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{{quote| "Harsh words won’t solve problems; action will."}}
 
The Eleventh episode of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]], and widely regarded to be the show's weakest. In it, the gang come across a giant canyon, the titular Great Divide. For most people, its near-impossible to cross, and they need a intelligent Earth Bending guide who knows the area- but they're not everyone. On the back of Appa, they should easily be able to fly across.
 
However, just as they are about to leave, two groups of refugees shows up; one perfectly manicured and dressed in white, they other dressed in dirty brown rags. They learn that these tribes, the Gan Jin and Zhang respectively, have been fighting for centuries, and refuse to travel with each other. However, there is only one guide across the canyon; but they cannot afford to wait, not with the Fire Nation army at their heels. Because of this, Aang opts for them to travel on foot as peacekeepers, so that both groups of refugees can make it through. To do so, they empty their sacks of food (as it can attract predators) and set off on their journey.
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Katara and Sokka also realise how stupid they've been, and reconcile. But they can't help but be amazed that it just so happened that Aang knew the true stories of the brothers. Truth is- ''he'' didn't! He just made the 'real' story up so they would stop fighting.
 
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* [[Art Shift]]: All of the flashbacks are in a different style, most obviously the one Aang gives.
* [[Big Eater]]: The entire Zhang tribe has this in spades
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Zhang means dirty in Mandarin, while Gan Jin means clean.
* [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode]]: The only place where this episode is mentioned again is as parody in the third book.
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Most fans would rather forget this episode existed
** Arguable also [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]], if [[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book the3/17 The Ember Island Players/Recap|the Ember Island Players]] are to be trusted
{{quote| '''Actor!Aang:''' Look, it's the Great Divide -- the biggest canyon in the Earth Kingdom!<br />
''beat''<br />
'''Actor!Sokka:''' Eh... let's keep flying. }}
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Lying is fine, as long as its for a ''realllly'' good reason.
* [[Idiot Plot]]: What part about "no food" don't the two tribes understand?
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The Canyon Crawlers are a mix between spiders and crocodiles
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