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A Peck of Peppers
Season 1, Episode 20
A Peck of Peppers Title Card
Air date April 28, 2000
Written by Tony Geiss
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Christopher Cerf
Richard Chevat
Diana DeCubellis
Sarah Durkee
Ellis Weiner
Joe Fallon
Michael K. Fifth
Judy Freudberg
Louise Gikow
Peter Hirsch
Sean Kelly
Sharon Lerner
Kathryn Mullen
Fred Newman
Norman Stiles
Belinda Ward
Kathy Waugh
Tom Whedon
Directed by Lisa Simon
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A Peck of Peppers is the 20th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.

Picture Segment Description
Announcer Bunny Program Preview
Replaced Letter Songs A Farm Boy Named Ben
Celebrity Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here, check out what's coming up here on Between the Lions!"

A clip from Replaced Letter Songs: A Farm Boy Named Ben is shown. (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle)

Babstwisters
PeterPiper
SCENE 1 At the library, Cleo smells something unusual. It turns out to be a sad and dejected Babs Caplan, who has run out of ideas and needs new ones. Right on cue, a book of tongue-twisters falls from the balcony above (because Leona knocked it off), and she decides to write some. Lionel offers to test them out, as he claims that there isn't a tongue-twister he can't say. He first reads the ever-classic "Peter Piper" twister, which he recites flawlessly. No matter how fast Leona asks him to read it, his tongue doesn't get twisted. Babs goes off to write some more, and Leona offers to help, as she wants to see Lionel's tongue get twisted.
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Insert Walter and Clay Pigeon peck a peck of peppers as they chant "Peck, peck, peck. Peck a peck of peppers." The announcer tells them to say it faster, to which they do. Busterfield sarcastically remarks "Oh my, how entertaining."
Gray Hand Removing ep from "Peppers"
Insert The Gray Hand removes the "ep" from the word "peppers".
Martha Reader and the Vowelles Pep
Puppets Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "e" sound from their sensational hit word "pep".
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Insert Robots: pep, pen, hen
Letters Change Intro with Heath 4
Insert "And now, a little poem in which letters change, and make something very interesting happen." (First: Episode 12: The Chap with Caps)
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Cartoon Replaced Letter Songs: A Farm Boy Named Ben (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle)
Monkey Pop-up Theater book
The Monkey Pop-Up Theater Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Cents 3
Puppets The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Sven Said, Ten Tents, Ted Sent Ten Cents (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West)
Color Pattern Word Morph ten, men, mess
Insert Color Patterns: ten, men, mess
The Un-People vs
Cartoon The Un-People vs. The Re-People: dressed (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West)
Ruth-WordDoctor-title
Dr
Celebrity/

Puppets

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: impressive (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West)
Heathtonguetwisterintro
Insert "Now, twist your tongue around this one!" (EKA: Episode 11: To the Ship! To the Ship!)
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Film Tongue Twisters: Bess's Pet Pestered Fess
Zezzers1
Zezzers2
Zezzers3
SCENE 2 In order to get Lionel to slip up, Babs and Leona change the words to "zickled zezzers". He recites it flawlessly the first time, but when they ask him to say it faster, he makes a mistake, causing his tounge to literally become twisted! He then claims that this wasn't fair, because "zickled zezzers" aren't real words. Realizing he's right, Babs goes to write another one, this time, with real words. They start off with replacing the z's with p's again.
Fred Says Peck 6
Celebrity Fred Says: peck
Rectangular Bug Word Morph peck, pep, pet, met
Insert Rectangular Bugs: peck, pep, pet, met
Ms
Celebrity World-renowned mezzo-soprano Ms. Denyce Graves will sing the sound of the letter E in the word "met". (EKA: Episode 04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle)
Gawain's Word Title
Gawain's Word Wet 3
Gawain's Word Ending Title 6
Film Gawain's Word: wet (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West/Episode 06: The Hopping Hen)
Martha Reader and the Vowelles Dreamy Vowel E 4
Puppets Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing "Dreamy Vowel E" (with curtain)
What's Cooking Title 3
What's Cooking Peppered Tenderloin in a Kettle with No Melons and No Egg
Puppets What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Peppered Tenderloin in a Kettle with No Melons and No Egg (with announcer introduction)
What's Your Name short E Season 1 Version 3
Song What's Your Name?: short E (Season 1 version, laughing cut) (EKA: Episode 01: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West)
Gray Hand Putting the ep back in "Peppers"
Insert The Gray Hand puts the "ep" back in the word "peppers".
Pipers1
Pipers2
Poopers
Twisted
SCENE 3 Leona and Babs have changed the rhyme to a pickled pepper picking Peter Pipers. Lionel says it flawlessly the first time, once again, but when they ask him to say it faster, he says "pippled poopers" instead, causing his tongue to become twisted again! Lionel then decides to give up, and Leona and Babs gloat about winning until Cleo tells them not to. Leona asks Lionel if he's feeling "the agony of defeat", and Lionel announces that someday, he'll be back. Babs is excited as now she has entered a new career in writing "twong tisters".
Cleo reading a book called "The Adventure of Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship" with Lionel
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 Story[]

Tricky Tongue Twisters by Peppy Pick Pepper Peckpacker

Gallery[]

This page has a limited amount of images in the template. For extended images, see A Peck of Peppers/Gallery.

Notes and Trivia[]

  • When the book falls off the balcony, the chicken says "The sky is falling!", a reference to Chicken Little.
  • The chicken puppet appears to be recycled from Information Hen, with an added hairpiece.
  • Leona asks Lionel if he feels "the agony of defeat", a phrase popularized by ABC's Wide World of Sports.
  • This is the second time where the announcer says, "And now, it's time for..." over the "What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo" theme song. The first was "Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?."
  • The robot words segment has the same bigger font as in The Popcorn Popper and Something Fishy.
  • The What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo segment is later seen in the Season 2 episode Quest, Quest, Quest!, which, coincidentally, also features an appearance by Babs Caplan.
  • This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in April 2009.
  • This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3905 (With Elmo's World Episode: Dancing).

Gallery[]

Main article: Episode 20: A Peck of Peppers/Gallery

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