Cactus Juice

About

Cactus Juice is a term, as seen in season 2, episode 11 from the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which stands for the water within a desert cactus that will give a hallucinogenic effect to the character upon drinking it. The character will then perform comedic and nonsensical activities.

According to the fans, the scene is one of the most memorable moments and it has been proved through various fan-arts such as: Videos, Pictures

Origin

The episode "The Desert" was first aired on Nickelodeon on July 14, 2006. In this episode, the main characters are lost in the desert "Si Wong" to find Appa, the flying Bison, but they ended up with extreme thirst. Later, Sokka noticed a cactus on the desert and drunk the juice of it. After he drunk some of the juice, he goes on a strange trip and offers his friends to drink it, too.

Transcript

These are the most memorable quotes spoken by Sokka in this scene.

First highly performance of Sokka:

Sokka: "Drink cactus juice, it'll quench ya! Nothings quenchier! It's the quenchiest!"

Another memorable scene:

Sokka: "It's a giant mushroom. Maybe It's friendly!"

Katara: "Let's just keep moving. I hope Aang's okay."

Sokka: "Friendly mushroom! Mushy giant friend!"

Spread

The fan's fan-arts spread through YouTube, DeviantArt and Tumblr the most. YouTube has 1.720 videos, DeviantArt has 1.860 deviations and Tumblr has 59.600 results. On DeviantArt, there is a fan-art even named "Zutara Week". In 2009, the fourth day of Zutara Week (shipping Katara und Zuko) was the topic to make fan-art with the shipping and Cactus Juice.

Images and Videos can be found in the "Video" and "Image" section.