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LEGO Monkie Kid - The Great Tang Man (S4E3)
In order to find Tang, our heroes must start their Journey where Monkey King began his! In the company of the great monk Tang Sanzang.
| Runtime (min) | 11 |
|---|---|
| TMDB Rating | 6.0 (2 votes) |
| Air Date | 2023-01-20 |
| Genres | Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family |
| Network(s) | iQiyi, Youku, Tencent Video |
Storyline
After Tang mysteriously disappears, MK and his friends realize they must retrace the legendary journey that Monkey King himself once undertook. Their search leads them to encounter Tang Sanzang, the great monk who originally traveled to the West with Monkey King centuries ago. This meeting places the heroes at the very beginning of the classic tale, offering them a chance to understand the origins of their own adventure.
The episode centers on the team's efforts to locate their missing friend by following the path of the original pilgrimage. Through their encounter with Tang Sanzang, the heroes gain insight into the historical journey that shaped Monkey King into the legend he became. The episode blends the show's contemporary storyline with the rich mythology of Journey to the West, emphasizing the importance of understanding the past to navigate the present crisis.
What kids learn
Children learn about the value of looking to history and past experiences when facing present challenges. The episode demonstrates that understanding where a journey began can provide crucial clues for moving forward, teaching kids that learning about origins and foundations helps solve current problems. This reinforces the idea that knowledge of the past is not just academic but practically useful.
The story also highlights the importance of perseverance when searching for someone you care about. MK and his friends refuse to give up on Tang, showing young viewers that loyalty and determination matter when a friend is in trouble. Their willingness to embark on a difficult quest demonstrates that true friendship requires effort and sacrifice.
Additionally, the episode introduces children to the concept of legacy and how the actions of those who came before us shape our present circumstances. By meeting Tang Sanzang and retracing Monkey King's original journey, kids see how stories and heroes are connected across time, fostering an appreciation for history and the continuity of heroic traditions.
Parents' top 5 questions
| Question | Answer |
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| Why does Tang disappear in this episode? | Tang's disappearance serves as the catalyst that sends the heroes on their quest to retrace Monkey King's original journey. The episode uses his absence to motivate the team's adventure and connect the present storyline to the classic Journey to the West mythology. His disappearance creates urgency and gives the heroes a personal stake in exploring the legendary path that Monkey King once traveled with Tang Sanzang. |
| Who is Tang Sanzang and how is he different from Tang? | Tang Sanzang is the historical monk from the original Journey to the West legend who traveled with Monkey King centuries ago. He is the ancient figure whose journey inspired the stories the modern characters know. Tang, the team's friend who has disappeared, is a present-day character who shares a name and connection to this legendary monk, creating a link between the show's contemporary heroes and classical mythology. |
| Is this episode scary when Tang goes missing? | The episode treats Tang's disappearance as a mystery that launches an adventure rather than a frightening crisis. The tone remains focused on the quest to find him and the discovery of meeting Tang Sanzang. While there is concern for their missing friend, the narrative emphasizes problem-solving and exploration. The eleven-minute runtime keeps the pacing brisk and adventure-focused rather than dwelling on worry or fear. |
| Do kids need to know Journey to the West to understand this episode? | While familiarity with Journey to the West enriches the viewing experience, the episode is designed to introduce these legendary elements to new audiences. Children will understand that the heroes are retracing an important historical journey and meeting the monk who traveled with Monkey King long ago. The episode provides enough context for kids to follow the story while rewarding those who recognize the classical references with deeper appreciation. |
| What does this episode teach about solving problems? | The episode demonstrates that sometimes solving a present problem requires understanding its origins. By going back to where Monkey King's journey began, the heroes learn that looking to the past and retracing steps can reveal important answers. This teaches children a valuable problem-solving approach: when stuck, consider the history and foundation of the situation to find clues for moving forward. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 1 | After the humiliating defeat of DBK, Red Son decides to reclaim some villainous glory by taking over the "Weather Station" a prestigious club that allows its members to control the weather in different parts of the city. MK, overconfident with his new powers, attempts to defeat Red Son, but his lack of control and discipline causes some trouble. |
