Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

The Tales of Ba Sing Se (2006)

Melinda Clarke: Madame Macmu-Ling

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• Madame Macmu-Ling : Five, seven then five syllables mark a Haiku. remarkable oaf.

  Sokka : They call me Sokka, that is, in the Water Tribe. I am not an oaf.

  [Students laugh] 

  Madame Macmu-Ling : Chittering monkey. in the spring he climbs treetops, and thinks himself tall.

  [Students Ooh] 

  Sokka : You think you're so smart, with your fancy little words. this is not so hard.

  [Students Ooh louder] 

  Madame Macmu-Ling : Whole seasons are spent, mastering the form, the style. None calls it easy.

  Sokka : I calls it easy, like I paddle my canoe. I'll paddle yours, too.

  [Students laugh again] 

  Madame Macmu-Ling : There's nuts and there's fruits. In the fall the clinging plumb drops, always to be squashed.

  [steps on a plumb] 

  Sokka : Squish, sqaush, sling that slang, I'm always right back at ya like my... boomerang.

  [pulls out his boomerang in her face] 

  Sokka : That's right, I'm Sokka. It's pronounced with an Okka. Young ladies, I rocked ya!

  [counting fingers realizing his last line had 6 syllables, not 5] 

  Security guard : Uh, that's one too many syllables there, bub.

  [picks up Sokka and throws him out] 

  Sokka : [hits the ground with a disgusted look on his face]  Poetry.