| To the Ship! To the Ship! | |
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| Season 1, Episode 11 | |
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| Air date | April 17, 2000 |
| Written by | Judy Freudberg and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Dean Gordon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers |
Next Episode 12: The Chap with Caps |
To the Ship! To the Ship! is the 11th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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COLD OPEN | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here, check out what's coming up here on Between the Lions!"
A clip from The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped is shown. |
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SCENE 1 | Dr. Nitwhite has just discovered there is only one word in the english language that has the "ip" sound at the end of it- "lip". Then Lionel comes by with a book, The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship. Hearing all the "ip" words in the title, Dr. Nitwhite decides to head back to the lab. Then Theo notices his tea and says "I think I'll have a... SIP!!!", causing Nitwhite to scream frightenedly offscreen. |
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SCENE 1 (Cont'd) | Lionel shows Walter and Clay his book and they confuse it for a parrot book, and start to leave when they hear what it's really about. They become interested again when Lionel tells them there's a parrot in it. Then Leona pounces on Lionel, who also mistakes the book for a parrot book. Walter says that there is a parrot in it, though. |
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Insert | Barnaby B. Busterfield III says "Pirate, parrot, parrot, pirate, just read the book already!" |
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SCENE 1 (Cont'd) | So Lionel does, and Walter and Clay interrupt the book to say that the parrot named Chip is hip. After the book, the pigeons compliment on Chip, saying he had "Such courage, such spirit, such strength..." |
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Insert | "Such nonsense." adds Busterfield. |
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SCENE 1 (Cont'd) | Lionel decides that they should all play "pirate"! Leona tries to get a role in their play, but Lionel won't let her or Clay play because they're girls and there were no girls in the book, leaving them disappointed. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand removes the "ip" from "ship". |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: rip |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles kick the short "i" sound from their zippy big hit "lip". |
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Film | Gawain's Word: slip |
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Insert | "Dr. Bertice Berry with the I in "ship". (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry shout the sound of the letter I in "ship". |
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Insert | Sky: ship, lip, rip, trip |
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Cartoon | Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli [trip, not trap] (EKA: Episode 03: Little Big Mouse) |
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Insert | Rectangular Bugs: trip, rip, ship |
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SCENE 2 | Leona and Clay are still depressed because Lionel won't let them play pirate. Cleo comes along and Leona explains the situation, so she goes to talk to Lionel. Cleo interrupts Lionel's playing and asks him if what was happening was really true. Lionel says that they're girls, and there were no female pirates, so Cleo explains that he can pretend to be anything when he isn't that thing, so Leona and Clay can as well. So Lionel lets them play, with the exception that they at least have to play as boys. |
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SCENE 2
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Then, Theo brings down a book about Anne Bonney, who was a real-life female pirate; in which surprises Lionel that there are also girls that can be pirates too. Leona wants to be Anne Bonney when they play pirates, but suddenly Anne lifts herself out of the book and says that she can't, and if they're playing pirate, she should too, unless they only want pretend pirates. When Lionel says that anybody is allowed to play pirates, Anne takes over the idea and forces Theo, Cleo and a few monkeys passing by to play as well. She chuckles, saying it looks kind of like her old crew. |
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Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped (EKA: Episode 03: Little Big Mouse) |
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Insert | "And now, a little poem in which letters change, and make something very interesting happen." |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Fellow Named Sig (EKA: Episode 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf) |
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Puppets | Johnny Consonanti and The Vowelles performed from the big hit show "it". (EKA: Episode 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf) |
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Insert | Color Patterns: it, hit, hip, ship, sh |
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Puppets | Cleo Lion sings Sh, sh, sh... Shush |
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Insert | "Now, twist your tongue around this one!" |
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Film | Tongue Twisters: Seven Selfish Shellfish |
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Puppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish |
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Puppets | Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Jam [real jam, not real jim] |
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Insert | Boy: "Mom, there's a talking potato with no mouth… and a talking jam jar! What's going on?"
Kid's mother: "Don't worry, sweetie. It's educational television. It must be good for you." |
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Insert | The Gray Hand puts the "ip" back in "ship". |
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SCENE 3 | Anne Bonney has set up a whole production musical number, and everybody plays and sings "It's Great to Be a Pirate". |
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Insert | Busterfield says "Yo, ho-ho! Anchors away! This ship has sailed." |
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Designated Reader | Theo and Leona read "The Popcorn Popper". (Version 2) (EKA: Episode 05: Shooting Stars) |
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: Mmm, not parrots- pirates.
Walter: Oh, no parrots? Bye-bye!
Clay: Bye-bye.
Lionel: Well, there's parrots in it...
Walter & Clay: ..Hello! (or ..Yellow!)
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 Bonney was, in fact, a real life female pirate.
- This is the first time that a What's Cooking? segment transitions into a Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segment.
- Lionel will also read "The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship" in a Season 6 sequel episode.
- 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).
Gallery[]
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Goofs[]
- Once the rhinos are loose again, after one of them jumps out of the frame, there is an animation error in which one of the rhinos is missing its head for a split second. (EKA: Little Big Mouse)
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- The Hopping Hen and More! DVD Boxset (September 27, 2005)
- To the Ship! To the Ship! and Other Stories (September 27, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
