| The Ram in the Pepper Patch | |
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| Season 1, Episode 19 | |
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| Air date | April 27, 2000 |
| Written by | Sean Kelly and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Tony Geiss Judy Freudberg Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug! |
Next Episode 20: A Peck of Peppers |
The Ram in the Pepper Patch is the 19th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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COLD OPEN | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here to show you what's coming up next on Between the Lions!"
A clip from When It's an A-R is shown. (EKA: Episode 05: Shooting Stars) |
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SCENE 1 | Leona wants Lionel to play with her, but Lionel just wants to read, so instead, Leona asks him to read to her. Trying to drive Leona away, Lionel starts reading aloud a Cliff Hanger book, when Leona interrupts and tells him to read her something good, "Like this", she says as she pulls a random book off the shelf. So Lionel reads the book she picked- The Ram in the Pepper Patch by Chile Ramirez, in which a girl in Mexico labors hard to grow peppers in a pepper patch. Then, one day, she sees that a ram is eating the peppers! Several of her animals try to get rid of the ram, but to no success. Then a bee comes along, and stings the ram on the fanny, chasing him right out of the patch. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | After the story, the ram pops right out of the book! He asks the cubs he can stay in the library for a while until the pain in his fanny goes away. Leona, feeling bad for the ram, lets him stay, and the ram decides to walk off the pain with a little run. Lionel thinks that this doesn't look good, and Leona tells him that he worries too much. Suddenly, the ram butts into two of the patrons, causing them to fall down the stairs! Lionel remarks "That's gotta hurt", and Leona realizes that maybe it wasn't a good choice to let the ram stay in the library. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand removes the "a" from the word "ram". |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "a" sound from their smash word "jam". |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: ram (With music) |
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Insert | Walter and Clay Pigeon are holding up a sign saying "Scram ham", and tell Busterfield that they'll protect him from the rampaging ham. Busterfield tries to correct them by saying that it's a rampaging ram, but then an actual giant moving ham chases the pigeons away! |
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Puppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Slammed and Rammed Ham with No Yam or Clam (EKA: Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers) |
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Puppets | Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: Raw Hamburger [Humbarger or Hamburger] (EKA: Episode 05: Shooting Stars) |
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Insert | Girl: "Mom! There's a talking potato on a stick… with a hat on, and no mouth!" (EKA: Episode 05: Shooting Stars)
Kid's mother: "Don't worry, sweetie. It's educational television. It's good for you." (EKA: Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!) |
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Insert | Sky: ham, harm, hark, ark, mark |
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Song | Fonix sings When It's an A-R (EKA: Episode 05: Shooting Stars) |
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Insert | Color Patterns: mark, park, part, pat, rat, ram |
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SCENE 2 | The ram is still on the loose as the library's patrons throw a Mexican party and sing "That Ram is on the Run!". |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | Leona corrects her previous statement by saying that Lionel doesn't worry too much. Lionel knows they have to put the ram back in the book, but how? Lionel says this won't be easy, and Leona tells him that it will be easy and that he worries too much, again. |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: slam |
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Film | Gawain's Word: slam |
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Insert | Robots: ram, ham, had, sad |
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Celebrity/
Puppets |
The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: sad, glad (EKA: Episode 12: The Chap with Caps) |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing "Crazy Vowel A" |
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Cartoon | Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Bad Ram (EKA: Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers) |
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Insert | "Dr. Bertice Berry with the A in "ham"! (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry blows a note and shouts the sound of the letter A in "ham". |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Careless Young Clam (Heath's introduction cut) (EKA: Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers) |
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Song | What's Your Name?: short a (Season 1 version) (EKA: Episode 10: Lionel's Antlers) |
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Insert | The Gray Hand puts the "a" back in the word "ram". |
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SCENE 3 | Click is monitoring the library searching for the ram, right when he tries to sneak by. She manages to catch him using the Gray Hand (in a rare non-segment cameo), and Lionel tells Click to put him back in the book. But the ram objects as the bee will just sting him again, and Cleo says that they can't make him go back in if he doesn't want to. Theo tells Click to drop him, and once she does, runs off as the ram tries to butt her. With that, the ram decides to go, and Cleo (sarcastically) tells him to just go already if he doesn't want to be "the star of the story that millions of children from Mexico and all over the world have loved for generations". Then, a patron (Anthony Asbury) wants to check the book out, but Cleo tells him that all they have is No Ram in the Pepper Patch. The patron asks to look at it, and as it turns out, the book is boring. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | The patron rejects the book, claiming that the book is a ripoff, there's no story, and without the ram, the book stinks. Cleo tells the ram to think of all of his other fans, and so the Ram pictures all of his fans in Mexico (represented by stock footage from silent movies) freaking out about his absence from the story. The Ram then has a change of heart and decides to return to the story, realizing that he can't disappoint his public. Leona says that she told Lionel it would be easy, leaving Lionel confused. |
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Insert | Barnaby B. Busterfield III tells the audience that he hopes this whole episode has taught characters in books a lesson to stay in their books where they belong. The giant ham passes by again, as Busterfield adds that hams should stay in the refrigerator where they belong as well. |
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Designated Reader | Theo and Leona read "The Popcorn Popper". (Version 1) (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle) |
Featured Stories[]
- Ram in the Pepper Patch by Chile Ramirez
- No Ram in the Pepper Patch by Chile Ramirez
Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the second time where Lionel sings "Cliff Hanger, hanging on a cliff!", the first was Something Fishy.
- The late Emilio Delgado (better known as Luis on Sesame Street) did the voice for the ram in this episode.
- Lionel's puppeteer, Anthony Asbury, makes an appearance as the library patron that rejects No Ram in the Pepper Patch.
- This is the last episode in Season 1 where The Fonix appear.
- When It's an A-R also appears in Shooting Stars and Lionel's Antlers.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in June 2007.
- The Gawain's Word Segment of Crash, Slam and Smack are the same, because 2 knights crash. (EKA: The Chap with Caps)
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3904 (With Elmo's World Episode: Drawing).
- Because the silent movie footage is, of course, public domain, it is used in various other pieces of media. For example, the clip seen from 24:15-24:16 was also used in the Really Wild Animals video Swinging Safari.
Gallery[]
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Quotes[]
Lionel: "We've got to get this ram back in the book. But how?"
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury as Lionel Lion, Patron
- Kathryn Mullen as Leona Lion
- Peter Linz as Theo Lion, Announcer Bunny, Gawain
- Jennifer Barnhart as Cleo Lion
- Tim Lagasse as Barnaby B. Busterfield III
- Tyler Bunch as Walter Pigeon
- Heather Asch as Clay Pigeon, Bee, “Sad/Glad”
- Jim Napolitano as various roles
- Emilio Delgado as The Ram
- Fred Newman as himself, Chicken Jane, Dog
- Jack Berner as Scot
- Kate Berner as Dot
- Michael K. Frith as Sam Spud
- Dr. Bertice Berry as herself
- Paradise as “That Ram Is On The Run!” singer
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer as Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
- Makeba Mooncycle as rapper (uncredited)
- Elizabeth Withers as Fonix member
- Cindy Mizelle as Martha Reader and Fonix member
- Sharon Bryant as Fonix member
- Babi Floyd as Vowelles announcer and Replaced Letter Song singer
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; March 6, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
