And that's it for Chinese Zodiac 101 for today. In the next class, we'll learn about the 5 elements that accompanies each cycle of the zodiac : earth, gold, fire, water and wood. j/k.

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