Between You and Lee (episode)

This article is about the episode. For the book, see Between You and Lee.
“If Lee figures out we're not say we are, he'll boot us right out. If we're gonna find Arin's parents, Lee can't know about it.”
“So, we act like good neighbors, split up and do some community events. Ask questions on the sly.”
— Jay and Lloyd

Between You and Lee is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising and the 53rd episode overall.

Synopsis

Synopsis[]

Lloyd, Jay, Nya and Wyldfyre go undercover in the strange Land of Lee, while Riyu's training under Rontu is off to a bumpy start.[1]

LEGO's YouTube Channel: 🌀 The mysteries get even BIGGER! In this full episode, Lloyd, Jay, Nya, and Wyldfyre go undercover in the strange Land of Lee where nothing is as it seems. The Ninja go undercover to find Arin’s parents and uncover the truth. Back in Ninjago, Riyu’s training with Rontu gets off to a bumpy start, and Arin and Sora begin to suspect Ras is hiding a dangerous secret. So many truths still need to be uncovered![2]

Lloyd, Nya, Jay and Wyldfyre arrive in Lee, where survivors of the Merge are sheltered in an underground community run by the realm's unusual namesake, Lee, but all is not as it seems. Riyu's training under Rontu is off to a bumpy start.

Netflix: Jay, Lloyd, Nya and Wyldfyre awaken outside the Land of Lee — a strange, musical community created by a single resident and his hundreds of clones.

Extended: Lloyd, Nya, Jay and Wyldfyre arrive in Lee, where survivors of the Merge are sheltered in an underground community run by the realm's unusual namesake, Lee, but all is not as it seems. Back in Ninjago, Rontu takes Riyu to the Crossroads for training where the dragons get into trouble. Meanwhile, Arin and Sora suspect Ras is keeping a dangerous secret as they journey into the Underworld.[3]

Plot

Plot[]

Lee is withdrawing up cases of candy mushrooms from some fishermen and then taking them with his multiple copies down to his artificial neighborhood when at some point, the Administration portal opens and the ninja arrive in the Land of Lee. Lee introduces himself to the ninja and takes them downstairs to introduce them to Lee's community.

Meanwhile, at the Monastery of Spinjitzu, Rontu trains Riyu to learn Spinjitzu, and Kai and Cole train Frak, only for Mr. Frohicky to complain that the obstacle course was being destroyed during training, being the Assistant Keeper of the Monastery, the ninja leave the Monastery to let everything be cleaned and fixed. Cole suggested they go to the Land of Lost Things to train instead.

In the meantime, Lloyd, Nya, Jay, and Wyldfyre discuss the strange things about the Land of Lee, such as happiness and obsession with Lee. Lloyd proposes to split up in Lee's community activities.

In the Kreel landfill, Rontu tries to train Riyu even if it is very difficult, Rontu remembers that whoever owns the landfill will not be happy with how it is destroyed.

Meanwhile Lloyd goes to see the reading club and asks about Jenny and Barry and then runs away after realizing that the reading is only about Lee and that they are discussing Lee's books like Between You and Lee.

Wyldfyre meanwhile he is going to a party to look for Arin's parents, but nobody knows who are. Later, Wyldfyre meets a man named Elway who had become suspicious and wanted to meet with Wyldfyre to discuss the matter. So Wyldfyre goes to Lloyd and tells him everything. Then Lloyd and Wyldfyre go to his house and find Lee making the apartment for a new member, So Wyldfyre and Lloyd wait until it gets dark to shed light on the mystery until they find a journalist in the middle of a scoop, then Lloyd says that they're ninja, and she takes them aside.

Meanwhile at Kreel's Junkyard, Kreel arrives asking what was happening Rontu replied regretfully that they were training but Kreel wasn't interested, so they continued to destroy everything.

At the Land of Lee, in the meantime, Jay and Nya are dancing, when Wyldfyre and Lloyd are going to a hidden facility in the land of Lee, then the journalist shows how they brainwash with Dream-Guyvers those who rebel against Lee's thinking. After the reporter is revealed to be Lee who sprays a gas from a strange flower that puts Lloyd and Wyldfyre to sleep.

Appearances

Appearances[]

Characters[]

Cast[]

Mentioned[]

Miscellaneous[]

Creatures[]

Items[]

  • Gis
    • Ghost Hunter (Kai, Cole, Lloyd, Nya, Frak and Sora)
    • Dark Merge (Arin)
    • Ninja (Wyldfyre)
    • Realm Reassignment Disguises (Wyldyfyre, Jay, Lloyd and Nya)
    • Hunter (Jay)
  • Between You and Lee

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Trivia

Trivia[]

Cultural references[]

  • Lee doing stand-up and opening with: "What's the deal with the Merge" is reference to Jerry Seinfeld's observational comedy, commonly associated with Seinfeld.
    • However, the line itself has since then been recognised as a trope used to parody observational stand-up comedy in general.

Continuity[]

  • Nya uses her mother's first name as part of her fake name.
  • This episode marks the second time Lloyd uses his alias of Doyll Donmagar. He first used the name in "Return to Imperium" and his alias is an anagram of his real name Lloyd Garmadon.
    • Additionally, Lloyd is now the second Ninja to reuse an alias as a fake name. The first time was when Cole reused his alias of Rocky Dangerbuff from "The Oni and the Dragon" throughout the first few episodes of Hunted.
  • This is the first episode of Dragons Rising where both Arin and Sora don't appear.
  • Although it was only one word, this makes the first time Lloyd sings in not just Ninjago: Dragons Rising but also the first time in canon where he sings as he sings the word "rhyme" during Lee's dance number.
    • Additionally, this is the second time Lloyd has been heard singing in the franchise, the first and last times he sung were in the non-canon episodes of Wu's Teas being "Music Night Part 1" and "Music Night Part 2".
    • This also means that both of Lloyd's voice actors, Jillian Michaels and Sam Vincent have sang as the character at least once.
  • Jay's line, "If it's a monastery, where are all the monks? Are you the monks?" is a reference to "Wasted True Potential" in the original series, where Wu said the Monastery used to be home to monks before they evolved into Ninja.

Errors[]

  • The description for the episode on LEGO's YouTube Channel says, "Arin and Sora begin to suspect Ras is hiding a dangerous secret.", although Arin, Sora and Ras do not appear in the episode.
Videos

Videos[]

Translations

Translations[]

Language Name
Chinese (Simplified) 你和李的距离
Czech Mezi vámi a Leem
Dutch Over Jou en Lee
French Entre vous et Lee
German Im Land von Lee
Japanese なんだここは!? 唄う、リー王国
Polish Opowiedz mi o Lee
Spanish (Latin America) La Tierra de Lee[4]
El Mundo de Lee[5]
Spanish (Spain) Entré Tú y Lee
References

References[]

  1. ↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/lego_ninjago_dragons_rising/s03
  2. ↑ https://youtu.be/csjo-Vq8eQU
  3. ↑ https://www.nowtv.com/watch/ninjago-dragons-rising/iYEQYZfjU8Mz2WENgF78Pw/seasons/3/episodes/between-you-and-lee-episode-13/A5EK3TJRBXpv6xhx24VGm
  4. ↑ File:DR3NewZeleandVPN.jpg
  5. ↑ https://youtu.be/g5laZVX_MRM