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How does "Avatar: The Last Airbender" use humor to enhance storytelling?

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"Avatar: The Last Airbender" uses humor in the following ways ยน:

- Azula discusses her feelings about her mother, and after a moment of silence, she says, "She was right, of course, but it still hurt."
- Zuko and Iroh decide to go to the Earth Kingdom, and Zuko says, "Earth Kingdom it is."
- Sokka calls Aang and Zuko jerks and asks if he can watch them practice "jerk bending."
- Toph thinks Sokka rescued her and gives him a kiss, but once she realizes it's Suki, she says, "You can go ahead and let me drown now."
- The Cabbage Merchant's cart gets destroyed, and he cries out, "My Cabbages!"
- Zuko corrects a fan that his scar is not on the wrong side.
- Musical nomads sing a song with the lyrics, "Secret Tunnel! Secret Tunnel! Through the mountains! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel!"
- Toph uses a rock soldier with a watermelon for a head in place of the Fire Lord and calls herself "Melon Lord."
- Sokka tries to get the others to drink cactus juice by saying, "Drink cactus juice! It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier! It's the quenchiest!"
- Zuko tries to console Sokka and says, "That's rough, buddy."
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