Episode 55: Stop That Chicken!

Stop That Chicken! is the twenty-fifth and final episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 55 in total.

Stop That Chicken!
Season 2, Episode 25 (season finale)
Air date	May 4, 2001 (season finale)
Written by	Sarah Durkee
Directed by	Ted May
Episode guide
Previous Episode 54: The Chess Mess	Next Episode 56: Hay Day

Picture	Segment	Description
	Celebrity	Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here, check out what's coming up here on Between the Lions!" A clip from The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O is shown. (EKA: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	SCENE 1	Theo is reading a Fun with Chicken Jane book when Lionel and Leona scare him. Lionel takes notice of what Theo is reading and Theo says that he has always loved Chicken Jane books ever since he learned to read. Lionel wants to read the book as he claims Chicken Jane is too easy for him now, so he does...
	Cartoon	Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Pond (with highlights) (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot) The book stops just as Chicken Jane has written the word stop, because...
	SCENE 1 (Cont'd)	Leona wants to try to read the next part, but Lionel wants to read it as well and both end up fighting over the book, tugging it back and forth as Theo tries to tell them to share. Suddenly, the book goes flying and Chicken Jane falls out and bounces all around the library, nearly hitting Cleo!
	Insert	Chicken Jane flies right into Barnaby B. Busterfield III's mouth and she pops back out through his head. He then yells "Stop that chicken!"
	SCENE 1 (Cont'd)	Chicken Jane flies into the book Colonial America as Paul Revere plays a game of Go Fish with some other patriots. She lands right in an empty seat right next to Revere, who even notices the different illustration style. Meanwhile, the lion family is trying to find where Chicken Jane might have landed, when Lionel points out that she has now completely disappeared from the book! In attempts to find her, Theo tries shaking books to see if she's in them, and Cleo and Leona try to sniff her out, all while trying to pass it off as normal.
	Insert	The Gray Hand removes the "op" from the word "stop".
	Cartoon	If You Can Read: op
	Puppets	Arty Smartypants: Hop, Hopping, Hopped, Hopper, Grasshopper (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	Puppets	The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	Puppets /Celebrity	The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: hot/not
	Celebrity	Get Your Mouth Moving: Fred and the Freds (EKA: Episode 47: The Spider and the Lie)
	SCENE 2	The family continues searching for Chicken Jane as Lionel is now acting like a chicken. Just then, Cleo smells her out in Colonial America, and so the family flips through the pages trying to find her. Meanwhile, Chicken Jane has joined the Go Fish game when she sees two signal lights in the bell tower, and alerts Paul Revere by writing "Bell tower". Paul leaves to alert everyone that the British are coming, but not before saying Scot and Dot's catchphrase at the end of every book- "Thank you, Chicken Jane!" Unfortunately, Jane is hit by the horse as it leaves and is sent flying.
	SCENE 2 (Cont'd)	All of a sudden, Lionel spots Jane on one of the pages just as she flies right out of the book and hits several objects again until she flies right into Sleeping Beauty. In the book, the prince doesn't know how to wake up Sleeping Beauty, so Chicken Jane writes "Kiss her". The prince does so, Sleeping Beauty wakes up ("About time, let's go!") and she and the prince leave on a horse as they say Scot and Dot's catchphrase again. Chicken Jane gets hit by the horse, sending her flying out again just as Theo opens up the book.
	SCENE 2 (cont'd)	Chicken Jane bounces around the library yet again, but this time, however, Click has tracked Chicken Jane's movements to see where she has landed. As it turns out, she flew into the book "Cook a Lot Like Me" by Molly Stewpot. Everyone says "A chicken... in a cookbook?!", and Cleo gasps in horror.
	Cartoon	Replaced Letter Songs: Ollie the Ox (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	Celebrity	Fred Says: robot
	Insert	Sky: robot, rot, hot, not
	Puppets	Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not/note (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	Film	Gawain's Word: golf
	Puppets	Heath the Thesaurus and the monkeys sings Ten Little Words (EKA: Episode 53: Good Night, Knight)
	Insert	The Gray Hand puts the "op" back in the word "stop".
	SCENE 3	In the book, Molly Stewpot is about to make Jellied Hen and the last ingredient is one hen, at which point Chicken Jane lands in the book and thus, Molly thinks she's the hen for the recipe and decides to use her.
	SCENE 3 (Cont'd)	Meanwhile, the lions and the library's patrons have made a plan to get Chicken Jane back into her book. First, Lionel will bat the cookbook, sending Jane flying out of the book, and after a few more hits and moves, Jane will land back in her own book. Back in the cookbook, Chicken Jane writes the word "Jelly" to warn Molly that some jelly is flying (most likely due to her monkey assistant spilling it), to which she realizes this and gets out of the way and, just like in Chicken Jane's book, Chicken Jane is the one who gets hit by the jelly. Molly then parodies what Scot and Dot say again.
	SCENE 3 (Cont'd)	Molly Stewpot then grabs Chicken Jane by the neck and is about to put her in the boiling pot, pointing out that she's illustrated, noting that no real animals were harmed. At that moment, Lionel bats the cookbook, which causes Molly to let go of her, allowing Chicken Jane to escape, while a monkey falls over, resulting in the jelly being spilled on Molly in defeat. After a few bounces and hits around the room, Leona successfully catches Jane and she lands back in the book! Then the family continues the story from where they left off...
	Cartoon	Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Pond (with highlights) (EKA: Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot)
	SCENE 3 (Cont'd)	Leona wonders what kind of adventures Chicken Jane had in the other books that she landed in. Lionel doesn't think she had any adventures at all, and Cleo tells him that he might never know,
	Insert	Walter Pigeon is on top of Busterfield's head, until he opens his head and knocks him off- now he is not! The pigeons want to do this again and do not want to stop, as the second season of Between the Lions comes to an end.

