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Iknik Blackstone Varrick: The Master of Platypus Bear Disguise

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Rebel Spirit

• The people who Bolin recruited might be familiar to those who remember which group of fans caught Tahno's helmet in the finals last season.
  • They get curb-stomped without much effort. It even went down as the quickest KO in history, even faster than the Wolfbats.
• Mako has a whole page full of Bond One-Liners and reads off some of them to Korra.
• Eska and Desna.
  Bolin: Whoa, who are the lovely ladies?
  Korra: That's Eska and Desna, the chief's children. Desna's a guy.
  Bolin: Oh no, sure, I knew that...
  [beat]
  Bolin: Which one is Desna?
  • Another one:
  Desna: I think he is trying to establish some kind of bond with you based on your geographic point of origin.
  • Eska provides an equal amount of amusing lines:
  Eska: You amuse me. I will make you mine.
  Bolin: You mean like... a boyfriend, orrr... like a slave?
  Eska: Yes.
  • Then she grabs Bolin by the collar, demanding that he win her something.
• Korra and the airbending children have an air scooter race. What does Korra do to get the upper hand? Use the Avatar State. And then blow a raspberry at the loser.
• When Tenzin is opening the scroll with all the air temples they're supposed to stop at, there's a tiny goofy little picture of Tenzin doing a thumb up pose◊ on where they're supposed to stop first.
• Everything about the introductory scene with Varrick.
  • The Mass "Oh, Crap!" everyone has when Bolin bluntly informs Varrick he cannot levitate.
  Varrick: Well, why didn't anyone tell me? Now I look like an IDIOT! Swami, you're FIRED!
  • The look on Bolin's face when he sees the supermodel Varrick introduces.
  • The way Varrick and Asami "seal" their business deal with a weird Staring Contest at "touching-noses" distance.
  Varrick: Look me in the eye... (Beat) WE GOT A DEAL!
• Korra and Mako play a carnival game involving water guns and a race to get Aang to the top (the image of 12-year-old Aang smiling that goofy smile in chibi form is itself a CMOF), and Korra is the only one failing to hit the target. Then she waterbends to increase the flow of her water and wins. The thing is, ''no one'' makes a comment about it. She still gets her prize. It's a plushie of Appa.
• Korra's "Uwu face"
• When Bumi's having trouble climbing up on Tenzin's bison, Tenzin gives him a hand by essentially kicking him up with airbending.
  • Even better is the way he does it. Tenzin doesn't look away from Katara at all, he just backhands it.
• Tenzin tries (and fails) to act tough when Kya reminds him about how she used to beat him up as kids.
  Tenzin: I'm not scared of you! (rubs arm where she playfully punched him) ...Anymore.
• Poor Tenzin spends the episode getting teased by his siblings and trying to get rid of Bumi.
  Kya: Don't tease him, Bumi, you know he's sensitive.
  Tenzin: I AM NOT SENSITIVE!
• In the beginning of the episode Jinora and Ikki get into a huge argument. Meelo's reaction is hilarious.
  Meelo: Fight fight fight!
  • The lines Jinora ("That doesn't make any sense!") and Ikki ("You don't make any sense!") use when fighting.
• Korra about Eska and Desna "Those two have always freaked me out. They smell like a grandma’s attic."

The Southern Lights

• The Southern Air Temple is populated by what can only be described as Air Nomad fanboys.
  • Then there's the way the fanboys snub Kya and Bumi as the "other" (read: not airbender) children, if they were aware they existed at all.
• Once again, Bolin's lack of subtlety when voicing what he thought of Tonraq when he revealed a bit of his backstory.
• Desna and Eska help Bolin deflate his suit with a surge of icicles.
• Eska freezing Bolin in ice when he hugs Korra.
  Eska: Why are you initiating physical contact with another woman?
• The Hard Cut to Desna and Eska riding in Bolin's sidecar, with a disgruntled Bolin grumbling at the fact that Desna is the third wheel. Then, in true brotherly fashion, Mako begins to tease Bolin about his little situation.
  Mako: Well, whaddaya know? Looks like—
  Bolin: (Deadpan) Go away, Mako.
• There's also Eska promising to protect Bolin and using a bluntly backhanded term of endearment... all in her characteristically flat monotone.
  Eska: Don't worry, I will protect you, my feeble turtle-duck.
• Meelo riding an air scooter around the Southern Air Temple and breaking a statue of a past avatar. (Remind you of A Voice In The Night?) Tenzin's reaction sells it.
  Tenzin: MEELO!
• After the dark spirits wreck Bolin's snowmobile, he has the very same disgruntled face he had during the "third wheel" scene, only this time he is being towed behind one of the mount animals (ridden by Desna and Eska) in the sidecar that was salvaged from the wreck.

