DefunctTV: The History of Between the Lions
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Aw. That "funded by viewers like you" hit me right in the childhood.
This show reminds me of another show from my childhood that both started and ended in 2008
@@sameboi944 Woud you happen to remember its name?
This show was also one my childhood favorites
joe 6969 It hit me right in the head and the chest at the same time!
Took me back to the late 80's for sure.
*i feel like cliff hanger has some meme worthy material untapped into*
You know now you say that, you might be on to something
You'd be surprised how much meme material is in things that aren't popularized by memes. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton one) is an absolute goldmine.
Can't...
Hold...
On...
Much...
LONGER!
Looking back, the Cliff Hanger segments were pretty dark. I mean this dude is seconds away from plummeting to his doom.
Oh absolutely
This show deserved to live on forever like Sesame Street imo. It was proven to be effective, so the fact that they stopped rerunning episodes by 2011 and haven't done anything new since is baffling to me.
Early 2000s pbs was on a different level now whenever my daughter watches it I shake my head cause the shows on there now are just terrible
Probably 2 problems. PBS kids was made cheaper around that time for worse, and it's a little expensive to make such an engaging show. It deserves to come back, but theres a war on animation right now
@ralphwiggum1982 unfortunately this has more to do with funding than anything else, we were much more willing to spend tax money on education even just a few decades ago, now all that goes straight to faux wars and oil companies. It's a depressing sight
It was too effective
Same
The segment that always stuck with me was the scientist. He'd announce some new universal rule of English spelling. His assistant would then innocently praise him, using words that violated this rule.
Got me to understand the futility of "correct" spelling from an early age.
Yes Dr. Nitwit
@@g-saviour6581 "NitWHITE, that's Dr. Nit-WHITE!"
OOH AHH DO THE SMARTY PANTS
Funding for pbs kids is provided by: Chuck E Cheese, where a kid can be a kid. And viewers like you, thank you.
And the corporation for public broadcasting
Yasss!
A powerful rat.
I would've never thought that I still remember what the voice sounded like, until I started reading it in my head.
That hits hard
I watched this growing up in Japan, and taught me English. Without it, I couldn’t write this comment.
thats so cool that it could do that for you. they have these shows in japan?
I can’t recall how I was able to watch it. I think a friend from America sent VHS tapes of it to us.
How did you have a friend in the us if you didn’t know how to speck English?
あ、すごい！ この番組はすばらしいですね。
@@puttputtbj3260 There are people in the US that speak Japanese...
As a first generation eldest daughter of immigrants, pbs and shows like this one were the backbone of my household. I didn’t have the experience of having a parent read a book to me so between the lions filled that gap for me
anyone first gen would love pbs kids - a first gen child from lao
This was also my experience Lilly! PBS made me learn so much about American history, English, books, it helped me feel less alone.
That was my experience too! Teachers would send home books for my parents and me to read together but that was not possible because they didn't speak English. My parents left me to my own devices and this show definitely helped me correct my phonetics. At first i struggled thinking i hated reading but it was that missing experience of someone being encouraging and showing me how a pair of words is supposed to sound
Me 2😅😊
same :D
When I was in 1st grade, our teacher, Ms. Roland would take us into the library every Friday to watch this show. Thanks for reuniting me with six-year-old me; it's been a while since we talked.
Yes! same with my first grade teacher, Miss. Art, this show brings back so many good memories
yes. our teachers would always put this show on for us. we all loved it sm.
That last line hit me hard man
It took me 18 years, but i just noticed that "Between the Lions" was a pun on "between the lines"!
I always say "lions" instead of "lines" ...a few people catch me when I do. XD
Holy shit you’re right...
I completely missed that as I am old enough to remember the image of a library entrance flanked by two lions statues, which the theme song references. But considering the idea behind the show, it makes total sense.
Damn, this show was good.
The show failed you
And the door to the library was between Cleo and the daughter in the opening theme song
Oh my gosh, you're right! I annoy the crap out my family with puns; how did I not realise that?
it's been so long that I just realized why the show is called Between the Lions
Didn't know you would be here.
@happyningaturtle CAN'T... HOLD... ON... MUCH... LONGER!!
