Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

The Headband (2007)

Zach Tyler Eisen: Aang

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Quotes 

• Katara : [as Aang and Katara are dancing]  Aang, everyone's watching.

  Aang : Don't worry abouut them. It's just you and me right now.

• Katara : Where have you been? We've been worried sick!

  Aang : I got invited to play with some kids after school.

  Sokka : After *what*?

  Aang : I enrolled in a Fire Nation school. And I'm going back tomorrow.

  Sokka : Enrolled in *what*?

  [Sokka passes out] 

• Toph : Way to go, dancy pants. I think you really *did* help those kids. You taught them to be free.

  Aang : I don't know. It was just a dance party, that's all.

  Katara : Well, that was some dance party, Aang.

  [Katara kisses Aang on the cheek] 

  Sokka : Flameo, sir. Flameo.

• Katara : Sokka, we don't need to become cave people. What we need is some new clothes.

  Aang : Yeah, blending in is better than hiding out. If we get Fire Nation disguises, we'll be just as safe as we would be hiding in a cave.

  Toph : Plus, they have real food out there. Does anyone want to sit in the dirt and eat cave hoppers?

  [Toph hits the cave wall and some cave hoppers fall to the ground. Momo pounces on one and starts eating it] 

  Sokka : [to Momo]  Looks like we got out voted, sport. Let's get some new clothes.

• Sokka : That settles it! No more school for you, young man.

  Aang : I'm not ready to leave. I'm having fun for once. Just being a normal kid. You don't know what it's like, Sokka. You get to be normal all the time.

  Toph : Ha-ha.

  Sokka : Listen, guys. Those kids at school are the future of the Fire Nation. If we want to change this place for the better, we need to show them a little taste of freedom.

  Sokka : What could you possible do for a country of depraved little fire monsters?

  Aang : I'm going to throw them a secret dance party.

  [Everyone stares blankly at Aang] 

  Sokka : Go to your room!

• Ms. Kwan : What is your name? Or should we just call you Mannerless Colony slob?

  Aang : [Chuckling]  Just 'slob' is fine. Or, uh, Kuzon.

• Sokka : Aang, I'm trying to be mature and not immediately shoot down your idea, but it sounds *really* terrible.

  Toph : Yeah, we got our outfits. What do you need to go to school for?

  Aang : Every minute I'm in that classroom, I'm learning new things about the Fire Nation. I already have a picture of Fire Lord Ozai.

  [Aang hols ups a picture] 

  Aang : And here's one I made out of noodles.

• Aang : [to the Fire Nation students]  Listen, guys, dancing isn't something you think about. It's a form of self-expression that no one can *ever* take away from you.

  Shoji : Maybe it was different in the colonies, Kuzon, But we don't do that here.

  Aang : Sure you do. You have for generations. It just so happens that I know several classic Fire Nation dances. A hundred years ago, this was known as the Phoenix Flight.

  [Demonstrates dance] 

• Aang : Oh, we're going to a meat place?

  Sokka : Come on, Aang, everyone here eats meat. Even the meat.

  [He indicates a nearby cow-hippo, happily munching away on meat scraps] 

  Aang : You guys go ahead. I'll just get some lettuce out of the garbage.

• Sokka : I can't believe we're having a dance party. It seems so... silly.

  Aang : Don't think of it as a dance party, but as a cultural event, celebrating the art of fancy footwork.

• Aang : [In music class]  I know. I'm a terrible Tsungi hornist.

  Music Teacher : No, child, that hullabaloo going on with your feet, is that a nervous disorder?

  Aang : I was just dancing. You do dances here in the homeland, right?

  Shoji : Not really, no.

  Music Teacher : Dancing is not conducive to a proper learning environment. Young people must have rigid discipline and order.

  Aang : But what about expressing yourself?

  Music Teacher : I know sometimes we're so moved by our love for our nation that we can't control our own bodies.

  [he claps his hand to his face and reconsiders] 

  Music Teacher : If you must, you may march in place quietly next time the urge hits you.