Gawain's Word is a segment in Between the Lions Seasons 1-Season 10.
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Synopsis[edit | edit source]
A Saturday Night Live-based Wayne's World spoof featuring two jousting knights on "horseback" charging at each other, one silver and one gold, each touting a speech balloon containing part of a word which then became their respective names, then demonstrating the word. For example, one skit featured "Sir D" (silver) and "Sir Ance" (gold). Then Gawain says, "Blend on, dudes!" when it's time to put the two halves together. When Sir D bumps into Sir Ance. their speech balloons meld together to form the word "dance". Then they react to the word, by dancing. The knights' steeds were actually hobby horses, an homage to the Pythons' use of similar "animals" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Though the title of the segment is clearly a parody of the Saturday Night Live skit, the two knights in the segment speak more characteristically like Bill and Ted from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure than Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World. In some episodes, the opening shot of Gawain blowing a bugle is a clip of blowing it and then waving and then the shot of him waving is used at the end and in others, both the opening and closing shots are stills of him blowing the bugle.
Segments[edit | edit source]
Blending Fields[edit | edit source]
Season 1[edit | edit source]
- wet (Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West, The Hopping Hen, And A Peck of Peppers)
- tickle (Little Big Mouse And Lionel's Great Escape Trick)
- shark (Shooting Stars)
- snooze (Touching the Moon)
- jig (The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
- hug (Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?, Hug, Hug, Hug!, Giants and Cubs, And Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! / The Three Little Pigs)
- dance (Lionel's Antlers, The Old Man, And Ruby Sings the Blues / The Camel Dances)
- slip (To the Ship! To the Ship! And Sausage Nose)
- crash (The Chap With Caps)
- hop (Pandora's Box, The Popcorn Popper, The Fox and the Crow, Be Bop, And The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, it Can!)
- cry (There's a Fly in My Soup And Click, Clack, Moo / The Little Red Hen)
- slam (The Ram in the Pepper Patch)
- sleep (Red Hat, Green Hat)
- stuck (The Lucky Duck, A Shower of Stars / Two Moons and One Lagoon And Three More Little Pigs/The Ants and the Grasshopper)
- smack (Piggyback, Piggyback)
- splat
Season 2[edit | edit source]
- jump (Humph! Humph! Humph! And Huff and Puff)
- phone
- weep (The Good Seed And Are You a Snail?/Wonderful Worms)
- sing (Icarus's Wings)
- hoop (Zoop! Zoop!, Too Cool And Click, Clack, Moo / The Little Red Hen)
- kick (Clickety-clack, Clickety-clack!)
- paint (Poetry Day, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble / I Miss You, Stinky Face And Elephants Can Paint, Too!/Jamaica Louise James)
- dress (Pebble Trouble And Quest! Quest! Quest!)
- scratch (Oh Yes, It Can!)
- spin (Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks, Pigs Aplenty And The Class Trip)
- juggle (Bug Beard/The Three Legged Pot/When Jabo Jammed)
- chime (The Spider and the Lie)
- broom (Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-boom!)
- tug (But, Mama, But...)
- slime
- tag (Rats!)
- sweep (Tweet! Tweet!)
- night (Good Night, Knight)
- basket
- golf (Stop That Chicken!)
- snow
- bells
- hats
- bath
- rooster
Season 3[edit | edit source]
- bow (Out in Outer Space)
- pet
- ring
- case
- net (Help! And Step by Step)
- bath time
- beach
- soak (Two Coats, One Goat and One Boat, Three Goats No Waiting, The Carrot Seed / The Empty Pot And The Goat in the Coat)
- boot
- swimming pool
- creak (Treats!)
- monkey
Season 4[edit | edit source]
- dark (Art Party)
- chase (Grow, Mane, Grow, A Tasty Piece of Cheese / The Lion and the Mouse And The Problem with Chickens/An Egg is Quiet)
- fan (Dance In Smarty Pants, Earl's Too Cool / When I Was Five And The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, it Can!)
Season 5[edit | edit source]
Blend Mart[edit | edit source]
Season 6[edit | edit source]
- kitty (Episode 81: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/Knuffle Bunny And Episode 110: I Don't Want a Birthday Party/Knuffle Bunny)
- straw (Episode 82: Sheep on a Ship/Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship And Episode 108: Elephants Can Paint Too!/Jamaica Louise James)
- yo-yos (Episode 83: Yo! Yes?/Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal)
- vines (Episode 83: Yo! Yes?/Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal)
- box (Episode 84: I'll Fix Anthony/Jamaica Louise James)
- shorts (Episode 88: Cheesybreadville / Stolen Smells And Episode 100: Making Bread/Cheesybreadville )
- toys (Episode 88: Cheesybreadville / Stolen Smells)
- puppy
- zipper
Hollywood Bowl[edit | edit source]
Season 9[edit | edit source]
- rocket
- van
- harp
- flute
Season 10[edit | edit source]
- conductor (Episode 123: City Mouse and Country Mouse/The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country)
- moose
- harp
drums
Transcript[edit | edit source]
- Gawain: Excellent. Gawain here once again at Blending Fields, where two brave knights in armor will charge together at high speed and make a word. Competing today we have sir (silver) and sir (gold).