Civil War Part 1

• Bumi ruining Tenzin's peace.
• Varrick at the top of the episode seems like he's just being his Cloudcuckoolander self regarding a shipment of his, but then clarifies he's not joking:
  Who wants to buy a ship full of stinking fish? (smashes plate) Seriously, it's not rhetorical. I need to sell these fish.
• Eska's disturbing sense of humor, and her and her brother's hilariously awkward laugh. She then orders Bolin to laugh at her "humorous" quip, but he laughs nervously.
• Bolin finally realizes he needs to get away from Eska, but Korra is not helpful.
  Bolin: Why didn't you warn me your cousin has the power to reach into my heart and crush my soul with her bare hands?!
  Korra: Uh... because I thought it was pretty obvious?
  Bolin: No, no, not to me it wasn't. I'm very bad at reading people, you should know that by now! Ah! Oh, man! Oh! Do something, Avatar!
• Mako, of all people, giving advice on how to break up with a girl. A nice little piece of Self-Deprecation from Mike and Bryan.
  Bolin: I'm lucky you're good at breaking girls hearts. Huh, Korra better watch out.
  (Mako glares at him)
  Bolin: Ooh... no it's uh... guh... you- uh, never mind.
• Meelo asks his Uncle Bumi one heck of a hilarious question: He points to his stomach and asks, "Do you have a baby in there?"
• Meelo mentions something about a "shark-squid" and Bumi starts going on about it in a way reminiscent of Moby Dick.
• Korra smiles when Mako suggests they have a private date, which fades to a supremely annoyed expression on said date (which Mako is sharing as the view pans to him), as somehow Bolin, Eska, and Desna ended up tagging along.
• A brief one. After hearing Jinora and Meelo confess that they teased Ikki too much, Pema goes through the same reaction Tenzin did on episode 1. Like husband, like wife.
• While searching for Ikki, Bumi tells Tenzin and Kya a ridicously over the top story.
  Bumi: You know this reminds me of a search and rescue mission I commanded years ago in the mountains of Ba Sing Se.
  Tenzin: Ahhh, here we go.
  Bumi: For five days we scoured that beast of a mountain fighting our way through blizzards, sandstorms, and three typhoons. Finally we found the men huddled in a cave, seconds from death. With no time to lose, I piled all twelve of those poor souls on my back and carried them down the mountain to safety.
  Tenzin: And how exactly is that supposed to help us find Ikki?
  Bumi: It was supposed to inspire you. Clearly you know nothing about being a leader of men. That's probably why the Avatar fired you.
  Tenzin: I'm sick of you far fetched tales. Three typhoons?!
  Bumi: Well. I might have added an extra typhoon in for dramatic effect.

