| There's a Fly in My Soup | |
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| Season 1, Episode 15 | |
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| Air date | April 21, 2000 |
| Written by | Fred Newman and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 14: Lionel's Great Escape Trick |
Next Episode 16: The Popcorn Popper |
There's a Fly in My Soup is the 15th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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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 Scene 1, where Theo reads one of the fly jokes, is shown. |
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SCENE 1 | It's another day in the library. Cleo and Click are scanning books in the library, Lionel and Leona are reading, and Theo is laughing at a book titled The Universal Encyclopedia of Fly Jokes. He reads some of the jokes aloud, and Cleo and Click decide to take a break to hear some of them. However, Click says that she is not programmed to laugh, which proves to be true as she does not laugh at any of the jokes. Cleo says that all people laugh at different things, and fly jokes might not be Click's thing. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | Cleo tells Click that there are a whole bunch of other funny books at the library, and so the family goes to the humor section of the library. Leona tells Click to get ready to laugh, and Click restates that she cannot laugh. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand removes the letter "y" from "fly". |
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Puppets | The Vowelles sing the "y" sound from their hit word "my". |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: fry |
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Insert | Stage: fry, fly, sly, shy |
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Puppets | Arty Smartypants: My, Shy, Fly, Butterfly, Cry |
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Celebrity | World-renowned mezzo-soprano Ms. Denyce Graves sings the sound of the letter Y in the word "butterfly". |
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Song | Sloppy Pop sings Sometimes Y |
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Insert | Sky: fly, flying |
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Cartoon | Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Big Flying Duck (EKA: Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?) |
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SCENE 2 | Lionel has put on a comedy show in the humor section of the library. To start off, Lionel makes a joke about how a group of monkeys lives in trees, so they must be the branch managers! Then Lionel brings in Dr. Nitwhite and Watson and they tell a few jokes, but they fail to make Click laugh. So Lionel has his parents come to the stage and they try to tell some jokes from The Big Book of Funny Jokes. |
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SCENE 2
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Click pretends to laugh, and Leona points out that she isn't really laughing. Click, still unable to laugh, runs off crying, and Leona states that they made Click cry instead of laugh. |
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Puppets | The Vowelles with the "y" sound from their big hit word "cry". |
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Film | Gawain's Word: cry |
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Puppets | Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Letter Y, Y as an I |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: fly |
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Puppets | B.B. the King of Beasts sings Troubled by the Letter Y |
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Insert | Robots: fly, sly, shy, why |
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Cartoon | Who's Here? (EKA: Episode 06: The Hopping Hen) |
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Insert | Rectangular Bugs: when, hen, en, ten |
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Puppets | Heath the Thesaurus sings Ten Small Words. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand puts the letter "y" back in the word "fly". |
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SCENE 3 | Click is still upset because she was unable to laugh, when she suddenly swallows a fly, and it pops up in her monitor! Click says that it's a bug in her program... and realizing the pun she just made, she laughs at last! Then she tells a bunch more jokes like it, and Leona says that Cleo was right- people do laugh at different things. |
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Insert | Walter and Clay notice a fly on Busterfield's head, and Busterfield thinks that it's another fly joke. When the pigeons say that it isn't, Busterfield tries to make the fly get off his head by yelling at it and blowing on it. |
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Designated Reader | Cleo and Lionel read "The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship". (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
Featured Story[]
The Universal Encyclopedia of Fly Jokes
Notes and Trivia[]
- Unlike the other word morph segments, the rectangular bugs segments features words that end with "en" instead of words that end with the letter Y, Y as an I.
- This is the first episode that focuses on the sometimes vowel Y.
- This is the first episode where the grey cursor hand pulls out only one highlighted letter.
- This is also the only episode with the letter Y being the focused vowel in the Vowelles segment without Martha Reader, thus making the segment the least aired of the Season 1 Vowelles segments.
- The waiter in the book has a voice inspired by that of Frank Nelson, a regular on The Jack Benny Program.
- The Vowelles sing twice in this episode, Likely due to the fact that this is the only episode with to feature the "Y" sound as the main Vowel.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in June 2007.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3900 (With Elmo's World Episode: Babies).
- Moral of Episode: Certain People laugh at certain things they do like.
Goofs[]
- In the second Fred Says segment, when Fred runs into the backdrop, which is obviously paper, his left foot goes through it.
- When Busterfield is yelling at the fly to get off his head, after Clay leaves, you can faintly see Heather Asch's forehead behind the pedestal on the left.
Quotes[]
Gallery[]
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Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 21, 2003)
- The Chap with Caps and More! DVD Boxset (June 7, 2005)
- Shooting Stars and Other Stories (June 7, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
