| Huff and Puff | |
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| Season 3, Episode 6 | |
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| Air date | October 21, 2002 |
| Written by | Ken Scarborough and Christopher Cerf Sarah Durkee Joe Fallon Michael K. Frith Louise Gikow Sharon Lerner Brian Meehl Gentry Menzel Fred Newman Norman Stiles Carin Greenberg-Baker |
| Directed by | Emily Squires |
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"Huff and Puff" is the sixth episode of Season 3 of Between the Lions, and episode 61 in total.
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Celebrity | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: Get Your Mouth Moving: Short U |
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SCENE 1 | The Lions are about to go out and play soccer, when Leona wants her dad to read her The Three Little Pigs, her favorite story. So, he does before the game. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | Leona wants to know what happened next, so Theo encourages her to write a sequel. She doesn't know what that is, though. So, Heath the Thesaurus teaches her. |
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Insert | The grey hand takes the letter "u" from the word "puff". |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles cutting a rug with the short "u"-- "uh"-- sound in the word "bug". (Without crowd cheering and applause) (EKA: Bug Beard) |
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Cartoon | If You Can Read: ug |
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Celebrity | The Albrecht Roser Puppet Series: Albrecht Roser, the Pup and the Bug (with humming sound) (EKA: Bug Beard) |
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Celebrity | 14 Karat Soul: Short U (dum dum dum) (EKA: Bug Beard) |
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Insert | Stage: hum, hug, tug, tuck |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: stuck |
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SCENE 2 | After the game, Leona reads the rest of the family her sequel. In it, the wolf gets surgery and can no longer huff and puff, due to this, he becomes nice and befriends the three little pigs. |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | Lionel claims it was the saddest story he ever heard, as now the wolf could no longer huff and puff. So, Cleo recommends he write his own sequel. |
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Celebrity | Get Your Mouth Moving: short u |
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Film | Gawain's Word: jump (EKA: Humph! Humph! Humph!) |
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Celebrity/Puppets | Shoot the Game with Teresa Weatherspoon: jump (EKA: Bug Beard) |
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Insert | Newton's Cradle: jump, hump, hum, yum |
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Cartoon | Little Wendy Tales: Let's Eat |
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Celebrity/Puppets | A word and name from television star Ms. Vanessa Williams: A bunny named Gus |
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Insert | The grey hand puts the "u" back from the word "puff". |
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SCENE 3 | Lionel has finished his sequel, entitled The Three Little Pigs Meet the Wolfinator: A Sequel. He then reads it to the whole library. |
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SCENE 3 (cont'd) | After Lionel leaves, the real Wolfinator arrives, and makes a mess by blowing stuff around in the library. |
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SCENE 4 | Walter and Clay Pigeon enter the roof, with the former claiming to be "The Pigeonator". He proves this by huffing and puffing and blowing Busterfield on his side! |
Featured Story[]
The Three Little Pigs by Muffy Huffington (traditional folk tale)
Gallery[]
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Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the last season and episode to feature the short "U" sound.
- This is the last appearance of the word family "ug".
- Heath is played by a different, unknown performer in this episode. It is also his final appearance in new material.
- The evil scientist is voiced by Marilyn Sokol, her second appearance on the show. The first was in "Sausage Nose".
- The Wolfinator is a parody of "The Terminator", played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film series of the same name.
- This episode aired a year before the release of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
- The stories, sequels, grey hand segment and two segments from this episode appeared in a season 10 episode.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in August 2007.
- Peter Linz gives the Robo-Pig a similar voice to Pip on Bear in the Big Blue House.
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; April 26, 2005, later reprinted on June 7, 2005)
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion, Basketball Announcer, The Wolfinator (library)
- Pam Arciero - Leona Lion
- Tim Lagasse - Theo Lion, Barnaby B. Busterfield III, Johnny Consonanti, Gus, Wolf (Little Wendy Tales) Poopsie, Heath the Thesaurus
- Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion
- Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Clay Pigeon
- Jim Kroupa - Walter Pigeon, Allergy Book
- Jim Napolitiano - Pig
- Matt Vogel - Basketball Playing Monkey
- Peter Linz - Gawain, Vest-wearing Pig, Robo-Pig
- Fred Newman - himself
- Chris Phillips - Emoticon the Cat, Glasses-wearing Pig, Big Bad Wolf, The Wolfinator (story)
- Marilyn Sokol - Evil Scientist
- Christiana Anbri - Little Wendy, The Punctuator
- Samantha Horneff - Wolf Doctor
- Megan McDonough - Overalls-wearing Pig
- Tyler Bunch - various
- Stephen Scott Scarpulla - various
- Teresa Weatherspoon - herself
- 14 Karat Soul - themselves
- Susan Lucci - herself
- Vanessa Williams - herself
- Paul Jacobs - “If You Can Read” singer
- Cindy Mizelle - Martha Reader