Episode 07: Touching the Moon

Touching the Moon is the seventh episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.

Featured Story
The Queen Who Wanted to Touch the Moon retold by Hootie Kaboodle

Quotes

 * Girl: Mom! There's a talking potato with a hat on and no mouth!
 * Mom: That's okay, dear. It's educational television. I'm sure it will help you in school... somehow.
 * Click: I am in sleep mode. Shouldn't you be, Lionel?
 * Leona: Lionel?
 * Lionel: What?!
 * Leona: If the moon is full, can it overflow? What's it made of? How far away is it?
 * Lionel: I dunno. Uh... rock, far.
 * Cleo: What's the matter, Theo?
 * Theo: I'm awake. I'm awake!

Gallery
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Notes and Trivia

 * This is the first episode in which The Vowelles do not appear.
 * This is the first episode where the grey cursor hand pulls out only highlighted double letter. This would continue in Season 2.
 * All the Tiger Words, Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective, Fonix and the "Rocket-Doodle-Doo" music video segments seen in this episode are repeats of segments seen in the episode "The Lost Rock".
 * This is the first time Lionel's shirt has orange stripes instead of green stripes.
 * During the Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segment, Sam said "That's when she lowered the boom" but the word "thump" appeared on the screen instead of "boom" like in The Lost Rock.
 * The newspaper text shown during Lionel's song is made up of gibberish.
 * The Queen Who Wanted to Touch the Moon is also read by Cleo in the Season 5 episode Episode 74: A Shower of Stars / Two Moons and One Lagoon.
 * The Music used in the Sky Words segment is used 2 episodes later in Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?.
 * This episode was released on the Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West and Other Stories DVD on June 7, 2005, along with its 2 bonus episodes Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West and Lionel's Great Escape Trick.
 * This episode was released on The Chap with Caps and More! DVD Boxset on June 7, 2005, along with other eight episodes. They are:
 * The Chap with Caps
 * Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Shooting Stars
 * Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West
 * The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Pandora's Box
 * There's a Fly in My Soup
 * Lionel's Great Escape Trick
 * This episode was released on VHS on October 21, 2003, along with it's 18 other episodes. They are:
 * Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West
 * Shooting Stars
 * The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Lionel's Antlers
 * The Chap with Caps
 * Pandora's Box
 * Lionel's Great Escape Trick
 * There's a Fly in My Soup
 * The Popcorn Popper
 * Hug, Hug, Hug!
 * A Peck of Peppers
 * Sausage Nose
 * The Old Man
 * A King and His Hawk
 * The Roar That Makes Them Run
 * Giants and Cubs
 * Be Bop
 * 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 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
 * Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers
 * Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!
 * 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 August 2004.
 * This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3892 (With Elmo's World Episode: Dogs).
 * The Gawain's Word Segment of Snooze and Sleep are the same, because 2 knights take a nap.

Goofs

 * During Lionel's song, when he sings "He's going down in history as the greatest cub hero in the galaxy!" the first time, Anthony Asbury's face can faintly be seen on the right side.