@@anna.1910 I'm sad that phase hasn't become an internet meme yet?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Really now? Even I knew what that meant and I wasn't a reader back then. lol
Lol, same here! XD
The show's creator was the husband of a teacher in my school in New York. I wrote a letter to the show's production team and got a reply.
I was asked to write a few sentences for homework. What was turned in was a sarcastic story about Cliff Hanger as a child. He recklessly hung on lightbulb switches, much to his mother's dismay. She questioned how helpful his survival manual was when it only gave advice over problems that could never happen. After yelling at him, Cliff's solution was to hang on a bookshelf and knock it over. The manual did not explain how to avoid his mother.
Apparently, the crew members could not stop laughing. The humor of children is comedy gold.
This just made me so so SO happy. I have a core memory of my mom noticing that I knew all the words to the Between the Lions theme song, writing down the words, and practicing the sight words with me even when I wasn't watching the show. I learned how to read super early (~2/3) and based on this video, it seems like I got hooked right around season two. PBS absolutely raised me, and I will FOREVER have the fondest memories of watching these shows every morning at my Grandma's house.
I used to sing that song all the time. I can still sing through most of the song to this day and it's actually quite catchy. Hasn't soured one bit.
This video was like an unfiltered shot of pure nostalgia.
You're not kidding. I've had the Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers episode of this show stuck in my head for twenty years.
As soon as I saw the Cliffhanger scene a bunch of memories came flooding back, not gonna lie.
Kid With A Computer same here! Along with the cooking skit. That always cracked me up
I know. Nastalgia's hitting me hard right now.
God right! its like that scene had been floating around in my brain somewhere and was finally called back
Me too bro i got the same feeling
Same but with the entire video XD
Nobody in my family knows how I learned to read. When I started 1st grade I was already ahead of everyone. I can't prove it but I think it was Between the Lions.
I had a lot of trouble really reading in 3rd grade. My teacher had me watch an episode a day after school along with zoboomafoo. It literally helped me be more confident in reading. By the time I hit middle school I was reading at a 12th grade reading level and not high school either. College. I could read some pretty advanced books and words at a young age. It actually led me to reading the entire cirque de freak series in middle school. So this show DEFINITELY helped me.
The nostalgia :') I'll never forget a meteor shower episode where the kid lions kept singing about how excited they were about a "meat shower" thinking drumsticks would rain down
"Meateor shower"😂
My dumb ass just realized this show was teaching me to read as a kid. Just goes to show how good the content was in getting kids excited about learning. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
right? I had no idea
Dude I was just simply vibing watching cable I had no idea I was being learnted
@@manuelcardenas6837 ttgggffy to go 7ttytttt
Thank the love 😘😘 t
@@manuelcardenas6837 to do that to you for
Arthur, Liberty's Kids, Between the Lions, and Cyberchase were my SHIT growing up.
Felix Thomas I now know that I'm part of a generation- you add Fetch! to that lineup & that's me.
Liberty's kids is all on CZcams now!
and ELECTRIC COMPANY!!
Liberty's Kids is AWESOME. I love that it's both educational and entertaining.
Me too, and Ruff Ruffman!
My reading levels were advanced for my age back in elementary school. I 100% attribute that to watching these old educational PBS shows. They made such a difference in my education.
I feel like I underestimate just how influential children's shows were on my education as a kid. I can't quite remember what I watched when I was really little, but I know when I got into Kindergarten, I was ready Day 1 to point out things like shapes when asked. First question we were ever asked in class, which I was intimidated about until I heard the question, was "what is this shape" and I remember raising my hand and answering confidently "triangle".
Never quite nailed down the social anxiety pressure until I got into college, though, and past early childhood school got harder and my focus became more erratic (I am now quite certain that was undiagnosed ADHD), but the point is that there's inherent value in entertainment education. TV especially. I will always remember this show fondly.
My reading level was so bad when I was in 5th grade I could only read at a 2nd grade level and could barely spell I figured out I was dyslexic when my brother told me about it
This show was high quality art. The production value is stupendous! No wonder why I loved watching this show as a kid.
I loved this show as a Kid
Bryce McKenzie Me too!
I have so many memories of watching it with my mom when I was a toddler. It was so good
I wasn't born yet when it first aired, but I loved the reruns and later seasons
Yeah Defunctland was my shit.
Same!
