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01x18 - Panda-monium / Festival of Lanterns

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat". Aired: September 3, 2001 – October 5, 2002.*
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Sagwa resides in a palace of a magistrate in China in what is assumed to be modern-day Fujian province, as part of a royal family of cats who have the ability to write with their tails.

01x18 - Panda-monium / Festival of Lanterns

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my best friend

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my best friends

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oh

this is the worst storm i've ever seen

me too

takes more than a little storm to scare

me

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now this afternoon you must play outside

the magistrate is having an award

ceremony for a very brave

hero what hero mama last night during

the storm he saved two men whose boat

was sinking

really wow that's brave

so under no circumstances can you be in

the palace this afternoon

and as a reward tonight i'll take you to

the heroes parade

a hero's parade wow

one of these days i'm gonna be a big

hero just like that one who saved the

men in the storm

it'll be pretty hard for you to save

someone from a storm when you're

hiding under your covers

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what was that

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don't worry even if it's a ferocious

hungry lion i'll use my kung fu to push

back its paw

grab it by the tail and twirl it around

in a rough

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deep breaths in out

listen i've never heard of anything big

and ferocious around here

but if it makes you feel better i'll

check it out

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[Laughter]

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just as i thought they're just a bunch

of scaredy cats

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there maybe he's going to attack the

village

we should tell someone so he can be

captured

wait a second wait a second are you

crazy

this could be our big chance for what to

be dim sum for a bear

no this is our big chance to be heroes

big heroes i bet they'd even have a

parade for us

cool

hold on hold on how are we going to

catch a mean

giant bear

i have perfect plans

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okay you and i make noise and chase them

into the trap

ready sagua ready

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get me out of here

okay okay we're coming

[Applause]

well it's been nice knowing you guys

huh it's just a little bear

we can't capture a baby bear there's

nothing brave about that

well we'd be bigger heroes if we caught

a bigger bear

but i'll settle for being any size hero

i can come on

we got you now bear wait we're not

supposed to go in the palace today

remember

magistrates awards ceremony

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oh no the hero ceremony is starting

this isn't good

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the magistrate does hereby decree that

ji voon phong

performed with great heroism in the face

of great adversity

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which way should we go now

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me you'll go after him oh no

you go oh wait here so i can pounce on

him when he comes out

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now what do you have to say for yourself

you you

bear

oh great what do we do now i don't know

talk to him i guess hey there i'm

sagua i'm twinkling

why are you crying ling ling why am i

crying

first that thunderstorm scared me then i

got lost for my family

and now you keep chasing me you cry too

look we just wanted to catch you before

you attacked the village

so we'd be big heroes and then they'd

have a parade for us

i don't want to attack your village oh

could you maybe pretend like you want to

until after we get our own parade

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no i just want to go home

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forget the parade we have to get him out

of here and back to where he lives

what about being heroes we'll just have

to wait for another time

and a bigger bear not only putting his

own needs aside

but facing danger head-on and with

unnerving courage

i don't know are you sure we have to do

this

trust me no one's seen him yet but we

can't take a chance

okay lingling nice and slow to the door

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oh

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sorry it was getting too hot in there

back home in the mountains

it's nice and cool you live in the

mountains

well that makes it easy to get you home

yeah there's only like a gazillion

mountains around here

so what do you like to do for fun ling

ling oh

you know eat bamboo watch bugs

clean the waterfall waterfall

i know a mountain with a waterfall you

keep walking that way

i'll go see if i can find lingling's

family i

meant to do that looks like you'll be

home soon ling ling

you can count on fufu a one dog

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oh

i guess that kind of makes us cousins

um i hate to interrupt this family

reunion

but maybe we should try to get rid of

that wild dog

let's all make noise together maybe we

can scare it that way

one two three

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wow that was one weird noise

it wasn't me

mama

[Applause]

