A Big Splash

A Big Splash is the first episode of the fourteenth season of Ninjago and the 165th episode overall. It aired on April 4, 2021, paired up with "The Call of the Deep". It released in the US on Netflix on November 19, 2021, alongside The Island and the rest of the episodes of Seabound.
==Synopsis==
When Nya loses control of her elemental powers, the ninja search for answers, which may lie with the former master of water, Nya’s mother.http://web.archive.org/web/20210325223953/https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/teletoon-east/162/2021-04-04
Extended: The ninjas ambush a new villain named Miss Demeanour who's carrying a shipment of illegal vengestone - Nya creates a water cyclone to stop her but loses control of it, threatening a nearby village. The ninjas save the residents but Miss Demeanour escapes - meanwhile, Nya's powers continue to go haywire at the monastery. Against her wishes, Kai calls in the help of their mother Maya.https://web.archive.org/web/20210519031341/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/nmnzc5/ninjago-masters-of-spinjitzu-season-15/?episode=nmnzc7
==Plot==
Many trucks arrive at a remote village driven by a bunch of crooks who are being led by Miss Demeanor, who is completely annoyed to do the deal out of the city, despite the buyer tripling her payment. Unfortunately for them, the ninja have already anticipated their arrival as Lloyd, Jay and Kai confront them. Oddly enough, Miss Demeanor is excited to meet them as she sends the bandits to keep them busy as she escapes. Cole is able to take out two of the trucks pulling away with his Rock Cycle, but fails to stop the truck Miss Demeanor is riding on. Cole inspects what was in the trucks and realizes they were holding Vengestone.
Nya and Zane run ahead, and the former attempts to prevent Miss Demeanor from escaping by summoning a water cyclone from the village rice paddies. However, she has no control over the cyclone as it spirals out of control. Zane tries to freeze the cyclone but his attempts quickly backfire. The ninja are then forced to let Miss Demeanor escape as they evacuate the villagers from the cyclone just as it drops and floods the village.
With the village safe, the ninja return to the monastery with some of the Vengestone, and tell Wu the bad news of letting Miss Demeanor escape before Nya speaks up and takes full responsibility as she lost all control of her power, and promises it won't happen again. When the other ninja seemingly agree, Nya becomes annoyed, which causes the emergency sprinkler activates, short circuiting all the electronics.
The ninja and Master Wu sans Nya, examine one of the scrolls in the library regarding the power of water to determine why Nya's powers are going haywire. On the scroll, it says that the power of Wind and Water originally belonged to Wojira, the serpent that ruled the seas of Ninjago with the Storm Amulet and the Wave Amulet. Unfortunately for Wojira, the First Spinjitzu Master, and the Merlopians defeated the serpent by removing the two amulets and Wojira fell into a deep slumber. Master Wu suggests that they call Maya, the previous Master of Water, to help Nya. Kai then nervously says that Nya won't want her parent's help since Nya is very independent. Zane then says that Kai and Nya's parents were forced to work for the Time Twins, but Wu reassures Kai that Nya is reasonable. Afterwards, Kai tells Nya, who is training in the courtyard, about their parents potentially visiting the Monastery, which she furiously rejects and destroys the dummy she was hitting.
While walking along the hallway, Nya passes by the bathroom, being cleaned by Jay, and the toilet suddenly bursts on him. She then sees the tap in the kitchen which ends up bursting on Zane, and the soda bottles bursting on Cole as Nya passes by the game room. Intent on leaving, Nya is stopped by the others, who try to speak to her, only to be interrupted by someone knocking at the gates. Nya gets it, discovering it is her parents. Maya greets her while Ray is carrying all their luggage before they leave to unpack. Realizing that her brother had gone against her wishes, Nya angrily confronts Kai, who can only shrug as he says 'What?'. 
