Little Big Mouse | |
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Season 1, Episode 3 | |
Air date | April 5, 2000 |
Written by | Peter Hirsch and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh Tom Whedon |
Directed by | Lisa Simon |
Episode guide | |
Previous Episode 02: The Lost Rock |
Next Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle |
Little Big Mouse is the third episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here to show you what's coming up next on Between the Lions!" | |
SCENE 1 | Theo brings in new books for the library and has Click scan them. Theo sees several interesting books that he offers to read to Click, but the latter claims that there isn't enough time. However, when she comes across The Lion And The Mouse, she wants to read it. So Theo gathers the family in the corner in the library and reads the book up to the part where the lion lets the mouse go. | |
SCENE 1 (Cont'd) | Leona interrupts the story as she is confused as to why the lion let the mouse go. So Cleo goes "Between the Covers" and has Click drag and drop her into the book to ask the lion personally. The lion explains that the idea of the mouse thinking she could help the lion one day cracked him up and he had to let her go. Afterwards, Theo finishes reading the story. | |
SCENE 1 (Cont'd) | After the story, the parents head back to work. The cubs loved the story for the mouse's heroic actions, so Lionel suggests they start a fan club for the mouse. Click, disappointed, states that she doesn't have a fan club. | |
Insert | The Gray Hand takes the "it" out of the word "little". | |
Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "i" sound from their hip hit word "hit". | |
Insert | And now, it is coming! Walter and Clay run across the screen, as Busterfield feels like something silly might happen. As it turns out, the "it" is literally a giant puppet of the word "it". The "it" continues chasing the pigeons, as the announcer says that "it" is going. However, no sooner has the "it" left, then "it's back!". | |
Insert | Sky: it, lit, lip, rip, trip | |
Cartoon | Tiger Words: A Trip to Tripoli
Tiger is assigned to write the word "trip" and will win a trip to Tripoli if he makes it. Tiger pulls out a purple marker and writes the word "trap" instead. Realizing his mistake, he uses a lawnmower to erase the A, replaces it with an I and wins the trip. | |
Insert | Sky: trip, rip, zip | |
Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: zipped
Monica Maxwell zips a group of rhinos ruining her picnic in her zippered bag. The Un-People change the word "zipped" to "unzipped", letting the rhinos loose again, until the Re-People re-zip it. | |
Insert | Stage: zip, tip, tick, tickle | |
Film | Gawain's Word: tickle | |
Puppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Theo and Cleo cook tickled and pickled ribs.
(with music) | |
SCENE 2 | The cubs are writing fan mail to the brown mouse, leaving Click feeling unappreciated, after everything she has done for them. Click then sings a song about her abilities. Afterwards, the cubs finish writing the letter and read it over, which disappoints Click even more. Click asks the cubs if they need any help, but when they say they don't, Click leaves, thinking they might never need her again in favor of the brown mouse. | |
Celebrity | World-renowned mezzo-soprano Ms. Denyce Graves sings the sound of the letter I in the word "sit". | |
Insert | Stage: it, sit, sick, ick, tick, tickle | |
Celebrity | Fred Says: tick, tickle | |
Celebrity/
Puppets |
The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: Dr. Ruth helps a monkey read the word "intelligent". | |
Insert | Rectangular Bugs: in, fin, fine, line | |
Cartoon | Silent E: Pin/Pine
[without announcer introduction] | |
Insert | The Gray Hand puts the "it" back in the word "little". | |
SCENE 3 | Click sulks over no longer being needed, when she hears the lion family calling for her, and rushes off to see what they need. As it turns out, they just need her to put a large bag of fan mail in the book for the mouse to read, making Click even more distraught. Leona wonders how the mouse feels getting all that fan mail, so Click drops Cleo back into the book to interview the mouse. The mouse states that she's touched. Just as Cleo starts to leave, she walks right into the hunter's net trap and alerts the hunters! The lions know that they have to get Cleo out of the book, and fast! | |
SCENE 3 (Cont'd) | Meanwhile, Click is leaving the library forever, and refuses to come back when she hears the lions calling for her. Suddenly, Click realizes that Cleo can't get out of the book without her, and races to the rescue. Click quickly drops Cleo out of the book and the latter says that Click was an even bigger hero than the little brown mouse. Then Click requests her own fan club, complete with a website and merchandise! | |
Designated Reader | Cleo and Lionel read "The Adventures of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship". (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) |
Featured Stories[]
- The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop
- The Little Brown Mouse and the Mail Bag by Aesop
Gallery[]
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Quotes[]
- Click: (singing) I am not loud / But still I stand above the rodent crowd.
- Cleo: Pickle the ribs for 24 hours.
- Theo: 24 hours!?
- Cleo and Theo: Nah!!!
- Cleo: Put on bib.
- Theo: 'Put on bib.' Bib on!
- Cleo: Oh, you look dashing, my love.
- Theo: Oh, thank you, my dear. Nosey, nosey, nosey, nosey.
- Announcer: 'It' is going.
- Busterfield: Thank you.
- Announcer: It's back.
- Lionel: Hey! What do you say we start a little brown mouse fan club?
- Leona: Yeah!
- Click: I do not have a fan club.
- Click: The Complete History of Dinosaurs.
- Theo: Dinosaurs? Ooh, yummy again. Boy, I've always wanted to learn more about dinosaurs. Maybe I'll just take a little peeky-poo. Hee hee.
- Click: Charlotte's Web.
- Theo: Yummy. That's one scrumptious book.
Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to feature the short "I" sound.
- The scene of Click saying "There are 59 books here." was also featured in the bumper for the show's website in all episodes from 2000-2003.
- Theo is shown in this episode reading a book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White.
- This is the first time the grey hand takes two letters.
- During the song, Click parodies several Disney Princess musicals.
- The Lion and the Mouse is later read in the Season 5 episode A Tasty Piece of Cheese / The Lion and the Mouse
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in October 2004, along with The Fox and the Crow.
- This is the only episode where the song Silent E does not have an announcer at the beginning of the song.
- Moral of Episode: Even small Creatures can do BIG things, And save the day.
Goofs[]
- When Cleo gets trapped in the hunter's net in the book, There was a green screen error as the green screen is seen in the closeup of Cleo's feet and it appears for a few seconds when she gets caught in the net before going back to the jungle in the book.
- As Fred walks into frame at the beginning of the Fred Says segment, the boom mic is visible.
- Once the rhinos are loose again, after one of them jumps out of the frame, there is an animation error in which one of the rhinos is missing its head for a split second.
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; March 6, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
- Vowel Power (April 15, 2014)
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion, Dr. Ruth's patient
- Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
- Peter Linz - Theo Lion, Gawain
- Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion
- Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Clay Pigeon
- Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield III
- Tyler Bunch - Walter Pigeon, The Un-People vs. The Re-People narrator, Denyce Graves announcer
- Jim Napolitiano - various
- Fred Newman - himself, golf announcer
- Michael K. Frith - various
- Denyce Graves - herself
- Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
- 14 Karat Soul - "Silent E" singers
- Babi Floyd - Vowelles announcer, policeman
- Jim Lockett - Lion