Civil Wars Part 2

• Varrick going into hiding inside a platypus bear suit. What makes this all the more hilarious is that his assistant Zhu Li is also inside the suit, and she can make tea inside there.
  • Except the tea doesn't have honey.
    Varrick: No honey?! We're in a bear for crying out loud!
  • Not only that, but she gives people money through...
    Water Tribe Villager: That platypus bear is POOPING MONEY!!
  • Varrick is still in the suit, albeit with a captain's hat, as they're breaking through the blockade, leading to a moment of hilarity when one of the troops tries to identify the driver and sees a platypus bear at the controls, being hugged by Bolin in Eska/Desna robes.
    Trooper: Captain, you're never gonna believe this...
• Varrick gives bribing money to Bolin in order to control the trial to their favor. He ends up bribing the wrong people ( as in, he apparently just gave the money to two completely random guys), much to Asami's dismay. His toothy smile with thumbs up is what sells it.
• Eska's creepy marriage proposal when Bolin is about to dump her. The necklace she gives him? It's a BDSM collar that has a skull on it. Not to mention the look on her face when she shows it to Bolin. She looks so pleased with herself for thinking of a solution to her and Bolin's relationship problems.
  Korra: I'm pretty sure the guy is supposed to give the girl the betrothal necklace.
  Bolin: Yeah, well I guess Eska didn't get the memo!
• Varrick invented the aircraft carrier, by putting a plane on his ship. He failed to provide enough of a runway for it to take off.
  • And by "enough of a runway" we mean no runway at all. Unfortunately, Hiroshi got thrown in prison before he could invent VTOL-capable planes. Korra and Mako improvise by inventing the Human JATO Technique.
  Asami: And where is the runway?
  Varrick: Zhu Li. Reminder. Build up a runway.
• At the end, when Eska is chasing after the ship.
  Bolin: Quick Question: Is this thing fast enough to get away from my crazy water-bending ex-girlfriend?!
  Varrick: Why do you think I built this boat?
• Bolin and Pabu entering the room in full wedding gear. Mako's response: "I don't even want to know."
  • The kicker is that they're dressed just like the twins. Both of them.◊
  • Watch Bolin's hair. The back of it refuses to stay down.
  • The look on Pabu's face just screams "how did I get dragged into this?"

Peacekeepers

• After a stoic discussion with Unalaq about strategy, the North's general leaves the room... only to run into Eska, in what appears to be full wedding gear, with messed up hair and makeup from chasing after Bolin in the previous episode. He jumps about a foot in the air.
• Unalaq carefully emphasizing to Eska that he needs Korra alive. Clearly, he knows his daughter well.
• Seeing Lin for the first time since "Endgame" and seeing she has developed Deadpan Snarker traits.
  Lin: Welcome back, Avatar. Thanks for starting a war.
• When Korra is riding Naga at the head of the mourning crowd of Southerners, and the Northerners are booing her, someone yells "Get a real dog!"
• Lin's reaction to Mako breaking up with Korra.
  Lin: You got off easy. You should've seen Air Temple Island after Tenzin broke up with me.
  • Then there was her expression when she said it. It's as if Lin was proud for doing it.
  • A fan's interpretation of what happened.◊ Warning- NSFW.
• But before the above happen, we get a brilliant use of Gosh Dang It to Heck! with fantastic curse words:
  Lin: What the flameo happened here?
• The jab at the common mispronunciation of Mako's name.
• Bolin dressed up like a caveman for the "mover" Nuktuk: Hero Of The South... and the way he stares at Ginger. Again.
• Meelo taking Tenzin's training advice... and training not just his pet lemur Poki, but a whole army of flying lemurs.
  Tenzin (to himself): I've created a monster...
• Bolin's interview with Shiro, constantly forgetting the mike is still on.
  Bolin: Sometimes I cry myself to sleep at night.
• Varrick apparently supported both Raiko and his opponent in the election. "Gotta hedge your bets."
• Varrick brainstorms by eating a spicy pepper and hanging upside down.
  • Some of the ideas he comes up with are patently ridiculous. Like Hand-shoes.
• Varrick shows off his propaganda "movers" to Korra to win support for the Southern Water Tribe during their war with the North. During the video Eska faces the camera complete with Scare Chords causing Bolin to scream in terror.
  Bolin: Sorry. I keep doing that.

