Written by: Michael Dante DiMartino
Directed by: Giancarlo Volpe
Original Air Date: Friday, November 25th, 2005
Voices: Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang), Jack DeSena (Sokka), Mae Whitman (Katara), Dante Basco (Prince Zuko), Mako (Iroh), Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo), Jason Isaacs (Zhao) , Jack Angel (Pirate Captain), Victor Brandt (Master Pakku), Jon Polito (Chief Arnook), Keone Young (Captain Li), Byron McKittrick (Pirate Barker), Lucille Bliss (Yaguda), Johanna Braddy (Princess Yue)
 - Character Debuts: Princess Yue, Chief Arnook, Master Pakku, Yaguda, Captain Li
- New Creatures: Musk-ox Reindeer, Koala-Otter
- New Location: Northern Water Tribe
- Zhao discovers Zuko is the Blue Spirit in this episode
- The Pirates from "The Waterbending Scroll" return; they were hired by Zhao to kill Zuko
- The Katara-Pakku fight marks the first time in the series that two waterbenders fight each other
- First time Katara is shown with her hair down
- Master Pakku, first shown in this episode, is the waterbender in the opening credits
- In the Northern Water Tribe it is forbidden for women to learn waterbending to fight, they must learn how to use their abilities to heal
- Katara and Sokka's grandmother, Kana, is revealed to have grown up in the Northern Water Tribe; however, she fled to the Southern tribe after she was to be engaged to Pakku
- Pakku carved the necklace Katara wears for her grandmother
- We see "music night" for the first time in the series; Iroh sings his now-infamous "Four Seasons" song
- In Chinese, "Yue" means "Moon"
- Arranged marriages are customary in the Northern Water Tribe; age sixteen is when one can marry
- Following Zuko's incident, Iroh agrees to join the Fire Nation military again as a General; however this is simply a move to help Zuko, whose in disguise as a soldier
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