01x17 - Something Fishy

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♪ It's time to look between the lions ♪

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In our reference section.

Uh... Book delivery.

Yes! Thank you!

Whoa...

You're welcome.

Uh... Sign here, please.

Surely.

( Growling playfully )

Line five...

Thank you.

Whoa...

Uh... Th-thank you.

Oh, no, no, no, thank you.

Okay, thank me-- whatever you say.

( Roaring excitedly )

( Squealing )

Is it here? Is it here, dad?

I don't know, lionel.

Let's take a look.

Whoa.

Whoa.

The selfish giant by trish tishman.

( Laughs )

Silly daddy, that's not it.

All righty, well, let's see...

Whoo.

Whoa!

A very squishy fish by kishma fishburn.

Oh, no.

No?

All righty, then, let's see...

( Gasps )

Oh, lionel.

Miss gish's wishes by misha fisher.

( Sighs )

Oh, that's not it either.

Oh, it should have come today.

Oh, mom.

Oh, patience, lionel.

( Gasps )... Aha!

Aha!

Aha!

Could this be the book

You've been waiting for, lionel?

As if I didn't know.

That's it.

Ah... Ooh... Ah...

Yes, that's it!

That is the book I was waiting for.

Yeah, here you go, son.

Oh, you rule, dad!

Hey, lionel.

Oh, hi, leona.

What's the book? What's the book?

Nothing, nothing, uh...

You wouldn't be interested in it.

Yes, I would.

I'd be very interested.

( Both chuckle )

Lionel: leona, this book...

Oh, hiya, tyler.

This book is

The brand-new cliff hanger adventure.

See?

Cliff hanger and the fish and the eagle

By livingston dangerously.

Oh, read it to me, please.

But you don't even like cliff hanger books.

Yeah, I know, they're so silly.

They begin and end the same way every time.

Cliff hanger is hanging from the cliff at the beginning

And he's hanging from the cliff at the end.

So why do you want to read this one?

Because I love eagles!

Oh, they fly way up high in the sky.

Oh, I just want to fly like an eagle...

I just want to read this book.

Oh, uh... Sorry.

I'll fly later.

Read.

Thank you.

Okay.

( Sighs )

Lionel: "cliff hanger and the fish and the eagle

By livingston dangerously."

Chorus ( singing ):

Lionel: "we find cliff hanger where we left him last

Hanging from a cliff."

( Branch breaking )

Lionel: "suddenly, cliff sees an eagle flying high above the cliff."

I'm an eagle! I'm an eagle!

( Clears throat )

Sorry.

Thank you.

Lionel: "eagerly, cliff reaches into his backpack

"And extracts his trusty survival manual.

Using his expert decoding skills, cliff begins to read."

"If you wish to get off the cliff

Dress yourself as a big fish."

Disguise himself as a fish?

That's crazy-- why a fish?

Because.

Because why?

Because then the eagle will fly down

And pick him off the cliff.

Yeah?

Because eagles eat fish.

Yeah, that's it.

Oh, eagles don't eat fish.

They wouldn't put it in a cliff hanger book

If it wasn't true.

No, no, no, that doesn't make any sense in my brain.

Okay, okay, okay.

You want proof that eagles eat fish?

I'll show you proof.

Come on.

Okay, but I don't believe it.

And now...

That is incorrect.

Everybody's, uh...

Yeah, ticklish!

I am absolutely, positively not...

Let's...

Tickle him!

Yeah.

Tickle, tickle.

Tickle, tickle, tickle.

You're wasting your time with that foolish gibberish.

Tickle, tickle.

Tickle, tickle.

Oh, I guess he isn't, uh...

Ticklish.

Let's go.

Ah... Accuracy in the media.

You saw it here first.

Announcer: and now, lovers of the vowels "a," "e," "i," "o," "u"

And sometimes "y"

Martha reader and the vowelles are in the house

Singing the short "i" sound in their zippy big hit, "dish."

( Background vocals sing repeated short "i" sound )

( Martha singing short "i" sound in sync to soul b*at )

( Song ends; cheering and applause )

And now 30 names

With the short "i" ( makes short "i" sound ) in them.