Featured Story

Chicken Jane and the Pond

Cooking Items

• ten gallons berry jelly
• 27 red bell peppers
• hen 🐔
• pot

Spell the Words

b-e-l-l t-o-w-e-r

K-i-s-s h-e-r

j-e-l-l-y

Blending Words with the Others

b-e-ll t-ow-er

Say the Words

• bell tower
• Kiss her
• jelly

Quotes

• Lionel: Mom, Dad, Leona, Look, look, look in the book.
• Theo: She was on that page earlier.

• Click: Oh, dear. She flew into "Cook a Lot Like Me" by Molly Stewpot.
• Everyone: A chicken....in a cookbook?!

• Molly Stewpot: I need more jelly! What is the matter with you people?!

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 If You Can Read: op instead.
• This is the last episode to feature the short "O" sound.
• This is the last appearance of the word family "op".
• This is the last episode until Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! / The Three Little Pigs where Peter Linz performs Theo on a full-time basis. Tim Lagasse mostly takes over for Seasons 3 and 4.
• This is also the last time Kathryn Mullen performs Leona. Pam Arciero takes over starting in Hay Day until the end of the series.
• This is the only time a Fun with Chicken Jane book opened without the theme song, though this segment was previously featured with the theme song in Bobby the Hopping Robot.
• This is the third episode that the gray hand grabs the letters from a segment; the first was The Hopping Hen, and the second was Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks.
• Broadway actress Polly Adams guest stars as Molly Stewpot. She had previously appeared in But, Mama, But... as the narrator of "I Miss You, Stinky Face".
• This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in May 2009.
• This is the second time where Leona is shown wearing umpire gear; the first is Giants and Cubs.

Gallery

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Releases

• VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
• Complete Second Season 4-Disc DVD Boxset (September 2, 2008)

Cast

• Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion
• Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
• Peter Linz - Theo Lion, Heath the Thesaurus, Paul Revere, Announcer Bunny, Gawain, Prince, Monkey Student
• Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion, Monkey Student, Sleeping Beauty
• Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield, Arty Smartypants, Sergeant Mark, Colonial Soldier, Sir "olf"
• Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Girl Monkey, Clay Pigeon, "hot/not"
• Jim Kroupa - Walter Pigeon
• Jim Napolitano - Monkey Student
• Michael K. Frith - The Word Doctor announcer
• Fred Newman - himself, Chicken Jane, Fred choir
• Jack Berner - Scot
• Kate Berner - Dot
• Polly Adams - Molly Stewpot
• Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
• Paul Jacobs - Ollie the Ox singer, Spinning Monkey, If You Can Read singer, Monkey Student