The Dinosaur Balloon is the second episode of the second season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and the show's twentieth overall episode. The episode premiered on May 11, 2009, being the first of five new episodes that premiered in a week, called "Kai-Lan's Super Celebrations Week". Lulu is having a balloon festival and everybody's excited. Kai-Lan, Rintoo and Stompy team up to make a giant dinosaur balloon, but things go haywire when Kai-Lan accidentally knocks it over, leaving Stompy to not helping them fix it.
Characters Present[]
Summary[]
Today is the Lulu's Balloon Festival. and Kai-Lan, Rintoo and Stompy team up to make a giant dinosaur balloon for the festival. But when Kai-Lan accidentally knocks down the dinosaur balloon, Stompy refuses to help her put it back together.
Plot[]
Kai-Lan and her animal friends are going to a balloon festival with Lulu. Kai-Lan, Rintoo, and Stompy are making a dinosaur balloon, where Ye-Ye then bring parts for the dinosaur balloon. They then put the pieces together, but Kai-Lan accidentally knocks the balloon down. Stompy doesn't want to fix it, so he walks away to a pond, while Kai-Lan and Rintoo are unable to put it back together.
While Kai-Lan tries to put the balloon back together with no avail, Rintoo stops and recaps that Stompy refused to help fix it because it wasn't his fault. Overhearing the ants, Rintoo watches the ants construct, but the flower balloon knocks out. Stompy, at first believes that they won't fix it because it wasn't their whole fault, but they all put it up and fix it. Rintoo finds a solution; "even if it's not your fault, be a good friend and help out, help out, help out.
Stompy then decides to help out Kai-Lan put together the Dinosaur Balloon, just in time for the balloon festival. Everyone then gets on their balloons, with Ye-Ye coming along as well. Everyone then flies their balloons, where it then turns nighttime with fireworks.
Words in Mandarin Chinese[]
- 手臂gē bo - arm
- 牙齿yá chǐ - teeth
- 眼睛yǎn jing - eyes
Song[]
- Even If It's Not Your Fault
Quotes[]
- Rintoo: I don't get it. I wonder why Stompy won't help Kai-lan.
- Lulu: "你好, Kai-Lan."
- Kai-Lan: "你好, Lulu."
- Kai-Lan: "We can't wait for your balloon festival."
- Lulu: "Neither can I. I'll see you there."
- Kai-Lan: "Look, Tolee, Hoho and Howard are making a panda balloon. 你們好."
- Tolee & Hoho: "你好, Kai-Lan."
- Kai-Lan: "I'm making a balloon too with our friends Rintoo and Stompy. Do you wanna see it? Super! I'll show you. And you can help too. 跟我來. Rintoo, Stompy."
- Rintoo & Stompy: "你好, Kai-Lan."
- Rintoo: "We're all ready to help you put the balloon together."
- Stompy: "Oh, boy, oh, boy! Yes, we are."
- Rintoo: "I can't wait to ride in it."
- Kai-Lan: "Look, I drew a picture of what our balloon is going to look like. Can you guess what it's going to be? Yeah. A dinosaur balloon. I love dinosaurs." (giggles) "Ye-Ye, Ye-Ye."
- Ye-Ye: "Kai-Lan. I brought you some things to help you finish your balloon. 牙齿."
- Kai-Lan: "謝謝, Ye-Ye."
- Ye-Ye: "別客氣. 以後見."
- Kai-Lan, Rintoo & Stompy: "以後見."
- Kai-Lan: "I can't wait till we get to fly our dinosaur balloon to the balloon festival."
- Rintoo: "What should we do first, Kai-Lan?"
- Kai-Lan: "Let's put the arms on the balloon."
- Stompy: "The arms?"
- Rintoo: "Roar!" (giggles) "Dinosaur arms, oh, dinosaur arms." (giggles) "Where are you?"
- Kai-Lan: "I have an idea. We can make it into a game."
- Rintoo: "Yes."
- Kai-Lan: "First, I'll tell you how to say "arm" in Chinese. Then you can help us find them. Let's say "arm" in Chinese. 手臂. Say 手臂. 手臂. You sound just like me. Okay, when you see an arm, say 手臂. 手臂. You found one! Let's find one more. When you see another arm, say 手臂. 手臂. You found the other one. Super! Now we just need to put them onto the dinosaur balloon." (grunts) "Oh. I can't reach that high."
- Rintoo: "I can get it." (grunts) "Or maybe not."
- Stompy: "I can do it."
- Kai-Lan: "Stompy helped us put the arms onto the balloon. 謝謝, Stompy. You're a good friend for helping."
- Rintoo: "Let's put some more pieces on. Our dinosaur needs... Roar! Teeth."
- Kai-Lan: "牙齿. Where should we put the 牙齿? You're right. Up there. Super!"
- Rintoo: "Awesome!"
- Kai-Lan: "Let's put on another piece."
- Rintoo: "Roar! I'll get it. Look what I found."
- Kai-Lan: "眼睛."
- Hoho: "All finished."
- Tolee: "We finished our panda balloon. Whew."
- Rintoo: "哇, 好棒的熊猫熱氣球."
- Tolee & Hoho: "謝謝."
- Ye-Ye: "恐龍熱氣球真 好看."
- Kai-Lan, Rintoo & Stompy: "謝謝, Ye-Ye."
- Kai-Lan: "Ye-Ye, would you like to fly with us?"
- Ye-Ye: "I'd love to, Kai-Lan."
- Kai-Lan: "I can see my house from here."
- Rintoo: "Oh, there's your house, Tolee."
- Tolee: "We're up so high."
- Kai-Lan: "Look at all those balloons. Some of them are shaped like animals. What animals do you see?" (We see 8 balloons that are shaped like animals. They are the bear, the horse, the rabbit, the rooster, the goat, the rat, the dog, and the pig.) "Ooh. I really like the bear, the horse, and the pig."
Trivia[]
- This is the first of two episodes that the problem and song part is done by Kai-Lan's friends instead of her. The only other episode is Kai-Lan's Big Surprise. This would also be the first and only time Stompy sings "I Got It".
- This is the first and only episode where Kai-Lan herself starts the main problem. Though, as Stompy walked away, this would be the only main problem where someone walks away without being sad or angry.
- Another unnamed character, a terrier dog, makes an appearance at the balloon festival on the pig balloon.
- This is the first episode where Kai-Lan the main character has a major problem and can’t talk to the viewers, and all songs are done by her friends instead of her the only other episode to do that is Kai-Lan's Big Surprise.
- However, unlike the aforementioned episode, Kai-Lan isn't exactly sad nor angry whilst having her problem in this episode; she's just struggling to get her dinosaur balloon back together in time for the balloon festival.
- This is the first episode where Kai-Lan doesn’t sing the "We Got It" solution until the end.
Errors[]
- The panda and the dinosaur balloon change height in between shots.
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