| Lionel's Great Escape Trick | |
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| Season 1, Episode 14 | |
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| Air date | April 20, 2000 |
| Written by | Kathy Waugh 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 Tom Whedon |
| Directed by | Jim Martin |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Episode 13: Pandora's Box |
Next Episode 15: There's a Fly in My Soup |
Lionel's Great Escape Trick is the 14th episode of Season 1 of Between the Lions.
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COLD OPEN | Announcer Bunny Program Preview: "Announcer Bunny here, check out what's coming up here on Between the Lions!"
A clip from What's Your Name?: Short I is shown. |
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SCENE 1 | It's just another day in the library, and Leona sees Lionel all tied up in ropes! Lionel says he's training to be an escape artist like Harry Houdini, and shows Leona his website. Lionel shows her "The Sunken Box Escape Trick" and how Houdini was wrapped in chains and dropped in the river in a box, which is the trick that he's going to do. When Leona questions that he doesn't have anything he needs for the trick, Lionel says that he's getting started and will work his way up to chains and boxes. He starts off with being tied in ropes and locked in a closet. Leona tells him that he needs magic words, but Lionel says that it takes skill to escape and not magic words. Leona closes the closet door... and runs off to find some magic words to free Lionel. |
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SCENE 1 (cont'd) | Theo and Cleo are bringing new books into the library, and hear Lionel thumping around in the closet. Both mistake the sound for their stomachs rumbling, and go get something to eat. |
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Insert | The Gray Hand removes the "ick" from "tricks". |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles sing the short "I" sound from their zippy big hit "kick". |
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Celebrity | Fred Says: trick |
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Insert | Stage: trick, tick, chick |
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Puppets | A caller asks the Information Hen what kind of bird hens are, and she responds in song. (Version 1) |
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Cartoon | Tiger Words: A Trick or A Truck [trick or truck] |
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Song | What's Your Name?: short I (With no snapping fingers and several scenes shot at Brooklyn Bridge are cut) |
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Celebrity | On Broadway with Faith Prince and Walter Bobbie: hit |
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SCENE 2 | Leona asks Click for some magic words and Click makes a random selection- "thick, brick, fiddlestick, tickle, pickle, limerick, magic words do the trick." Leona thinks that she won't remember that, and asks Click to print it out for her, even though she's only learning how to read. |
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SCENE 2 (cont'd) | A group of monkeys are goofing around Lionel's closet when Leona comes back with the magic words. She tries to read them, but instantly gives up and says "pickle, tickle, do the trick", and opens the closet door. Lionel yells at her to close it again, and she does. Then she runs off to learn how to read the magic words. Theo and Cleo then pass by and hear Lionel thumping around again, and go to get a snack. |
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Puppets | Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Terrible Pickle with a Zipper on It [pickle, not pockle] (Girl watching on TV removed; only appearance) (EKA: Episode 08: The Boy Who Cried Wolf) |
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Film | Gawain's Word: tickle (EKA: Episode 03: Little Big Mouse) |
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SCENE 3 | Leona asks Click for help on how to read the magic words, so Click teaches her. Leona manages to read the first word, "thick", and then "brick". |
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Insert | Seesaw: trick, tick, ick, wick, wish, dish, ish, fish |
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Puppets | Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the short "I" sound from their zippy big hit "fish". |
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Insert | "And now, a little poem in which letters change, and make something very interesting happen." (EKA; Episode 12: The Chap with Caps) |
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Cartoon | Replaced Letter Songs: Young Tish Had a Big Empty Dish (With no sound effects remove) |
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Insert | Stage: dish, dig, jig, wig, wick, ick |
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Celebrity | Dr. Bertice Berry shouts the sound of the letter I from "ick". |
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Puppets | The Great Smartini: Chicken in a Wig Doing a Jig |
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Insert | The Gray Hand puts the "ick" back in the word "tricks". |
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SCENE 4 | Leona is finally able to read the magic words on her own, but when she opens the closet door, Lionel isn't there, leading her to believe that the magic words made him disappear! She tells Theo and Cleo about the disaster, but then Click tells them that she has transported Lionel into the Houdini website. The lions then race over to the computer! |
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SCENE 4 (cont'd) | In the website, Lionel is inside the box talking to Houdini himself. Houdini has just taught Lionel how to escape the ropes, and that he must escape before the box is dropped in the river. Lionel then realizes what is about to happen and the lions tell Click to get him out of there! So Click takes him out of the website and back in the closet where she found him. They then run back to the closet, and Leona shows her parents that she can read the magic words. Right after that, Lionel pops out of the closet! Lionel says that Houdini has taught him to untie the ropes, but Leona thinks it was her magic words. So Lionel decides to learn a new trick to prove his point, Leona goes to get some new magic words, and Theo and Cleo go to get another snack. |
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Insert | Barnaby B. Busterfield III is tied in ropes as Walter and Clay think that he can escape using his "famous escape trick", but Busterfield says that he does not have one, so the pigeons leave. Busterfield recites the magic words from earlier, and the ropes magically disappear! Surprised, he dubs himself "The Great Bustini", and for his next trick, he makes all this disappear- the screen cuts to black and the episode ends! |
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Designated Reader | Theo and Leona read "The Popcorn Popper". (Version 3) (EKA: Episode 06: The Hopping Hen) |
Notes and Trivia[]
- This is the fourth episode that doesn't deal with any particular book.
- This is the first episode to feature the song, "What's Your Name?" with the short I.
- The Information Hen's Song about birds is featured 8 episodes later in Red Hat, Green Hat,
- This is the only episode in Season 1 where a girl watching TV has been removed after a Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective segment. (Gawain's Word: Blending Fields segment "Tickle" follows instead).
- This episode was last broadcasted on PBS in February 2007.
- This episode aired the same Day as Sesame Street Episode 3899 (With Elmo's World Episode: Telephones).
- Moral of the Episode: NEVER attempt anything that Lionel did in this Episode, Or there it could have some SERIOUS consequences!
Gallery[]
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Releases[]
- VHS (Singular episode; October 21, 2003)
- The Chap with Caps and More! DVD Boxset (June 7, 2005)
- Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West and Other Stories (June 7, 2005)
- Complete First Season 5-Disc DVD Boxset (January 8, 2008)
