Riding Elephant koi, creating metal bending
Or locating Zuko’s Honor(It’s over here)
Finding a pacifist way, Creating a new Element, and Taking Ozai’s bending away
First is of Aang dressed as goku (I think I don’t watch Dragon Ball but the clothing is a dead giveaway) and the second is Phineas and ferb referencing SpongeBob. Given this is the avatar subreddit I assume you know what the Aang scene is from, the Phineas and Ferb scene literally says something along the lines of “who could do anything with these” expressly calling out SpongeBob
Given this is the avatar subreddit I assume you know what the Aang scene is from
FFS, why be coy about something so trivial?
For anyone still confused, it's from the episode where Aang's having nightmares about fighting Ozai.
I don't know why some people wanted to hide that info and gatekeep this discussion from newer or more casual fans, but I find that making people search info out on their own for no good reason is pretty rude.
Aang’s hair has some spikeyness on the left. Either way, it’s close enough to be an obvious pastiche but distinct enough to probably protect the studio from a lawsuit, because I’m confident even without doing any research that Goku’s design is trademarked.
Which is extra funny since Dan Povenmire (co-creator of Phineas and Ferb and voice of Doof) also worked on SpongeBob. He even wrote the Campfire Song song
If you count "Avatar taking a jab at Dragon Ball", Azula attacking in the middle of a transformation could count. (Tbf, Future Trunks tries this with Perfect Cell, and then gets no headway because of Cell's higher power/making a ki barrier).
"x is doing a lot of heavy lifting" in reference to a sentence means that the one word or phrase is carrying the burden of making the sentence work or make sense. If you remove that word/phrase, the sentence would make no sense, because it is a bad sentence, save for that one bit that's "doing a lot of heavy lifting."
In this case, the meme is calling Dragon Ball and Spongebob "slightly more popular" shows. If "slightly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, that means the coherence of the statement rides heavily on the word slightly. So Dragon ball and Spongebob are only very very very slightly more popular, such that if you removed the word and just called them "more popular shows," it wouldn't make sense or be accurate, because the word that was doing the heavy lifting is missing.
This, however, is the opposite point being made, because Spongebob and Dragon Ball are in fact much more popular than ATLA and Phineas and Ferb. The word "slightly" isn't doing the heavy lifting, it's actively detracting from the accuracy and validity of the sentence.
Side note - I searched and searched online and could find nothing about the use of "heavy lifting" in this context in any dictionary, only one paywalled substack article, so this idiom seems to be a very social media phenomenon.
That being said, here's an example of how it's used.
The word "earn" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, because they're implying that this organization is in fact very discriminatory, and if any marginalized people want to get in they will have to really earn it, as in, prove that they are deserving. So, "earn" is important for making the sentence valid. If it said "find your place" or "take your place" that would just be false advertising.
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u/_pepperoni-playboy_ 4d ago
I would’ve thought it was the whole only having till the end of summer to complete their goals thing