My guy you gotta warn me before you hit me with that between the lions intro
IKR I start dancing out of nowhere.
@@eppoif1 I was boppin, too. It was so unexpected.
I haven't seen or heard it since I was four. I feel like my subconcious was violated
Shit touched my nostalgia in ALL sorts of ways
My guy I was fighting back tears
As a teenager, I watched this program on PBS, even though my reading level was MUCH higher than the curriculum of the show. Despite my advanced intelligence for the show, I still enjoyed it for what it was, something teaching younger children to not only read, but enjoy reading, because I'm a bookworm myself. Also, other than the teaching aspect of the show, it was also entertaining for me, even as a teenager. Because of my lower income household, PBS was my main option/source of entertainment growing up, and although the main target audience for the shows on PBS were for children under my age group, I still watched it, and still enjoyed the station growing up for the entertainment value predominantly, rather than the educational aspect of the programming.
I remember this show from my preteen years when it first came on air and even though I was an advanced reader, I remember still liking it, the family got along, it was in a pretty library, and no one was made fun of for reading, it was a little comfort show. If we’d kept our tv channels past 2001, I probably would’ve watched well into highschool. There just weren’t shows that encouraged reading and comprehension like that.
Same man. I have two younger brothers one of which is 8yrs so and I would watch it with them along with some other PBS gems. We really grew up during the greatest time for public broadcasting imo.
I had the same experience. I don't remember quite how old I was, but I know I was past the point of needing to be instructed on how to read "book" or "look".
Regardless, it was a fun show to watch and was easily one of my favorites to come on. Sadly, it was on at a time when I had to get ready for school and was essentially not something I could watch often. I never understood the times for shows or what days they aired, so I would often turn on the TV and wait for a show and it would never come on, while some obnoxious tripe would be on TV that even adults would fall asleep if they tried to watch, so I just didn't get to see it that much.
Despite that, whenever I did see it, repeat or not, I loved it.
I watched it as a kid
Same man. We couldnt afford a flatscreen TV, let alone cable. BTL was one of my favorites, the puppetry was great fun to watch, the gags still elicit a chuckle, and you can tell the creators REALLY liked making it.
Shows like this need to make a comeback, instead of the noise filled animations of today. Puppetry just looks so much more genuine.
Between the Lions makes my eyes water every time. On days that I feel overwhelmed with bad emotions, I sometimes watch episodes on CZcams. I don’t know what it is about the show, it was always so soothing for me.
no cartoon character has suffered more than Cliffhanger and i will support his trying times
Cant hold on much longer!!!
Did he ever get off the cliff for good? I feel so bad for him.
Cliff Hanger, hanging from a cliff, and that's why he's called Clff Hanger!
Really though DID he get off that cliff?
According to the wiki he did but lional convinced the author to write another book so he ended up back on cliff
#CliffHangerDeservedBetter
Is it weird that I don't remember the lions but Cliff Hanger is like engrained in my memory for some reason. Like, I remember a lot of this stuff but it was kinda forgotten until about now.XD
@@LordFyrestone And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger!
YASSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I randomly will just think, "Can't.... hold.... on... MUCH LONGER!!!!"
Dude, I'm the exact opposite. I remember everything except the Cliff Hanger bits. Those aren't in my memory anywhere.
@@dugood70 Dude.... really?
I always thought this was an obscure show that I watched as a kid, I'm glad it was so widely enjoyed though
Well, I met people that didn't know what Between the Lions was. On the other hand, everybody knew who Barney, Baby Bop, BJ and the Teletubbies were.
What the hell, that Smartypants dance thing is way more cursed to me as an adult when I was totally unfazed by it as a kid. I don't even remember that weird tummy lady thing, but I remember all the other segments
THEY STOPPED AIRING _BETWEEN THE LIONS?_
No wonder my numerous clever Cliff Hanger references have been going unappreciated.
CAN'T. HOLD. ON. MUCH. LOOOOOOONGER!
Cliiiiiff Hanger, hanging from a cliiiiff!
_And thats why he's called Cliff Hanger!_
EXCUSE ME? EXCUUUSE ME?!
😂😂😂
BUT I WILL NEVER LET GO!
