Episode 52: Tweet! Tweet!

'''Tweet! Tweet!' is the twenty-second episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions'', and episode 52 in total.

Plot
Theo is laughing uproariously while reading the book Bone Poems. Cleo reads the poem that's the source of Theo's merriment: It's about a tyrannosaurus going "Tweet! Tweet!" Cleo explains to Leona and Lionel that today's birds may descended from dinosaurs. Upon overhearing this, Walter and Clay decide to start acting like dinosaurs around the library.

Segments and Songs

 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!
 * Information Hen sings about the color dinosaurs
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles sweep away with the sweet double e, "e" sound in the word "feet". (with crowd cheering and applause) (EKA: The Good Seed)
 * Footprints or Shoeprints: feet, fee, free, freeze
 * Fred Says: squeeze
 * Fonix sings "The Double E Song" (EKA: The Good Seed)
 * Gawain's Word: sweep
 * Microbes: sweep, weep, beep, bee, beet, bee
 * Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Bees
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III: Tweet! Tweet!
 * The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: No Sleep for Bo-Peep (outro cut)
 * What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Beef in a Sheet with No Beets or Greens
 * Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: Slippery as an Eel [not slippery as an owl]
 * The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: parakeet (EKA: The Good Seed)
 * Go to Sleep, Little Mousie
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III (again): Tweet! Tweet!

Featured Stories

 * A poem from Bone Poems by Jeff Moss; illustrated by Tom Leigh
 * Meet the Dinosaurs by Doreen van Beetsleet

Notes and Trivia

 * Big Bird, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street make a cameo in this episode.
 * John Tartaglia was among the Sesame Street Muppet performers who worked on this episode. He served as a "right-hander," but it's unknown whether he was performing Bert or Ernie's right hand.
 * "Bone Poems" was written by former Sesame Street writer Jeff Moss, who passed away in 1998.
 * This is the first and only time ever where Walter and Clay get dragged and dropped into a book by Click.
 * This is the second time where the poem is written by Jeff Moss, the first is The Sad Dad.
 * This is the third time Click goes into sleep mode, the first is Touching the Moon and the second is The Sad Dad.
 * This is the second time where the word "humongous", the first was The Fox and the Crow.
 * This is the last time when the What's Cooking? and Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segments go together.
 * 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 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 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 either on June or July 2007.
 * The music that plays during the Footprint or Shoeprint Words segment in this episode is the same from Be Bop and Why the Baboon’s Balloon Went Ka-boom!.

Goofs

 * During the credits, Sesame Street is misspelled as Sesmame Street.

Gallery
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