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The Best Episodes of Between the Lions Season 2

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The Best Episodes of Between the Lions Season 2

Between the Lions is a PBS Kids puppet television series designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius...
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    #1 - The Sad Dad

    S2:E1

    Bruno Kirby plays a Dad whose house is overrun by kids: ""There's hardly enough room to put on pants!"" he complains. Fed up with all this overcrowding, he decides to seek the advice of an old wise woman in town - who only adds to the problem!

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    #2 - Humph! Humph! Humph!

    S2:E2

    Lionel's friend, Gus, gets annoyed when Leona asks him to be her designated reader for the day -- because he can't read.

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    #3 - The Good Seed

    S2:E3

    Click the Mouse gets a computer virus that turns everything in the library into a total disaster area!

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    #4 - Icarus's Wings

    S2:E4

    The story of Icarus, the boy who made wax wings and flew too close to the sun, inspires Barnaby B. Busterfield to follow his dream of...flying! With help from Walter and Clay, of course.

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    #5 - Zoop! Zoop!

    S2:E5

    The story of Abiyoyo terrifies Leona, and it takes some cleverness on the part of her mother to help Leona beat her fear.

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    #6 - Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!

    S2:E6

    Theo ""borrows"" the typewriter from the book ""Click-Clack Moo!"", and has a hard time letting it go when the cows want it back.

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    #7 - Poetry Day

    S2:E7

    It's Alice day in the library, which means everything has something to do with ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", and the backward logic of the looking glass. Calloo Callay!

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    #8 - Bobby the Hopping Robot

    S2:E8

    Lionel's new toy, a hopping robot named Bobby, is a real tough job to put together. Lionel, Theo, Cleo, and just about everybody has a try at assembling the robot correctly -- but it still doesn't work! Who could've guessed Leona would come up with the solution!

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    #9 - Teacher's Pet

    S2:E9

    Cleo catches the ""I-Can't-Hear-or-Smell-or-Tell-if-Someone's-Sneaking-Up-On-Me"" Flu, right before she's scheduled to go and visit her old teacher.

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    #10 - The Last Cliff Hanger

    S2:E10

    Lionel is devastated (Shocked! Taken Aback! Apalled!) when he discovers that there will no longer be any new ""Cliffhanger"" books - since the author, Livingston Dangerously, has decided to call it quits. But being the devout ""Cliffhanger"" fan he is, Lionel decides to do something about this dire situation!

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    #11 - Pebble Trouble

    S2:E11

    Featuring the book ""Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"", in which a young donkey boy discovers a magic pebble in the woods, and somehow wishes himself to be a rock. His parents spend many months out looking for him, and eventually find him as the rock, and unknowingly transform him back into his old self!

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    #12 - Oh, Yes, It Can!

    S2:E12

    A storyteller visits the library one day, and tells an old story about a Yammering Yam and how it led to a whole series of unbelievable (but true) events for a farmer, a fisherman, and king.

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    #13 - Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks

    S2:E13

    Lionel's friend, Lenny - a fellow ""Cliffhanger"" aficianado - comes for a visit, after having since moved away. When he arrives at the library, however, Lionel finds out that Lenny doesn't like ""Cliffhanger"" anymore. That instead, he has taken a liking to a similar book hero, ""Justin Time""! Can Lionel and Lenny still be friends, even if they don't like the same things?

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    #14 - Bug Beard

    S2:E14

    In the story ""Bug Beard"", a woodcutter brings home a grubby, buggy old man he finds in the woods. His wife is not amused by the buggy old man, and so she sets about trying to clean him up. When the buggy man is finally all cleaned up, it turns out he just isn't his happy, dancing, singing old self. Can the Lions help?

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    Writer:Joe Fallon
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    #15 - Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains

    S2:E15

    Lionel gets a brainstorm after he hears Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. What if he and Leona ride a train through the plain of the book?

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    #16 - Quest, Quest, Quest!

    S2:E16

    Babs Caplan is back with a new story, The Quest for the Chest. And once again, she doesn't get it right. Originally, there is no action in the story. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short E sound.

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    #17 - The Spider and the Lie

    S2:E17

    Lionel writes a Crime Story, which involves Leona, a slippery character named Monkey C. Monkeydew, a missing library card, and a spider.

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    Director:Hugh Martin
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    #18 - Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-Boom!

    S2:E18

    Theo wants to teach the cubs a lesson, which he finds in a book of concatenations called Because a Little Bug Went KA-CHOO! What Theo doesn't know is that, by pulling that book from the middle of a pile, a pen dropped to the floor, setting off a concatenation in the library. It culminates with a hot-air balloon's bursting.

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    Writer:Joe Fallon
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    #19 - But, Mama, But ...

    S2:E19

    Cleo is about to fly off to visit some newborn cubs. Leona feels she is able to spend a couple of days without her, but can she be sure> And what about everyone else? To ease everyone's feelings, Cleo (with eight minutes to go in the program) reads I Miss You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt; illustrated by Cyd Moore.

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    #20 - Dreaming Shakespeare

    S2:E20

    It's Shakespeare Day at the Library. Fanfares, flowery language and period costumes are the order of the day (Cleo is dressed as the female star of Antony and Cleopatra). A method actor is unable to play Romeo and Juliet because Juliet is sick. Maybe an exasperated hen can fill in.

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    Writer:Sean Kelly
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    #21 - Rats

    S2:E21

    After someone calls Leona a nasty name on the playground, a friend of the Lions', named Frank, tells a story about Rats, which shows that bad names can hurt just as much as sticks and stones.

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    #22 - Tweet! Tweet!

    S2:E22

    An intriguing theory from the book Bone Poems has got the cubs and pigeons thinking: Are birds the descendants of dinosaurs? Walter and Clay Pigeon take that prospect to an extreme. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Double-e sound.

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    #23 - Good Night, Knight

    S2:E23

    A famous marionette team is preparing to tell the story of Orlando Furioso and his battle to rescue Angelica from the curse of Fallerina. It's a story Leona knows by heart, and she has more than a loving desire to see this play.

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    Writer:Joe Fallon
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    #24 - The Chess Mess

    S2:E24

    It's Alice Day at the library, and everyone is very involved in a page from Through the Looking Glass. Theo, a former whiz at chess, accepts Click's challenge to play a few matches. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short e sound.

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    #25 - Stop That Chicken!

    S2:E25

    Chicken Jane escapes from one of her books and ricochets around the library. Every so often, she writes her advice to characters in other books. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short o sound.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Sad Dad" is the best rated episode of "Between the Lions" season 2. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/2/2001. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Humph! Humph! Humph!".