| How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the West | |
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| Season 1, Episode 1 (show premiere) | |
| Air date | April 3, 2000 (season premiere) |
| Written by | Joe Fallon |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
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SCENE 1 | Theo reads "How Pecos Bill Cleaned Up the West" to the gang, then they sing a song about how he was the best, then rest. | |
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Insert | The grey hand (in it's first appearance) takes the letters "est" to the first segment from the word "West". | |
| Muppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles: best | ||
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Cartoon | Colored patterns: best, bet, bell | |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: bell | |
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Cartoon | Water Deck: bell, bet, wet | |
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Muppets | Gawain's Word: wet | |
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Muppets | Arty Smartypants: nest, rest, resting, restaurant | |
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Cartoon | Colored Patterns (again): rest, best, bet, bed | |
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Cartoon | The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Bed | |
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SCENE 2 | Lionel and Leona are practicing rope wrestling, until they capture a customer of the library, and when they find out about Pecos Bill, When Click drags and drops him out, a tornado comes out of the book! | |
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Insert | Walter and Clay parody the song to "Buster is the Best", until the paper tornado hits Buster's hat and them away! | |
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Cartoon | Replaced Sky Words: west, chest, chess, mess | |
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Muppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles (again): mess | |
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Celebrity/
Muppets |
Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: impressive | |
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Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry: yell | |
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Song | What's Your Name: short e | |
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Cartoon | The Un-People: undressed, redressed | |
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Muppets | The Monkey Pop Up Theatre: Sven Said, Ted Send Ten Tents | |
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Insert | The grey hand puts "est" back | |
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SCENE 2
cond't |
The tornado is still happening, so Cleo and Theo write a story and song called "How Pecos Bill cleaned up the library mess", then they send Lionel and Leona to bed. |
Quotes
- Leona: (singing) Click clicked with her trickiest, slickest click / And dragged and dropped that twister quick.
- Busterfield: I am not a cowboy. I am Barnaby B. "Don't Call Me Buster" Busterfield III, founder of this library. Get this hat off my head this instant!
- Pecos Bill: Story's not true. Never happened. Never could happen. It's a tall tale. I'm just a paper hero.
- Cleo: Stay calm. We're having a technical problem. A slight tornado. Perfectly harmless.
- Theo: Bill said to Tess, "I must confess. If there's one thing I detest, it's a mess."
- Theo: Pecos Bill was the best. The best in the west.
- Cleo: Oh. Sweet Nursery Rhymes for Sleepy Cubs. Sounds nice, doesn't it, Leona?
- Lionel: (singing) Gonna read a story before bed.
- Female Monkey Singer: (singing) Let's start with our favorite vowel, a pretty good place to start.
Allusions
During The Monkey Pop Up Theatre segment, the female monkey singer remarks the line, Let's start with our favorite vowel, a pretty good place to start. It is similar to Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start From the song, Do Re Mi from the 1965 movie: The Sound of Music.
