| Red Hat, Green Hat | |
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| Season 1, Episode 22 | |
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| Air date | May 2, 2000 |
| Written by | Louise Gikow and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Dean Gordon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 21: Sausage Nose |
Next Episode 23: The Lucky Duck |
Red Hat, Green Hat is the twenty-second 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 The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Cents is shown. |
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SCENE 1 | Leona is wearing a paper hat that is red on one side and green on the other, inspired by a book she saw. She tries to show Lionel, who is outside on the hammock, but Lionel doesn't care as he just wants to read yesterday's baseball scores. Annoyed, Leona sets the book in Lionel's lap and announces that she will just show everyone else in the library instead, thinking that they will actually appreciate it. Lionel decides to read the book- Red Hat, Green Hat, retold by Ed Ledbetter, in which two best friends, Kendi and Upendo, see a farmer walking between them with a hat that looks just like Leona's. However, the two only see one half of the hat, causing them to fight over what color the hat was and end their friendship. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | Lionel wonders why Leona would want to make such a troublemaking hat like that. He thinks that she just didn't read it, until he realizes that she can't read! Lionel races back inside, worried. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | As Leona plans to show the hat to everybody in the library, Lionel tries to warn her about the consequences in the book, but Leona thinks he's just being jealous. She then proceeds to show everyone there by walking between two groups of patrons (Including Walter Pigeon and a duck on one side, and Click, Clay and Tim Lagasse on the other). Like the story, the two groups start arguing over the color of Leona's hat, and chaos ensues. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand removes the "ed" from the word "red". |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "e" sound from their sensational hit word "bed". |
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Cartoon | The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Bed (with or without music) (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
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Insert | Robots: bed, bet, pet, pen, hen |
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Puppets | A caller asks the Information Hen what kind of bird hens are, and she responds in song. (Version 2) |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: hen (EKA: Episode 06: The Hopping Hen) |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Farm Boy Named Ben (Heath's introduction cut) (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle) |
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Puppets | The Great Smartini: Ten Red-Vested Hens (with text) (EKA: Episode 06: The Hopping Hen) |
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SCENE 2 | Leona shows her hat to Theo and Cleo, who both like the hat as well, though Theo only sees the green side and Cleo only sees the red, |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | As the arguing continues, Lionel and Leona view the chaos from the other side of the library. The parents then come along and Theo tells them to quiet down. Theo explains that it's a shame that everybody is fighting over a hat. Cleo tries to resolve the issue and says that the hat was red, but Theo disagrees, leading to the fight starting back up, with them arguing as well! Leona asks Lionel what happened next in the book, but Lionel doesn't know because he hadn't read the whole story, so they rush off to finish it. |
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Insert | "And now, Busterfield is wed." Busterfield is confused, and asks who it is, and it turns out that it is a chicken. Annoyed, Busterfield rejects the marriage, sending the chicken into tears. |
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Puppets | Tammy Lionette sings W Trouble. (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle) |
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Insert | Sky with Spotlights: weep, seep, sleep |
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Film | Gawain's Word: sleep |
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Insert | "Dr. Bertice Berry, double E in "beep"!" |
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Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry sings the double E sound in the word "beep". |
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Insert | Rectangular Bugs: beep, peep, pep, pen, en, ten |
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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 | The Gray Hand puts the "ed" back in the word "red". |
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SCENE 3 | Lionel and Leona rush to the roof garden where they find the book, and continue reading from where Lionel left off. As Kendi and Upendo continue arguing, the same farmer walks between them in the other direction, showing them that the hat has two sides, and the two become best friends once again. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | Leona now knows what she must do, and asks Lionel to come with her to the center of the library. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | The arguing has become louder and more intense as Lionel and Leona arrive. Lionel tells her to do the thing quickly, comparing it to pulling off a band-aid. Leona walks in between the groups again, this time showing them both sides of the hat. Realizing their mistakes, everybody apologizes to each other. Lionel tells Leona that he hopes she has learned something very important today, and Leona assumes that is that she makes very nice hats, causing Lionel to laugh hysterically. |
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Insert | The chicken is still sobbing, and Busterfield tells her the marriage just wouldn't work and that she has to get over it. After the chicken leaves, the announcer claims that Busterfield is not wed, and Busterfield admits that it is lonely at the top. |
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Designated Reader | Cleo and Lionel read "The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship". (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
Featured Story[]
Red Hat, Green Hat retold by Ed Ledbetter
Quotes[]
- Lionel: (sighs) I tried to warn her.
- Leona: I made it myself!
Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the only time (and the only episode) where Theo said key words and blend sounds instead of Cleo. It will never be used again for future episodes.
- Tim Lagasse is seen on the red side throughout the episode.
- A monkey is shown in this episode reading a Thomas the Tank Engine book "Meet Thomas and His Friends". The book was published by Random House, which was founded by Christopher Cerf's father, Bennett Cerf.
- Peter Linz uses the voice he used for Tutter the Mouse on the Playhouse Disney Channel series, Bear in the Big Blue House in the Rectangular Bugs segment.
- The story read in this episode is later read in the Season 5 Episode It's Red! It's Green! / Joseph Had a Little Overcoat.
- The Adventures of Cliff Hanger segment is later seen in the Season 5 Episode Wings / What's in the Box?.
- The Fred Says segment is later seen in the Season 5 episode Click, Clack, Moo / The Little Red Hen.
- The Monkey Pop-Up Theater segment is later seen as a Music Video in the Season 5 episode The Golden Meaty Awards.
- The Song W Trouble is later seen as a segment in the Season 5 Episode Wings / What's in the Box? and as a Music Video in The Golden Meaty Awards (both in the same Season).
- The background used in the Sky with Spotlight Words segment is seen 3 episodes later in A King and His Hawk.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in September 2004.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3907 (With Elmo's World Episode: Dogs).
- In The Bernie Mac Show episode "Mac 101" Bryana can be briefly seen watching this episode (in Spanish that is).
Goofs[]
- When Leona sets the book in Lionel's lap (at the line "Then I'll just go show everybody in the library."), Leona's arm sock is visible.
Gallery[]
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Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; March 6, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
