Episode 46: Quest, Quest, Quest!

Quest, Quest, Quest! is the sixteenth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 46 in total.

Plot
Babs Caplan returns with her latest story, "The Quest for the Chest". It features Lady Esther (Faith Prince) and Lester the Jester (Michael McGrath) on their search for the Chest of Budapest, which is in the possession of Count Chester the Congested (David Garrison).

Lionel and Leona are upset at the story's abrupt conclusion where Chester immediately hands the chest over to Esther and Lester when they ask for it. When Cleo suggests giving the characters more of a challenge, Babs starts to rewrite her story.

Later, she returns with an updated version where Chester tests them with a challenge; he tells them he has two pieces of paper, one with the word "chest", and the other with the word "guest". If they pick "chest", they win the Chest of Budapest, but, if they pick "guest", they will become prisoners in his dungeon. However, he cheats by writing "guest" on both pieces of paper. This inevitably results in Esther and Lester's imprisonment.

Lionel and Leona reject this ending, too, because it sets a bad example in saying that cheaters always win. So, they tell Babs to write an ending where the heroes win.

Eventually, Babs comes up with an ending where Esther and Lester outsmart Chester by throwing one of the papers into the fireplace. The cubs are happy with ending, and all is well for Babs.

Segments and Songs

 * Quest, Quest, Quest (part 1)
 * Quest, Quest, Quest (part 2)
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the zesty short "e"-- "eh"-- sound in the word "vest". (with crowd cheering and applause)
 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: best word with the "est" ending
 * Gawain's Word: dress (EKA: Pebble Trouble)
 * What's Your Name?: short e (Season 2 version) (EKA: Pebble Trouble)
 * Fred Says: jet
 * Space: jet, wet, wed, red
 * Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Red Elephant (with elephant noises)
 * Quest, Quest, Quest (part 3)
 * Quest, Quest, Quest (part 4)
 * What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Peppered Tenderloin in a Kettle with No Melons and No Egg (without announcer says) (EKA: Episode 20: A Peck of Peppers)
 * Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Couple of Really Bad Eggs [not really bad iggs] (girl watching on TV cut) (EKA: Farmer Ken's Puzzle)
 * Construction: egg, peg, pen, en
 * If You Can Read: en (EKA: Pebble Trouble)
 * The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: entertaining (with no knocking sound)
 * Quest, Quest, Quest (part 5)
 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: take a siesta

Featured Story
The Quest for The Chest by Babs Caplan

Notes and Trivia

 * This is the final appearance of Babs Caplan.
 * This is the third time where the story written by Babs Caplan, the first is The Chap with Caps, and the second is The Old Man.
 * The word "jet" from the Fred Says segment flies to the Space Word Morph segment; then it changes from gray to orange before the segment starts.
 * What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo and Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segments that are featured in this episode are from Season 1.
 * This is the third episode from Season 2 that features segments from Season 1; the first was Humph! Humph Humph!, and the second was Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks.
 * The grey cursor hand appear at the end of the Construction Word Morph segments dragging the "en" ending to the If You Can Read segment before it starts even though it first appeared in Pebble Trouble.
 * In this episode, the words featuring the letter the episode focuses on appearing onscreen when characters speak are replaced with Monkeys walking around holding signs with those words after characters say the words, as it is Free Monkey Lunch Day, in which they walk around with words while they digest.
 * 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 16: 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 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 2005.

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