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must have got some dirt in my eye

and i want you to have these necklaces

as awards for helping me and my little

ling ling find each other again

you are all heroes big hero

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you heard what ling ling's mother called

us heroes big heroes

too bad there's no parade who says

this parade goes all the way back to the

village hey

maybe next time we can try to catch

something really scary

a lion oh or a huge elephant

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huh

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uh

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festival's coming soon are your friends

entering the best lantern contest this

year

of course they are the whole village is

entering

they all want to win the prize for best

lantern such a wonderful honor

everyone is so proud of the winner

oh perhaps i should enter this contest

too

mama come quickly i have an idea

one so important it cannot wait i have

decided to enter the lantern festival

contest this year

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let me think this year is the year of

the tiger

so of course we'll make a tiger lantern

but how do we make one so special i'll

surely win the contest

i've got it i'll dedicate the lantern to

tai tai

i'll write a love poem and attach it to

the lantern

the judges won't resist a man romancing

his own wife

well it's all glued together now

not bad is it when i get this glue off

my tail i can start writing his poem on

the scroll

[Laughter]

look at his sloppy calligraphy no wonder

the magistrate needs us

to my love dumpling thai tai my sweet

little lotus blossom pie

i will love you for eternity by the

light

of this lanternity

what verses he calls this love poetry

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the magistrate will be depending on your

beautiful art to win the lantern contest

that poem's certainly not going to win

him the first prize

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[Applause]

hey what's that thing oh it's beautiful

come on let's get a closer look

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it looks so real you can almost hear it

growl you can almost see it

pouncing i bet it wins best lantern for

sure

well the lantern might be cool but this

poem is really yucky

ew yuck all this lovey-dovey stuff

i think love notes are sweet well you

haven't read this one

what's a love note

come on you guys let's see what's been

going on in here all day

are you coming with me

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oh those dumplings sure were heavy

what does cook stuff them with sand

if you didn't gobble up everyone that

fell on the floor you'd have more pep

i try to keep my physique what are they

up to

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wow what a great lunch

i could eat all day

will you settle down and keep quiet

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hey i smell

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the wild tiger

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oh

get me out of here i'm stuck

false alarm hold it these tigers only

colored paper

yeah but they're real

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those little cats mean business let's

get out of here

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we k*lled the tiger now our master won't

win

the contest hey it's not our fault those

sleeve dogs started it

that doesn't matter dongwa look at this

mess

gee i guess we overreacted huh

yeah i guess it's up to us to fix the

lantern

i can glue the sponge we tour i can

color the patches and repaint his face

and i'll redo that love poem if only i

could remember those

yucky words great but we better hurry

the magistrate will probably be back

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[Applause]

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soon

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oh i think maybe we rushed a little too

much

i like it there's no time to do it any

better

your magistrate i can't wait to see your

prize winning lantern

it is a best quality lantern if i do say

so myself

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oh sire what a

um what a creation what happened to my

beautiful lantern i can't show my face

at the festival with this

catastrophe as my entry i'll be the

laughingstock of the entire province

but your excellency commander of all he

surveys

this is no time for modesty the people

are expecting your entry

they don't like it what can we do so the

magistrate wins best lantern

think positive great idea

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oh you say that this is the magistrates

entry

why yes it is well

i'm absolutely speechless is it

modern art uh

well i think it must be

what a stroke of genius

what's on the screw it's a pulling

it looks as if it's a love poem to the

wife of the magistrate

oh it's written in the most beautiful

calligraphy but it's in the old style

such beautiful writing but i can't make

out more than a word here and there

hmm there's wife

there's lotus flower and

there's love other than that i can't

read the old style characters oh

but it's so beautiful to look at

and to think of paying tribute to her

with the ancient style

oh what an ingenious concept

my dear i had no idea you were such a

forward-thinking renaissance man

well my delicate icon there are many

things you don't

know about me well your worthiness

there's nothing wrong with second prize

why it's a very good prize

don't worry your excellency with all

this tiger lanterns

it was a relief to find the one that

didn't actually

oh look like a tiger

such a progressive design and your

impeccable creativeness

there's always next year

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too bad i thought it was a beautiful

lantern

we all worked so hard to put it back

together

it's funny the judges liked the lantern

just the way it was

they liked the way we fixed it at least

we know we did our best

and those judges are right second place

is good too

and donggua's love poem was so

pretty yeah and just how did you pull

that

off well papa gave me a lesson in old

style calligraphy last week when i

couldn't remember the words of the poem

i decided to use the ancient style i was

hoping the judges won't be able to

actually read it

you know what maybe next year we should

enter the lantern festival

it's a lovely lantern my dear

lovely and different

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if i didn't know better i'd think that

poem was in your tail writing style

dongwa

oh it's a long story bubba

you see first the sleeve dogs made a

mess of your lantern

and we tried fixing

maybe you should tell us tomorrow

something tells me it's an interesting

story

with a very happy ending

and to think you wrote a beautiful love

poem to me

and in that beautiful old style

calligraphy

i didn't even know that you knew the old

style

well my precious speech as i said i have

many talents you don't know about

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so

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