And eventually we'll fall and land back on the cliff again... Maybe
I suddenly remembered everything except the tummy lady
There's probably a reason we didn't
yeah, i have no recollection of the tummy lady
I could only remember Cliff until watching this
I've never heard of that sketch until this video. That clip had me scratching my head in confusion, like, "What the fudge...?"
This is the first defunctland I've watched for something deeply deeply nostalgic and near and dear to my heart. I was so obsessed as a kid, and I probably watched it even longer than I needed, long after I was already beyond proficient in reading. I was just smiling the whole time.
Somehow, I wish "Between the Lions" could come back.
This really made a great impact in my life. I more than became a reader, but a writer as well.
As a Teacher and Parent, I would like to share the experience with my Students and Children
Man, that PBS reference with the "Viewers like you. Thank you." gets me every time.
Falchion Of Eternity OMG seriously. When I watch someone say thank you on camera, I feel so disappointed that they don’t say it PBS style.
I know, it's priceless.
Yeah ok. Like you ever donated to your local PBS station.
This show taught me my vowels. I can still picture the screen, and when I repeat them out loud, it's always "a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y".
This was hands down my favorite PBS show. It was so real to me. I always wanted to go to that library. The visuals and segments were also so damn great. I could honestly watch it as an adult and be transfixed.
Wow, I'm surprised at how much of this show's reoccurring characters and gags I actually remember
Fucking same my dude.
I can tell ya which ones I recall. & not even from revisiting it on CZcams! Cliffhanger, Dance In Smarty Pants (I think), that kitchen one, Opposite Bunny, the one with the knights, one with a white haired guy who... put words together? Or was that one about syllables?
Ben Wasserman I have thought of this show so many times since I was a kid but it always haunted me how I couldn’t remember the name
I don’t remember much of this show, but I remember the lions and the cliffhanger very well
the chicken jane jingle had been stuck in my head for years with me not remembering the name of the show, glad I finally do,
I don't get nostalgic about that many things, but bring up an early 2000's PBS Kids show & I turn into a sobbing mess
joshua miller I watched an episode of mr Rogers neighborhood yesterday and I’m still sad
I would not hear these for decades, but as soon as the theme songs come on, I start bawling and remember every word.
Why did reading that make the cyberchase theme play in my head
Dragon Tales?
This is one show where you can just tell how much the creators loved reading and writing and how much they wanted to convey that to kids
I never thought I’d get so emotional over a kids show, but the nostalgia is immense! Between the Lions means a lot to me 💝
SAME
That cooking segment made me realize Leo and Cleo are just age-appropriate Gomez and Morticia Addams, a married couple passionately in love and able to be weird together.
Also, they freaking had a Sailor Moon parody. Damn
Indeed
The cooking segment may attribute to why I'm a baker now. 😅🤣
Wait... What episode was the Sailor Moon parody in?!
@@AnimeboyIanpower
I don't know. One of the later ones. It's on here I think, I'm sure I saw it
@@AnimeboyIanpower That question made me just HAVE to look it up, here's the link:
czcams.com/video/rMkxOqhadRM/video.html
It's a segment called "Little Wendy Tales", not sure what Between The Lions episode it's from but it has something to do with a party...
"Viewers like you. Thank you!"
Me: *My Childhood. You remembered. You are my favorite youtuber.*
Yes
PREACH !!!!!
yes!!!
Yes
Oh, hey doggo
I'm glad so many episodes are available online, I grew up with Between the Lions and now use it to teach my daughter
That's amazing. You're a good parent doing that.
It makes me so happy seeing a staple of children's entertainment coming from my hometown. I used to adore this show along with others like Sesame Street, Sagwa the Chinese Cat, and Cyberchase. Between the Lions deserved all the praise it got. I think along with early learning with my parents, this show helped me read before kindergarten.
Used to watched this show as a kid along with Sagwa the Siamese Cat.
Sagwa, now there's a lost treasure.
Sagwa! That's what it was called!
Out of all my young childhood shows, that was somehow the most obscure in my memory. All I remember is that it had something to do with Ancient China, cats, and a bat...
For me it was Zaboomafoo and Cyberchase
i loved sagwa
RacerC45 I remember Sagwa too!
You had my tear ducts at "Hey now"
Nostalgia is ROUGH
Mine too 😥😥
CHARLIE
Same here
Idk if it’s the nostalgia, would it be a bad idea to recommend this to my 30 yo friends?
