Good Night, Knight | |
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Season 2, Episode 23 | |
Air date | May 2, 2001 |
Written by | Joe Fallon |
Directed by | Lisa Simon |
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Good Night, Knight is the twenty-third episode of Season 2 of Between the Lions, and episode 53 in total.
Plot[]
Tim Lagasse, Jim Napolitano, and guest puppeteer Sal Macri, put on a puppet show with tin knights. Before the show starts, the lion family looks at models of the puppets and watch the rehearsal. However, the puppet of Orlando breaks down during the rehearsal, though Sal claims that he can fix it before the show starts. Once it is fixed, Leona accidentally knocks over the puppet of Angelica, and Sal shakes his head, implying that he can't fix it before the show starts; Leona feels bad about it.
When Lionel says he can't believe Leona won't get to see the play because she knows it all by heart, Sal gets an idea and asks Lionel if that's true, and Lionel says yes. With that, Sal, as Orlando Furioso, asks Leona for her help; when Leona wonders if he wants someone else's head torn off, Sal corrects her, asking if she will take the part of Angelica, and be Orlando's "fair maiden."
With the encouragement from her family, Leona accepts, and the play is a success. Sal, as Orlando, thanks Leona, saying that she saved the show, and Leona thanks him in return, though she claims that she can't marry him due to being too sharp and pointy.
Segments and Songs[]
- Announcer Bunny Program Preview: 14 Karat Soul: Long I (EKA: The Spider and the Lie)
- Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the long "i"-- "i"-- sound in the word "light".
- Fred Says: light, lighthouse
- The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: delightful
- Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: Nightingale
- Gawain's Word: night
- 14 Karat Soul: Long I (I, I) (EKA: The Spider and the Lie)
- Word Machine: knight, right, ride
- The Lone Rearranger Rewrites Again: Cowboys Must Ride Horses Into The Corral (EKA: The Spider and the Lie) (whipcrack sound added at the end)
- Construction: ride, tide, time
- Information Hen tells time (EKA: The Spider and the Lie)
- Heath the Thesaurus and the monkeys sings Ten Little Words (with Announcer Bunny)
- Fred Says: smile (full) (EKA: The Spider and the Lie)
- Barnaby Busterfield and the Pigeons: No joke today
Notes and Trivia[]
- Tim Lagasse and Jim Napolitiano make cameo appearances as two of the puppeteers.
- Leona liking the Sicilian Marionettes and performing as Angelica in the show is an unintentional reference to the fact that she's a puppet.
- Orlando was previously seen in the What's Your Name? segment for the short "a" sound in Season 1.
- The Song Ten Little Words also appears in the Season 2 finale Stop That Chicken! (Only 2 episodes after this one)
- The construction words segment has the the same background as in But, Mama, But....
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in April 2009.
Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 30, 2001, later reprinted on October 1, 2002)
- Complete Second Season 4-Disc DVD Boxset (September 2, 2008)
Gallery[]
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