Episode 17: Something Fishy

Something Fishy
Season 1, Episode 17
Air date	April 25, 2000
Written by	Joe Fallon
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Something Fishy is the seventeenth episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	The episode starts with a delivery woman bringing in a package with 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.
File:Adventure 2125.png	SCENE 1 cond't	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.
	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.
	Insert	The grey hand grabs the ish from the page with the word "fish".
	Muppets	Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the short "i" sound in the zippy big hit "dish" version one.
	Song	What's Your Name?: short i (Version 2) (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick)
	Insert	Fred Says: fish
File:Both says "Nah!" 10.jpg File:Theo and Cleo eat it raw 10.jpg	Muppets	What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Squished Fish on a Dish (Version 2) (EKA: To the Ship! To the Ship!)
	Insert	Sea: fish, fix, six, fix, fish
	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.
	Song	Sloppy Pop sings Sometimes Y (EKA: There's a Fly in My Soup)
File:Lionel the Reporter with Stephon Marbury Spin.jpg	Muppets	Lionel the Reporter with Stephon Marbury: spin
	Insert	Robots: in, win, wig, jig
	Muppets	The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig (Version 2) (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick)
	Cartoon	Tiger Words: A Truck [truck, not trick] (EKA: Lionel's Great Escape Trick)
	Insert	Seesaw: trick, tick, ick, wick, wish, shhh
	Song	Cleo sings "Sh, sh, sh... Shush" (Version 2) (EKA: To the Ship! To the Ship!)
	Insert	The grey hand puts the ish back from the page with the word "fish".
	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.
	SCENE 3 cond't	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!
	SCENE 3 cond't	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!
	SCENE 3 cond't	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.
	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!

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).

Trivia

• Leona's distaste for Cliff Hanger books is revealed in this episode.

Video

Something Fishy