Yessss
My heart
as a kid I was always so excited when this show came on. this program was a godsend and I didn't even realize it was targeted to inner city and developing kids. freaking amazing
My teacher would play this in class, and they were my FAVORITE days - I absolutley loved this show, it brings back some happier core memories ❤
That "hey now" REALLY hit me in the feels
Hey wow
Here’s how
@@Unsure.Certainty come and read
@@schelleluzius6527 between the lions
@@tysargent9647 come on
As a kid with Dyslexia this show probably helped me more then I could've ever realized as a kid.
Reading and writing were always the most frustrating, difficult parts of school and Between the Lions was the perfect way to help at the time. No time deadline, no one yelling or getting mad, great characters, reruns and more.
This show will always have a special place in my heart.
Same. 😊
I’m dyslexic to and I went to a private school that was very judgmental till the 3rd grade so I feel you dude
Christopher Calvert
Dude I wasn't even diagnosed 'till grade 6... and even then no one told me or my family...
Wasn't until grade 11 when I started self diagnosing when the truth came out... and even then the "psychologist" said "Oh we don't call it "that" anymore... We call it Genuine Reading Disorder".... My mom had to actually pry it out of her to say that I genuinely have Dyslexia....
All those years I could've had a diagnosis and compensation but nope.... Not visible or severe enough to get that.... Even after the diagnosis came out things didn't change much...
But I'm graduated now so I don't have to deal with that anymore :D
It’s sad how people don’t take learning disability’s as serious as they should
Indeed... My high school was full of crappy teachers...
Just because it's not painfully obvious doesn't mean it's not there...
My grade 10 English teacher thought Dyslexia didn't exist and that you could tell someone's intelligence from their ability to read and write.... She was also the one that played favourites and sent me to summer school which in the end proved to be a waste of time...
Also I think it would be cool if Defunctland TV would make a video on the history of Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow was another important show for PBS Kids. And It would be cool to see the show brought back for a new generation. Levar Burton was a great host as well.
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look it's in a book, reading rainbow. 📚
I actually loved the "terrifying" bits. The tummy people were so strange, I enjoyed them.
when you're little enough to be watching PBS shows, its just silly and weird, not so much terrifying. however, now that I'm an adult, I am deeply unsettled by the tummy people
First Zoboomafoo, and now this? Are you determined to turn every aspect of my PBS childhood into a video? And more importantly, is Cyberchase next?
Cyberchase is still made!!!
You know whats weird.
Cyberchase episodes were pretty decent, but the early season finales had some ridiculously great scenes.
Member when hacker, finally hacked motherboard.
"And now!!! I am your mummy too!!!"
Chilling...
10 year old me was like, "what the fuck!!!"
Oh god. Did we all have the same childhood?
I think a Defunctland TV episode on Cyber Chase just might bring me to tears. I don't remember much about that show, but I know it was my favourite.
@@andrew_cunningham This episode's intro alone nearly did it for me.
Audible sponsor?
*THIS IS IT BOYS, THIS CHANNEL IS LEGIT*
Makes sense after talking about a show that taught reading to kids.
Lol
He still needs that Blue Apron sponsorship
The excitement is audible.
Hearing their theme song again is wildly nostalgic for me, in love, how the singer puts do much life and energy in the song
By the time Between the Lions aired, I was in high school and had a big love for reading already. But my brother watched it when he was little, and unlike trash like Teletubbies which were meant to entrance kids without providing any 'nutritional' value, BTL actually taught kids something and wasn't completely insufferable (it was actually kind of nice to sit with my little brother and watch it with him).
Teletubbies was created for babies too young to understand speech and the writer of all episodes had an degree in speech science. The intent was not mindless distraction, but focusing on child development techniques.
Did that prove successful? Not really. A study shows that it was not as successful as dialogue-focused shows like Arthur and Dora The Explorer. ("Infants’ and Toddlers’ Television Viewing and Language Outcomes", Linebarger & Walker, 2005) However, that study also found that Sesame Street wasn't as effective either, and another study demonstrates that children most at risk of literacy difficulties learned very little from Between The Lions. ("Effects of Viewing the Television Program Between the Lions on the Emergent Literacy Skills of Young Children", Linebarger et al, 2004).