( Rapping ): ♪ meet ginny, gilda, vin and sig ♪

♪ Brunhilda, vin and ginny's pig ♪

♪ Timmy, twister, pecos bill ♪

♪ And kim and her twin sister, jill ♪

♪ Billie on her filly, misty ♪

♪ Lily, millie, will and christie ♪

♪ Trish, matilda, trip and d*ck ♪

♪ And kishma, hilda, chip and click. ♪

Chorus: ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, what's your name? ♪

♪ What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? ♪

♪ Enjoy your little moment of fame. ♪

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ Here's whitney, britney, chris and biff ♪

♪ And cliff! ♪

♪ In all these names you'll find short "i" ♪

♪ It sounds like ( makes short "i" sound ) ♪

♪ That's it, good-bye. ♪

( Makes short "i" sound )

( Makes gurgling sound )

F... F... F...

Ish... Ish.

F... Ish.

Fish.

( Makes gurgling sound )

Chorus: ♪ what's cooking with theo and cleo ♪

♪ Check out what's cooking! ♪

Hello, mr. Fish.

( Changes voice ): hello, mr. Theo.

( Both giggle )

Ahh.

Ahh.

Ah! Theo...

Whoa!

Howdy.

Ah, what's cooking today

Theo, my big water buffalo chop...

Oh... Oh, boy, yeah.

Is...

( Cracks pointer )

"Squished fish on a dish."

De-lish!

One-- ( cracks pointer )

"Squish the fish."

Squish the fish.

♪ Squish, squish, squish the fish ♪

♪ Squish the fish, squish the fish ♪

♪ Squish the fish, squish the fish... ♪

Theo, theo...

I think that's enough.

We don't want it oversquished, do we?

Whoa! No, we don't.

Hate oversquished fish.

Blech!

Two-- ( cracks pointer )

"Put the squished fish on the dish."

Mmm... Squished fish on the dish.

( Blows kiss )

Three-- ( cracks pointer )

"Cook the squished fish on a dish

For one hour, until it is brownish."

One hour?

Nah.

Nah.

( Grunting, chomping, roaring )

Real eagles.

Okay, now you'll see that eagles eat fish.

Or you'll see that they don't.

Hmm.

"There are many different types of eagles.

"The largest eagle in the world

Is the south american harpy eagle."

Ha! What do they eat?

"It eats monkeys."

( Squeals )

Monkeys are not fish.

Well, the harpy isn't the eagle

That we saw in the cliff hanger book either.

Oh.

( Clears throat )

"Golden eagles soar over mountain peaks

And hunt"-- oh-- "rabbits."

Ha! Not fish, not fish.

Eagles do not eat fish.

Okay, okay.

"Bald eagles have white feathers on their heads.

"They are sometimes called sea eagles

Because they eat... Fish."

They eat fish.

You're making that up.

No, no, I'm not.

Come here, see for yourself.

See? See, fish?

F-i-s-h.

And... And...

That is the same kind of eagle

That was in the cliff hanger book.

What do you see there near its feet?

Leona: a fish.

Lionel: mm-hmm.

Oh, eagles do eat fish.

Cliff hanger disguising himself

As a fish wasn't so crazy after all.

Told you so.

Lionel!

( Kissing )

Lionel, you may have just helped make

Your little sister's greatest wish come true.

Well, i... I...

Hmm?

( Punk rock music playing )

♪ Five little vowels ♪

♪ "A," "e," "i," "o," "u" ♪

♪ When you got a couple consonants ♪

♪ Nothing else will do ♪

♪ H-a-t, "hat" ♪

♪ H-o-t, "hot" ♪

♪ L-e-t, "let," l-i-t, "lit" ♪

♪ I love them all a real lot ♪

♪ L-o-t, "lot" ♪

♪ Oh, and sometimes "y" ♪

♪ "Y," don't you cry ♪

♪ You're not a full-time vowel ♪

♪ But don't throw in the towel ♪

♪ My little sometimes "y." ♪

♪ Five little vowels ♪

♪ "A," "e," "i," "o," "u" ♪

♪ When you want to spell "pit" or "pot" or "pet" ♪

♪ They're a dream come true. ♪

♪ Yeah, whether you spell "champ" ♪

♪ Or whether you spell "chump" ♪

♪ The vowels are so much fun ♪

♪ F-u-n, "fun" ♪

♪ They make me want to jump ♪

♪ J-u-m-p, "jump" ♪

♪ Oh, and sometimes "y" ♪

♪ "Y," though you try ♪

♪ You're not the same as the rest ♪

♪ But don't get depressed ♪

♪ My little sometimes "y" ♪

♪ "A," "e," "i," "o," "u" ♪

♪ My sometimes "y" ♪

♪ "A," "e," "i," "o," "u" ♪

♪ And sometimes "y" ♪

♪ "A," "e," "i," "o," "u" ♪

♪ My sometimes "y." ♪

( Song ends )

And now a word from new jersey nets superstar

Stephon marbury.

