Everybody was Kung Fu fighting

I'm going nuts over Avatar: the Last Airbender this season, it's gone from great to damn near brilliant. The writing's incredible and the story and character development amazing. If you're not watching it you should, in the meantime, though, here's a really fun mashup of Avatar and Aladdin that works almost too well:

Watch on YouTube

And this Avatar pairings vid is just adorable, though I was a little sad not to see Toph/Sokka, which has suddenly become my favorite 'ship. And the Mai/Zuko is so cute...of course I think anything involving Zuko is cute, so...

Watch on YouTube

Speaking of cute and Zuko, "Kung Fu Fighting" with Zuko as the star, yeah baby!

Watch on YouTube

Part of the reason I love the show is that the animation is actually based on Chinese martial arts, and they did some really cool shorts on the subject which you can find here:

Firebending, based on Shaolin Kung fu
Waterbending, based on Tai Chi
Airbending, based on Bog Wah
Earthbending, based on Hun Gar

It's like getting an animated Hong Kong film every week, how can you beat that? And it doesn't hurt that the writing is some of the best in current animation.

UPDATE: Ok, I had to add this one because it just had me howling with laughter, Zuko does the Happy Song:

Watch on YouTube