Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West | |
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Season 1, Episode 1 (show premiere) | |
Air date | April 3, 2000 (season premiere) |
Written by | Joe Fallon and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
Directed by | Lisa Simon |
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Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West is the first episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions, and the series premiere episode of Between the Lions.
Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here to show you what's coming up next on Between the Lions!"
A clip from The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Tents is shown. | |
SCENE 1 | The cubs are getting ready to go to bed. For their bedtime story, Theo reads "How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the West by Beth Western" to the gang. As they read, they sing a song about how he was the best, then they rest. | |
Insert | The Gray Hand takes the "est" out of the word "west". | |
Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "e" sound from their festive hit word "best". | |
Insert | Color Patterns: best, bet, bell | |
Celebrity | Fred Says: bell | |
Insert | Ship: bell, bet, wet | |
Film | Gawain's Word: wet | |
Puppets | Arty Smartypants: Nest, Rest, Resting, Restaurant
Arty Smartypants reads four words with the short 'e' sound in them. | |
Insert | Color Patterns: rest, best, bet, bed | |
Cartoon | The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Bed
Cliff Hanger sees an 'ed' being carried by two workers. His survival manual tells him to add the letter 'b', so he does, turning it into a bed. Unfortunately, Cliff is bounced back up to the cliff the second he jumps on. (with music) | |
SCENE 2 | Lionel and Leona are practicing rope wrestling. Lionel accidentally lassos a patron in an attempt to catch a computer. Leona claims that Pecos Bill would never miss, and Lionel replies that he'd never miss because he isn't real. Leona refuses to believe this, so they have Click drag and drop him out of the book. Not only does Bill come out, but so does a tornado! Unfortunately, Bill explains that he can't stop the tornado, as he is just a fictional character. Hearing this, Cleo suggests writing a new story called "How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the Library". | |
Insert | Walter and Clay annoy Busterfield by having him wear a cowboy hat on his head and singing the song from earlier with the lyrics involving him. Soon enough, the paper tornado hits Buster's hat and takes them away, though Buster is left with a newspaper on his face. | |
Insert | Sky: west, chest, chess, mess, e | |
Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "e" sound from their zesty hit word "mess". | |
Celebrity/
Puppets |
The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: Dr. Ruth helps a monkey read the word "impressive". | |
Insert | "Dr. Bertice Berry with the E in "yell"! | |
Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry shouts the sound of the letter E in "yell". | |
Film | What's Your Name?: short E (Season 1 version) | |
Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: dressed
During a parade, the Un-People change the "best-dressed" sign into "undressed", until the Re-People change it to "redressed". | |
Puppets | The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Cents | |
Insert | The Gray Hand puts the "est" back in the book. | |
SCENE 3 | Theo and Cleo write their new story in order to make the tornado clean up the library. It is successful, and Bill (along with the tornado) heads back into his book, then they sing again about how he was the best, then rest. | |
Designated Reader | Cleo and Lionel read "The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship". |
Featured Story[]
How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the West: A Tall Tale by Beth Western
Quotes[]
- Leona: (singing) Click clicked with her trickiest, slickest click / And dragged and dropped that twister quick.
- Busterfield: I am not a cowboy. I am Barnaby B. "Don't Call Me Buster" Busterfield III, founder of this library. Get this hat off my head this instant!
- Pecos Bill: Story's not true. Never happened. Never could happen. It's a tall tale. I'm just a paper hero.
- Cleo: Stay calm. We're having a technical problem. A slight tornado. Perfectly harmless.
- Theo: Bill said to Tess, "I must confess. If there's one thing I detest, it's a mess."
- Theo: Pecos Bill was the best. The best in the west.
- Cleo: Oh. Sweet Nursery Rhymes for Sleepy Cubs. Sounds nice, doesn't it, Leona?
- Lionel: (singing) Gonna read a story before bed.
- Female Monkey Singer: (singing) Let's start with our favorite vowel, a pretty good place to start.
- Theo: Cleo, That is one heck of a bedtime story.
- Cleo: You said it, partner.
Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to feature the short "E" sound, and overall, the first episode in general.
- The pelican who loses his hairpiece is a modified version of Dr. Nitwhite.
- This is the first time the Gray Hand takes three letters.
- This is the first episode to feature the song, What's Your Name? with the short E.
- This is the first time when Fred Says and Gawain's Word segments go together.
- The What's Your Name?: Short E song is later used in A Peck of Peppers (That time with no laughing at the end).
- The Un-People segment is also seen in The Hopping Hen and A Peck of Peppers.
- The Monkey Pop-Up Theater segment is also seen in Farmer Ken's Puzzle, A Peck of Peppers and Red Hat, Green Hat.
- This is one of the 7 episodes where there are 2 The Vowelles segments instead of 1, The other 6 are: The Hopping Hen (The 2nd Vowelles segment in that one is Dreamy Vowel E), Lionel's Great Escape Trick, There's a Fly in My Soup, The Ram in the Pepper Patch (The 2nd Vowelles segment in that one is Crazy Vowel A), A Peck of Peppers (The 2nd vowelles segment in that one is Dreamy Vowel E) & The Fox and the Crow or Be Bop.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in April 2009.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3886 (With Elmo's World Episode: Exercise).
- When the knight is blown across the library by the tornado, he quotes the famous line "Oh, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" from William Shakespeare's Richard III.
- During the What's Your Name? segment, Eric Idle is one of the people whose has the Short E sound in it. Additionally, during the "Enjoy your little moment of fame!" verse, a child can be seen wearing a Teletubbies shirt, which also aired on PBS at the time.
Gallery[]
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Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 21, 2003)
- The Chap with Caps and More! DVD Boxset (June 7, 2005)
- Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West and Other Stories (June 7, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
- Vowel Power (April 15, 2014)
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion
- Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
- Peter Linz - Theo Lion, Gawain, Announcer Bunny (Arty Smartypants segment), What's Your Name? announcer
- Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion, "Sven Said" lead singer
- Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Clay Pigeon, Girl Monkey
- Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield III, Arty Smartypants, Knight
- Tyler Bunch - Walter Pigeon, Dr. Ruth's patient, The Un-People announcer, Pecos Bill
- Jim Napolitano - background roles
- Fred Newman - himself
- Makeba Mooncycle - rapper (uncredited)
- Dr. Bertice Berry - herself
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
- Michael K. Frith - The Adventures of Cliff Hanger narrator, Announcer Bunny (Bertice Berry segment), Sir "et"
- Chris Phillips - Cliff Hanger
- Kate Berner (uncredited) - Monica Maxwell
- Paul Jacobs - "Sven Said" backup singers
- Babi Floyd - Vowelles announcer