Avatar: The Last Airbender, Season 3

[Zuko tosses a portrait of him, his parents and Azula on the campfire]

Ty Lee:
[startled] What are you doing?

Zuko:
What does it look like I'm doing?

Ty Lee:
But... it's a portrait of your family.

Zuko:
You think I care?

Ty Lee:
I think you do-

Zuko:
You don't know me, so why don't you just mind your own business?!

Ty Lee:
...I know you.

Zuko:
No, you don't! You're stuck in your little Ty Lee world, where everything is great all the time!

Mai:
Zuko, leave her alone.

Zuko:
"I'm so pretty, look at me! I can walk on my hands! Woo!" [flops down in the sand, facing away] Circus freak!

[Azula snickers]

Ty Lee:
[tearful and angrily] Yes, I'm a circus freak! Go ahead and laugh all you want! You wanna know why I joined the circus?

Azula:
Here we go...

Ty Lee:
Do you have any idea what my home life was like, growing up with six sisters who looked exactly like me?! It was like, I didn't even have my own name! I joined the circus because I was scared of spending the rest of my life as a matched set! At least I'm different now! "Circus Freak" is a compliment!

Mai:
I guess that explains why you need ten boyfriends, too.

Ty Lee:
I'm sorry, what?

Mai:
Attention issues? You couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid, so you're trying to make up for it now.

Ty Lee:
Well, what's your excuse, Mai? You were an only child for fifteen years, but even with all that attention, your aura is just this dingy, pale, grey-

Mai:
I don't believe in auras.

Zuko:
Yeah... you don't believe in anything.

Mai:
[sarcastically] Oh, well, I'm sorry I can't be as crazy and high-strung as the rest of you.

Zuko:
I'm sorry, too; I wish you would be high-strung and crazy for once, instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy, are you gonna take that?

Mai:
What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how bad my childhood was? Well, it wasn't. I was a rich only child who got anything I wanted... as long as I behaved. And sat still. And didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad's political career to think about.

Azula:
Well, that's it then: you had a controlling mother with certain expectations, and if you strayed from them, you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything... and why you can't express yourself.

Mai:
[stands up, angrily] You want me to express myself? LEAVE ME ALONE!