==Appearances==
===Characters===
====Cast====
*Child - Erin Mathews
*Cole - Kirby Morrow
*Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
*Henchmen - Paul Dobson
*Kai - Vincent Tong
*Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
*Maya - Jillian Michaels
*Miss Demeanor - Erin Mathews
*Nya - Kelly Metzger
*Ray - Vincent Tong
*Wu - Paul Dobson
*Zane - Brent Miller
====Non-speaking====
*Rice farmers
====Miscellaneous====
*Nyad (pictured)
*Acidicus (painting)
*Acronix (painting)
*Arcturus (painting)
*Ash (painting)
*Bolobo (painting)
*Chamille (painting)
*Chen (painting)
*Clouse (painting)
*Cryptor (painting)
*Cyrus Borg (painting)
*Fangtom (painting)
*Garmadon (painting)
*Ghoultar (painting)
*Gravis (painting)
*Harumi (painting)
*Iron Baron (painting)
*Kozu (painting)
*Kruncha (painting)
*Krux (painting)
*Min-Droid (painting)
*Misako (painting)
*Morro (painting)
*Mr. Pale (painting)
*Nadakhan (painting)
*Neuro (painting)
*Nuckal (painting)
*P.I.X.A.L. (painting)
*Pythor (painting)
*Ronin (painting)
*Samukai (painting)
*Shade (painting)
*Skalidor (painting)
*Skales (painting)
*Soul Archer (painting)
*The Overlord (painting)
*Tox (painting)
====Mentioned====
* Harumi (indirectly)
* Krux
*Acronix
*First Spinjitzu Master
===Creatures===
*Chicken
*Colossus (painting)
*Fire Dragon (painting)
*Firstbourne (painting)
*Golden Dragon (painting)
*Great Devourer (painting)
*Stormbringer (painting)
*The Preeminent (painting)
*Ultra Dragon (painting)
**Flame
*Wojira (pictured)
===Events===
*Battle of Nine Days (pictured)
*Attack of the Great Devourer (painting)
*The Final Battle (painting)
*Nindroid crisis (painting)
*Second Serpentine War (painting)
*Ghost invasion (painting)
*Alternate timeline (painting)
*Battle for All of Time (painting)
*Fall of Ninjago (painting)
*Liberation of Ninjago (painting)
===Items===
*Amulets of Wojira (pictured)
**Storm Amulet
**Wave Amulet
*Bo staff
*Cole's golden hammer
*Jay's golden kusarigama
*Kai's golden katana
*Lloyd's golden sword
*Nya's golden spear
*Trident
*Vengestone
*Zane's golden shurikens
*Anacondrai Blades (painting)
*Artificial limbs (painting)
*Djinn Blade (painting)
*Dragon Armor (painting)
*Dragonbone Blade (painting)
*Garmadon's helmet (painting)
*Golden Weapons/Golden Armor (painting)
* Katanas (painting)
*Oni Mask of Hatred (painting)
*Realm Crystal (painting)
*Serpentine Staffs (painting)
*Soul Archer's bow (painting)
*Staff of the First Spinjitzu Master (painting)
*Teapot of Tyrahn (painting)
* Techno Blades (painting)
* Time Blades (painting)
** Forward Time Blade
**Slow-Mo Time Blade
*Underworld helmet (painting)
===Vehicles===
*Trucks
*Rock Cycle
*Blade Cycle (painting)
*Destiny's Bounty (painting)
*Earth Driller (painting)
*Golden Mech (painting)
*Iron Doom (painting)
*Misfortune's Keep (painting)
*Overlord Mech (painting)
*Samurai Mech (painting)
*Snowmobile (painting)
*Storm Glider (painting)
*Tread Assault (painting)
===Locations===
*Ninjago (realm)
**Ninjago
***Rice fields
****Village
***Mountains of Impossible Height
****Monastery of Spinjitzu
*****Library
*****Relaxation room
*****Kitchen
****Hangar bay
***Ninjago City (painting)
****Borg Tower
***Sea of Sand (painting)
****Echo Canyons
*****Corridor of Elders
**Dark Island (painting)
***Temple of Light
**Djinjago (painting)
**Endless Sea
***Stiix (painting)
*Realm of Oni and Dragons (painting)
===Species===
*Chickens
*Djinns (painting)
*Dragons (painting)
*Ghosts (painting)
*Humans
*Merlopians (pictured)
*Nindroids
*Oni/Dragon hybrids
*Oni/Dragon/Human hybrids
*Sea serpents (pictured)
*Stone Warriors (painting)
*Serpentine (painting)
**Anacondrai
**Constrictai
**Fangpyre
**Hypnobrai
**Venomari
**Vermillion
*Skulkin (painting)
*Stone Warriors (painting)
==Transcript==
For the transcript of the episode, click here.