The Sting

• Varrick's mother's name used on the hijacked boat.
  Varrick: Rest in peace, Rocky Bottom.
• Mako goes to Bolin for help with his investigation but Bolin is too caught up in his stardom (and hot tub) to help and brushes him off. Mako gets back at him by firebending his hot tub making it extremely hot and erupt like a geyser.
  Bolin: OOWW!!! MY INSTRUMENT!!!
• The voice acting for Naga and Pabu In-Universe during the film. Actually, all the acting
  • The terrible acting of the movie in general. Almost reminiscent of The Ember Island Player's rendition of "The Boy in The Iceberg", right down to the propagandist overtones. It's basically a combination of the EIP play combined with a Captain America propaganda show thanks to the 20's style and utter ridiculousness.
• During the interrogation, Mako bursts in and starts arguing with Beifong along with Asami. Out of nowhere in the middle of the argument:
  Varrick: Whooooo's hungry??
• Mako's lame insult when he and Asami get booted out of police HQ.
  Mako: Lu and Gang are idiots. I hate them and their stupid mustaches.
• This episode contains the glorious sight of a bunch of Triad goons acting like school kids when told by Mako that he broke up with Korra.
  Two-Toed Ping: Yeah right. Like you broke up with the Avatar. Like that happened. Hey, Shady Shin! Viper! Mako says he broke up with the Avatar!
  Viper: Suuuure, he did.
  Shady Shin: Yeah, I did too.
  Mako: Alright, will you guys knock it off and do your job?!
  • Eska's anger face when chasing Korra is priceless.
  • Just a few minutes later, we find out how Two-Toed Ping got his nickname: after taking off his shoes, it's revealed that he has an extra toe on each of his feet, meaning that both feet have six toes—and the reason he couldn't call himself "Twelve-Toed Ping" was because there's already a guy who goes by that on the south side of Republic City!

Beginnings Part 1

• The true personality of the most ancient Avatar, Wan. He is very goofy, fun loving, mischievous and rebellious. Keep in mind that Wan is the first Avatar.
  • The nervous grin he gives when he gets caught has definitely been a characteristic that each Avatar has inherited.
• Wan humiliating the Chou brothers when he's stealing from them (pelting them with their own stolen food, luring them under a bunch of birds who get scared and defecate, etc). It almost feels like a Shout-Out to Aladdin.
• Wan is basically what happens if you imagined Sokka as the Avatar.
  Wan: (after being told you can't steal something) Really? Because I just did.
• Wan's first night in the forest, stumbling from one crisis to another.
  • He accidentally steps on a spirit frog who has a squeaky pitchy voice, and Wan sighs in relief saying, "It's just a frog". But then grows to its full size with a massive baritone.
• Wan's disguise as "Bushy the bush spirit" and all that gesturing.
• Wan asks where he could find another lion turtle.
  Guardian Spirit: Hmmm, I think it's on the other side of Nunya-Business Valley! (Laughs to himself)
  • Frustrated, Wan decides to walk away from the group of spirits and ends up falling into a deep part of the pond that he didn't notice.
  Spirit: (cheerfully waves after Wan falls into the deep end) Good luck!
• The guardian of the oasis referring to Wan as "Stinky". And saying that he's always wanted a pet human.
• The guardian taking over a Chu soldier, in the process transforming him to look more like the spirit. The soldier runs away screaming and the guardian says:
  Guardian Spirit: I don't know what he's screaming about. He's better looking now.
  • And then recalling the event, said that if he stayed longer, he could have killed him, which he casually admits he considered.
• The extremely fussy way that the Chou brothers run after Wan.

Beginning, Part 2

• When Wan finds the ancestors of the air nomads, the first thing they do is run in panic.
• How does Wan figure out how to get to the lion turtle up in the air? He creates a makeshift catapult from a tree, and he just barely makes it.
• Years later, after so much learning, becoming closer to the spirits than any other human ever, Wan is still called Stinky. It's said in a rather touching way but calling the avatar "stinky" is hilarious.

