Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!

'''To the Ship! To the Ship!''' is the 11th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.

Plot
Lionel and Leona read the (fictional) book Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship in the library. Inspired by the story, Lionel then dresses up as a pirate and pretends to be Mississippi Skip in a game of pirates; Walter also wants to play, so Lionel lets him.

But when Clay and Leona want to play, Lionel tells them they can’t. When Cleo sees how sad Leona and Clay feel, Leona explains the situation to her, and Cleo says “Is that so?”

Cleo then stops Lionel when he walks by her; when he says “I be Mississippi Skip, captain of a pirate ship, and the seas be rough,” she replies with “Rougher than you think, Skip.”

Lionel then says “Uh-oh” and lifts up his eye-patch (off-screen) as Cleo asks him if he told Leona and Clay they couldn’t play with him; Lionel says he did and explains that it’s because Leona and Clay are girls, and that there are no female pirates. Cleo tells him that he pretends to be a dinosaur or a robot, but he is neither of those, and Lionel agrees. Cleo then says that he can pretend to be anything he wants to be, and Lionel also agrees with her on that; when Cleo adds “And so can Leona and Clay”, Lionel is surprised, but then repeats “And so can Leona and Clay.”

When Lionel tells Leona and Clay that they have to be boy pirates, Theo suggests that he just might want to read about Anne Bonney. Cleo adds that Anne Bonney was a real pirate who lived a long time ago; Leona asks “She?” and an equally surprised Lionel also asks “She?”, to which Theo replies “She,” because the girls are also pirates.

When Leona says she wants to be Anne Bonney when they play Pirates, Anne Bonney says that she can’t “because I be Anne Bonney. And if anybody be playin’ Pirates...” (lifts herself out of her page in her book) “I be playin’ too... unless you want make-believe pirates in your game!”

When Lionel says that anybody is allowed to play Pirates, Anne then takes over the idea.

Segments and Songs

 * At the Library with Dr. Nitwhite: Words with ip
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III
 * Fred Says: rip
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles kicking the short "i" sound in their zippy big hit "lip".
 * Gawain's Word: slip
 * Dr. Bertice Berry shout with the letter I in "ship".
 * Sky: ship, lip, rip, trip
 * Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli [trip, not trap] (EKA: Little Big Mouse)
 * Rectangular Bugs: trip, rip, ship
 * The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped (EKA: Little Big Mouse)
 * Replaced Letter Songs: A Fellow Named Sig (EKA: The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
 * Johnny Consonanti and The Vowelles performed from the big hit show "it". (EKA: The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
 * Color Patterns: it, hit, hip, ship, sh
 * Cleo Lion sings "Sh, sh, sh... Shush"
 * Tongue Twisters: Seven Selfish Shellfish
 * What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish
 * Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Jam [not real jim]
 * It's Great to Be a Pirate
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III: Yo! Ho! Ho! Anchors away.

Featured Story
The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship by Ipswitch Clipspringer V

Quotes
Anne Bonney: (singing) Well, first ye need a ship / And then ye need a crew / And only a leaky, creaky ship and a nasty crew will do..

Walter: Hey, what you got there? Clay: A book about birds, I hope! Lionel: It's a book about pirates. Walter: Ooh, parrots! Walter & Clay: Ooh, cool birds! Lionel: Mm, not parrots- pirates. Walter: Oh, no parrots? Bye-bye! Clay: Bye-bye. Lionel: Well, there's parrots in it... Walter & Clay: ..Hello!

Theo: Well now, hold on there a minute, captain. (snickers) You may just want to read about Anne Bonney. Cleo: She was a real pirate who lived a long time ago. Leona: She? Lionel: She? Theo: She! (laughs a little) Lionel: Well, blow me down.

Notes and Trivia

 * Though the Mississippi Skip story and the book The Life of Anne Bonney were created for this episode of the program, Anne Bonneey was, in fact, a real life female pirate.
 * This is the first time when the What's Cooking? and Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segments go together.
 * Lionel will also read The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship in a Season 6 episode.
 * This episode was released on the To the Ship! To the Ship! and Other Stories DVD on September 27, 2005, along with it's 2 bonus episodes The Hopping Hen and Be Bop.
 * This episode was released on The Hopping Hen and More! DVD Boxset on September 27, 2005, along with other eight episodes. They are:
 * The Hopping Hen
 * The Popcorn Popper
 * Farmer Ken's Puzzle
 * Hug! Hug! Hug!
 * Giants and Cubs
 * Be Bop
 * Piggyback, Piggyback
 * The Fox and the Crow
 * This episode was released on VHS on October 30, 2001 and reprint VHS on October 1, 2002, along with other five episodes. They are:
 * Farmer Ken's Puzzle
 * The Hopping Hen
 * Something Fishy
 * Piggyback, Piggyback
 * The Fox and the Crow
 * 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 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West
 * 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 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 last broadcasted on PBS in July 2005.
 * This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3896 (With Elmo's World Episode: Hair).

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