Be Bop | |
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Season 1, Episode 30 (season finale) | |
Air date | May 12, 2000 (season finale) |
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 | Dean Gordon |
Episode guide | |
Previous Episode 29: Giants and Cubs |
Next Episode 31: The Sad Dad |
"Be Bop" is the 30th and final episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
Picture | Segment | Description |
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Celebrity | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: Rocket Doodle-Doo (EKA: Episode 02: The Lost Rock) | |
SCENE 1 | Unusual music surrounds the library and Busterfield doesn't know what language it is. | |
SCENE 1
(cont'd) |
The dancing shoes step back inside the book and the lion family reads "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop" by Chris Raschka. After reading the story, the overshoes come back out and they dance to the jazzy beat. | |
SCENE 1
(Cont'd) |
Busterfield is quite confused, and doesn't know who's playing the saxophone, so Theo gives a brief explanation on the life of Charlie Parker. He also explains that his Parker's was "Bird", which leads Walter and Clay to believe that a bird is playing the music. | |
Insert | The grey hand takes out the "op" from "bop". | |
Puppets | The Vowelles with the short "o" sound from their popping hit word "pop". | |
Puppets | Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Short O and the Letters O-W (EKA: The Lost Rock/Pandora's Box) | |
Insert | Color Patterns: pop, prop, drop | |
Celebrity | Fred Says: drop | |
Cartoon | The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Big Ape and the Banana Drop (EKA: The Chap with Caps) | |
Insert | Color Patterns: drop, prop, pop, pot, tot | |
Insert | "And now, a little poem in which letters change, and make something very interesting happen." (First: Episode 12: The Chap with Caps) | |
Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: A Mischievous Tot (EKA: Pandora's Box/The Popcorn Popper | |
SCENE 2 | Leona seems to be misspelling the words with "bop" and "pop" since she's only 4 years old. | |
SCENE 2
(cont'd) |
Buster wants to know what "be bop" is. This leads to Cleo explaining the definition for him, but he still doesn't understand. | |
SCENE 2
(cont'd) |
Leona seems to be misspelling the words with "lollibop" and "lollipop". | |
Celebrity | Fred Says: lollipop (EKA: The Popcorn Popper) | |
Insert | Footprints or Shoeprints: pop | |
Puppets | The Great Smartini: Popping Popcorn (EKA: The Lost Rock/The Popcorn Popper) | |
Insert | Footprints or Shoeprints: pop, top, stop | |
Celebrity/ Puppets | The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: stop, hop (EKA: The Lost Rock) | |
Insert | "Dr. Bertice Berry with the O in "bop". (EKA: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West) | |
Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry sing the sound of the letter O in "bop". | |
Song | What's Your Name?: Short O (with kids says louder) (EKA: The Lost Rock/The Fox and the Crow) | |
Film | Gawain's Word: hop (EKA: Pandora’s Box/The Popcorn Popper/The Fox and the Crow) | |
Puppets | The Vowelles with the short "o" sound from their hit word "hot". | |
Puppets | What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Hot Chop Cheese Drop Soup in a Pot with No Top (without music) (EKA: Pandora’s Box) | |
Puppets | Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Tomato [knuck at my door or knock at my door] (with girl watching on TV) (EKA: Hug, Hug, Hug!/The Fox and the Crow) | |
Insert | Girl: "Mom, there's that talking potato with no mouth again. This incessant word play's making me queasy." (EKA: The Lost Rock)
Kid's mother: "That's okay, dear. It's educational television. I'm sure it will help you in school, somehow." (EKA: The Chap with Caps) | |
Cartoon | The Un-People vs. The Re-People: locked (EKA: The Lost Rock/The Popcorn Popper) | |
Song | "Rocket-Doodle-Doo" (sung by Chris Cerf) (EKA: The Lost Rock/Touching the Moon) | |
Insert | Footprints or Shoeprints: rock, mock, mop, stop, bop | |
Insert | The grey hand puts "op" back in it's word place in "bop". | |
SCENE 3 | The Lion family and the pigeons do the funky beat. | |
SCENE 3 (Cont'd) | Busterfield tries to understand the funky beat, but he can only come up with sentences that make sense. Then the overshoes jump on his head and he finally gets the right idea. | |
SCENE 3
(Cont'd) |
The dancing shoes step back inside the book again. Theo closes the episode out by saying "Oh, yeah." And the 1st season of Between the Lions comes to an end. |
Featured Story[]
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka
Quotes[]
Gallery[]
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Notes and Trivia[]
- One of the clips of Walter and Clay dancing while Buster is confused can be seen in the intro.
- Also, clips of this episode including the Arty Smartypants skit can be seen in the PBS Kids Pinball bumper for the show. The clip of the intro seen in the bumper happens to be from this episode.
- This is Tyler Bunch's final episode portraying Walter. Jim Kroupa took over the role in Season 2 onward.
- This is Tyler Bunch's final appearance as Heath the Thesaurus. Peter Linz took over the role in Season 2.
- Janis Siegel, a member of the singing group, Manhattan Transfer, does the jazz vocals in this episode.
- This is the second episode where a preexisting children's book is read.
- The Footprint or Shoeprint word morph segment is later used in the Season 2 episode Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-Boom! (With it being a different Vowel Sound that time!).
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in January 2008.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3904 (With Elmo's World Episode: Drawing).
Cast[]
- Anthony Asbury - Lionel Lion, Dr. Ruth's patient
- Kathryn Mullen - Leona Lion
- Peter Linz - Theo Lion, Gawain, Announcer Bunny
- Jennifer Barnhart - Cleo Lion, Mother
- Tim Lagasse - Barnaby B. Busterfield III, Arty Smartypants, Watson
- Heather Asch - Click the Mouse, Marmy Smartypants, Clay Pigeon
- Tyler Bunch - Dr. Nitwhite, Heath the Thesaurus, Walter Pigeon, The Un-People announcer
- Michael K. Frith - Sam Spud, The Adventures of Cliff Hanger announcer
- Chris Phillips - Cliff Hanger, Big Ape
- Kate Berner - Monica Maxwell
- Fred Newman - himself
- Ruth Westheimer - Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
- Dr. Bertice Berry - herself
- Janis Siegel - jazz vocals
- Makeba Mooncycle - rapper (uncredited)
- Babi Floyd - Vowelles announcer, Replaced Letter Song singer
- Christopher Cerf - Rocket-Doodle-Doo singer
Goofs[]
- At the end of the Sam Spud segment, when the Tomato grabs Sam, he yells "Waaaaah!", but the text onscreen says "Yaaaaah!" (EKA: Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!/Episode 28: The Fox and the Crow)
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 21, 2003)
- The Hopping Hen and More! DVD Boxset (September 27, 2005)
- To the Ship! To the Ship! and Other Stories (September 27, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)