Saturday, June 4, 2022

Skadoosh

There is a scene in Kung Fu Panda 2, where Po is fighting Shen, an evil peacock who is trying to use his armada of boats to take over China. When Po and the Fabulous Five attempt to stop Shen from getting his boats out of the city, Shen opens fire on his own men and blows Po out into the harbor. Po slowly pulls himself out of the water onto a piece of floating wreckage and stands between Shen and open water. Shen has his men open fire on Po, but Po uses his newfound discovery of inner peace to easily catches the fiery cannon balls and send them flying off harmlessly into the water.

But Shen is relentless, sending everything he has at Po, only to watch as one by one his boats are destroyed by their own fiery balls as Po sends them flying back at them. Angry and frustrated, Shen unleashes his giant cannon at Po in one last desperate attempt to finally end the panda's insolence. But Po catches the ball, winds around in a fiery whirlwind of power, and sends it hurling back at Shen's boat. At the moment when he releases the ball, he says his iconic phrase, "Skadoosh!"

Troy loves watching this scene, and especially loves the part where Po says, "Skadoosh!" So, today while I was washing laundry, he went and grabbed one of the dirty pillow cases out of the pile and started whipping it around in a circle around his wrist. When he'd get it into a tight little ball, he'd hurl the unsuspecting pillow case across the room at me and say, "Skadoosh!" Then, he'd run to pick it up and do it all over again. It was amazing.

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