| Giants and Cubs | |
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| Season 1, Episode 29 | |
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| Air date | May 11, 2000 |
| Written by | Tom Whedon and Christopher Cerf Richard Chevat Diana DeCubellis Sarah Durkee Ellis Weiner Joe Fallon Michael K. Fifth Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Louise Gikow Peter Hirsch Sean Kelly Sharon Lerner Kathryn Mullen Fred Newman Norman Stiles Belinda Ward Kathy Waugh |
| Directed by | Lisa Simon |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 28: The Fox and the Crow |
Next Episode 30: Be Bop |
"Giants and Cubs" is the 29th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
Plot[]
Lionel angrily reads a newspaper sports article about baseball on how the San Francisco Giants clobbered the Chicago Cubs and asks Click to transport two San Francisco Giants baseball players out of the newspaper and change history to make the Chicago Cubs win baseball game once more! But Leona thought they were real giants (like in "Jack and the Beanstalk") clobbering real cubs (like her and Lionel).
Segments and Songs[]
- Announcer Bunny Program Preview: Silent E Blues (EKA: Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!)
- The Clobbered Song
- Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "u" sound from their bubbly hit word "tub".
- Rectangular Bugs: tub, rug, bug, buzz
- Fred Says: buzz
- Color Patterns: buzz, buck, puck
- Not as Smart as a Puck (the Announcer Bunny's outro cut) (EKA: Episode 26: The Roar That Makes Them Run)
- Grubby Pup (with words) (EKA: Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?/Episode 23: The Lucky Duck)
- Heath the Thesaurus sings Ten Small Words (EKA: Episode 15: There's a Fly in My Soup/Episode 28: The Fox and the Crow)
- Replaced Letter Songs: A Seafaring Bug (EKA: Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?/Episode 26: The Roar That Makes Them Run)
- Gawain's Word: hug (EKA: Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?/Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!)
- Silent E Word Maze: cub/cube
- B.B. the King of Beasts and the singers sings Silent E Blues (Version 2)
- Silent E: Cap/Cape (EKA: Episode 12: The Chap with Caps)
- Barnaby B. Busterfield III: because that little cub learned a good lesson
Quotes[]
Busterfield: I suppose you can say that all this silliness was worth it, because that little cub learned a good lesson. You can say it, but I won't.
Cleo: Leona, you really did think the Giants who clobbered the Cubs were the great, big, scary "fee-fi-fo-fum" giants, didn't you?
Leona: Well, maybe.
Cleo: Mmm. Well, if you ever have a worry like that again, tell us. We'll help. Your father and I would never bring anything into the library that might hurt you or your brother.
Leona: Well, how do I know that? I've only known you for, what, four years.
Cleo: Well, now you know.
Leona: Now I know.
Leona: The giants are coming. They clobber cubs. What am I going to do? What am I going to do?
Lionel: How can a cub stop a parent from making the biggest mistake of his life?
Notes and Trivia[]
- The footage that plays while Lionel reads the newspaper article appears to be from an actual game between the Giants and Cubs. The Major League Baseball (MLB) is given special thanks for use of the footage in the credits.
- Another headline on the newspaper reads "Subway Strike Averted".
- The color pattern words segment has the same font as in The Ram in the Pepper Patch, Sausage Nose and The Roar That Makes Them Run.
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in September 2008.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3914 (With Elmo's World Episode: Balls).
- Moral of Episode: Talk to someone if you're feeling scared about something, you misunderstood and they'll help.
Gallery[]
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Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- The Hopping Hen and More! DVD Boxset (September 27, 2005)
- Farmer Ken's Puzzle and Other Stories (September 27, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
