| Something Fishy | |
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| Season 1, Episode 17 | |
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| Air date | April 25, 2000 |
| Written by | Sean Kelly and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
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Something Fishy is the seventeenth episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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SCENE 1 | The episode starts with a delivery woman bringing in a package with some books in it. Lionel comes in and asks his parents if his new book is here. Theo opens the package and takes four books out, "The Selfish Giant by Trish Tishman", "A Very Squishy Fish by Kishma Kishburn", "Miss Gish's Wishes by Misha Fisher", and "Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle by Livingston Dangerously", which was the book Lionel wanted! Then Leona arrives and wanted to know what Lionel's new book is, but Lionel tells her that she won't be interested in it.
The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle (part 1) |
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Lionel tells his little sister Leona that it's the brand new Cliff Hanger adventure. She wanted her brother to read the book to her, despite not liking the Cliff Hanger books. So he reads "Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle", where in it, Cliff Hanger sees an eagle and dresses up as a big fish so he can get off the cliff. Leona tells Lionel that eagles don't eat fish, but the latter tells her that they do, so he decided to show her proof that eagles do eat fish. |
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Insert | Busterfield says that he is not ticklish, but Clay tells him that everybody is ticklish so she and Walter show proof by tickling him, only to realize that he isn't ticklish, so the pigeons leave. |
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Insert | The grey hand grabs the ish from the page with the word "fish". |
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Muppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the short "i" sound in their zippy big hit "dish". |
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Song | What's Your Name?: short i (Snapping fingers added) (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick) |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: fish |
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Muppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish (EKA: To the Ship! To the Ship!) |
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Insert | Sea: fish, fix, six, fix, fish |
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SCENE 2 | Lionel reads a book about Real Eagles so Leona can know that eagles do eat fish. They then go to the Bald Eagle page that says that they eat fish, which is the same kind of eagle as the one in the cliffhanger book. Leona is surprised that eagles do eat fish, and decides to dress up like one so that her wish can come true. |
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Song | Sloppy Pop sings Sometimes Y (EKA: There's a Fly in My Soup) |
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Muppets/Celebrity | Reporter Lionel with Stephon Marbury: spin |
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Insert | Robots: in, win, wig, jig |
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Muppets | The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick) |
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Cartoon | Tiger Words: A Trick or A Truck (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick) |
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Insert | Seesaw: trick, tick, wick, wish, shhh |
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Song | Cleo sings "Sh, sh, sh... Shush" (EKA: To the Ship! To the Ship!) |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the ish back from the page with the word "fish". |
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SCENE 3 | Leona comes back with a fish costume just like Cliff Hanger, and tells the eagle in the book to pick her up so she can go flying. Lionel tells her that the eagle won't pick her up because real eagles won't think she's a fish. After Lionel leaves to finish his book, the eagle comes out of the book and picks Leona up. |
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Lionel continues the story from where it left off. The eagle gets Cliff Hanger off the cliff and drops him into its nest. Unfortunately, the eaglets begin eating Cliff Hanger's fish costume, so he jumps off the nest, and back on the cliff. After the story is finished, Lionel suddenly hears Leona's voice and is shocked that the eagle took her inside the book!
The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle (part 2) |
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Leona sings a song while the eagle carries her, until the eagle notices that she's just a lion cub in a fish costume, so he drops her, causing her to fall! |
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Theo and Cleo tell Lionel that it's time for dinner, but Lionel says there's no time, and the parents are shocked that Leona is in the Cliff Hanger book, still falling. They call for Click's help and she drags and drops Leona out of the book in time! Leona tells her parents that eagles eat fish and she went flying, but Lionel dosen't believe her. |
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Insert | Walter comes back with a jackhammer and tells Clay that this is how they'll tickle a stone statue. Fortunately, Walter's plan worked, Buster is ticklish! |
Featured Stories
- Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle by Livingston Dangerously
- Real Eagles
Gallery
This page has a limited amount of images in the template. For extended images, see Something Fishy/Gallery.
Quotes
- Cleo: Patience, Lionel.
- Lionel: Ohhhhh!
- Theo: [gasps as he spots Cliff Hanger and the Fish and the Eagle] AHA!
- Lionel: AHA!
- Cleo: Aha.
- Theo: [sarcastically] Could this be the book you've been waiting for, Lionel, as if I didn't know?
- Walter: [holding a jackhammer] This is the way you tickle a stone statue.
- Busterfield: [laughing histaralicy as the world not gets removed]
- Clay: Buster is ticklish!
- Theo: Time for dinner, son.
- Lionel: Oh, no, no, no. No time for dinner.
- Cleo: Oh, it's always time for dinner.
- Lionel: Cliff Hanger's just a made-up story. A real eagle's not going to think you're a real fish.
- Leona: Yes he is, yes he is, and he's going to come out of this book and pick me up and I'm going to fly. You'll see.
- Announcer: Buster is not ticklish.
- Busterfield: Ah, accuracy in the media. You saw it here first.
- Lionel: (reading 'Cliff Hanger' story) Suddenly, Cliff sees an eagle, flying high above the cliff.
- Leona: I'm an eagle! I'm an eagle!
- Lionel: (clears throat)
- Leona: Sorry.
- Cliff: Nice fish suit miss (when he sees Leona in her fish suit).
Notes and Trivia
- Leona's distaste for Cliff Hanger books is revealed in this episode.
- The word "fish" from the Fred Says segment flies and swims to the Sea Word Morph segment; then it changes from green to yellow before the segment starts.
- This episode was released on VHS on October 30, 2001 and reprint VHS on October 1, 2002, along with other five episodes. They are:
- 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 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 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 April 2009.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3902 (With Elmo's World Episode: Dogs).
Video
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