| 1 | 2 | After Mr. Tang mentions the famed power of the Monkey King to duplicate himself, MK decides to do the same and creates "corrupted" clones, that supposedly will do everything for everyone while he stays home and plays video games. But, since MK is undisciplined, and doesn't really know how to use his powers, the clones go crazy, wreaking havoc. |
| 1 | 3 | When Mei, a member of the fabled and prestigious Dragon Family, is asked to house sit, MK begs to come along. General Ironclad, one of the DBK's minions, hears that the Dragon Family will be gone and realizes there's an opening to infiltrate the Dragon Temple House and steal the legendary Dragon Blade. But Mei defends her home and claims her birthright as the wielder of the fabled sword. |
| 1 | 4 | Pigsy and Mr. Tang, on the hunt for ingredients for the perfect meal, are taken hostage by the villainous Spider Queen. Sandy, MK, Mei, and Mo must take their new boat down into the sewers and free their friends before they become the main ingredients in Spider Queen's dinner. |
| 1 | 5 | MK wakes up to a perfect life... TOO perfect. Evidently, he's defeated the entire DBK family and everyone treats him like a hero. MK soon realizes everything is not as it seems, but that he's living in an illusion brought on by being trapped in the nefarious Calabash, an ancient magical device wielded by two mischievous demons. MK must shake off the illusion to defeat his comically weird enemies. |
| 1 | 6 | Everyone in the city is abuzz with the talk of an upcoming street race that will grant the winner "immortality". Mei and MK enter the race but a disagreement has them competing against each other. Their frustration boils over, causing them both to wreck and the DBK family to take the lead. Our heroes must learn to work together to defeat the DBK clan before they can claim the ultimate prize! |
| 1 | 7 | MK is easily distracted, something that hasn't gone unnoticed by his employer, Pigsy, who challenges MK to deliver an order in an allotted time. MK must go through a series of obstacles that challenges his focus in order to accomplish his goal. Eventually, he succeeds and arrives at his destination, delivering the order to... The Monkey King! |
| 1 | 8 | DBK's family's found a mysterious power source that will allow the brute to reclaim his former glory. But the strange item is locked behind an impervious ancient gate that needs a key... the same key that was given to MK as a 'thank you' for saving the city over and over. Now, it's a game of cat and mouse as DBK's family tries to get the key and our heroes attempt to keep it out of their hands. |
| 1 | 9 | The mysterious and powerful Macaque shows up in the city, helping MK thwart an evil cloud of smoke. He offers to train MK. But the new teacher is actually an old enemy of the Monkey King and is trying to siphon the Monkey King's powers from MK to defeat his fabled arch nemesis. It's up to MK to rise up and help the Monkey King before all his power is gone. |
| 1 | 10 | When MK arrives back in the city after an extended training session with Monkey King, he discovers the villainous Demon Bull King has taken over the city! Now he must use everything he’s learned this season to break into DBK’s hideout and defeat the family that causes him so much trouble! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | A new game sweeps across the city, but instead of fun and frivolity, the game is actually a virus that knocks out everyone who plays it, leaving the "Cloud" free and clear to be pilfered by one of Spider Queen's minions - Syntax, the Tech Spider! It's up to MK to swing into action, shut down the cloud, and wake up the city. |
| 2 | 2 | MK receives a mysterious call from Monkey King. Turns out, he may have accidentally knocked over a "Celestial Dumpling". It's streaking toward earth, and if it hits... well, everything will be destroyed. To contain the Dumpling, MK and Tang must find a Mystical Vase at Flower Fruit Mountain, a place replete with mystery and danger. |
| 2 | 3 | Pigsy has replaced the Monkey Mech game with Ping Pong and gets wildly addicted. MK has to break Pigsy from his addiction in order to save his shop. Meanwhile - Sandy accidentally gets put to sleep with a supercharged sleepy time tea. When a box, marked "from Monkey King" arrives, Mo finds himself having to take care of a bunch of Fruit Babies that are running rampant all throughout the boat. |
| 2 | 4 | Speedy Panda stores have appeared everywhere along with their biker gang delivery boys. Things boil over until a "food war" is declared. "Food critics" arrive, and Pigsy and friends must compete in a Food Olympics against Speedy Panda... which just so happens to be owned by Jin and Yin, the Gold and Silver Demons! |
| 2 | 5 | MK accidentally shrinks himself and falls down the drain, into the sewers, and finds himself back in the lair of the Spider Queen. Trying to escape, MK finds a young girl in need of rescuing. However, she's really Lady Bone Demon in disguise! Meanwhile, Tang has become a food critic, and Pigsy bends over backwards to make sure he's pleased. |
| 2 | 6 | MK is stuck in his training. He's not really advancing in his power set and feels like he'll never really be the hero he needs to be unless he goes through exactly what Monkey King went through. When he finds a VR video game that emulates the Monkey King's battles, MK jumps in, hoping to "live" Monkey King's life in order to be a better hero. |