The Guide

• In the beginning, Bumi's telling his sister, Kya, that he once beat an earthbender in a rock-throwing contest.
• How did Korra know where to find Tenzin and the others? She remembered his itinerary. This prompts Tenzin to make a comment to his siblings about how scheduling is important.
• Korra's recap of the last few episodes.
  Tenzin: I knew this would happen!
  • Then his siblings immediately turn to look at him with looks that just scream "really dude?"
• After Tenzin admits he's never actually gotten into the Spirit World, everyone pokes their heads around the corner in shock one by one.
  • Special mention goes to Meelo who has Poki sitting on the side of his head with his own head tilted.
• Tenzin doubts Jinora's skills with the spirits, insisting they stay near the temple. Korra makes an excellent argument.
  Korra: No offense, but I'm guessing the Spirits have actually been to the Spirit World, so I'm gonna follow them.
  Bumi: If we need to go to the Tenzin World, we'll call you.
• The filming crew forgetting (or simply not caring enough to) get Bolin down during the lunch break. Even when he's the star of the show he has his Butt-Monkey moments.
• Bumi poking Tenzin with a very long branch after he's been meditating for hours.
• Bolin is outraged when Mako and Asami seem to be dating again, just days after Mako had broken up with Korra. Especially since a large part of the fanbase would see that as rather karmic.
• Bumi gets his own rabbit dragonfly spirit companion. He ends up naming in "Bumi Junior" (or "Bum-Ju" for short).
• Even if he's an evil Magnificent Bastard, Varrick remains funny as hell. He invites Mako to his room for some interrogation due to him suspecting Varrick's plans. When Mako enters and sees there's a hot coal bed between him and Varrick, he's all ready to resist torture...
  Varrick: The only thing I wanna torture is this foot fungus! (walks across a bed of hot coals) AH! OH! EE! HOT! [sighs] The burn means it's working!

A New Spiritual Age

• When Korra meets some meerkat-like spirits that are total jerks, she tries to bend at them, only for nothing to happen. Apparently, Tenzin forgot to tell her that bending doesn't work in the spirit world!
• Korra's antics as a kid are filled with with these, along with adorable moments.
  • At one point, she lampshades the oddity of a two-headed spirit marrying itself.
    • And the Spirit him/herself Comically Missing the Point.
• Wan Shi Tong's Discworld-esque idea of how a radio works. That is, he thinks tiny, singing and music-playing men live inside them.
  • When he receives part of a scientifically accurate explanation from Jinora, he cuts her off to give a glare to one of his foxes, who apparently told him that explanation, saying he had been misinformed. The fox lowers its head, whimpers, and sulks off.
  • Which counts as Stealth Pun, since even in the Spirit World, Fox News is as inaccurate as ever.
• Iroh says that the spirits had invented the game of Pai Sho, but the spirit he's playing Pai Sho with... appears to not be very good at it.

Night Of A Thousand Stars

• The entirety of the Nuktuk movie is cheesy enough to be melted between two slices of bread and be called a "grilled cheese," and that's exactly what makes it hilarious.
  • Adding to the humor is that the portrayal of Unalaq is actually pretty close to what he's like in reality; the only real difference is that his plan is to summon the god of chaos and darkness rather then use a doomsday device. Bolin even says "wait, Unalaq really has a doomsday device?"
• When Bolin goes to meet Mako in prison, he cannot stop pointing out that Mako is in prison. Because he's a criminal. And then he thinks he's aiming for an Insanity Defense.
• When Mako is released from prison, the entire scene.
  • Beifong's apology for not believing him.
    Beifong: Nice job, Mako. You're going to make a great detective.
    Lu: Uh, chief, there aren't any detective openings right now...
    Beifong: Actually, we have two openings. [Lu and Gang stare at each other in disbelief]
  • Korra runs up and kisses him while everyone (especially Asami) stares in shock. Apparently her amnesia is only mostly fixed, and she forgot about the fight.
    Korra: Was it a bad fight?
    Mako: Uhhhhhhh...
    [cut to everyone else giving him a judging stare]
    Mako: ...Mmmmm, no, no i-it wasn't that bad.
• The entirety of the scene where the reunited, new Team Avatar meet Varrick in prison. He's adapted quite well, since his company's the one who designed the prison and he anticipated he'd wind up in there one day. He pre-made a Luxury Prison Suite for himself and even managed to get Zhu Li in there with him!
  • Then there's his flabbergasted reaction at the gang still being pissed off at him even after all the "good" things he's done for them.
    Varrick: Korra, who warned you about Unalaq? I did! Bolin, who got you into the movers? I did! Asami, who saved your company? I did! Mako, who got you thrown in jail?! I did! Oh yeah, I guess that was a bad thing.
    • What makes it even funnier is that the camera moves down the line to show their expressions as he addresses them. Korra, Bolin, and Asami all soften a bit, but Mako glares at him.
  • The reason he calls his most powerful battleship Zhu Li? Because they're both "cold, heartless war machines." The fact that he says this in front of her face and she doesn't react at all just adds to the hilarity.
    • What she does react to is when he suggests that the crew "take Zhu Li." She glares at him until he clarifies, "the battleship."
• Shiro Shinobi couldn't help commentate on Bolin's fight with some water tribe assassins during the finale of Nuktuk. Complete with grabbing his fellow moviegoers and speaking with his usual announcer voice.
  • When Shinobi first grabs another audience member, the other guy has a look on his face that clearly says, "What the hell are you doing? Let go of me." We cut back to them after Bolin's taken out the last assassin, and that same guy's now got a grin on his face even bigger than Shinobi's.
• During the already hilariously overdramatic and completely ridiculous Nuktuk Movie, Bolin gets a Moment of Awesome by taking down some bad guys. It becomes hilarious when his actions in real life mirror the action going on on the screen behind him.
• Once he finished defeating the three waterbenders, Bolin goes to the last one to ask for details. The waterbender ends up addressing him as Nuktuk.