Spin.

( Sounding out words in computer-generated voices )

It's magic time with the great smartini.

Hey, thank you, little announcer bunny.

Hello, it is i, the great smartini!

( Applause )

And I'm his marmy--

Remarkable smarmy marmy smartini.

( Applause )

And now i, the great smartini

Will do his amazing trouser- defying short "i" trick.

Marmy, may I have three words

That contain the short "i" sound in them please?

Yes, you can.

"Wig."

"Jig."

"Chicken."

Ah...

I will now put these words into my smartypants.

I will say a magic word and do a magic dance.

"Ibricadibra"!

♪ Ooh, ah, dancing smartypants, ooh-ah! ♪

Let's see what we got.

Oh, look!

It's a chicken in a wig doing a jig.

( Applause )

Oh, let's hear it for my sonny boy, arty.

Hey, everyone do a jig.

Come on.

Commentator: we're here at the national word club masters

Where the word-writing phenom tiger words

Is approaching the "t."

He's got to make the word "truck."

It's a difficult word

With the ( makes "t" and "r" sounds ) at the beginning

The ( makes short "u" sound ) in the middle

And the ( sounds out "ck" ) sound at the end.

Tr... U... Ck.

If he makes it, he will win a truck.

He's selecting his writing implement from his pencil case

It's a pen!

( Applause )

Tiger steps up to the "t" and he makes the letter "r."

With the letter "t," that makes the sound "t"-"r"-- "tr."

So far, so good.

Tiger now raises his pen

And writes the letters "c" and "k."

He's got the beginning of the word "truck"

( Makes "tr" sound )

And the last sound in the word truck, ( makes "ck" sound ).

He's got to add a vowel to make the ( makes short "u" sound )

In the middle.

And he writes the letter "i" for ( makes short "i" sound ).

Ooh, that's the word "trick," not "truck."

This kid never lets a mistake get him down

But he wrote that word in ink.

It can't be erased.

What will he do?

( Crowd gasping )

He's reaching into his pencil case

And he's pulling out a magic wand!

( Crowd gasping )

He waves it, and the letter "i" changes into the letter "u"

And that changes the word "trick" into "truck."

Unbelievable! Another incredible example of penmanship magic

Displayed by the fearless tiger words!

( Crowd cheering )

And now, direct from the plush hushaby club

The lush song stylings of ms. Cleo lion.

( Jazz band begins playing )

♪ S-h ♪

♪ Man, I love those two letters ♪

♪ S-h ♪

♪ When you shove 'em together, I found ♪

♪ It's a whole new sound ♪

♪ That goes shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shhhhh... ♪

♪ Now, you should kindly just shush ♪

♪ Shh... Shh... ♪

Hey, waiter!

♪ I'll start the show if you'll shush... ♪

Yes, I will be your waiter.

♪ I'm kind of shy, but I'll show ♪

♪ Two letters that go ♪

♪ Shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shush! ♪

Oh, sorry.

Like I said, I'm a little deaf.

♪ S-h ♪

♪ Shame on you if you shun 'em ♪

♪ S-h ♪

♪ Shucks, we've only begun 'em ♪

♪ "Shelf," "shoe," "shiver," "shimmy," "shake," too ♪

♪ All start with shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shh, I'm getting crabby now ♪

♪ Shush... ♪

( Patrons talking loudly )

♪ Don't treat me shabby, now shush... ♪

Gazpacho!

♪ This is my moment to shine... ♪

Anybody order gazpacho?