| 2 | 7 | Our heroes attend a shadow play, secretly run by the Macaque. Using a magical lantern, he imprisons the other heroes to toy with MK. MK feels a strong connection to the play, about a Warrior abandoned by his Hero. When Macaque finally reveals himself, he torments MK for not realising his friends were missing. Macaque declares he will be MK's teacher, even if MK doesn't want him to be. |
| 2 | 8 | MK has got a bad case of the hiccups. Real bad. Because of his powers, every time he hiccups it causes a giant earthquake! There's only one thing that can cure it, a special tea made from a flower that only Sandy can procure from a dangerous location. While he attempts to find the leaf, Huntsman; one of Spider Queen's henchmen, is in pursuit, trying to steal the flower for his master. |
| 2 | 9 | MK has learned the power of TRANSFORMATION! Kind of... When Spider-Bots steal Pigsy's sign, MK needs to use his new powers to get it back! Down in Spider Queen's lair, MK finds she is trying to build a weapon to fight her old ally, Lady Bone Demon. He knows he needs to stop her, but maybe there's hope for his old enemy? |
| 2 | 10 | After gathering all the secret ingredients, Lady Bone Demon creates a POWERFUL BONE MECH which she uses to attack MK while he is out training. Even though MK has gained new powers, Lady Bone Demon has figured out how to defend against each one and everything turns sideways as MK is defeated! Now our hero desperately needs help to make it out alive, and find some way to come back and save the day! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | Monkey King battles the hero Ne Zha for a map that will lead to a weapon strong enough to defeat the Lady Bone Demon. With MK in peril, Monkey King uses the last of his strength to get back, but not before MK loses his powers. Now, MK, Monkey King, and the other heroes are on the run, pursued by the Macaque! Without his powers, MK must make a tough choice in order to defeat the villain! |
| 3 | 2 | When the heroes' drone crashes in the ocean, they are captured by the Dragon of the East, Mei's distant uncle! Furious with Monkey King for stealing the staff eons ago, he confiscates the map and imprisons the heroes... all except Mei! Now it's up to her to retake the map and save her friends before Macaque catches up to them! |
| 3 | 3 | The heroes drive across a vast desert, headed for the first location on the map. When their van breaks down, the team is stranded until they find an Oasis owned by the crafty Goldfish Demon! He offers to let them try and win whatever they need in his game show. MK, desperate to prove he can be the 'smart one' now he has no powers, agrees to play. Problem is, he's not the smart one! |
| 3 | 4 | After a pitstop, the heroes get back on the road. Strangely, MK notices they're headed East, not West! Something's wrong! We soon learn Macaque has tricked them and is bringing MK back to Lady Bone Demon. Meanwhile, Pigsy, Mr Tang, and Monkey King realise they've been separated from the others, but before they can go looking for them, they are attacked by a horrifying demon! |
| 3 | 5 | When a demon attacks, Tang and Pigsy know their only choice is to wake Monkey King from his mystic meditation. Monkey King scares off the demon, but now thinks he's his younger self! When the demon kidnaps Tang, it's up to Pigsy and Young Monkey King to rescue their friend. Meanwhile, Tang wakes up in the castle of a beautiful Queen who 'rescued him from the demon'. Tang isn't buying it... |
| 3 | 6 | MK, Mei and Sandy find themselves stranded in the desert, but a familiar figure emerges to save them: Red Son is back! Bringing the trio to his family's fortress, the heroes overstay their welcome with the villainous trio as they try to find out everything they can about the creation of the Samadhi Fire... and soon realize that the first ring is here, in Demon Bull King's nose! |
| 3 | 7 | Watching Pigsy's favourite cooking show, "Cooking with Chang'e", MK realises the second ring of Samadhi is there in her kitchen... On the moon! Soon, Pigsy, MK and the Monkey King are flying to the moon in a rocket! Making their way through Chang'e's solar base, they need to avoid Chang'e's killer bunny mechs and make it to the kitchen! However, getting out is going to be even harder than getting in! |
| 3 | 8 | The heroes arrive at the last stop on the map: Lantern City! But to get the final ring, they'll need to compete in a talent show! Stuck as band manager, Tang doesn't want to just sit around and wait. He's going to find the ring himself! Unfortunately, he's leading the Macaque right to it! To everyone's surprise, Tang stands up to Macaque, tapping into a power he didn't know existed... |
| 3 | 9 | Now with all three rings, the heroes ask Monkey King 'what's next?' But before he can answer, Ne Zha arrives, hunting them down. While Monkey King holds Ne Zha off, MK and the heroes must get the rings to a mystic mountain where they can reforge the fire. However, when Macaque arrives, now supercharged with Bone Demon power, things go from bad to worse. |
