| The Spider and the Lie | |
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| Season 2, Episode 17 | |
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| Air date | April 24, 2001 |
| Written by | Sarah Durkee |
| Directed by | Hugh Martin |
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The Spider and the Lie is the seventeenth episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 47 in total.
Plot[]
Lionel writes a crime story that includes Mr. Monkey, a spider, and a lie.
Segments and Songs[]
- Announcer Bunny Program Preview: 14 Karat Soul: Long I
- Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: What's inside? A spider.
- Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the long "i"-- "i"-- sound in the word "kite".
- Chalkboard: kite, white, while, mile, smile (without or with chalk pressing sound)
- Fred Says: smile
- I Got a Reason to Write
- Gawain's Word: chime
- Information Hen tells time
- 14 Karat Soul: Long I (I, I)
- The Lone Rearranger Rewrites Again: Cowboys Must Ride Horses Into The Corral
- Word Machine: ride, hide, hid, hip, rip
- Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Time - rip/ripe
- A word from Mr. Al Roker: chilly
- Get Your Mouth Moving: Fred and the Freds
- Barnaby B. Busterfield III: A spider and inside the head
Featured Story[]
The Spider and the Lie
Quotes[]
Busterfield: Barnaby B. Busterfield III had a spider, and inside his head was where Barnaby would hide her. Heh heh heh. Take that, Mother Goose. Heh heh.
Theo: Mr. Monkey, can you tell the court your full name, please?
Monkey: Monkey C. Monkeydew.
Click: So? Continue, continue. And I fail to see why you need a pencil when you have a state-of-the-art computer.
Lionel: Writers need pencils. You can’t chew on a computer.
Lionel: Poor kid. He took her straight down Chump Street in a leaky canoe.
Click: Lionel, where’s Chump Street?
Leona: I like the cute animal genre. Can you write in the cute animal genre, Lionel?
Lionel: Oh, come on, Leona. I’m trying to concentrate. Take a powder, dollface.
Leona: ‘Take a powder, dollface’?
Lionel: That's the way they talk in the crime genre.
Rug: If there is no book, then he is not the crook. If he says it’s not so, you must let him go!
Click: You, rug! Lie down!
Rug: Okay.
Lionel: Things were bad.
Monkey C. Monkeydew: Yes, I admit it! I lied! I did it! I lied about the whole thing!
Cleo: No more questions, your honor. Leona Lion was telling the truth.
Monkey C. Monkeydew: (after handing the book to Theo and Cleo) Here. I’m really sorry. I just couldn’t afford a library card!
Theo: (along with Cleo and everyone else) But they’re free!
Monkey C. Monkeydew: Free? You’re kidding. (Theo and Cleo shake their heads)
Theo: Come to the front desk.
Monkey C. Monkeydew: Mom, Dad, let’s never lie again.
Notes and Trivia[]
- An advertisement for the Grease Monkeys from the episode Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack! can be seen in the newspaper that Monkey C. Monkeydew reads.
- The Information Hen (segment) also appears in Good Night, Knight.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS either in February or March 2009.
- The Vowel Boot Camp and Al Roker segments should've been in Icarus's Wings, Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack! and Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks which are actual short I episodes.
Allusions[]
- Rug's feeble attempts at defending his client, Monkey C. Monkeydew, are a spoof on "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," a phrase coined by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, referring to a glove that was a piece of evidence in the infamous 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial. Though the monkey in the story eventually broke down and confessed, Simpson was acquitted.
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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