In The Zodiac Zoo "A dog? Well, I'd rather be a dog than a monkey." - Sagwa
"Now be gone! To the, uh, sea." - Jade Emperor
In The Four Dragons "... But don't worry, there are many, many more Dragon Tales" - Sagwa
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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