My wife, explaining to our cat why he can't jump on the stove: "One day, you're going to jump up there, and you're going to cook your fuckin' beans, dude. Nobody wants that. Nobody."
Some of the worst and most character assassinating moments in this show come from the writers feeling the need to mash multiple vaguely related scenes together. We speedran through Zuko and Iroh being hobos so we never got him stealing the ostrich-horse, so he just steals here.