What essentially every piece of research agrees on is that any piece of media - books, TV, games, music - is nowhere near the most important factor. No TV show, no matter how educational, is a babysitter or a teacher.
Personally, I know I enjoyed Teletubbies a lot as a baby, and I was very precocious, always a more advanced reader, writer and arithmetist than my peers. My big brother had loved Sesame Street as a child but was highly reluctant to learn speech, and picked up reading later than average. The most important factor in our differing development is simply that we are different people!
I grew up with this show and uhh... I don't remember the tummy lady. I think that might be a good thing.
Same here
Stale Water I don't even know her in my memories of watching it.
Please don't bully the tummy lady, she has self esteem issues
I've never even HEARD of that sketch until this video. Weird.
I don't remember tummy lady either...
Ok, but cliffhanger was the shit.
Donald Trump is gay
Cliff Hanger, hanging from a cliff.
And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger!
Can't. Hold. On. Much. LONGER!
BenAffleckFan21 u mom gay.
Edit: the npc profile pic has nothing to do with trump. It’s making fun of the far left cry babies. I’m a left leaning centrist who hates sjw shills. Fuck off.
@@yeeturmcbeetur8197 Sorry to break it to you but Ati-SJW's are as much as NPC's as the SJW's
Connor Lonergan hate to break it to ya, but that’s the fucking point. We act like them so they will see how they act. But they are stupid and don’t realize. So, we keep doing it.
Edit: you have to understand it’s mocking them in a satirical way. We act like them, and when they get mad and start crying over it, it’s funny because they are essentially crying at themselves.
I was born in 1995, and some of these shows were so fun I still occasionally rewatched them as I got older.
I had almost forgotten entirely about this show, and when I heard that theme my heart melted and my mind was flooded with the succulent flavor of nostalgia.
I really love the lionesses' African beaded jewellery!
It's the little things
Me too, Cleo had fantastic style👌
And Theo's mane was fashioned into dreadlocks
SAMEEE
Really makes Cleo the most visually memorable of the bunch.
Me and my siblings used to watch this show on PBS all the time.
same
My good, sir Rock amolie may I inquire as to the name of the anime that thou has taken to using as thy profile picture?
Rock amolie Right here my childhood
I saw this as a kid but I just remembered it lmao
@@rufuscord7160It's called Panty and Stalking with Garterbelt
Seeing this sent me right back to kindergarten around 2005. The teacher would play this ones every week. She'd get pitchers of grape juice & bags of puff corn for us to snack on. I loved the show! Good times. Back when everything was simple
I remember loving this show. My parents were all about teaching me to read and reading to me. I remember seeing some of the puppets at a local library and being in awe. The parent lions also always did and still do remind me of my own parents. Especially the dad. He just straight up looks like an anthro version of my father
goddamn I remember all of this like a grandfather having vietnam PTSD
Do ya even know how PTSD works?
@@thewindyredpanda5715 Why do ya even give a shit.
@@zoda5898 why not?
@@thewindyredpanda5715 It's alright, how bout you come back with an actual response and none of this "why not?" shit. Because you've clearly got a reason to be triggered by a joke.
@@shutupmokuba7915 That's a Joke? Hmm... Yes. Ya right. Fuck me, I fucked up. Lmao
Although it breaks my heart to hear a show like this stop being made. I am happy that the show ended because the people working on it decided to end it. Not because of it being cancelled or business relationships, or a star passing away.
I have nothing but good to say about this show. My sister and I still talk about this show to this day.
One of the best puppet shows since Jim Henson Sesame Street I hope it gets a new series someday.
Yeah, I think it's so much nicer when shows gracefully end.
This was easily in my top 3 favorite shows as a kid. I grew up to be an avid reader and writer. I’m positive great programs like this helped that! ❤️
Hey, I remember Between The Lions! I loved that show a lot... And that probably explains a lot about who and how I am right now. This show did definitely kickstart my love of reading at an early age for sure. I seriously got a big pile of books in my closet right now, haha.
10 seasons and 130 episodes. Thats a worthy legacy for such a high production value educational show. At some point, it has to end, but it's good to see this seemed to get a respectable end overall
Cascadian Ranger That is 13 episodes average!