Harmonic Convergence

• Whatever happened on that deck Bolin mentioned that made him get a hole in his pants? Also, the random assorted things (deck full of mirrors, really?) that Varrick kept on his Battleship.
• Mako still hasn't told Korra about how he hooked back up with Asami after they broke up. Bolin confronts him about it, pointing out that Mako said it was best to take care of this kind of awkward situation ASAP, Mako complains about how he hates it when Bolin listens to him. Bolin's got the biggest shit-eating grin on the entire time.
  • Then, he's about to tell her, she blows the head off a practice dummy with firebending, and the next scene is quite hilariously awkward.
    • All of Mako's facial expressions during those scenes qualify.
• Bumi keeps interrupting serious conversations to tell stories about his glory days (similar to his uncle Sokka).
• This conversation between a pair of random water tribe soldiers who're guarding the encampment at the Spirit Portal alongside the Dark Spirits
  Soldier: If I'd wanted to have a ball of evil looking over my shoulder all the time, I'd have gone to live with my mother-in-law.
• Bumi single-handedly (well, with a couple of spirits) destroying the entire Northern encampment at the Spirit Portal by accident.
  • When he goes sliding into the tent, he plows right through an unsuspecting Eska and Desna. They get back to their feet - only for Naga to burst in behind them and knock their heads together.
  • "I did it all with my trusty flute and...ahhh, you wouldn't believe it anyway!"
• Tenzin asking how he destroyed the whole encampment.
  Bumi: Well, I just...forget it. You wouldn't believe me anyway.

