What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo (also known as What's Cooking?) is a cooking main recurring segment from Between the Lions starring Theo Lion and Cleo Lion as chefs. In each segment, they have a recipe (for example, "slammed and rammed ham with no yam or clam") and all the ingredients they need (and a few they don't). The ingredients are all labeled.
The lions read the recipe step-by-step which usually involves getting rid of the extra ingredients and preparing the main component of the recipe. The final step of each recipe involves allowing the food to cook for a specific amount of time -- at which point the lions just say "Nah!" and devour the food raw and/or fish. Sometimes, the segments end with the camera zooming in on the refrigerator to segue into a Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segment. However, this seems to happen at the end of every installment whether it follows a Sam Spud segment or not.
The segments disappeared entirely in seasons 5-8, but seasons 9-10 saw a new version of the segment that takes place in a revised kitchen, and on occasion, Lionel and Leona would be involved as well.
Lyrics[]
(And now, it's time for...)
Chorus:
♪What's cooking?♪
♪With Theo and Cleo!♪
♪Check out what's cooking!♪♪
Recipes[]
Season 1[]
- Tickled and Pickled Ribs
- Rubbed and Hugged Mutton in a Buttered Tub
- Slammed and Rammed Ham with No Yam or Clam
- Squished Fish on a Dish
- Hot Chop Cheese Drop Soup in a Pot with No Top
- Peppered Tenderloin in a Kettle with No Melons and No Egg
Seasons 2 to 4[]
- Tackled and Paddled Hamburger Patty
- Steam-Cleaned Meat Treat with No Pea Pods and No Peach Pits
- Beef in a Sheet with No Beets or Greens
Seasons 9 and 10[]
- Chef's Midnight Snack Surprise
- Meat Chunks with No Salmon
- Meat with No Vegetables
- Lamb Chop Birthday Cake: The Finishing Touches
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Meatloaf
- Bowl of Meat for Two
Appearances[]
- Little Big Mouse (debut)
- Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?
- Lionel's Antlers
- To the Ship! To the Ship!
- Pandora's Box
- Something Fishy
- The Ram in the Pepper Patch
- A Peck of Peppers
- The Old Man
- A King and His Hawk
- The Roar That Makes Them Run
- The Fox and the Crow
- Be Bop
- The Good Seed
- The Last Cliff Hanger
- Oh, Yes, It Can! (mention only)
- Quest, Quest, Quest!
- Dreaming Shakespeare
- Tweet! Tweet!
- What Parakeets Need
- Dance in Smarty Pants!
- Night Shift/Under Construction
- River Story/Salmon in Alaska
- A Birthday for Cow/Rabbits Gift
- City Mouse and Country Mouse/The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country
- My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks/Just What Mama Needs
- Deep in the Swamp/Trosclair and the Alligator (Last Appearance)
Cooking Items[]
Season 1[]
- Bib
- Stick
- Ribs
- Butter 🧈
- Tub
- Mutton
- Yam or Sweet Potato 🍠
- Clam
- Ham
- Fish 🐟
- Dish 🍽
- Pot
- Cheese 🧀
- Chop
- Melons
- Egg
- Pepper (as a black pepper)
- Tenderloin
- Kettle
Seasons 2, 3 and 4[]
- Hard Hat
- Hamburger or Ground Beef
- Paddle
- Pan 🍳
- Pea Pods
- Peach Pits
- Meat 🥩
- Steam 🧖♀️
- Beef
- Sheet
- Beets
- Greens 🥬
- Tureen
Trivia[]
- The segment for Rubbed and Hugged Mutton in a Buttered Tub in Fuzzy, Wuzzy, Wuzzy? has a rare title card in which the screen is zoomed in more, cropping out most of the title.
Gallery[]
- Main article: What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo/Gallery