Episode 43: Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks

Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks is the thirteenth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 43 in total.

Plot
Lionel's best friend Lenny comes to visit, but Lionel becomes upset when he finds out Lenny does not like Cliff Hanger anymore. You're in Justin Time!

Segments and Songs

 * The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and Trixie the Tricky Pixie (EKA: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!)
 * Sing along with Martha Reader and The Vowelles bring you the short "i"-- "ih"-- sound in the word "pig". (without or with adding the letter s in the word "pigs")
 * Stage: pig, pick, ick, tick, tickle
 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: tickles Clay Pigeon, tickled
 * The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: sick, slick
 * Swami Marmy: Your Sister Will Drop In For A Visit
 * The Adventures of Justin Time: Justin Time and the 600-Pound Chicken
 * Gawain's Word: spin
 * Color Patterns: pin, in, thin, thing, ing
 * If You Can Read: ing (EKA: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!)
 * Sky: sing, sit, it, bit
 * Fred Says: bit, bite
 * A word from fame broadway, actor and director Mr. Walter Bobbie: it (with music or with music and snapping fingers) (EKA: A King and His Hawk)
 * The Albrecht Roser Puppet Series: Albrecht Roser and Grandma
 * B.B. the King of Beasts and Fonix sings "E-D, It's Over Now" (EKA: The Last Cliff Hanger)

Five Words

 * amigo
 * nail
 * ticklish
 * kit or kite
 * adding

Featured Stories

 * Cliff Hanger and Trixie the Tricky Pixie by Livingston Dangerously
 * Justin Time and the 600 Pound Chicken by Lulu Zbacken-Towne
 * When I Was Five by Arthur Howard

Goofs

 * During this story, much and longer is said as luch and monger due to Cliff being all mixed up with the tongue twisters. (EKA: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!)

Notes and Trivia

 * The blue and white-striped shirt Lionel wears in the flashback was previously worn by him in the Between the Shows promos for the series during the first two seasons, most likely so as to not interfere with the green screen.
 * This is the third time where Lionel sings "Cliff Hanger, hanging on a cliff!", the first is Something Fishy and the second is The Ram in the Pepper Patch.
 * This is the second episode that the gray hand grabs the letters from a segment; the first is The Hopping Hen.
 * This is the second episode from Season 2 that features segments from Season 1; the first is Humph! Humph Humph!.
 * The Music Video E-D, It's Over Now is also seen later in the Season 5 episode The Golden Meaty Awards.
 * 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 10: The Last Cliff Hanger
 * Episode 11: Pebble Trouble
 * Episode 12: Oh, Yes, It Can!
 * 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 in June 2006.
 * Moral of Episode: You can still be Friends with someone, Even if they don't like the same things as you anymore.

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