The BEST episodes of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan season 1

Every episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan season 1!

A six-year-old girl named Kai-Lan, who invites friends at her home to share in the colorful interplay of Chinese and American cultures, as well as the Mandarin language, through interactive exercises and magical stories.

Last Updated: 9/20/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
Twirly Whirly Flyers
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7.06
31 votes

#1 - Twirly Whirly Flyers

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2008

While playing Twirly Whirly Flyers, Tolee spins so much that he lands on the ants' bridge and breaks it by accident, so he runs away in shame. Kai-Lan and the viewer show Tolee the importance of admitting your mistakes and apologizing to the ants so they can fix the bridge.

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Everybody's Hat Parade
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7.00
29 votes

#2 - Everybody's Hat Parade

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/2008

Rintoo makes a very special hat for the hat parade, but when Hoho makes the same hat, Rintoo gets mad!

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Rain or Shine
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6.98
59 votes

#3 - Rain or Shine

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/27/2008

Rintoo, Tolee and Hoho are sad because they can't play with their stuff in the rain, but Kai-Lan and the viewer teach them that there are some things you can do in the rain.

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Dragonboat Festival
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6.90
31 votes

#4 - Dragonboat Festival

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2008

Kai-Lan and her friends are going to have a dragonboat festival, and they're going to meet a real dragon after the race is over. When Rintoo and Kai-Lan come in last place at the first dragonboat race because Rintoo didn't listen to Ye-Ye's instructions and was not following the peeking mice's drumbeat, he grumpily whacks the boat onto a gazebo's roof, causing it to have some difficulty to get it back down from up there. Kai-Lan needs your help to show Rintoo what to do when you feel very mad.

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6.00
1 votes

#5 - Happy Chinese New Year!

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2008

While the dragon team carries the dragon to the Chinese New Year parade, Rintoo gets upset and quits because he doesn't want to be in the "boring" middle. So it's up to the viewer to help Kai-Lan teach Rintoo that his job as a team is still important.

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Tolee's Rhyme Time
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0.00
0 votes

#6 - Tolee's Rhyme Time

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2008

The gang is going to have a music show, with Kai-Lan on a tambourine, Rintoo on a xylophone, Hoho on the turntables and Tolee on the vocals to sing a rhyming song. The gang keeps trying with their difficult parts, but Tolee struggles finding what rhymes with the words he recently states, and quickly gives up until Kai-Lan and the viewer show him not to give up and observe his surroundings for the answer.

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Kai-Lan's Trip to China
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0.00
0 votes

#7 - Kai-Lan's Trip to China

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/14/2009

Kai-Lan and her friends visit to China to visit her great aunt and see the naming of a baby panda. Rintoo, Hoho and Tolee got scared to try something new in China, and soon the baby panda is scared to ride a boat for the first time as well. He is eventually calmed down by Kai-Lan and her friends, and overcomes Naviphobia.

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0.00
0 votes

#8 - Lulu Day

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/8/2008

Kai-Lan and Lulu have a special play date but they can't figure out what to play together because they want to play with different things. So the viewer helps them learn how to compromise.

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0.00
0 votes

#9 - Kai-Lan's Carnival

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/6/2008

Rintoo and Hoho run away when they break Stompy's rocket by accident they think Stompy will be elephant mad, the reason being the balls at a splashing game bounced off and hit a tire, then a coconut, then a seesaw, which made a beanbag box fly into the air and land on the rocket, So Kai-Lan needs your help to teach Hoho and Rintoo that they need to say "sorry", and help fix it.

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Roller Rintoo
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0.00
0 votes

#10 - Roller Rintoo

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/7/2008

Rintoo wants to be good at roller-skating, but at first it is more difficult than he expected, until he learns to take it slow by going on two hands, then one hand, then all by yourself.

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Beach Day
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0.00
0 votes

#11 - Beach Day

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2008

When a wave knocks over Tolee's sandcastle three times by accident, Tolee becomes angry and stomps on his friends' whole sandcastles. Kai-Lan needs your help to get Tolee to calm down so they can finish the sandcastle.

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0.00
0 votes

#12 - Sports Day

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/6/2008

When Rintoo wins all the dinosaur games, he brags about it and it causes Tolee and Hoho to quit playing the games. It's up to the viewer to help Kai-Lan show Rintoo that he needs to learn to say something nice when you win games.

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Ni Hao, Halloween
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0.00
0 votes

#13 - Ni Hao, Halloween

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/28/2008

Rintoo is excited to go trick or treating, but after injuring his ankle on a rock because he was walking backwards and he did not watch where he was going, Rintoo has to stay in bed with his ankle in a cast for a day and he can't go trick or treating today until next year of Halloween. Kai-Lan and her friends refuse to go without him, and need your help to find a way for him to go trick or treating with his friends.

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0.00
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#14 - The Ant Playground

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/2008

Kai-Lan and her friends help build a brand new swing for the ants' unfinished playground.

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Kai-Lan's Campout
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0.00
0 votes

#15 - Kai-Lan's Campout

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2008

The gang is having a campout in Kai-Lan's backyard, but when they want to play with Tolee's stuffed panda Pandy, he refuses to share him with his friends. Kai-Lan needs your help to remind him to be a nice friend and share.

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0.00
0 votes

#16 - The Snowiest Ride

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/2008

Kai-Lan and the viewer helps Kai-Lan's friend, Tolee overcome his fear of sledding by taking things little by little. First, they down a small hill, then a medium-sized hill, then finally the large hill.

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0.00
0 votes

#17 - Wait, Hoho, Wait!

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2008

Hoho is having a hard time waiting for Rintoo's car to be finished, so he jumps in and breaks the car just before it is ready by accident. Kai-Lan needs your help to help Hoho find a way to be patient.

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0.00
0 votes

#18 - Safari Pals

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/26/2008

The gang is going on a safari, but Rintoo gets jealous and envious of Stompy the Elephant because he wants to be big like him and the other friends begin playing with Stompy instead of Rintoo.

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0.00
0 votes

#19 - Hoho's Big Flight

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/9/2008

It is the night of the lantern festival, but Hoho isn't listening to Ye-Ye's instructions and instead chases leaves, sniffs apples, and sways lanterns, so he eventually loses his lantern. And what's worse is that Hoho doesn't know how to listen, either.

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