| Here Come the Aliens/Abiyoyo | |
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| Season 6, Episode 86 | |
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| Air date | May 22, 2006 |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 85: Pete's a Pizza/Pygmalion |
Next Episode 87: King Midas/The Dirty Smelly King |
Here Come the Aliens/Abiyoyo is the 86th episode of Between the Lions.
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COLD OPEN | Theo and Leona rap about some words we'll be seeing today. |
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SCENE 1 | Lionel is trying to detect aliens from outer space, then when Leona comes, he tells her about science fiction, then reads her Here Come The Aliens. |
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Insert | The grey hand removes the "qu" from the word "queen". |
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Animation | Computer or Laptop: quarter, quail, quill, quilt |
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Film | Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter Q or the Letters Q-U [quilt, queen, quarter, quill, question mark] |
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Puppets
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Reginald Livingston Seagull: Quack Quack! |
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Cartoon | Q Without U |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the "qu" back in the word "queen". |
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SCENE 2 | Lionel is conflicted as to whether or not Cliff Hanger is brave. So his mom recommends reading one. |
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Cartoon | The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and Quentin Quigley's Quick Question |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | Lionel comes to the conclusion Cliff's a coward. Then he says he's a mix of very, very, brave... |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | "And very, very, dumb!" Leona remarks. This triggers Lionel into running after her. |
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SCENE 3 | Leona and Lionel are doing a "Scary Experiment" to see why you're scared of stuff the first few times you see it, but not after that. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | The family then gathers in the library so they can hear Theo read Abiyoyo, a book about a father and son that fight a giant monster. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | After the book, Lionel states that if the townspeople just got used to Abiyoyo, they wouldn't have had to make him disappear. |
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Insert | The grey hand removes the letter "Z" from the word "Zoop!" |
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Animation | Billboard: zoo, zigzag, zip, zipper |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: zipper |
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Film | Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter Z [zebra, zero, ziti, zither, zipper] |
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Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped (EKA: Little Big Mouse/To the Ship! To the Ship!) |
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Puppets | Reginald Livingston Seagull: Letter Z |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the "Z" back in the word "Zoop!". |
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SCENE 4 | Leona claims to have found someone braver than Cliff Hanger, Chicken Jane! Theo then points out a new Chicken Jane book in the library. |
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Cartoon | Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Blizzard |
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SCENE 4 (cont'd) | Leona hopes that, after the events of the previous segment, Scot and Dot would warm up Chicken Jane in their tent. |
Featured Stories[]
- Here Come the Aliens! by Colin McNaughton
- Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger
Notes[]
- The entire first half of this episode would later be repeated as the second half of Charlie's Dinosaur/Here Come the Aliens.
- Between the Lions is the second PBS show to feature the book Abiyoyo, following Reading Rainbow.
- In the Abiyoyo segment, during scenes where Abiyoyo eats the sheep and cow, Leo doesn't say "He comes for the sheep pasture" and "He comes to the cow pasture". Instead, he says "He comes to the pasture" during the scene where Abiyoyo eats the sheep.
Releases[]
- Complete Sixth Season 3-Disc DVD Boxset (March 21, 2008)
Goofs[]
- Once the rhinos are loose again, after one of them jumps out of the frame, there is an animation error in which one of the rhinos is missing its head for a split second. (EKA: Little Big Mouse/To the Ship! To the Ship!)
Gallery[]
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