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Short summary

The gang, now hiding at Ember Island, watch a play about themselves and their adventures.

The Ember Island play actually spoofs the series itself, and the play's characters are mostly caricature versions of the series characters. In a more subtle spoof, Sokka notes that it was really unclear in the play whether Jet and "Combustion Man" died or not. This ambiguity is true for the series itself. Also, Toph says that she prefers herself being played by a big muscular guy. Originally, Toph was indeed supposed to be a big guy, and not a very small girl. The name of the play is "The Boy in the Iceberg" - just like the first episode of the series.

Derek Basco, who plays Actor Zuko, is the brother of Dante Basco, the voice actor for Zuko.

The design of the poster for the play mimics the design of the DVD cover for the complete first season.

John DiMaggio who voices the Actor Toph on this episode has worked with Dante Basco (Zuko) and Mae Whitman (Katara) on another animated series, American Dragon: Jake Long. DiMaggio voices the title character's talking dog/animal guardian. Basco voices the title character Jake while Whitman voices his love interest Rose.

"Actor" Azula is voiced by Grey DeLisles friend Tara Strong ( who had done some additional voice work on in the series ).

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    • Author: Cae
    Lets talk writing for a moment. Shakespeare (who, historians of the future will find, may not have actually written his plays) used the "play within a play" concept. The ancient Greeks used it. And if Plato is to be believed, there was a far more ancient version of Greece which, for the sake of argument, may have used the device too. So it is old. And it is tricky, to do it right. And yet here we are in one of the closing episodes of -- if you take this series at face value -- a children's cartoon show, and, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the head writer gives himself a "time out" to have his characters discover that a local playwright has done a play on them, and they trot off to see it. In what quickly became my favourite episode of what may be the best narrative of the last 100 years (better than Matrix, better than Star Wars, better than Citizen Kane) the characters become entranced with the way each of them is presented on stage, and start to argue among themselves about whether the characterization is fair or not. For example TOF discovers her character is played by a buff male body builder and she loves it. Ang discovers that his character is played by a girl (remember that Mary Martin played Peter Pan on Broadway!) and is devastated. However the fact that the viewer can relate to this massively entertaining episode is a tribute to the writing team behind this astonishing show. A show based on metaphysics of an order of magnitude seldom seen or understood in the mundane world. A show where the writers had some 50 or so opportunities to prove that they could not sustain the quality of the early scripts, and not only sustained them, but surpassed them. Astonishing. Just astonishing.
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    • Author: Buriwield
    Perfect episode to give you a quick refresher before the big finale. Also the writers are on top of their game with the comedy they twist into it. It's a definitely a better retelling then the live action movie.
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    • Author: Malalrajas
    I love "Avatar: The Last Airbender series," however, this one episode just felt like fluff. Most of it could be just cut off and the show would continue uninterrupted. Not to mention, it had created a big plot hole; how did the actors know so much about the Avatar team? They seemed to know a lot about what had happened behind closed doors, in private, and even though they didn't get everything right it was almost scary to see how much they knew. So, who was behind the play and how did he/she get all of that information? Big plot hole.
  • Episode cast overview:
    Zach Tyler Zach Tyler - Aang / Kid (voice) (as Zach Tyler Eisen)
    Mae Whitman Mae Whitman - Katara (voice)
    Jack De Sena Jack De Sena - Sokka (voice) (as Jack DeSena)
    Jessie Flower Jessie Flower - Toph (voice)
    Dante Basco Dante Basco - Prince Zuko (voice)
    Dee Bradley Baker Dee Bradley Baker - Appa / Momo / Actor Bumi / Actor Jet / Additional Voices (voice)
    Jennie Kwan Jennie Kwan - Suki / Actress Yue (voice)
    Rachel Dratch Rachel Dratch - Actress Aang (voice)
    Grey Griffin Grey Griffin - Actress Katara (voice) (as Grey DeLisle)
    Tara Strong Tara Strong - Actress Azula (voice)
    Scott Menville Scott Menville - Actor Sokka / Additional Voices (voice)
    Derek Basco Derek Basco - Actor Zuko (voice) (as Derek Bosco)
    John DiMaggio John DiMaggio - Actor Toph / Actor Uncle (voice)
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