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Short description: Chinese-American ''[[
Long description: '''''Ni Hao Kai-lan''''' is a preschool [[Edutainment Show]] currently{{when}} airing on [[Nickelodeon]]. The show's primary function is to teach children Mandarin Chinese. According to the show's website, it also "teaches children how to identify and cope with their feelings."
The show chronicles the adventures of Kai-lan, a young Chinese-American girl, and her various friends and family:
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* Tolee, a koala with an unhealthy obsession with pandas.
* Lulu, a pink rhinoceros who flies via a balloon tied to her horn.
* Mr. Sun is [[Exactly What It Says
It basically comes off as a cute, yet somewhat trippy kid's show.
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** [[Through a Face Full of Fur]]
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** It's symptomatic of the show's use of [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]. The characters often show in words or actions exactly why they're frustrated or upset. Yet viewers are still told that "We gotta, gotta try to find the reason why," even though anyone with even the most basic empathy should have ''already'' figured it out.
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* [[Chinese Girl]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Kai-lan's grandpa, Ye-Ye. His feats include building racing canoes, setting up camping trips, and going rollerskating.
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Tolee prepares for a group hiking trip with a backpack that's twice his own size.
* [[Cute Little Fang]]: Rintoo and Lulu (Funny, I thought rhinos were vegetarians)
* [[Development Hell]]: More like [[Saved From Development Hell|development purgatory]], since it managed to escape, but for a while there it wasn't looking promising. The show was originally announced for Spring 2007, but didn't materialize, though the characters from the show were featured for months in the now-defunct ''Nick Jr. Magazine''. The program didn't finally materialize until February 2008.
* [[Edutainment Show]]
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Flanderization]]: In ''Kai-Lan's Playhouse'', Hoho is obsessed with bananas and hits Rintoo over him hogging the banana shaped stickers. He never acts this way about bananas again, actually preferring apples over them in a later episode.
* [[Floating in A Bubble]]: Kai-lan and Lulu in "Lulu Day".
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: "Kai-lan's Big Surprise"; when a gust of wind knocks down the decorations for a surprise party Kai-lan was holding for Ye-Ye, she falls into one of these. So far it's been the only time where she's the one who needs help.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: San-San the Ant; you could almost picture him going, [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid|"First off, this is a JOURNAL, not a diary."]]
** Tolee is voiced by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1367048/ Khamani Griffin] of ''Daddy Day Care'' and ''[[Are You Smarter Than a
** Fu Fu the ant and Mr. Hoppy are [[The Amazing World of Gumball|Anais and Darwin Watterson]].
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Non
* [[Odango]]: Kai-lan
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Minor character Mr. Fluffy has been voiced by four actors so far in the show's run: Jeremy Herzig, Austin Chan, Tommy Nightingale, and his current voice, Elan Garfias.
* [[Pandaing to
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Never addressed in the show itself, but a regular viewer of the show might well wonder where Kai-lan's parents are. It gets extra awkward when other family members are featured, but the parents remain absent and unmentioned.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Ye-Ye.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Dora the Explorer]]''. Little ethnic girl and her <s>monkey</s> tiger sidekick teach kids a foreign language while hanging out with other animals.
* [[Swiper, No Swiping]]: In "Tolee's Turn," Rintoo won't give Tolee a turn at steering a boat. Kai-lan and Hoho tell him that everyone feels happy when they take turns, but he's still not convinced, so the viewers are asked to tell him "Give Tolee a turn."
* [[Talking Animal]]
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Used heavily, as the show is about exploring and identifying feelings.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: You could make this case for Kai-lan and Lulu.
* [[Vacation Episode]]: "Kai-Lan's Trip to China" is a double-length episode that's [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: Notable in the Chinese segments. Repetition is actually a good way to learn a language.
* [[Weird Moon]]: A cloud that covers only the moon in "Kai-lan's Moon Festival."
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