| Teacher's Pet | |
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| Season 2, Episode 9 | |
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| Air date | April 12, 2001 |
| Written by | Joe Fallon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot |
Next Episode 40: The Last Cliff Hanger |
Teacher's Pet is the ninth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 39 in total.
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Celebrity | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: When Two Vowels Go Walking (EKA: Episode 37: Poetry Day) |
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SCENE 1 | Cleo is just packing up with her family, and Theo is reading certain tests with the "ea" sound and Cleo is going to visit her old teacher, Jean Creaky, until she can't hear Leona because she has the "I can't hear or smell or tell if someone's sneaking up on me" flu. |
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Insert | From the word "teacher", the grey hand pulls out "ea". |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles heat it up with the "e" sound by the letters "E-A" in "meat". (with crowd cheering and applause) |
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Insert | Clay Pigeon describes what's inside a clean peach: "peach meat" |
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Insert | Construction: meat, eat, beat, beam, dream |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Young Seal Had a Dream |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: eat (part 1) |
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Song | What's Your Name?: The Letters E-A or the Long E |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: eat (part 2) |
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SCENE 2 | Cleo sings about how sick she feels, and then she asks the gang to find her journal since she was sick back then, but they can't find it, so she has to stay in bed to rest even more. |
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SCENE 2
cont'd |
The Lion family looking for a ham sandwich in a drawer. |
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Celebrity
/Muppets |
The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: undefeated |
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Puppets | Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: Nutty as a Fruitcake [real pooch or real peach] and a brand new invariant |
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Song | "When Two Vowels Go Walking" (EKA: Poetry Day) |
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Insert | Teatro Hugo & Ines: Ines and the Tummy Lady |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the vowels e and a back from the word "teacher". |
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FINAL SCENE | Leona found Cleo's journal and she reads sickly to them the day back in her childhood when she had the flu, they then count to ten like in the story, until....SHE'S ALL BETTER!!! Then she finish packs up to visit, but leaves her meat ice cream... |
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Insert | Busterfield finally says two more words with the "ea" sound: "please leave". |
Notes and Trivia[]
- The puppets of Cleo and Theo as cubs are, obviously, modified versions of Leona and Lionel, while Teacher Creaky is a slightly modified Cleo. The lion seen in the fly-swatting challenge is also a modified version of Cleo, as is the lion on the left (viewer right) side in the smell challenge.
- An alternate Cleo puppet with bleary eyes was used for this episode.
- The monkey that hosts the smelling challenge has a voice based off of the late talk-show host Regis Philbin. At one point, he says "You...are absolutely right!", a phrase that Philbin popularized as the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
- Music that resembles the song "Eye of the Tiger" plays during the fly-swatting challenge. To drive home the connection further, one of the flies (whose name is Rocky) has a voice modeled after Sylvester Stallone, who starred in Rocky III, the film that "Eye of the Tiger" was originally written for. The fly's trainer is based off of Burgess Meredith, who played Mickey in the first three Rocky films.
- This is the first episode to feature the song, What's Your Name? with the letters E-A and sounds like "E".
- This first Book that can be seen in the suitcase is Icarus's Wings which was previously Read in Icarus's Wings.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in March 2009.
Goofs[]
- During the Martha Reader and The Vowelles segment, when it shows the shot of the two monkeys dancing, when it transitions back to Martha and The Vowelles onstage, you can see that the disco ball is plasted over the shot of the two monkeys for about half a second before it cuts back to Martha and The Vowelles. This is because it was not a real disco ball and it was edited over the stage.
- In the Sam Spud segment, when Sam mispells Peach as Pooch, causing Precious to appear as a dog, when it cuts to the shot of the typewriter, if paused at the right moment, you can see the paper in the typewriter is blank, while the text from the typewriter at the top of the screen remains intact for about half a second. Additionally, when Sam slips when he tries to run after the fruitcake (who is now a banana), for a split-second, you can see something (likely the puppeteer's arm) in the bottom left corner.
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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Video[]
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion
- Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
- Peter Linz - Theo Lion
- Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion, Hugo and Ines announcer
- Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield III, Johnny Consonanti
- Heather Asch - Clay Pigeon, Girl Monkey
- Jim Kroupa - Walter Pigeon
- Fred Newman - himself
- Makeba Mooncycle - rapper
- Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
- Michael K. Frith - Sam Spud
- Hugo Suarez - Hugo
- Ínes Pasic - Ines, The Tummy Lady
- Paul Jacobs - Letter E, When Two Vowels Go Walking singer, What's Your Name? backup singer
- Sarah Durkee - Letter A