Fred Says is a frequently appearing segment on Between the Lions. Fred Newman appears on screen putting letters together to form words, often accompanied by Newman’s trademark quirky noises and sound effects.
Segments[]
Season 1[]
- bell (Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West)
- clock (The Lost Rock, Click, Clack, Moo/The Little Red Hen, Spicy Hot Colors/Yesterday I Had the Blues)
- rock/rocket (The Lost Rock, It's Red! It's Green!/Joseph Has a Little Overcoat)
- tick/tickle (Little Big Mouse)
- tee-hee (Farmer Ken's Puzzle, Earl's Too Cool/When I Was Five, Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone/Terrific)
- bar/bark (Shooting Stars)
- shhh/shark (Shooting Stars)
- hen (The Hopping Hen, Red Hat, Green Hat, Click, Clack, Moo/The Little Red Hen)
- yell (The Hopping Hen, Bein' with You This Way/How to Be)
- achoo (Touching the Moon)
- balloon (Touching the Moon)
- jiggle (The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Three Legged Pot/When Jabo Jammed)
- fuzz (Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?)
- rip (To the Ship! To the Ship!)
- nap (The Chap with Caps, A Shower of Stars/Two Moons and One Lagoon)
- ape/scrape (The Chap with Caps)
- box (Pandora's Box, The Fox and the Crow, Wings / What's in the Box?)
- hot (Pandora's Box, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! / The Three Little Pigs, Angelina's Island/Chinese New Year)
- trick (Lionel's Great Escape Trick)
- fry (There's a Fly in My Soup)
- fly (There's a Fly in My Soup, Earl's Too Cool / When I Was Five, Mole and the Baby Bird / Owen and Mzee)
- lollipop (The Popcorn Popper, Be Bop, The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, It Can!)
- fish (Something Fishy, Sausage Nose, Earl's Too Cool / When I Was Five, No One Told the Aardvark / Sea Horse, River Story/Salmon in Alaska, Fang)
- juggle (Hug, Hug, Hug!, It's Red! It's Green! / Joseph Had a Little Overcoat)
- ram (The Ram in the Pepper Patch, The Old Man)
- slam (The Ram in the Pepper Patch)
- peck (A Peck of Peppers, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! / The Three Little Pigs)
- mud (The Lucky Duck, Three More Little Pigs/The Ants and the Grasshopper)
- ing/sing (A King and His Hawk)
- bug (The Roar That Makes Them Run)
- quack (Piggyback, Piggyback)
- flap/flapjack (Piggyback, Piggyback)
- glop/gloppy (The Fox and the Crow)
- buzz (Giants and Cubs)
- drop (Be Bop, The Carrot Seed / The Empty Pot)
Season 2[]
- an/ban/banjo (The Sad Dad)
- beep (The Good Seed)
- zip (Icarus's Wings)
- moo/moose (Zoop! Zoop!, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble / I Miss You, Stinky Face)
- lip/lipstick (Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!)
- drain (Poetry Day)
- pop (Bobby the Hopping Robot)
- eat (Teacher's Pet)
- fast/faster/fastest (The Last Cliff Hanger)
- elephant (Pebble Trouble, No One Told the Aardvark / Sea Horse)
- clam (Oh, Yes, It Can!)
- bit/bite (Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks, Stone Soup / Bee-Bim Bop!)
- bug hug (Bug Beard, Bugs/Beetle Bop, Bug Alert)
- air/hair (Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains)
- jet (Quest, Quest, Quest!)
- smile (The Spider and the Lie, Good Night, Knight, Spicy Hot Colors/Yesterday I Had the Blues)
- doodle/noodle (Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-boom!)
- drum (But, Mama, But..., Ruby Sings the Blues / The Camel Dances, Pablo the Artist/Dream Carver)
- squeak (Was planned to be put in Dreaming Shakespeare but did not make it)
- rat/rattle (Rats)
- squeeze (Tweet! Tweet!)
- light/lighthouse (Good Night, Knight, A Tasty Piece of Cheese / The Lion and the Mouse)
- stretch (The Chess Mess)
- robot (Stop That Chicken!)
Seasons 3 and 4[]
- spray/away (Hay Day)
- Rapping with Word Family with ig (Pigs Aplenty)
- Words with the Double E (What Parakeets Need, Wings / What's in the Box?)
- Words with the Double O (Too Cool)
- scratch (You Can't Catch Me!)
- stuck (Huff and Puff)
- mouth (Out in Outer Space)
- Rapping Word Family with ell (Help!)
- toad/croak (Two Coats, One Goat and One Boat, The Goat in the Coat)
- ear/hear (Treats!)
- dark/star/stars (Art Party)
- flake/flakes (Grow, Mane, Grow!)
- float (Three Goats, No Waiting)
- Rapping Word Family with est (Step by Step)
- slant (Dance in Smarty Pants!)
Season 5[]
Season 6[]
- jerk (Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/Knuffle Bunny)
- sticky (Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/Knuffle Bunny, I Don't Want a Birthday Party/Knuffle Bunny)
- shake (Sheep on a Ship/Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship)
- skid (Sheep on a Ship/Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship)
- yo-yo (Yo! Yes?/Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal)
- vacuum (Yo! Yes?/Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal)
- fix six (I'll Fix Anthony/Jamaica Louise James, Deep in the Swamp/Trosclair and the Alligator)
- saw (I'll Fix Anthony/Jamaica Louise James, Elephants Can Paint, Too!/Jamaica Louise James)
- goggles (Pete's a Pizza/Pygmalion)
- zipper (Here Come the Aliens/Abiyoyo)
- zoo/kazoo (King Midas/The Dirty Smelly King, Priceless Gifts/King Midas)
- rock/truck (King Midas/The Dirty Smelly King)
- horse (Cheesybreadville/Stolen Smells, Making Bread/Cheesybreadville)
- oil (Cheesybreadville/Stolen Smells)
- circus (The Coyote and the Rabbit/The Gingerbread Man, Trosclair and the Alligator/The Coyote and the Rabbit)
- giant (The Coyote and the Rabbit/The Gingerbread Man)
Season 7[]
- chimp (The Problem with Chickens/An Egg is Quiet)
- napkin (Bear Snores On/Night in the Country)
- look (How to Be a Good Dog/Not Afraid of Dogs)
- whoosh (Dear Mr. Blueberry/I Wanna Iguana)
- musical instruments (Violet's Music/What Instrument Does Alvin Play?)
- rope (Moon Rope/Welcome to the Moon)
Season 8[]
- wiggle (Are You a Snail?/Wonderful Worms)
- sip (Stone Soup / Bee-Bim Bop!)
- rooster (I Don't Want a Birthday Party/Knuffle Bunny)
List of Words[]
- Main article: Fred Says/List of Words
Words by Fred Newman[]
- oops - achoo
- yuck - mud
- testing - bit/bite
- crush - bug hug
Gallery[]
- Main article: Fred Says/Gallery
Notes and Trivia[]
- The archive clip of tee-hee from Season 1 flies around during the virus in The Good Seed.
- It is unknown where the squeak clip came from. It is possible that they were planned to be put in Dreaming Shakespeare, but it did not appear. It was uploaded to the YouTube Channel Lena Budd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYF4uk3_mw
- Squeak is the only segment not to appear in the episode.
- 6 is the only number to appear in the fix/six segment.