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01x34 - All Grown Up / The Cat and the Wind

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.

01x34 - All Grown Up / The Cat and the Wind

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my best friend

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my best friends

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[Applause]

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what's all the fuss about wow i found a

treasure map really attic baba

a real one oh my this takes me back

i drew this a long time ago when i was

she was age

oh really

i had no idea it was so old

old can you take us to find the treasure

baba

please i'm way past my treasure hunting

days

besides whatever i put in that hiding

place is probably long gone

but i want to go anyway oh shigura

you're too little to go on a treasure

hunt you'd get lost

no i wouldn't

i just can't imagine you being young

bubba

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tell me the truth do i seem old to you

of course not your coat is almost as

shiny as the day i met you

almost

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i really wish baba would take us on that

treasure hunt

should we ask again not now we're fixing

this old kite

you want to watch us fly it i always

have to watch why can't

i hold the string you're too little

silly

that's not true i'm not a baby anymore

chica time for your nap

i can't wait to grow up

do i really look this old

all i need is a little dab here and

there to make this

old coat shiny again

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[Laughter]

notice anything why you've done

something to your fur

it looks um different

i feel great

four years younger at least that's good

you'll need all that energy to finish

writing these scrolls

ah my work can wait i feel like playing

kick it over here you show up

what happened to baba's hair you know

i used to be pretty good at this when i

was your age

that was really good sir oh don't call

me sir i'm not that old

what do you say are you up for a game i

don't know bubba

we play pretty hard what you don't think

i can keep up

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not bad huh

hey what are you doing hi fufu saguan

dong was kind of stuck

i'm going to get it down hey i'll fly up

and knock it loose for you

no it's a grown-up job that's why i want

to do it

all by myself

i think it's coming loose whoa

wait i got you

i've seen lots of backflip kicks before

but

never followed by a landing on your head

i'm so embarrassed okay who's ready for

more um what about the scrolls

bubba yeah shouldn't you be getting

back to work who wants to spend the day

working when we can spend it playing

wow oh

oh who am i kidding i'm not a kid

anymore

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i got sago's kite down from the tree all

by myself

with just a little help from the wind

pretty grown up huh

now can we go on the treasure hunt the

treasure hunt

of course we can what a fun idea um

are you sure you feel up for it bubba

are you kidding

i've got my second wind i'm a leader

i get to go first fine with us

yes i remember frog rock

see that means we're on the right path

to the waterfall

and the treasure i'll fly ahead and

survey the area

okay troops keep in line

follow me

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i can do this by myself okay okay

i was just trying to help

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i did it hey wait for me

i'm the leader remember

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i'm bored are we there yet

how should i know i don't even know

where there is

hey you guys want to learn a neat trick

it's a duck call oh

sure bubba like a duck is ever gonna

think that's real

i want to try

that sounded more like a baby duck great

news

the waterfall's just ahead we're almost

there

come on guys let's hurry up

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this is definitely the place the

treasures down there

inside a tree

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if you're going to stay leader you

better get in front of them

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is this your treasure papa no but it's a

very nice rock

i found it in an old tree we couldn't

find a secret hiding place in any of the

trees

but we did find a plum tree in that

field over there

can we go get some plums i'm hungry

no it's late i think it's time we head

home

wait that's the old baba talking we

don't want him around do we

yay no you better stay here with fufu

we'll bring some back

whoops

they're treating me like a baby again

it's not fair

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maybe this isn't the best idea

be careful i just have to get to that

next

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rock

i'll lift you up no i'll get out by

myself

i better get some help for us

this was a lot easier years ago a little

help

over here

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i'm sorry about that i think she needs

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you

i can get to her baba no dangua i need

your help

we need to get this branch into the

current all together

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push

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it's all right i'm here what are we

going to do now

don't worry we'll still manage to get

down

hang on tight to me

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see everything's okay

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i think i tried too hard to be grown up

i know how you feel i think i tried too

hard to be young

my hiding spot

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when i was your age i couldn't wait to

grow up too

so i hid my kitten collar hoping

everyone would stop thinking i was a

baby

really when you're ready to take off

your collar

you now have a special place to hide it

too

i don't think i'm ready to do that yet

no need to rush but i'm proud of how you

tried new things today

like being the leader that's exactly how

you do grow up

and you know what baba working like a

duck is a good way to act like a kid

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you were amazing back there

how did you know to make a bridge with

the branch well

knowing things is the benefit of being

old like me

not such a bad thing after all huh papa

i don't want to be the leader anymore

can i ride on your back

sure you can

this is one thing i hope i never get too

big to do

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[Applause]

