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In 2020, The Harvard Crimson ranked the episode as the 34th best episode of the series writing "The origin of 'There is no war in Ba Sing Se.' When Jet accuses Zuko of being a firebender hiding in Iroh's tea shop, he jumps at the opportunity to duel a customer. As someone who has worked in a coffee shop: Honestly, same." [9]
"The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is the 15th episode of the second season of the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the 35th episode overall. The episode, directed by Ethan Spaulding, originally aired on Nickelodeon on September 29, 2006. It features six short vignettes of several of the series's main characters as they go ...
Meanwhile, Zuko and Iroh gain tickets from the ticketmaster to enter Ba Sing Se. While waiting for the train to pick them up, Iroh orders tea only to find it is cold. Once again, Jet tries to get Zuko to join the Freedom Fighters but Zuko declines. Jet notices that Iroh's tea is now hot and concludes Iroh and Zuko are firebenders.
Zuko catches him and instead teaches him how to use them. Five years earlier, Zuko and his mother Ursa receive a letter from Iroh stating that he has broken through the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se. Alongside the letter, Iroh gifts Zuko an Earth Kingdom knife and Zuko's sister Azula an Earth Kingdom doll, which
Prior to the events in The Last Airbender, Iroh was the firstborn son of Fire Lord Azulon, but Azulon was succeeded by his second son, Ozai, following Iroh's retreat from military affairs [4] after his son Lu Ten died in the siege of the Earth Kingdom's capital Ba Sing Se, which had held against numerous successive Fire Nation efforts at capture during the duration of the Hundred Year War.
Zuko and Iroh travel to the walled city of Ba Sing Se and find employment at a tea shop in the slums. Zuko reluctantly adapts to his new life until he learns of Aang's presence in Ba Sing Se and attempts to steal Aang's pet bison Appa. However, Iroh convinces Zuko to abandon his quest and let Appa go.
As Appa roams around, he meets Pathik, a guru that wishes to help the Avatar. Pathik lets Appa sleep, saying how Appa must let the clouds in his mind part and be at peace, and in the morning, he asks Appa to deliver a message to Aang. He attaches a letter to Appa's horn and tells him to find Aang in Ba Sing Se.
Zuko picks it up, triggering a trap that encases him and Aang in slime. They are apprehended by the Sun Warriors, who had been living in secret. The tribe instruct Aang and Zuko to carry pieces of an eternal flame to the masters Ran and Shaw; Aang, who burned Katara's hands during a prior attempt at firebending, [b] hesitates. However, the Sun ...