The Art of Stickiness

**The Art of Stickines** is the first episode of Kung Fu Panda: The Beginning

## Plot

### Synopsis

Rabbit leads a mission to capture some Ninja Monkeys using traps made of sticky tree sap, but Daniel and his friends can't resist playing with the stuff. They get so sticky that they're barely able to fight off the attacking Ninja Monkeys. Before long, both the little human boy, the animals and the Ninja Monkeys are stuck together in huge, dueling sap balls. However, when Baboon gets caught in the huge sap ball, having been searching for the monkeys, Daniel and his friends find themselves in huge trouble as they battle to stop Baboon and the Ninja Monkeys.

### Summary

One afternoon, Daniel and his best friends (Ox, Bird and Pig) sneak to Rabbit's room in The student barracks and smear something in front of his door, they lure Rabbit out and he gets stuck. They tell him it's tree sap and it comes from a special tree. Daniel says they're going to make the same joke on everyone. Rabbit asks them that they do not know how valuable the stuff is. Ox says they know it and take it as if it makes them laugh, Rabbit tell them they can catch ninja monkeys with it and order Pig to go and get the rest of the tree sap and Pig do it.

That night, Rabbit ordered them to make a line of the tree sap. Daniel does, but Bird and Rabbit give him different orders. Rabbit goes to find some ninja monkeys Daniel wants to join but Rabbit refuse (possibly because Fox doesn't want Daniel to meet any ninja monkeys), he goes into the woods and reminds the others how sticky the stuff is. Bird gives Daniel orders, but Daniel can't take it anymore and tells Bird to do it himself. Bird does, but it leads to a snowball-like war between him and Ox with the tree sap. Daniel asks them to cut out and start working while Pig smears the tree sap on on himself as skin cream. Daniel lubricates the tree sap on the ground and is done. He can't wait to see the ninja monkeys get stuck, he pretends to be a monkey but gets stuck in the tree sap.

Meanwhile in the outside the reserve, the ninja monkeys and their leader Baboon sleep in their hammocks, Rabbit sitting in a deck chair, eats a carrot, drink a tropical drink and wakes all the ninja monkeys with a loud rap (The baboon is still sleeping because he was wearing ear warmers). Rabbit throws a banana that is attached to a fishing rod. The monkeys run around after the banana and destroys things, eventually they get it, but Rabbit pulls the banana away. The ninja monkeys get angry and run after him.

Ox and bird continues to play with the tree sap until Daniel shouts them for help, They laugh at him and Daniel says it's not funny and asks them to help him out, then Rabbit came and asks what's going on, Daniel and Ox say it's Bird who started it. Rabbit tries to get Daniel out but that leads to them both stuck in both the tree sap and each other. Rabbit orders the others to get them out, Ox tries to pull them out with his horns but he also gets stuck, Bird tries to pull them out but he also gets stuck. Everybody's calling Pig. Pig see their situation and jump to the others, tree sap splashes over them and covered them all.

Bird says they're doomed that leads to an argument with Ox over who started the sat ball fight which surprises Rabbit. Bird says they could have escaped the sat ball fight if Pig hadn't found the tree sap on which Pig found no excuse. Then Daniel got an idea and ordered the others to scoop of all in the sack but Ox says they're all is stuck, but Daniel advises them to use the body parts that don't stuck (which are hands, paws, wings, trotter and hooves) then the ninja monkeys come along and get ready to attack. The team made a lot of sat balls and waited for the ninja monkeys to get close enough. Rabbit teases the ninja monkeys to make them angry, and the team throws the sat balls at them until they were completely covered like them self. Daniel enjoys their victory but gets interrupted when the ninja monkeys and the tree sap turn into a huge tree sap monster (which looked like a huge turkey)

The monster move towards the team, Bird gets scared and tries to escape but can't do it. Rabbit says they're not going anywhere, and they have to fight, Daniel make a joke about it, but nobody laughs.

Pig shouts to the monkeys, the monster (which now had the look of a giant penguin) gets closer but is interrupted by Baboon (who is now awake) who comes and searching for his monkeys. He gets surprised to sees the monster with his monkeys inside it. Baboon asks how this happend, the monkeys explain but Baboon interrupts them and would rather know what the snap is. Pig explains that it is tree sap and that it comes from a special tree. Rabbit orders the others to get out of here and they roll off in a big tree sap ball. Baboon orders the monkeys to follow them and enters the monster (which turns into a blob monster) and follows. The hunt goes over all the Valley of Peace (they past Oogway and Knut who drinks tea and ignore them.)

Finally, they get on top of a hill and there both become teams into a large capsule of tree sap. Baboon orders to smash the heroes and Daniel gets uneasy. Rabbit says they have to lay low, when they do, the monkeys beat each other instead. Rabbit gets an idea and says they have to roll down from the hill and crash into something and that it maybe can get them free. Pig won't join but he can't leave. Rabbit pushes them down and everyone rolls at full speed and crashes in a tree. The heroes hang in after the tree sap while baboon and ninja monkey peril further.

Daniel says they did it and Rabbit says it wasn't quite what he intended. Then Baboon and the ninja monkeys come back (in giant penguin form) to take them. Then Pig remembers that this tree is where he found the tree sap. Then the Killer Bees show up and ask angrily about who crashed into their tree, and say that the tree sap is is their honey and They want to know who's doing it. Daniel says the Baboon and the ninja monkeys did it and the Bees attack them, they take form to a scary face and chase them away. Rabbit laughs but then Ox licks him in the face, Rabbit asks him what he doing and Ox says that if he had shown that it was honey he would have saved them a long time ago.

Daniel tastes the honey and tells the audience "victory sure tastes sweet" Then Ox comes up to Daniel and licks off the honey under Daniel's bare feet. Daniel falls to the ground and laughs (because it tickled). The episode ends with Ox licking Daniel from the feet up his knees, up the upper body and up his face as Daniel laughs and says "he, he, he okay ho, ho , ho, Ox, ha, ha, ha, ha, it's enough, ha, ha stop, he, he, he, he it tickles!".