Episode 47: The Spider and the Lie

The Spider and the Lie is the seventeenth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 47 in total.

Plot
Lionel writes a crime story that includes Mr. Monkey, a spider, and a lie.

Segments and Songs

 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: What's inside? A spider.
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the long "i"-- "i"-- sound in the word "kite".
 * Chalkboard: kite, white, while, mile, smile (without or with chalk pressing sound)
 * Fred Says: smile
 * I Got a Reason to Write
 * Gawain's Word: chime
 * Information Hen tells time
 * 14 Karat Soul: Long I (I, I)
 * The Lone Rearranger Rewrites Again: Cowboys Must Ride Horses Into The Corral
 * Word Machine: ride, hide, hid, hip, rip
 * Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Time - rip/ripe
 * A word from Mr. Al Roker: chilly
 * Get Your Mouth Moving: Fred and the Freds
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III: A spider and inside the head

Featured Story
The Spider and the Lie

Quotes
Busterfield: Barnaby B. Busterfield III had a spider, and inside his head was where Barnaby would hide her. Heh heh heh. Take that, Mother Goose. Heh heh.

Theo: Mr. Monkey, can you tell the court your full name, please?

Monkey: Monkey C. Monkeydew.

Click: So? Continue, continue. And I fail to see why you need a pencil when you have a state-of-the-art computer.

Lionel: Writers need pencils. You can’t chew on a computer.

Lionel: Poor kid. He took her straight down Chump Street in a leaky canoe.

Click: Lionel, where’s Chump Street?

Leona: I like the cute animal genre. Can you write in the cute animal genre, Lionel?

Lionel: Oh, come on, Leona. I’m trying to concentrate. Take a powder, dollface.

Leona: ‘Take a powder, dollface’?

Lionel: That's the way they talk in the crime genre.

Rug: If there is no book, then he is not the crook. If he says it’s not so, you must let him go!

Click: You, rug! Lie down!

Rug: Okay.

Lionel: Things were bad,

Monkey C. Monkeydew: Yes, I admit it! I lied! I did it! I lied about the whole thing!

Cleo: No more questions, your honor. Leona Lion was telling the truth.

Monkey C. Monkeydew: (after handing the book to Theo and Cleo) Here. I’m really sorry. I just couldn’t afford a library card!

Theo: (along with Cleo and everyone else) But they’re free!

Monkey C. Monkeydew: Free? You’re kidding. (Theo and Cleo shake their heads)

Theo: Come to the front desk.

Monkey C. Monkeydew: Mom, Dad, Let's never lie again.

Gallery
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Notes and Trivia

 * 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 13: Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks
 * Episode 14: Bug Beard
 * Episode 15: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains
 * Episode 16: Quest, Quest, Quest!
 * 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).
 * The Information Hen (segment) also appears in Good Night, Knight.
 * This episode was last broadcasted on PBS either in February or March 2009.
 * The Vowel Boot Camp and Al Roker segments should've been in Icarus's Wings, Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack! and Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks which are actual short I episodes.

Allusions

 * Rug's feeble attempts at defending his client, Monkey C. Monkeydew, are a spoof on "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," a phrase coined by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, referring to a glove that was a piece of evidence in the infamous 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial. Though the monkey in the story eventually broke down and confessed, Simpson was acquitted.