Episode 40: The Last Cliff Hanger

The Last Cliff Hanger is the tenth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 40 in total.

Plot
Lionel is excited that there’s a new Cliff Hanger book. But when it comes, he’s shocked that it’s the last one. The helicopter chorus are also not happy, as they lost their jobs, so they get out of the book and express this, to which Cleo tells them to find something else to sing about, which they do, starting by singing about a black stapler and then Cleo and Theo (referring to them as "Two Lions"), which amazes them. In an attempt Lionel makes to talk to Cliff to get him to do more books, Click transports him and Leona into the beach that Cliff is on.

Cliff confesses that he isn't happy because he isn't on the cliff. When Lionel asks him if he can go back on the cliff, Cliff says he can’t because his author Livingston Dangerously wrote him there.

Cliff then suggests talking to Livingston about writing more books, so Click transports the two cubs back to the Library. Once out, the chorus sings about Click and then Cleo and Theo like it and tell them to Take 25.

Lionel asks Livingston to write more Cliff Hanger books. However, Livingston reveals that he had to make Cliff’s latest adventure the last one because he ran out of ideas for more Cliff Hanger stories and couldn’t think of anything else. When asked how he gets his ideas, Livingston reveals that they first come over him in a wave, and then lift him out to “a sea of inspiration.”

Eventually, with the lions’ help, Livingston gets an idea, and writes a new Cliff Hanger book where Cliff goes back on the cliff. However, though, the helicopter people sing about a pen holder and the lions are starting to get annoyed by them, so, in order to get the chorus out of their fur, they ask Livingston to write it fast. Eventually, Livingston writes the new book and Click downloads it. The Lions read it and Cliff returns to his Cliff. However, once he does, when the chorus or a member of them should sing "And that’s why he's called Cliff Hanger!", due to the chorus not being in the book, he sings it himself. Once the story is over, the chorus sings about one of the library's green lampshades, at which point Cleo gets their attention like Cliff tries to do and tells them they can go back now, but then, they start to sing about a ham sandwich, before cutting themselves off, due to hearing what Cleo said, realizing Cliff's back on the cliff and so they jump back into the story and fly past Cliff, singing "And that’s why he's called Cliff Hanger!" while the lions celebrate.

Segments and Songs

 * The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: The Last Cliff Hanger (part 1)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 1)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 2)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 3)
 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: race around the library, fastest, alone at last, shall pass
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the fabulous short "a"-- "ah"-- sound in the word "fast".
 * Fred Says: fast, faster, fastest
 * What's Your Name?: short a (Season 2 version)
 * The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: The Last Cliff Hanger (part 2)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 4)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 5)
 * Sea: whale, tale, tack
 * Tiger Words: A Stack of Flapjacks [stack, not stick]
 * What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Tackled and Paddled Hamburger Patty
 * Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: French Fry [masher in the neighborhood, not neighbor in the masherhood]
 * B.B. the King of Beasts and Fonix sings "E-D, It's Over Now"
 * The Adventures of Cliff Hanger all-new
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 6)
 * The Last Cliff Hanger (song) (part 7)
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III: alone at last and having a blast with an exclamation point
 * Coming Soon: Dance in Smarty Pants with even more guest stars and mascots dancing

Featured Story
The Last Cliff Hanger by Livingston Dangerously

Quotes

 * Leona: I love happy endings.
 * Lionel: Happy? What’s to be happy about? It was the last Cliff Hanger — the last! No more new Cliff Hangers.
 * Chorus: Click the Mouse / is a mouse that clicks / And that’s why she's called...
 * Click: (bored) Yes, thank you, very much.
 * Busterfield: Alone at last! There's a method in my madness.
 * Chorus: Black stapler / staples and it's black / And that's why it's called black stapler! (The stapler briefly comes to life, acting like a dog, before going static again)
 * Cleo: Super!
 * Theo: Really great.
 * Chorus: Cliff Hanger / Living on the beach / And that’s why he's called... oh, phooey!
 * Livingston: Yes, Do I know you.
 * Livingston: I had to make the last
 * Lions and Click: Write it fast, Livingston.


 * Chorus: Ham sandwich / Sandwich made of ham / And that’s why it's called...
 * One of the singers: (spoken) Hey, Cliff's back on the cliff. We're working!
 * Chorus: Yay


 * Cliff Hanger: This is a blast! / Drat! / And that’s why I'm called Cliff Hanger! / Can't hold on much longer!

Notes and Trivia

 * Akira Takayama played Livingston Dangerously.
 * This is the first and only time ever where Lionel and Leona get dragged and dropped into a computer by Click.
 * The music that plays during the Sea Word Morph segment in this episode sounds the same from Shooting Stars.
 * The Last Cliff Hanger and the new one Livingston writes are both rehashes of Cliff Hanger and the Mammoth Whale, except Cliff is successful in getting off the cliff and later gets back on through the whale. So when making The Last Cliff Hanger, Livingston is right when he ran out of ideas and had to make it the last, as he had to re-use that, but he later got a new idea by getting the idea of what happened in The Mammoth Whale to get him back on.
 * When Cleo gets their attention and they realize Cliff's back on the cliff, as a joke, this episode reveals that, while the helicopter chorus have beautiful singing voices, their speaking voices (as seen with the member who speaks) sound abrasive and annoying.
 * The official version of The Cliff Hanger Story is later seen in as a segment in the Season 4 episode Grow, Mane, Grow!.
 * This episode was released on VHS on October 30, 2001, along with it's 24 other episodes. They are:
 * Episode 1: The Sad Dad
 * Episode 2: Humph! Humph! Humph!
 * Episode 3: The Good Seed
 * Episode 4: Icarus's Wings
 * Episode 5: Zoop! Zoop!
 * Episode 6: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!
 * Episode 7: Poetry Day
 * Episode 8: Bobby the Hopping Robot
 * Episode 9: Teacher's Pet
 * Episode 11: Pebble Trouble
 * Episode 12: Oh, Yes, It Can!
 * Episode 13: Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks
 * Episode 14: Bug Beard
 * Episode 15: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains
 * Episode 16: Quest, Quest, Quest!
 * Episode 17: The Spider and the Lie
 * Episode 18: Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-boom!
 * Episode 19: But, Mama, But...
 * Episode 20: Dreaming Shakespeare
 * Episode 21: Rats
 * Episode 22: Tweet! Tweet!
 * Episode 23: Good Night, Knight!
 * Episode 24: The Chess Mess
 * Episode 25: Stop That Chicken!
 * This episode was released on reprint VHS on October 1, 2002, along with the other Season 2 episodes (excluding Dreaming Shakespeare).
 * This episode was released on the Complete Second Season 4-Disc DVD Boxset on September 2, 2008. Along with the other Season 2 episodes (excluding Dreaming Shakespeare).
 * This episode was last broadcasted on PBS either in January or April 2009.

Goofs

 * The Vowelles microphone disappears when they appear in one scene.
 * In the Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segment, when the computer generated shot of "Amazing" being typed on the typewriter translates to the rear shot of Sam's car, for a split-second, you can see the original shot of the text where it is shown like when Sam corrects words.

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