Bobby the Hopping Robot | |
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Season 2, Episode 8 | |
Air date | April 11, 2001 |
Written by | Fred Newman |
Directed by | Lisa Simon |
Episode guide | |
Previous Episode 37: Poetry Day |
Next Episode 39: Teacher's Pet |
Bobby the Hopping Robot is the eighth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 38 in total.
Plot[]
Lionel's new toy, Bobby the Hopping Robot, doesn't seem to be working properly. No matter how many times he and his father read the instructions, nothing fixes the problem. Eventually, Leona and Click discover that there was a typo in the instructions.
Segments and Songs[]
- Announcer Bunny Program Preview: The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O
- Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: hopping robot, hopping robot, not, hop, hope
- Chalkboard: stop, top
- Tiger Words: Lots of Tops [top, not pot]
- The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O
- Arty Smartypants: Hop, Hopping, Hopped, Hopper, Grasshopper (four or five words)
- Fred Says: pop
- Replaced Letter Songs: Ollie the Ox
- Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not/note
- Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Pond
- Tammy Lionette and Jasmine Guy sing Hung Up on H (EKA: Episode 32: Humph! Humph! Humph!)
- Barnaby Busterfield, the Pigeons and Bobby the Hopping Robot: hop, hop, hop, hoppy ending
Notes and Trivia[]
- Since The Vowelles sung the short O sound in the previous season without Martha Reader, they didn't appear in this episode because the gray cursor hand takes the "op" ending to the Chalkboard Word Morph segment instead.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in April 2009.
- When the lions apologize, the patrons do their shushes with the sounds of the letters S and H, "shhh".
- When the noisy monkey says, "What? What?", one group of two patrons shushes him and another group of two shushes him, too, with the Hispanic man who does not stick a finger to his lips, but only away from them.
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete Second Season 4-Disc DVD Boxset (September 2, 2008)
Gallery[]
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Goofs[]
- When Theo says "This is standing back and enjoying?!", the top of Peter Linz's head can be seen in the bottom right corner.