Episode 121: Three More Little Pigs/The Ants and the Grasshopper

Three More Little Pigs/The Ants and the Grasshopper
Season 10, Episode 121
Air date	September 20, 2010
Written by	Jonathan Greenberg (credited as Jon Greenberg)
Episode guide
Previous Episode 120: Angelina's Island/Chinese New Year	Next Episode 122: A Birthday for Cow/Rabbit's Gift

Three More Little Pigs/The Ants and the Grasshopper is the 121st episode of Between The Lions.

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Lionel and Leona are playing in a section of the library, when all of a sudden they hear a yell for help! Leona notices that it's coming from a book on the shelf, and when they open it, the Big, Bad Wolf pops right out and begins whimpering that something terrible has just happened. When Lionel asks what it was, he reads the book- The Three Little Pigs by Muffy Huffington.
	SCENE 1 (cont'd)	Leona doesn't think that the ending was nice, with the Wolf's tail being burnt, and Lionel tries to explain that the Wolf had gotten his comeuppance. Leona asks what the Wolf will do next, and Lionel decides they should write a sequel! So they grab some crayons, pencils and paper and start writing.
	Film	Coming Up Next On Between the Lions... Gawain announces the "uh" sound made by short u.
	Insert	The Gray Hand removes the u from the word "puff."
	Insert	Notebook: Pup, cup, guppy
	Celebrity	Get Your Mouth Moving: short u (EKA: Episode 61: Huff and Puff) (Shown in widescreen with green borders)
	Film	Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter U (upside down, undershirt, umbrella, underline, umpire)
	Cartoon	CGI Letters: U (EKA: Episode 118: The Emperor's New Clothes/The Hungry Coat)
	Cartoon	If You Can Read: ug (EKA: Episode 61: Huff and Puff) (Shown in widescreen)
	Insert	The Gray Hand puts the u back in in the word "puff".
	SCENE 2	The Wolf has finished his sequel, where he decides to get revenge by plowing down the walls of the pig's brick house, but Leona stops him before he can finish, thinking that's too mean. So Lionel presents his story instead- The Three Little Pigs Meet the Wolfinator, where an evil wolf doctor turns the wolf into the "Wolfinator". The Wolfinator goes to the pig's house, only to be rejected from entry yet again. So, he blows down the walls by turning on his "mega huff-and-puff pumps", and finds that the pigs have turned into Robo-Pigs! The Wolfinator runs away as the Robo-Pigs chase him and the story ends! When Lionel asks what the two thought, Leona thought the story was too violent, and the Wolf thought the Robo-Pigs were scary.
	SCENE 2 (cont'd)	Leona presents her sequel next, where the Wolf gets surgery and can no longer huff and puff. Due to this, he becomes nice and befriends the three little pigs. After the story, Lionel says it's totally unrealistic because they're supposed to be enemies. Suddenly, the pigs in Leona's story come to life and disagree, and say they'd love to have the Wolf over for tea. Leona closes out the episode by saying "So the three little pigs and the Wolf lived happily ever after. The end!"
	SCENE 3	Theo and Cleo are raking leaves outside, when Cleo asks where the cubs are, as they were supposed to help them with the job. Immediately after, the cubs jump in the leaf pile, messing up their work! Cleo suggests that they instead play a game where they have to see who can be the first to rake up a bag of leaves, but that doesn't work either as the game instantly turns into tag, and Lionel knocks over a bag. So Cleo gets another idea and reads to the cubs The Ants and the Grasshopper, retold by Margo Milch and illustrated by Mimi Michaels.
	SCENE 3 (cont'd)	After the story, Theo and Cleo decide to make lunch while the cubs rake leaves, with Cleo comparing it to how hard the ants worked in the story. Then Leona gets an idea and runs off to get her CD player, leaving Lionel to rake the leaves all alone.
	Cartoon	An announcer tells Cliff Hanger that more about the letter "m" is up next.
	Insert	The Gray Hand removes the m from the word "merry".
	Insert	Computer or Laptop: melon, mule, mug
	Celebrity	Fred Says: mud (EKA: Episode 23: The Lucky Duck) (Shown in widescreen with periwinkle borders)
	Cartoon	CGI Letters: M
	Puppets	My Favorite Word: Miniscule
	Film	Blending Bowl: march (EKA: Episode 96: Violet's Music/What Instrument Does Alvin Play?)
	Puppets	Play with Words with Arty Smartypants: mice, ice (EKA: Episode 96: Violet's Music/What Instrument Does Alvin Play?) (Shown in widescreen; screen cropped to fill)
	Puppets	Read a Book Today (EKA: Episode 115: Pigs in Hiding/Stop That Pickle!)
	Cartoon	Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Loose Moose (EKA: Episode 48: Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-boom!) (Shown in widescreen)
	Insert	The Gray Hand puts the m back in the word "merry".
	SCENE 4	Lionel, still raking, angrily calls for Leona. Just then, Leona returns with her CD player, to which Lionel responds with "Finally". Theo tells the cubs that lunch is ready, and walks over angrily wondering what they're doing. Then Cleo comes out and sees that the cubs are listening to music and raking leaves at the same time, thus getting the job done faster. As they all rake, they sing the Mambo song that Melanie sang in the book.

Trivia

• This is the second fully-animated Between the Lions episode. The first one was episode 119.
• This episode uses the book footage from Huff and Puff. All three stories have a border relating to the story surrounding to fit the screen, an example being Lionel's sequel having sketches of the characters as the border.
• Gawain from Gawain's Word makes a cameo appearance as he does in other episodes, even though his main segment is replaced by Blending Bowl.
• Peter Linz uses a similar voice for one of the pigs to the character Pig from the PBS Kids show WordWorld near the end of the first half.

Goofs

• In My Favorite Word segment, when the singer says "My favorite word for small!", the person's hand operating the puppet can be seen in the lower right.