♪ If you would just shush! ♪

( Waiter trips, shouts, glass smashes )

♪ S-h is such a pair ♪

♪ Sure ain't shoddy ♪

♪ You'll love "ship," "shore," "shingle" and "shell" ♪

♪ Please shush and I'll show... ♪

( Vacuum humming loudly )

♪ If I have to shout it, I'll shout it ♪

♪ Though I sure hate to yell! ♪

( Crash )

♪ S-h ♪

♪ Yes, it's shockingly quiet ♪

♪ S-h ♪

♪ Don't knock it till you try it ♪

♪ You should... ♪

( Noisemakers tooting, motorcycle revving )

♪ It would sure do you good ♪

♪ To please shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shh-shh-shh-shh ♪

♪ Shush! ♪

( Crash )

( Cheering and applause )

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Okay, time to check out cliff hanger.

Hi, leona.

Look, eagle, I'm a fish, see?

( Giggles )

Come on out of that book and pick me up.

I want to fly!

Oh, leona, an eagle's not going to pick you up.

Well, why not?

You said that eagles eat fish

And cliff hanger dressed like a fish.

Cliff hanger's just a made-up story.

A real eagle's not going to think you're a real fish.

Yes, he is, yes, he is

And he's going to come out of this book

And pick me up, and I'm going to fly.

You'll see.

( Laughs )

Oh, no, I won't see.

I'm going to go back and finish that cliff hanger book.

( Laughs again )

A real fish.

Come on, eagle.

Come and get your fishy.

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.

Come on.

( Gasps )

Down here! Down here!

( Wings flapping )

Back to the daring and dangling adventures of...

♪ Cliff hanger ♪

♪ Hanging from a cliff ♪

♪ And that's why he's called cliff hanger. ♪

"When last we left cliff hanger, he was hanging from a cliff

Disguised as a fish."

( Eagle calls )

Lionel: "is this it?

Is cliff hanger finally going to get off that cliff?"

Uh-oh!

Whoa!

Chorus: ♪ and that's why he's called cliff hanger! ♪

( Branch breaking )

Wow! That was cool!

Leona: lionel!

Leona?

Where are you?

Here, lionel!

In the book!

( Lionel gasps )

The eagle did pick me up.

I'm flying!

Leona!

Wow! I'm flying!

♪ I am eagle, see me fly ♪

♪ See the clouds I'm passing by ♪

♪ See the sun that's shining golden ♪

♪ On my wings ♪

♪ Wind is whistling in my ears ♪

♪ Me, leona, way up here ♪

♪ I am eagle, I am flying ♪

♪ Look at me... ♪

Hey, look at me!

♪ Yes, I am flying! ♪

You're not an eagle; you're a fish.

No, I'm not a fish.

I'm a lion cub in a fish suit.

Not a fish?

Whoa!

Lionel! Leona!

Time for din...

Oh, time for dinner, son.

No, no, no.

No time for dinner.

Oh, it's always time for dinner.

Where's your sister?

Hmm.

In there!

Leona's in there.

( All gasp )

( Squealing )

Oh, no.

Click, we need click.

Mouse entering.

Oh, click, drag and drop leona out of this book.

Is this task a priority?

I have lots of...

Immediately!

Executing command.

( Beeping, clicking )

Leona: whee!

( Giggling )

Whoa... Whoa...

( Thud )

There she is.

Leona!

Oh, my little cub.

We were so worried about you.

Thank goodness you're safe.

Dad, dad, dad, listen, listen.

Know what I learned?

Eagles eat fish

But they don't like it if you dress up like one.

I told you that fish suit was a bad idea.

Was not a bad idea.

I was flying!

You were falling!

You weren't flying;

You were falling.

I was not falling.

( Both chuckle, then sigh )

Why was she dressed up like a fish?

Buster...

I want you to know

That we were wrong about, uh...

Tickling you?

Yeah, tickling you.

Well, I hope you also realize that respectable statues

Always triumph over tiny-brained pigeons.

No.

We just realized that we were doing it, uh...

Wrong?

Yeah, wrong.

This is the way you tickle a stone statue.

( Jackhammer rumbling )

( Laughing )

Cut it out.

( All laughing )

Woman: ♪ be here between the lions. ♪

There are games and stories at the between the lions web site:



Cleo: reading to children every day helps create a love of reading.

Read anytime, anywhere.

Help a child get wild about reading.

Be a designated reader.

Okay, mom!

( Both laughing )

Do your "designated reader" thing!

♪ ♪ ♪



Chorus: ♪ between the lions... ♪

♪ Between the lions... ♪

Woman: ♪ come in between the lions ♪

♪ Begin between the lions ♪

♪ Be here between the lions! ♪