Episode 31: The Sad Dad

"The Sad Dad" is the first episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 31 in total.

Featured Story
It Could Be Worse adapted by Vladimir Vladimirovich Vladivostok

Notes and Trivia

 * This episode features guest appearances from Bruno Kirby (as the Sad Dad) and Denny Dillon (as the old lady).
 * The poem Roma Downey reads in this episode, "The Butterfly Jar" was written by Jeff Moss, a longtime Sesame Street writer who died in 1998.
 * This is the second time Click goes into sleep mode, the first is Touching the Moon.
 * The background for The Vowelles segments changes starting this episode. Johnny Consonanti becomes the announcer for those segments.
 * This is the first episode where Peter Linz voices Heath the Thesaurus.
 * B and D Confusion and Busterfield Library are later seen in Bug Beard.
 * This is the first episode where Johnny Consonanti is the announcer for The Vowelles segments.
 * This is the first episode with the If You Can Read Song.
 * Bruno Kirby appears 2 episodes later in a segment in The Good Seed & also appears in a segment in Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!
 * This episode was released on VHS on October 30, 2001, along with it's 24 other episodes. They are:
 * 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 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 April 2009.
 * Moral of Episode: Even though a certain Place or Space may be crowded, It's not always as bad as you may think it may be.
 * At the end of the episode, the patrons are still stuck and can't get out.

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