Especially a puppet based show - no small feat. I loved this show. One of the best for its time, along with Bear's Big Blue House.
Arthur, Sagwa, Liberty's Kids, Anne of Green Gables and In Between the Lions were my favorite PBS shows growing up. They made education and "lesson learning" fun.
nostalgia!!!
Don't forget Clifford and cyberchase lol. Those were better times, man I miss childhood.
@@LKZ36 Oh yeah! Those were great too!
@ariannasv22 Oh yea I do remember that a lil. I also forgot about the last show to air before the news came on, which would be dragon tales. Does anybody remember zoboomafoo?
candiigurl7893 good ol’ childhood tv right there
I straight up just found this video yesterday, and now my 5-year-old son gets to watch what I watched as a kid.
Bro you just unlocked a childhood memory in my head. I haven’t seen this show since first grade, we used to watch it at the end of the day before going home. God the memories of that library in the show. I’ve been trying to find the name of this show for years. Thank you.
I had a reading disability. This show actually helped me get through it. My little sister learned to read at an early age because of it too. She learned she hates cliffhangers.
Diana Ledesma good childhood and by the way, Knuckles The Echidna hates cliffhangers too!
Diana Ledesma DAMN YOU, CLIFFHANGERS
I'm so happy to hear that! Awesome for your sister too! ✌
I can see you like miraculous ladybug. I do to
this show made cliffhangers so triggering and this show helped me read at a second grade level at 4-5 years old, and I just love it
You know, it took me WAY TOO LONG to get pun "Between the Lions" as "Between the lines", like 6 years ago, watching the intro as an adult, it just clicked.
OOH AH DANCING SMARTY PANTS! OOH AAAHHH DANCING SMARTY PAAAAANNNTTTTSSS!!!!!
I thought it just had to do with the new york library
GenerationWest I thought it meant because you enter the library between two lion statues.
@@tugst547 same
I thought it was because the of the new york library's lions at the front door.
Hahahahahaha. GenerationWest, thanks. 👍
The Wayne's World connection completely flew over my head as a kis.
This show is why I’m going to school to be a librarian! It’s wonderful seeing how many people were impacted by and loved this show
Between the Lions, The Electric Company, Cyberchase and Dragon Tales were my childhood.
Dragon Tales was life!!!
Same here!
YES! I don't know that I ever really learned anything from Cyberchase though, if I remember correctly the math was a bit too advanced for me at the age I watched it
@@scifikoala Yeah I dont know if I ever learned anything either haha
Dragon Tales was lit!!! I have very fond memories of that show!
Do a DefunctTV episode on Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat. Another PBS Kids show that both children and adults enjoyed during the early 2000's.
Heck even do a DefunctTV episode on Lamb-Chop's Play-Along.
Nyanpire The Cat SAGWA!!!
oh my god i loved sagwa so much. i found episodes online and rewatched a few. it's just as adorable as i remember
*Xigui
What about George shrinks
That along with Clifford, Arthur and Cyberchase were my favorite shows when I was 5.
This is one of the greatest kids learning shows ever. When my kids were growing up, this was one of the only shows that I actually enjoyed watching with them. My favorite segment was The Smarty Pants Dance. Ooh aah dance in smarty pants ooh aah...
Lord. I remember this. This was one of my favorite programs to watch ever. I didn't realize it wasn't being rerun anymore, but that explains why I had so many memories of this program and yet had no idea of its name.
It’s a shame the show ended. Now we’ll never know if Cliff Hanger is still hanging from that cliff.
Some say they can still hear him yelling lol
He is.
I guess they just left it on a cliff hanger.
That always bother me as a kid. I always wanted him to get off the branch
and thats why it's called a cliffhanger
Arty Smartypants haunts my dreams to this day.
I always had to close my eyes/leave the room when he’d come on. Sometimes the singing lips would creepy me out too lol.
Aw. That "funded by viewers like you" hit me right in the childhood.
Ooo ahhh dance in smarty pants OOO ahh dance in smarty paaaannnttts
@@yanderevenom9793 LITERALLY i remember id change the channel wait a few minutes bc i didnt wanna see that thing 😭😭
@@teethsv4824 IDK what the he’ll you’re talking about. I thought he was alright
When my family moved to the states for the first time, I didn’t know any English. My parents are also migrants and till this day still have a hard time speaking/writing/reading it.
