| A Peck of Peppers | |
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| Season 1, Episode 20 | |
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| Air date | April 28, 2000 |
| Written by | Tony Geiss and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous The Ram in the Pepper Patch |
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A Peck of Peppers is the 20th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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SCENE 1 | A sad and dejected Babs Caplan returns to the library, saying that she needs new ideas. Right on cue, a book of tongue-twisters falls from the balcony above, and she decides to write some. Lionel offers to test them out, as he claims that there isn't a tongue-twister he can't say. He first reads the ever-classic "Peter Piper" twister, which he recites flawlessly. No matter how fast Leona asks him to read it, his tongue doesn't get twisted. Babs goes off to write some more, and Leona offers to help, as she wants to see Lionel's tongue get twisted. |
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Insert | Two pigeons peck a peck of peppers |
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Insert | The grey hand grabs the ep from the page with the word "peppers". |
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Muppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the short "e" sound from their sensational hit word "pep". |
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Insert | Robots: pep, pen, hen |
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Insert | "And now, a little poem in which letters change, and make something very interesting happen." (First: Episode 12: The Chap with Caps/Episode 16: The Popcorn Popper) |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Farm Boy Named Ben (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle) |
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Puppets | The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Cents (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Insert | Color Patterns: ten, men, mess |
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Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: dressed (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Celebrity/
Puppets |
The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: impressive (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Insert | "Now, twist your tongue around this one!" (EKA: Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!) |
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Film | Tongue Twisters: Bess's Pet Pestered Fess |
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SCENE 2 | In order to get Lionel to slip up, Babs and Leona change the words to "zickled zezzers". He recites it flawlessly the first time, but when they ask him to say it faster, he makes a mistake. He then claims that this wasn't fair, because "zickled zezzers" aren't real words. Realizing he's right, Babs goes to write another one, this time, with real words. |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: peck |
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Insert | Rectangular Bugs: peck, pep, pet, met |
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Celebrity | World-renowned mezzo-soprano Ms. Denyce Graves will sing the sound of the letter E in the word "met". (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle) |
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Film | Gawain's Word: wet (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West/Episode 06: The Hopping Hen) |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing "Dreamy Vowel E" (with curtain) |
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Puppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Peppered Tenderloin in a Kettle with No Melons and No Egg (with announcer says) |
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Song | What's Your Name?: short E (Season 1 version, laughing cut) (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the ep back from the page with the word "peppers". |
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SCENE 3 con't | Leona and Babs have changed the rhyme to a pickled pepper picking Peter Pipers. Lionel says it flawlessly the first time, once again, but when they ask him to say it faster, he says "pippled poopers" instead, causing his tongue to literally become twisted! |
Featured Story
Tricky Tongue Twisters by Peppy Pick Pepper Peckpacker
Gallery
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Notes and Trivia
- When the book falls off the balcony, the chicken says "The sky is falling!", a reference to Chicken Little.
- The chicken puppet appears to be recycled from Information Hen, with an added hairpiece.
- Leona asks Lionel if he feels "the agony of defeat", a phrase popularized by ABC's Wide World of Sports.
- This is the second time where the announcer says, "And now, it's time for..." over the "What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo" theme song. The first was "Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?."
- The robot words segment has the same bigger font as in The Popcorn Popper.
- The What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo segment is later seen in the Season 2 episode Quest, Quest, Quest!.
- This episode was released on VHS on October 21, 2003, along with it's 18 other episodes. They are:
- Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West
- Shooting Stars
- Touching the Moon
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
- Lionel's Antlers
- The Chap with Caps
- Pandora's Box
- Lionel's Great Escape Trick
- There's a Fly in My Soup
- The Popcorn Popper
- Hug! Hug! Hug!
- Sausage Nose
- The Old Man
- A King and His Hawk
- The Roar That Makes Them Run
- Giants and Cubs
- Be Bop
- 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 17: Something Fishy
- Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!
- Episode 19: The Ram in the Pepper Patch
- 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 3905 (With Elmo's World Episode: Dancing).
Gallery
- Main article: Episode 20: A Peck of Peppers/Gallery
Quotes
Video
A Peck of Peppers
