History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll

--> G. Iroh: "You two are so busy fighting, you fail to notice your ship has launched!"

--> Iroh: "It is not a proverb! Look! ({{Beat}}) Maybe it should be a proverb..."

* * IceCreamKoan: lampshaded

FunnyBackgroundEvent: Iroh imitating the weird grin of the monkey statue while Zuko is first talking to the pirates.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Iroh imitating the weird grin of the monkey statue while Zuko is first talking to the pirates.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After yelling at Aang and seeing him cry, Katara immediately feels bad for what she said and apologizes sincerely. Then she does the same for Momo, who had been whipped earlier by a failed water whip.

* TalkingTheirWayOut: Sokka attempts this. Zuko [[GenreSavvy sees through it instantly]] -- the pirates do not.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Iroh's Pai Sho piece. The lotus tile is actually a part of his secret code to contacting 'The Order of the White Lotus', of which he is a grand master.

* InsistentTerminology: They're not pirates, they're 'high risk traders'.

* SpoofAesop: The lesson is, "stealing is wrong... unless its from pirates!"... which, if nothing else, refreshingly keeps the episode from being {{Anvilicious}}.

* BrokenAesop: On purpose- the lesson is, stealing is wrong...unless its from pirates!
** Which, if nothing else, refreshingly keeps the episode from being {{Anvilicious}}.

* ShipTease: It's widely agreed that this episode is when the concept of "Zutara" really took off.

** Which, if nothing else, refreshingly keeps the episode from being {{Anvillicious}}.

** Also, on the pirate ship, Sokka mentions looking at their "collection of boomerangs".

* ShipTease: It's widely agreed that this episode is when the concept of "Zutara" really took off.
* TastyGold: A quote from this episode is the TropeNamer.

* ShipTease: It's widely agreed that this episode is when the concept of "Zutara" really took off.

The gang stops in a village for supplies, although they are running dangerously low on money. However, while shopping, they come across interest merchandise sold by rather questionable pirates- er, I mean, 'high risk traders'. Among their wares is an expensive water bending scroll, which Katara steals to help both herself and Aang learn water bending. To her annoyance, it seems Aang quickly surpasses her in the skill, and her jealousy begins to take control. Meanwhile, Iroh goes shopping for his missing Pai Sho piece, and Zuko catches wind that the pirates are after a familiar sounding trio, and so they join forces.

* LintValue: Aang tries to haggle for the waterbending scroll. He offers one copper piece. Then, okay, how about two copper pieces? (He gets kicked out of the shop.)

* LintValue: Aang tries to haggle for the waterbending scroll. He offers one copper piece. Then, okay, how about two copper pieces? (He gets kicked out of the shop.)

* InsistentTerminology: They're not pirates, they're 'high risk traders'.

* ChekhovsGun: Aang's bison whistle, and in the later seasons too.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Iroh's Pai Sho piece. [[spoiler: The lotus tile is actually a part of his secret code to contacting 'The Order of the White Lotus', of which he is a grand master.]]

* ForeShadowing: Iroh's Pai Sho piece. [[spoiler: The lotus tile is actually a part of his secret code to contacting 'The Order of the White Lotus', of which he is a grand master.]]

* Foreshadowing: Iroh's Pai Sho piece. [[spoiler: The lotus tile is actually a part of his secret code to contacting 'The Order of the White Lotus', of which he is a grand master.]]

* BrokenAesop: On purpose- the lesson is, stealing is wrong...unless its from pirates!
* ForeShadowing: Iroh's Pai Sho piece. [[spoiler: The lotus tile is actually a part of his secret code to contacting 'The Order of the White Lotus', of which he is a grand master.]]

* BrokenAesop: On purpose- the lesson is, stealing is wrong...unless its from pirates!
* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Averted. The trio gets to keep the water bending scroll, and the actual stealing from the pirates isn't painted particularly badly.