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The Tales of Ba Sing Se (2006)

Melinda Clarke: Madame Macmu-Ling

The Tales of Ba Sing Se

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Melinda Clarke credited as playing...

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

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