==Trivia==
*Narrator: Nya
**In the Japanese version of the episode, the narrator is Jay instead of Nya.
*Wu's line, "Vengestone has few practical uses," was first revealed by Tommy Andreasen in the live-chat of The TTV Channel's NinjagoCast #4.https://youtu.be/JPCztt7rJL8?t=4324 (live-chat)
*The design of the water tornado created by Nya is the same as the design of the Spinjitzu Burst in "The Son of Lilly."
===Cultural references===
*The scene in which Wu and the ninja look for a scroll about Wojira is very similar to the scene from Kung Fu Panda 3, when Master Shifu was looking for a scroll about Kai.
===Continuity===
*This is Miss Demeanor's first appearance.
**This is also the first time Ray, Maya, and the rice farmers have appeared in the WildBrain animation.
***Although Ray appears in the episode, his design is not visible as he is wrapped in luggage.
**Ray and Maya's return marks the continuation of WildBrain's streak of introducing older characters in each new installment, following:
***The Mechanic, Ultra Violet, Captain Soto, Killow, Nelson, Skales and Acidicus' returns in Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu.
***Cyrus Borg's return in Prime Empire.
***The Postman, Misako, and Lou's (only in a flashback for the latter) returns in Master of the Mountain.
***Ronin's return in The Island.
*This episode continues the Vengestone plotline first set up in "The Skull Sorcerer."
*Krux is mentioned for the first time since "Lost in Time."
*The power of Wind is acknowledged for the first time since Hunted.
*The First Spinjitzu Master is confirmed to have mastered all Elemental Powers besides Wind and Water. "The Invitation" and The Book of Spinjitzu previously stated that he had given the Elemental Masters their powers, but before this episode, it was unknown whether he himself had mastered all the elements.
**This may explain why the elements of Water and Wind were not needed for Chen's spell.
*A version of the plays when Nya trains in the monastery courtyard. This is the first time this theme has been associated with Nya since P.I.X.A.L. took over the role of Samurai X.
*The from season 7 returns when Wu mentions Maya, having last appeared in "Endings," albeit with a less dramatic rendition of the theme.
*The animation of Zane trying to freeze the water was reused from "Grief-Bringer", when he tried to freeze Grief-Bringer.
**This was most likely done to reduce time, as most of the season was produced with crew members working from home, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.https://twitter.com/ryanpears/status/1388562372097241089
*The flood in the farmers' village slightly foreshadows the Great Flood, when the whole Ninjago City was flooded.
===Errors===
*When the ninja confront Miss Demeanor, the tassel on Lloyd's golden sword was stiff.
*When Cole, yells "Woo hoo" the Netflix subtitles refer to him as Kai.
*Towards the end of the episode, when Ray and Maya arrive at the Monastery, some of the suit cases are slightly clipping through each other for a moment. 
*When Maya talks to Nya about her problem, if the scene is in slow motion, for a brief moment when Maya finishes saying they'll work it out the scene appears to come to a stand still, and her left arm, and small part of her hair and face starts glitch away.
==Videos==
LEGO NINJAGO - Season 3 Episode 5- A Big Splash
Ninjago - Miss Demeanor Brings the Heat! - Cartoon Network UK
==Gallery==
For the gallery of the episode, click here.
==Translations==
==References==
Category:2021
Category:Episodes
Category:Episodes of Seabound
de:Ein Wasserproblem
es:Un Gran Chapuzón
ru:Большой всплеск
uk:Великий сплеск