Darkness Falls

• Mako and Bolin are taking on Unalaq, but he hasn't attacked in quite a while and the brothers are starting to wonder what he's up to. Cue Eska appearing right into Bolin's face, giving the earthbender one hell of a scare!
  Eska: Hello, my feeble turtle-duck.
  • His face when she does that.
  • And her face when she did that!
• When Tenzin and his siblings are looking for Jinora:
  Tenzin: [sighs] We're walking in circles: I've seen that same spirit mushroom five times!
  Bumi: That's not the same mushroom!
  Mushroom: Yes I am.
  Tenzin: See? Even it knows we're lost! [facepalms]
  Bumi: Oh, sure. Listen to a fungus over your own brother.
  (strange noise)
  Bumi: ...Mushroom, is that you?
  Mushroom: Nope, wasn't me.
  • And just how polite the Mushroom is makes it a Giant Friendly Mushroom.
• After hearing about where Jinora might be, Tenzin has an idea... so he, Bumi and Kya travel back to the nest of the Scorpion-Spider that attacked them earlier, and Tenzin rudely wakes it up with airbending. We then cut to Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya being webbed up and dragged away by a Scorpion-Spider, only then to be dropped into the Fog of Lost Souls, where according to the Scorpion-Spider, no one has escaped.
• While Kya, Tenzin, and Bumi are inside the Fog of Lost Souls, Tenzin explains that the fog is a spirit that slowly drives people mad and imprisons one in their own darkest memories. We then see Admiral Zhao from the original series wandering about and speaking about capturing the Avatar and how he is the moonslayer and the conqueror. Zhao then spots Tenzin, thinking he is an adult Aang and how he is hell-bent on defeating him and capturing him. The three of them then soon flee while Zhao proclaims that he will capture the Avatar.
  • The best part is that the siblings don't seem to have any idea who he is; as far as they're concerned, Zhao's just some crazy guy!
    • Actually, Kya seems to know exactly who Zhao is. Her facial expressions as she realizes who he is are priceless, and then she quips with:
    Kya: Hopefully we're not trapped in here as long as that guy.
• While Mako and Bolin are left frozen in a block of ice from the neck down thanks to Eska and Desna, Mako tries to convince the twins that their father is evil. Desna does begin to reconsider his allegiance, but Eska tells him that they are just lying to him. Bolin then starts bawling that he will never be with Eska again, and that he always loved her and wanted to be with her and is now downtrodden that he will not get that chance now that world's end is nigh. Eska then retorts that they could have been together, if not for the fact that Bolin had left her at the altar, but Bolin replies that he was scared of his true feelings for her and that he should have never left and is saddened that they can never rekindle their "Big Fire of Love Flames". Eska then kisses Bolin, melting the ice encasing the brothers and Eska tells Bolin that should he survive the ordeal with Unalaq, they will spend an eternal darkness together. As Mako and Bolin leave, Mako commends Bolin on his acting, while Bolin himself is not so sure about that, wiping his tears as they leave.
  • Then we get a shot of Mako and Desna looking absolutely bewildered, even giving each other a sidelong glance as if to ask, "Dude, what am I watching?".
  • After Mako and Bolin leave, we get this deadpan gem from Desna.
    Desna: They will certainly perish.
  • The expression Eska has on her face when he says that. It's some weird sort of Eska's attempt at cat smile that's creepy, lovestruck, satisfied and I-knew-it all at the same time.
• When Bumi, Tenzin and Kya land from a several story drop in the Spirit World, Kya is visibly dazed and foaming at the mouth.
• The Oh, Crap! face Unalaq makes in the split second he has before Korra pulls him off his water spiral and slams him onto the ground is hilariously undignified for the newly created Antichrist of the series.

Light in the Dark

• Korra, who is quite understandably upset over last episode, is given advice by Tenzin. He tells her to meditate in the Tree of Time, and connect with the cosmic energy of the universe. She does so, separates her spirit from her body, grows to Kaiju size, and teleports away, all while everyone else just stares.
  Bumi: Eeeer, what did you say to her exactly?
• Bolin coming out of nowhere and giving Mako a hug after he and Korra break up for real (also a CMOH).
• After Eska and Desna appear to help out Bolin from being swallowed by a spirit, Bolin cries to Eska that he loves her, and they'll face the end of the world together! Eska states that he is so romantic, in her usual deadpan.
  • Desna's little remark after he and Eska save Bolin, saying what a great deal of the audience was likely thinking as well.
    Desna: I am so done with spirits.
• Bolin wants to bring Eska to Republic City to continue their relationship, but Eska politely refuses. Bolin reluctantly decides to bring in Desna too, but Eska further stands her ground on not going back with him. Eska then tells Bolin that their joining in eternal darkness was a spur of the moment thing. She tells him he will always have a special place "in the organ that pumps my blood" and that she will always remember him as "her turtle-duck".
• Meelo and Ikki spying Jinora's spirit descending down. Pema screaming, "Be careful sweetie!" What makes it even funnier is Rohan's bug-eyed expression while Pema is yelling.
• When Korra returns as a Kaiju-sized spirit Ikki and Meelo cheerfully say "Korra's back!" "And she's a blue giant." in a wonderfully blithe tone of voice, while Pema just looks like she's been clubbed over the head.
• Varrick and Zhu Li escaping from prison when Unavaatu's vines destroy the wall. Zhu Li jumps on his back with a glider attached to her own and they jump out the hole in the wall.
  Varrick: Zhu Li! Commence Operation Winged Freedom! Do the thing!
  • Note that neither of them are bothered by the spirit kajiu that created said hole in the wall. You'd think they do this all the time.