Episode 42: Oh, Yes, It Can!

Oh, Yes, It Can! is the twelfth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 42 in total.

Plot
Karen Kandel tells a story from the Ashanti people on the West coast of Africa with many short "a" words about a yam, a fish trap, and a piece of fabric. The Lion family then begin to imagine that various objects are talking to them, just like in the story.

Segments and Songs

 * Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: making Buster sandwich, and what planet is this
 * Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the fabulous short "a"-- "ah"-- sound in the word "pan". (with monkeys hooting)
 * Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Nappy-Packy-Wacky-Lake - man/main
 * Sky with Spotlights: man, mat, at
 * If You Can Read: at (EKA: The Sad Dad)
 * Teatro Hugo & Ines: Hugo and the Hat
 * Gawain's Word: scratch
 * Dance in Smarty Pants! (Version 1, with Elmo)
 * Fred Says: clam
 * Color Patterns: clam, clan, an, pan, pant, paint
 * Tiger Words: A Train Trip to Spain [pant or paint] (EKA: Poetry Day)
 * 14 Karat Soul: Short A (rammalam)
 * I Can! I Can!, You Can? You Can?
 * Barnaby B. Busterfield III: talk about yammer, yap and palaver, Oh, yes, it can!

Featured Story
from the Ashanti people on the West coast of Africa

Notes and Trivia

 * This story would be told again in Season 9.
 * The music that plays during the Sky Words segment in this episode is the same from Touching the Moon and Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?. And has the same background as Red Hat, Green Hat and A King and His Hawk.
 * The color pattern words segment has the same font as in Zoop! Zoop!.
 * Elmo from Sesame Street makes a cameo in the segment "Dance in Smarty Pants".
 * This is the second time where Walter and Clay are laying down. The first was Episode 34: Icarus's Wings.
 * This is the second time a Story takes place in Africa, the first was Red Hat, Green Hat.
 * 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 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 VHS on June 7, 2005, along with other four episodes. They are:
 * Shooting Stars
 * Zoop! Zoop!
 * Huff and Puff
 * Help!
 * 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 either March or April 2009.

Goofs

 * When the Gray Hand puts the 'a' back in "can", the hand cuts into the screen and disappears.
 * During the credits, Sesame Workshop is incorrected as Sesame Street Workshop.

Gallery
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