History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarDay

** The town ''was'' previously known for yearly festival, which (aside from celebrating their hatred of the avatar) was famous for their delicious fried pastries. Now that they ''don't'' fry their pastries (to honor that the avatar was not boiled in oil), they don't even have that going for them.

* BullyingADragon: The entire episode revolves around a town of non-benders, with no non-bending warriors, threatening the Avatar, not pausing to consider just how stupid an idea that is. When Aang fights off the Fire Nation at the end of the episode, he shows that if it weren't for his good nature he could have just whipped them at the start.

* ShapedLikeItself: According to Tong, the reason everyone loved Chin the Great was "because he was so great".

** The Chin villagers are also this, honestly, without a shadow of a doubt believing that imprisoning the Avatar and trying to execute him is a good idea, never once stopping to consider the possibility that killing him will screw them over in the process.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Chin. He's revered as a hero by the villagers despite being a conquering megalomaniac. Subverted, when the villagers hear Kyoshi's confession and are saved from the Rough Rhinos by Team Avatar.

* ClearMyName: Aang decides he has to clear the Avatar's name when the citizens of a town accuse Avatar Kyoshi, one of Aang's past lives, of murdering their leader 370 years earlier. Of course, it was subverted when Kyoshi herself confessed to the murder.

* KangarooCourt: Chin Village's legal system turns out to be this way. Evidence is not allowed, nor is anything resembling a defense.

* KangarooCourt: Chin Village's legal system turns out to be this way. Evidence is not allowed, nor is anyth

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Chin. He's revered as a hero by the villagers despite being a conquering megalomaniac. Subverted

* DetectivesFollowFootprints: Sokka uses his magnifying glass to inspect the tiny footprint believed to be Avatar Kyoshi. In the end, though, the footprint is revealed to actually be Chin's, not Kyoshi's.

* BreatherEpisode: For the Gaang, at any rate. No Azula, just some angry locals.

* DetectivesFollowFootprints: Sokka uses his magnifying glass to inspect the giant footprint of Avatar Kyoshi.

->''"That's why it's called justice: 'Cause it's just us!"''

* KangarooCourt: Chin Village's legal system turns out to be this way.

Aang manages to resolve the court issue by channeling the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi. To everyone's surprise, she pleads guilty to the charge of slaying Chin the Great... a megalomaniac conqueror bent on subjugating her people. When it became clear that diplomacy would not solve anything, Avatar Kyoshi separated her people's peninsula from the mainland, creating the "Kyoshi Island" territory seen in the first season, and sending Chin the Great [[DisneyVillainDeath plummeting to his doom]]. Deliberations are interrupted by a band of Fire Nation raiders, the "Rough Rhinos," who arrive and start busting up the town; Aang is sentenced to the "community service" of seeing them off. The final scene is of Aang, Katara and Sokka in the center of a no-longer-sarcastic Avatar Day.
They still don't enjoy it, though.

* BreatherEpisode: For the Gaang, at any rate. No Azula, or Fire Nation troops, just some angry locals.
* BubblePipe: Sokka gets one for his Sherlock Holmes impression.

* TheBusCameBack: Averted, despite the return to Kyoshi Island, Suki does not reappear, having decided to take part in the war, thanks of the Gaang's last visit, along with the rest of the warriors.

* NiceHat: In a nice touch, Sokka wears as part of his "Sherlock Holmes" get-up, not a Holmes (western) deerstalker, but the traditional winged cap worn by Chinese magistrates who featured in old-time ''Chinese'' detective novels (see van Gulik's ''Literature/JudgeDee'' works).

--> "That's why it's called justice: 'Cause it's just us!"

* BullyingTheDragon: The entire episode revolves around a town of non-benders, with no non-bending warriors, threatening the Avatar, not pausing to consider just how stupid an idea that is. When Aang fights off the Fire Nation at the end of the episode, he shows that if it weren't for his good nature he could have just whipped them at the start.
** Chin in the backstory. He picked a fight with Kyoshi, flat out threatening her to her face.

* DisorganizedOutlineSpeech: Aang's defense.

* ShadowArchetype The Chin village to Kyoshi Island. Whilst Kyoshi Island greatly revere the Avatar as their founder and savior, Chin Village hates the Avatar for killing Chin and reducing their Empire to a measly town.

* TheBusCameBack: Averted, despite the return to Kyoshi Island, Suki does not reappear, having decided to take part in the war, thanks of the Gaang's last visit, along with the rest of the warriors.
** But the head of Kyoshi Island does return. As does Koko, Aang's fangirl, and Foamy Mouth Guy.

* NiceHat: In a nice touch, Sokka wears as part of his "Sherlock Holmes" get-up, not a Holmes (western) deerstalker, but the traditional winged cap worn by Chinese magistrates who featured in old-time ''Chinese'' detective novels (see van Gulik's JudgeDee works).

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Katara's idea of having Aang were Kyoshi's clothes to summon her spirit. It does work, only for Kyoshi to admit her guilt.

** But the head of Kyoshi Island does return.

* {{Badass}}: Kyoshi manages to perform the most impressive on-screen feat for an Avatar yet, splitting an entire island off from the mainland.

* NiceHat: In a nice touch, Sokka wears as part of his "Sherlock Holmes" get-up, not a Holmes (western) deerstalker, but the traditional winged cap worn by Chinese magistrates who featured in old-time ''Chinese'' detective novels.

* NiceHat: In a nice touch, Sokka wears as part of his "Sherlock Holmes" impression, not a Holmes (western) deerstalker, but the traditional winged cap worn by Chinese magistrates who featured in old-time ''Chinese'' detective novels.

* NiceHat: In a nice touch, Sokka wears as part of his "Sherlock Holmes" impression, not a Holmes deerstalker, but the traditional winged cap worn by Chinese magistrates who featured in old-time ''Chinese'' detective novels.

* {{Badass}}: Kyoshi manages to perform the most impressive on-screen feat for an Avatar yet, splitting an entire island off through the mainland.