wow that's a beautiful flower

it makes me feel so happy just looking

at it

oh i think i can almost smell it um

don't be silly chica it's just a drawing

and by the way it smells like paper and

ink well i still think it's

beautiful oh come on you gotta be

kidding me it's just a picture and not

even a good one at that

stop it yeah cut it out i was gonna give

that to shigura

oh my beautiful flower

it's ruined look what you did

hey don't blame me you guys ripped it

when you tried to grab it

we did not oh yes you did

my beautiful flower what's all this

noise about dongla made fun of me when i

said how beautiful selfless painting was

yeah he said it was just a picture

and that it was ugly i did not

yes you did and then he ripped it

i did not

i'm surprised that you didn't see the

beauty in sogg was drawing

but it's only a silly old picture a

picture is not silly

and it can make people feel many

different emotions

art is very powerful now

this is powerful yeah

well yes it is but that's a different

sort of power

huh well perhaps i should tell you the

story of one of your most

powerful ancestors ever the legendary

ming-meow of china did he do gunfu

too no dongwa he was an

artist wha

once upon a time there was a young cat

named

ming miao who had a great talent for

drawing

but more than just being beautiful

minyau's paintings had an incredibly

magical quality his drawings

actually came to life whatever he drew

became

real ming yao had a

very good heart and so he only drew

good and beautiful things

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soon the word of ming yao's

extraordinary talents began to spread

across the land

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cats and people from all over the

countryside flock to see his paintings

and drawings spring to life

[Applause]

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oh

and he continued to do only good things

with his precious

gift and talent

it seems that the emperor had also heard

of

his talents and he wanted to see for

himself just exactly what all the fuss

was about

so the guards put ming now in a cage and

took him off to the emperor's palace

and for the first time in ming yao's

happy life tears streamed down his face

why was he crying well wouldn't you cry

if a bunch of guards came and put you in

a cage

and took you away from your home

poor ming meow

but once he got to the emperor's palace

he was taken to his very

own room it was filled with a

thousand colors of ink and more blank

scrolls than ming yao could count

he cheered up the emperor must love

paintings too

he told himself

he continued to paint his lovely magical

pictures

but the emperor was evil and he had

other ideas he wanted

to draw horrible cyclones to destroy his

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enemies

that wasn't enough even bigger

sandstorms to blind his foes

once the evil emperor realized the

tremendous power of ming yao's drawings

he could not stop himself and he forced

ming-mio to draw

one horrible catastrophe after another

lightning

firestorms floods even

sharks sharks yes even

sharks but mama

how could it be that ming meow was

forced to do such evil things

yeah what an awful end to such a great

story

not so quickly

ming-meow did not want to draw these

evil things

so instead he had to come up with a plan

to distract the emperor

he drew a fantastic sailing ship for the

emperor

with tall masts and gigantic sails

the next day ming yao presented the

drawing to the emperor

who owed an awed over the magnificent

ship

and right before the emperor's eyes the

incredible ship

magically began to come to life

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as it sailed through the air the ship

became

bigger and bigger well as you can

imagine

the emperor was amazed he could not

believe his eyes

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my my said the emperor with this

fine vessel as the flagship of my mighty

navy

we will never again lose a battle at sea

and so the emperor boarded his new ship

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the emperor was so taken with the ship's

gigantic

sails that he failed to notice that

ming-meow had not drawn a rudder

a ship's wheel nor any other way to

steer the ship

no the emperor was so greedy that he

could only admire the vast size of his

amazing new ship

and of course he couldn't wait to take

it out to sea

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and no sooner were they all on board

then ming yao drew

a strong and steady wind which

blew the ship and the emperor and his

imperial guards

straight out to sea for many hundreds of

miles

now as we already know ming-meow was

good

and not cruel and evil so he had drawn

fruit

and vegetables and food and drinking

water on the ship

so the emperor and his guards would not

starve

and several hundred miles offshore

miniow drew a lush

island which sprang to life right in

front of the ship

and that is where the emperor and his

imperial guards landed

and after they had landed on the island

ming yao drew a gigantic ring of rocky

reefs and shoals around the island

so that the emperor and his guards would

never be able to leave

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so for the rest of their lives the evil

emperor and his guards

lived on that island with more than

enough food and fresh water to live a

full life

but far far away from the people of

china

whom they could have harmed

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what happened to ming meow well

that's a very interesting question

i suppose he could have remained at the

emperor's palace where he could have

ruled china

couldn't he and he could have used his

art to control the people

no migno would never have used his art

for evil he would have never done that

my goodness dongwa you have been paying

attention

and yes you're right ming meow would

have never used his art for evil

instead he returned to his home

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back to this very village where he

continued to draw

only good things

where he became the official cat

calligrapher to that province's

magistrate

just like us well yes

how do you think we learn to write and

draw

it's been passed down from generation to

generation

ever since ming yao all the way down

to the three of you so you see

a picture can be very powerful

yeah but mine don't come to life and

neither do sogwas

or she was but they still have

power was that really a true story mama

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[Applause]

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