Tweet! Tweet! is the twenty-second episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 52 in total.
Tweet! Tweet! | |
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Season 2, Episode 22 | |
Air date | May 1, 2001 |
Written by | Louise Gikow |
Directed by | Gregory Lehane |
Episode guide | |
Previous Episode 51: Rats |
Next Episode 53: Good Night, Knight |
Plot[]
Theo is laughing uproariously while reading the book Bone Poems. Cleo reads the poem that's the source of Theo's merriment: It's about a tyrannosaurus going "Tweet! Tweet!" Cleo explains to Leona and Lionel that today's birds may descended from dinosaurs. Upon overhearing this, Walter and Clay decide to start acting like dinosaurs around the library.
Segments and Songs[]
- Announcer Bunny Program Preview: The Double E Song (EKA: The Good Seed)
- Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!
- Information Hen sings about the color dinosaurs
- Martha Reader and The Vowelles sweep away with the sweet double e, "e" sound in the word "feet". (with crowd cheering and applause) (EKA: The Good Seed)
- Footprints or Shoeprints: feet, fee, free, freeze
- Fred Says: squeeze
- Fonix sings "The Double E Song" (EKA: The Good Seed)
- Gawain's Word: sweep
- Microbes: sweep, weep, beep, bee, beet, bee
- Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Bees
- Barnaby B. Busterfield III: Tweet! Tweet!
- The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: No Sleep for Bo-Peep (outro cut)
- What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Beef in a Sheet with No Beets or Greens
- Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: Slippery as an Eel [not slippery as an owl]
- The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: parakeet (EKA: The Good Seed)
- Go to Sleep, Little Mousie
- Barnaby B. Busterfield III (again): Tweet! Tweet!
Names in Other Languages[]
Language | Title | Meaning |
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French | Tweetez! Tweetez! | Literal translation |
German | Tweeten! Tweeten! | Literal translation |
Russian | Твитнуть! Твитнуть! | Literal translation |
Japanese | チュンチュン! | Chun Chun! |
Brazilian Portuguese | Same as English version | Same as English version |
Featured Stories[]
- A poem from Bone Poems by Jeff Moss; illustrated by Tom Leigh
- Meet the Dinosaurs by Doreen van Beetsleet
Notes and Trivia[]
- Big Bird, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street make a cameo in this episode.
- Caroll Spinney passed away had dystonia was the age of 85.
- December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019
- John Tartaglia was among the Sesame Street Muppet performers who worked on this episode. He served as a "right-hander," but it's unknown whether he was performing Bert or Ernie's right hand.
- "Bone Poems" was written by former Sesame Street writer Jeff Moss, who passed away in 1998.
- This is the first and only time ever where Walter and Clay get dragged and dropped into a book by Click.
- This is the second time where the poem is written by Jeff Moss, the first is The Sad Dad.
- This is the third time Click goes into sleep mode, the first is Touching the Moon and the second is The Sad Dad.
- This is the second time where the word "humongous" is used, the first was The Fox and the Crow.
- This is the last time when the What's Cooking? and Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segments go together.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS either in June or July 2007.
- The music that plays during the Footprint or Shoeprint Words segment in this episode is the same from Be Bop and Why the Baboon’s Balloon Went Ka-boom!.
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete Second Season 4-Disc DVD Boxset (September 2, 2008)
Goofs[]
- During the credits, Sesame Street is misspelled as Sesmame Street. (EKA: Episode 51: Rats)
Gallery[]
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