- Po: Yeah, You know, Now's not really the best time.
- Master Chao: Please! I've been waiting my whole life for this. I must see you perform the three needles.
- Po: I'm sorry. It wasn't me, I swear. It was the shoes! They're alive! Ah, Ahh. Stay back.
- Po: We'll get the shoes off you, Po.
- Po: Don't. Sorry.
- Master Chao: Panda, remain clam. If I approach slowly, the shoes may not see me...
- Po: I think they heard you.
- Po: All right, you watch the needles and tell me if I come close, okay?
- Po: [snickers] Okay.
- Po: I don't see where - Yow-oh!
- Mantis: Good first try, though.
- [laughs]
- Po: ah, my head! Ow-oh, Ow. ah-oh, oh, oh! uhh! eeh! ow. hoo. Oww. Ooh. Ow. Oh. Ow-ow-ow-ow.
- Po: Maybe it really is impossible.
- Po: Yeah, you'd need some magic for that.
- Po: Magician, that's it! I'll go to the moshu market where they sell all magic stuff.
- Mantis: Oh, yeah, That's a good - are you crazy!
- Po: What?
- Po: They sell black magic stuff, man! It's way too dangerous.
- Po: Yes it is much too dangerous, and that is why I'm totally not going to go there, at all.
- Po: Morning, everybody
- Shifu: Well, Panda, I'm glad you were able to drag yourself out of bed to join us for today's training
- Po: Actually, instead of training I thought I'd give that three needles thing a try now
- Shifu: The test of the three needles is a metaphor. Perhaps you didn't quite - All right. But first - Here goes! Did you - Wanna see it again?
- Po: Come on. Just for grins.
- Shifu: All right. But first...
- Po: Here goes!
- Shifu: Did you...
- Shifu: Wanna see it again?
- Po: Well, there you go. So, I'm the celestial phoenix now, right? Which means I'm done with training?
- Shifu: Did you just...
- Po: All righty. The celestial phoenix has a date with some plum dumplings and a nap.
- Po: Nope. I'm The celestial phoenix.
- Mr. Ping: ah, that's... I don't know what it is.
- Po: ahh. Oh, ohh! Waah! Hai, Hai, oh. uh. yuh. Wahaa!
- Mr. Ping: Po, stop it!
- Po: Chah!
- Mr. Ping: Ah.
- Po: Whoa! what was in that bowl?
- Po: It's just water, Po. It's not even hot.
- Po: Wow, these are some sensitive shoes.
- Mr. Ping: Oh, wai - wai - wait, what about my shop?
- Po: Uh, looks... nice. Lived in. Bye.
- Po: What's going on
- Crane: Hello! we're getting ready for master Chao
- Po: Master Chao is coming?
- Shifu: Po, you passed the test of the three needles. You've become the celestial phoenix. This may be the biggest event in the history of kung Fu.
- Monkey: Yeah. Way go, buddy
- Tigress: I've had my doubts about you in the past, Po, But you've proven yourself.
- Po: Yeah, I, Uh - I guess I have. I guess I have.
- Shifu: I'm proud of you panda. Very proud.
- Po: I, uh - whoa! cool!
- Crane: Let's hear it for Po.
- Po: Man, today has been awesome.
- Mantis: Uh-uh.
- Po: Everybody's all telling me how great I am. Master Chao's coming to see me.
- Mantis: You mean, he's coming to see your shoes.
- Po: Huh?
- Mantis: I mention the Moshu Market, then suddenly you've got these amazing kung Fu skills. Ohh! and, New shoes. Okay, it doesn't take an abacus to do the math on that one.
- Po: Come on, that's ridiculous. I don't know how you could suggest such a - please don't tell Shifu!
- Mantis: Why not?
- Po: He's so proud of me and he'd be so disappointed, and he'd make me start training again.
- Mantis: I can't believe you'd lie to Shifu just to get out of training.
- Po: I'm not lying. I'm just not telling the truth.
- Mantis: Uh-huh. Shifu has to know about these shoe, Po.
- Po: Mm. Ah, What the - ah! Yah! Crazy feet. Aw, I'll take the shoes back, Mantis. Just, please, don't rat me out. We're buddies, right?
- Mantis: [sighs] fine. I won't tell Shifu. But until I see Those shoes off your feet and you come clean, I'm not sure we are buddies.
- Master Chao: Stunning. Simply stunning. You truly are the celestial phoenix.
- Master Chao: Ah, yeah, well.
- Master Chao: I guess you should start saying your good-byes.
- Master Chao: I - what?
- Shifu: As the celestial phoenix,You have attained a greater understanding of Kung Fu than any who have gone before you.
- Master Chao: And, of course, Now you must travel the land, teaching this higher form of kung Fu, spreading all that you have learned.
- Po: Uh, I don't know if I've really learned...
- Master Chao: You were my greatest pupil, panda. But now the pupil has become the master. Perhaps one day, I can learn from you.
- Po: I-I-ah, It's the shoes. What?
- Master Chao: What?
- Po: These are magic shoes. I was sick of training, and I thought if I could just do the three needles that'd fix everything. So I got these shoes, But I was wrong, and I'm sorry, and - and...
- Po: Well... good workout
- Shifu: That was the warm-up.
- Po: Warm...
- Po: Whoo-yah! Ow, oh. Ow, oh. oh. Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow. Oh, oh, okay. ah. Oh, ah. Mantis. Ah, oh.
- Po: Master Shifu, How much longer I... have to train?
- Shifu: We're done for today.
- Po: No, no. I mean, how much longer? like, six months, a year
- Shifu: You don't train, you will never reach the next level
- Po: There's a level higher than the dragon warrior?
- Shifu: Yes. The celestial phoenix.
- Po: Ohh!
- Shifu: It said that the celestial phoenix would be attuned to the universe that they could defeat opponent merely by looking at them.
- Po: Awesome! So, how do I get to be the celestial phoenix? How!
- Shifu: By training. You must train until you can pass the test of the three needles. You toss three needles into air then kick them with such precision.
- Po: Yes?
- Po: That one needles passes through the eye of another
- Shifu: No!
- Po: And strikes the third needle so precisely on its point that splits down the middle.
- Po: whoa! I'm gonna be able to do that someday?
- Shifu: Of course not. It's impossible. There's never been a celestial phoenix, and there never will be. That's the point. no one can ever achieve this ultimate goal. which means your training ends.
- Po: Never?
- Shifu: Never.
- Po: Uh, but just to be clear, If I passed that the three needles test, I wouldn't have train anymore, right?
- Po: Yes. in theory. But trust me, It's impossible
- Po: And... and why are you all... smiling? You knew all along. Did you all know?
- Po: Yup.
- Po: Pretty much.
- Po: Shifu told us.
- Po: Also your shoes kept glowing.
- Mantis: Uh, sorry, Po. I had to keep pretending I was the only one who knew so you wouldn't suspect anything.
- Po: Why?
- Po: Why did you go through all of this?
- Po: To get you to understand.
- Po: Understand what? Oh. That fancy Kung Fu isn't worth anything if I don't work for it. If I don't really learn it, It isn't really part of me.
- Shifu: And the one way to learn it...
- Po: is to train.
- Shifu: Exactly. Now, Why don't you take off those shoes.
- Po: Because... I can't.
- Shifu: Don't be ridiculous. You just...