Bend Hard, Play Hard
February 2, 2017 5:11 AM   Subscribe

The source is Avatar [: The Last Airbender] and it's one of my all-time favorite shows. I wanted to make something that showed both sides of the show—hilarious but badass.
posted by Sokka shot first (19 comments total)

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Weird, in the last few weeks, Avatar references have come flooding back into my life out of nowhere. Just last night, in fact, when faced with the possibility that my kids may have yet again brought head lice home from school, my son asked "Does this mean we get to watch all of Avatar after dinner while you comb us out like we did last time?" Before that it was a sudden craving to listen to Sifu Hotman almost daily, which I'm still not over.

There have been others. Now this. Either the universe wants me to rewatch all of this and Korra too, or else I should paint a blue arrow on my bald-ass head.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:38 AM on February 2, 2017 [3 favorites]


Does this mean we get to watch all of Avatar

Watch your incentive structure there, mct.
posted by Segundus at 5:58 AM on February 2, 2017 [7 favorites]


else I should paint a blue arrow on my bald-ass head.

Definitely that one. Also you should bring us pictures.

if we're dressing up as Avatar characters, dibs on Toph
posted by sciatrix at 6:23 AM on February 2, 2017 [1 favorite]


I'm trying to get my 8 year old to watch A:TLA as his next binge watch, and this video may do the trick to hook him (all parental suggestions being suspect, of course)

I'm not a Macklemore fan, but I liked that song (it's the first time I heard it) - does that make me a bad person?
posted by Mchelly at 6:25 AM on February 2, 2017


Mchelly i still like this song. it's poppy and uplifting song . I can't hate that.


(maybe I will need to watch this show now?)
posted by vespabelle at 7:16 AM on February 2, 2017


Everyone should watch this show. It's about a multi-racial bunch of kids fighting off an insane power-hungry child-abusing megalomaniac to save the world. Plus, it has adorable flying six-legged bison.
posted by suelac at 8:21 AM on February 2, 2017 [13 favorites]


just yesterday I was thinking to myself which TV show I wanted to (re)watch after I'm done with my current rewatch of Buffy... and the question has been answered now.
thanks! :)
posted by bigendian at 8:28 AM on February 2, 2017


Dislike - not enough Iroh, zero cabbage merchant.
posted by chainsofreedom at 9:15 AM on February 2, 2017 [8 favorites]


This reminds me I stopped watching Korra last fall somewhere in the middle of the story arc about how a fascist leader gains popularity and takes power. Can't remember what made me want to stop watching, weirdly.
posted by Space Coyote at 9:40 AM on February 2, 2017


The final scene of Korra dang near had me slackjawed. Did they just...does that mean that she...that they...in a cartoon?
posted by middleclasstool at 10:53 AM on February 2, 2017


Nice, makes me want to go back and watch again! I love the fast and well timed cuts.

This is my favorite fanvid - covers both Last Airbender and Legend of Korra with regard to how awesome the Bei Fongs are.
posted by capricorn at 11:23 AM on February 2, 2017 [6 favorites]


Okay, I am CONVINCED that there is a Toph vid set to "Bullpen" by Dessa, but I can't find it. I've found a Toph vid set to "Paper Planes" by MIA and I've seen the "Mama Said Knock You Out" one before; did my brain edit bits of them together into a nonexistent Dessa vid?

(this is the sort of question I used to be able to get answered on LJ. Sigh.)
posted by nonasuch at 11:36 AM on February 2, 2017


posted by Sokka shot first
Eponysterical!

thank you so much for a day-brightener.
posted by Jesse the K at 1:01 PM on February 2, 2017 [2 favorites]


Ooh, middleclasstool, thanks for the introduction to that Sifu Hotman track, that's real good.
posted by JDHarper at 6:04 AM on February 3, 2017 [4 favorites]


That's my RESIST anthem right there, yeah. The final verse is my mantra.

The whole album is good, angry and defiantly optimistic, and there's a fairly high level of nerdery to it without it feeling fan-servicey at all.
posted by middleclasstool at 11:09 AM on February 3, 2017


I fucking love Sifu Hotman. I also fucking love good snappy fanvids, so I'm rolling all over in this FPP like a dog when it's found something really good to smell like. Maybe dead fox.

Sokka shot first, your FPP is the dead fox of my heart. I wanna smell like it forever, I love it so much.

...Metaphorically, of course.
posted by sciatrix at 1:20 PM on February 3, 2017


Here is where I mention that the Voltron reboot is on Netflix, is really good, and put together by folks that did ATLA. Go watch!
posted by emjaybee at 11:25 AM on February 4, 2017 [1 favorite]


Also if the ending of Korra got you excited, well, Steven Universe will make you extremely happy.

We are living in such a golden age of animation, and I love it.
posted by emjaybee at 11:36 AM on February 4, 2017 [2 favorites]


All my favorite ATLA/LOK vids (plus the Sifu Hotman track, which I adore) are here, except for Lizzie S's Salute, so I'm fixing that. Four minutes of the ladies of the ATLAverse kicking ass -- enjoy!
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