| 3 | 10 | Now that the ritual has been started, it can't be stopped. Worse, something is happening to Mei! Ancient secrets are revealed as Monkey King finally tells the heroes the truth: there is a fourth ring! All of the Samadhi Fire is absorbed into Mei, and there are now two unstoppable forces for the heroes to contend with. The Monkie Kid team is pushed to breaking point, and nothing will be the same! |
| 3 | 11 | With the heroes' team in disarray, MK and Ne Zha try desperately to stop the Monkey King from confronting the Lady Bone Demon on his own, while Mei learns how to control the Samadhi Fire with Red Son. When MK catches up to the Monkey King, it seems that his mentor might actually stand a chance of defeating her! |
| 3 | 12 | The Lady Bone Demon successfully overcomes the Monkey King and now has the perfect champion to complete her 'destiny'. MK reunites with Mei and Red Son, but before they can come up with a plan, the corrupted Monkey King arrives to take Mei and the Samadhi Fire to his new master! Now MK and the heroes will need to fight their strongest opponent ever! |
| 3 | 13 | With the Monkey King under Lady Bone Demon's control and Mei imprisoned in her tower, MK and other heroes formulate a plan to rescue their friends and save the world. With help from Macaque, new information from a depowered Mayor, and the Lady Bone Demon's power stretch thin, this is their last chance to stop Lady Bone Demon! |
| 3 | 14 | The final battle between the heroes and Lady Bone Demon has begun. MK must save his mentor from her control and stop her before she can release the Samadhi Fire and destroy the world! When all our heroes embrace their own destinies, the ultimate fight is on. Working together, they have one shot at defeating their ultimate enemy once and for all! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | MK is living that hero lifestyle, busting bad guys and saving the day, until he opens a cursed scroll and his world is flipped upside down once again! |
| 4 | 2 | Unable to reseal the scroll, MK's friends become trapped inside! Luckily, a mysterious new hero arrives in time to save Mei and MK from the same fate! |
| 4 | 3 | In order to find Tang, our heroes must start their Journey where Monkey King began his! In the company of the great monk Tang Sanzang. |
| 4 | 4 | Kidnapped by Pigsy in the body of his demonic ancestor, Zhu Ganglie, Tang must help Pigsy remember who he is before he's turned into demon-dinner! |
| 4 | 5 | When our heroes are scattered to different memories, Mei is captured by a powerful demon, and her family sword is broken! |
| 4 | 6 | Trapped in the body of his ancestor, Sandy challenges Pigsy to a fight! Meanwhile, MK meets the wise master who taught Monkey King all he knows. |
| 4 | 7 | As MK faces off with the scroll's curse, he's forced to confront his mysterious past and his ominous future. |
| 4 | 8 | Pulled from the scroll, the gang find themselves facing a new threat. This time, they are totally outclassed. |
| 4 | 9 | As the Brotherhood prepare their assault on the Celestial Realm, the heroes must train if they have any chance of saving the world! |
| 4 | 10 | Things aren't looking good as the Brotherhood overwhelms the Celestial Armies. Desperate to act, Mei leads the charge in a rescue mission. |
| 4 | 11 | With the fate of the universe in the balance, the team's only hope lies in someone who stood up to the Jade Emperor before and survived: Monkey King. |
| 4 | 12 | The gang gear up and prepare for their own assault on the Celestial Realm. |
| 4 | 13 | The universe tears at the seams as MK and friends engage in a final standoff with The Brotherhood. |
| 4 | 14 | It's all over! The New Jade Emperor's power is completely out of control and the universe tearing apart before our heroes' eyes! MK must help his enemy become the hero he believes himself to be before it's too late! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | MK is tormented by visions of the past and future. Monkey King and Macaque brace for the impending storm, facing the unknown. |
| 5 | 2 | MK, Monkey King and Macaque are called to the Underworld to stand trial for their 'crimes,' confronting their past misdeeds. |
| 5 | 3 | On the run from the celestial realm, our heroes seek the five Color Stones to save the universe! Their first destination: Burning Mountain! |
| 5 | 4 | Sandy demands a one-on-one training session with MK. To his dismay, Sandy's technique is not combat, but meditation. |
| 5 | 5 | The team splits up to locate the next stone. Pigsy and Tang encounter trouble, while Mei runs into a familiar face from her past. |
| 5 | 6 | At a food festival, the heroes search for the next stone, but they instead find Ne Zha and the celestial host blocking their path. |
| 5 | 7 | Inside Li Jing's Pagoda, a demon traps the heroes in memories. MK is shown memories he never knew existed. |
| 5 | 8 | Now that the heroes obtained all of the Color Stones, it's time to save the world! However, the secret enemy reveals himself, signaling that their trials are only beginning. |
| 5 | 9 | As the enemy fights the heroes, MK must confront his mentor. He knows what he must do, but Monkey King is trying to prevent him from following through with his destiny. |
| 5 | 10 | Amid the chaos beyond the world, MK encounters the goddess Nüwa and uncovers a secret so devastating it could alter everything. |
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