Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West

Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West is the first episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions, and the series premiere episode of Between the Lions.

Featured Story
How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the West: A Tall Tale by Beth Western

Quotes

 * Leona: (singing) Click clicked with her trickiest, slickest click / And dragged and dropped that twister quick.


 * Busterfield: I am not a cowboy. I am Barnaby B. "Don't Call Me Buster" Busterfield III, founder of this library. Get this hat off my head this instant!


 * Pecos Bill: Story's not true. Never happened. Never could happen. It's a tall tale. I'm just a paper hero.


 * Cleo: Stay calm. We're having a technical problem. A slight tornado. Perfectly harmless.


 * Theo: Bill said to Tess, "I must confess. If there's one thing I detest, it's a mess."


 * Theo: Pecos Bill was the best. The best in the west.


 * Cleo: Oh. Sweet Nursery Rhymes for Sleepy Cubs. Sounds nice, doesn't it, Leona?


 * Lionel: (singing) Gonna read a story before bed.


 * Female Monkey Singer: (singing) Let's start with our favorite vowel, a pretty good place to start.

Notes and Trivia

 * This is the first episode to feature the short "E" sound.
 * The pelican who loses his hairpiece is a modified version of Dr. Nitwhite.
 * This is the first time the grey hand takes three letters.
 * This is the first episode to feature the song, What's Your Name? with the short E.
 * This is the first time when Fred Says and Gawain's Word segments go together.
 * The What's Your Name?: Short E song is later used in A Peck of Peppers (That time with no laughing at the end).
 * The Un-People segment is also seen in The Hopping Hen and A Peck of Peppers.
 * The Monkey Pop-Up Theater segment is also seen in Farmer Ken's Puzzle, A Peck of Peppers and Red Hat, Green Hat.
 * This episode was released on the Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West and Other Stories DVD on June 7, 2005, along with it's 2 bonus episodes Lionel's Great Escape Trick and Touching the Moon.
 * This episode was released on The Chap with Caps and More! DVD Boxset on June 7, 2005, along with other eight episodes. They are:
 * The Chap with Caps
 * Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Shooting Stars
 * The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Pandora's Box
 * Touching the Moon
 * There's a Fly in My Soup
 * Lionel's Great Escape Trick
 * This episode was released on the Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset on January 8, 2008. Along with Season 1's other 29 episodes. They are:
 * Episode 02: The Lost Rock
 * Episode 03: Little Big Mouse
 * Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle
 * Episode 05: Shooting Stars
 * Episode 06: The Hopping Hen
 * Episode 07: Touching the Moon
 * Episode 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers
 * Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!
 * Episode 12: The Chap with Caps
 * Episode 13: Pandora's Box
 * Episode 14: Lionel's Great Escape Trick
 * Episode 15: There's a Fly in My Soup
 * Episode 16: The Popcorn Popper
 * Episode 17: Something Fishy
 * Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!
 * Episode 19: The Ram in the Pepper Patch
 * Episode 20: A Peck of Peppers
 * Episode 21: Sausage Nose
 * Episode 22: Red Hat, Green Hat
 * Episode 23: The Lucky Duck
 * Episode 24: The Old Man
 * Episode 25: A King and His Hawk
 * Episode 26: The Roar That Makes Them Run
 * Episode 27: Piggyback, Piggyback
 * Episode 28: The Fox and the Crow
 * Episode 29: Giants and Cubs
 * Episode 30: Be Bop
 * This episode was released on the Vowel Power DVD on April 15, 2014, along with it's other 4 episodes. They are:
 * The Chap with Caps
 * Little Big Mouse
 * The Lost Rock
 * Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * This episode was released on VHS on October 21, 2003, along with it's 18 other episodes. They are:
 * Shooting Stars
 * Touching the Moon
 * The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Lionel's Antlers
 * The Chap with Caps
 * Pandora's Box
 * Lionel's Great Escape Trick
 * There's a Fly in My Soup
 * The Popcorn Popper
 * Hug, Hug, Hug!
 * A Peck of Peppers
 * Sausage Nose
 * The Old Man
 * A King and His Hawk
 * The Roar That Makes Them Run
 * Giants and Cubs
 * Be Bop
 * This is one of the 7 episodes where there are 2 The Vowelles segments instead of 1, The other 6 are: The Hopping Hen (The 2nd Vowelles segment in that one is Dreamy Vowel E), Lionel's Great Escape Trick, There's a Fly in My Soup, The Ram in the Pepper Patch (The 2nd Vowelles segment in that one is Crazy Vowel A), A Peck of Peppers (The 2nd vowelles segment in that one is Dreamy Vowel E) & The Fox and the Crow or Be Bop.
 * This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in April 2009.
 * This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3886 (With Elmo's World Episode: Exercise).

Gallery
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Cast

 * Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion
 * Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
 * Peter Linz - Theo Lion, Gawain, Announcer Bunny (Arty Smartypants segment), What's Your Name? announcer
 * Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion, "Sven Said" lead singer
 * Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Clay Pigeon, Girl Monkey
 * Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield III, Arty Smartypants
 * Tyler Bunch - Walter Pigeon, Dr. Ruth's patient, The Un-People announcer
 * Jim Napolitano - background roles
 * Fred Newman - himself
 * Makeba Mooncycle - rapper
 * Dr. Bertice Berry - herself
 * Dr. Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
 * Michael K. Frith - The Adventures of Cliff Hanger narrator, Announcer Bunny (Bertice Berry segment), Sir "et"
 * Chris Phillips - Cliff Hanger
 * Kate Berner (uncredited) - Monica Maxwell
 * Paul Jacobs - "Sven Said" backup singers
 * Babi Floyd - Vowelles announcer