The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

Yi Ding: Ling

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Quotes 

• Ling : You are a Mormon!

  Ryan Tyler : Mormon? I think you mean morON.

• Ling : [Ling finishes telling Ryan the folklore about the black marks on pandas and four sister mountains who look over them] 

  Ryan Tyler : It's a bunch of bull.

  Ling : It's not a story about bull, it's a story about panda.

  Ryan Tyler : No, what I mean is, it's not true.

  Ling : My grandfather doesn't lie!

  Ryan Tyler : Well, if the 4 sisters are real, how come the panda bears are going extinct?

• Ling : Ryan? Are you all right?

  Ryan Tyler : Yeah.

  Ling : You, you let me go! I told you I don't know how to swim, I almost drowned!

  Ling : [Looks through Ryan's backpack]  All left is this candy bar.

  Ryan Tyler : Split it with me?

  Ling : No, we have to save it for emergency.

  Ryan Tyler : This is an emergency!

  Ling : [the panda cub makes yipping sounds]  The cub is hungry, too!

  Ryan Tyler : Yeah, well, I got dibs on it.

  Ling : Cub doesn't eat candy.

• Ryan Tyler : [panda cub makes gentle murmuring sounds]  Hey, we got to come up with a name for you.

  Ling : It's an old custom in China, when a baby's born, his family brings him under the stars, and give him a name. That way, evil spirits will know he's from heaven. What name do you like?

  Ryan Tyler : I got a friend at home, his name's Johnny; sort of short and fat. We'll call him Johnny.

  Ling : [Ling's face brightens up]  'Johnny': in Chinese, it means "the best in the forest".

  Ryan Tyler : I doubt my friend's the best in the forest, *best in the lunchroom* is more like it.

• Ryan Tyler : Sounds like he's crying.

  Ling : According to my grandfather, panda bears do cry. A long time ago, panda bear was all white. White panda had a friend: a young girl. She's the youngest of the four sisters. Panda helped her as she herded her father's sheep. One day, a hungry tiger comes and he wants to eat panda. The girl tried to stop the attack, but the tiger killed the girl. To honor the girl, pandas rub black ashes on their arms. It's a sign of mourning.

  Ling : All the pandas were so sad; black ashes get on their white fur... and into their eyes, because they cried so much. When they opened their eyes again, the three sisters were gone.

  Ryan Tyler : They bailed?

  Ling : Because they miss their sister so much, they jump into the river. The next day, a mountain raised up with four peaks.

  Ryan Tyler : And I bet that's the Four Sisters.

  Ling : Yes. They stand guard over pandas, watch after them, protect them forever. The pandas never forgot the girl who cared about them, and that they remain as they were: black and white.