Without an S is a song from Between the Lions sung by Cleo in Sister Sybil's Sensational Sassafras about how there'd only be one of everything without the letter "S".
Lyrics[]
Announcer: And now, from Sister Sybil's Sensational Club Sassafras, the sibilant song stylings of the sultry Miss Cleo Lion.
Cleo: [spoken] Thank you, thank you so much. And now, I'd like to sing you a little song about a very special letter that can do a very special thing. It makes a lonely lion two lions. It makes one little laugh a lot of laughs. Yes, wouldn't it be hard to imagine a world without an S?
The bees would be one lonely buzzin' bee
The trees would be one little bitty tree
And who'd ever choose one shoe instead of shoes?
Can't even have two without an S
One hair on your head instead of hairs
One chair in your house instead of chairs
One stick, no bunch of sticks, one brick, no pile of bricks
One chick but no chicks without an S
Yes, more than one is so much fun
Turn "toy" to "toys" and turn a "friend" into "friends"
When there's a lot, I'm glad we got
The letter S to stick right onto the end
One single little rose becomes roses
One solo little nose becomes noses
When one becomes two, that S comes shinin' through
Even the blues would be blue without an S
Yeah, even the blues would be blue without an S
Gallery[]
Words appeared during the song[]
- lion / lions 🦁🦁
- laugh / laughs 😆😆😆😆
- bees / bee 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
- trees / tree 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
- shoes / shoe 👞👠
- hair / hairs
- chair / chairs 🪑🪑🪑
- stick / sticks
- brick / bricks 🧱
- chick / chicks 🐓🐓
- toy / toys
- friend / friends
- rose / roses 🌹
- nose / noses 👃👃👃
- blues / blue 🔵
Appearances[]
- Episode 45: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains
- Episode 72: The Carrot Seed / The Empty Pot
- Episode 105: Stone Soup / Bee-Bim Bop!
Errors[]
- In the song, Cleo mentions that without the letter S, you can't have 2 of anything, though some words like "moose" "whale" "flower" and "sheep" have their plural as their name.
- Also, Cleo sings about how there'd be just one shoe or stick without an S, but in reality, there'd be 0 because they also begin with S.
Allusions[]
- Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby sang about language without the letter S thirty years earlier on "The Electric Company".