This was my favorite show because I enjoyed the little segments of it, but also helped me learn English.
I’m so grateful for pbs and shows like between the lions and mister rogers, they truly helped me feel less alone growing up.
I've always loved this show. While I was "too old" for it when it was airing, my youngest sister was closer to the age it was aimed for, and when she watched it, that was what was on TV.
I loved it! And I still do. That intro song brings that old excited feeling back again. I'm sad it barely lasted long in reruns. It deserves to continue and live on. The amount of work and love that went into it was incredible.
I remember when I was a kid, I had a nightmare that Cliff Hanger actually fell off the cliff
I woke up in cold sweat that day
I never got that it was a joke on Cliff Hangers!
♪CLIFF HANGER!!!
HANGING FROM A CLIIIFFF!!!!
AND THAT'S WHY HE'S CALLED CLIFF HANGEERRRRR!!!!!♪
That kinda sounded like me when I was younger
Same.
*CAN'T*
*HOLD*
*ON*
*MUCH*
*LONGER*
Yikes.
Oh my lord, I remember I loved watching this show as a kid. I particularly remember the Cliff Hanger portions of the show. I recall that I felt really bad for Cliff Hanger as no matter what he did, he would go through a never ending cycle of finding a way off the cliff and then returning to the same branch on the cliff.
There WAS a show that had him off the cliff. But he was convinced to go back.
The branch always almost snapping made me so nervous lol
Sisyphus Hanger?
Christopher Doney AND THATS WHY HES CALLED CLIFFHANGERRRR
I'm 27 years old and this show in the reason for me learning about random important literature and mythology like pandoras box... that episode stuck with me.
Those Dr. Ruth Wordheimer segments taught me how to read words like “ impressive” and “intelligent” when I was 7 years old.
20 years later, I’m implementing some of these episodes to teach my students how to read using word families.
What I love about this show as a viewer is that it’s a show that parents, babysitters, and teachers can watch with their kids knowing they’ll learn academic skills and get excited about learning them. The show also goes out of its way to engage not only the children, but also the adults by reminding them the value of reading together with their kids.
What I love about this show as an educator is that it teaches all kinds of phonics skills for students of all reading levels, whether it be basic phonemic blending, phonemic segmenting, vowel sounds, rhyming, glued letter sounds, sight words - there’s always something for new readers and more advanced young readers to learn.
Poor chicken Jane, she deserved so much better.
Pink Guy Yo, where that new pink season album at?
Press F to pay your respects to Chicken Jane
F
#JusticeForChickenJane
My childhood was comprised of:
- this show
- Sagwa
- Blue's Clues
- Zaboomafoo
- Arthur
- Mister Rogers
- Wallace and Gromit
as far as I'm concerned, the nineties and 00's was the golden age of children's television.
Presently, there is nothing else on tv that compares.
Hey where's George shrinks?
Battlestar Lelouch I thought I was the only person that remembered that show. I loved George Shrinks
Right and when I got older and had little brothers I watch kids show with them and like it. But recently these baby shows are just bad...
@@Iriswildgem I know right it's so disconnected from reality and is instead substituted with fiction and science fiction that blurs the meaning behind the core values they are trying to teach
Arthur still airs and is still ongoing too.
I still have the 8-track tapes that chik-fil-a gave out as a promotion for the show ages ago. This video jogged a lot of memories
Kind of ironic having an ad for audible in an episode about Between the Lions, given how hard Amazon has fought in the war publishers are waging against libraries.
Recurring gags like Cliff Hanger, Chicken Jane, Gawaine's Word, and Sam Spud were how I learned about tropes which I'm sure were inserted to entertain the parents. It probably had a larger influence on my sense of humor today than I can possibly remember. But dishonor on you for making me remember what Arty Smartypants' face looked like.
He looks like Jimmy Neutron, Pee Wee Herman, and Woody had a threesome.
Y'all, you don't know how much nostalgia that intro for Between the Lions gave me.
I know, it's amazing..
your avi is disturbing
I sung along with it tbh
I agree
As an American born here but yet grew up in Mexico. When I came back from Mexico this showed me how to speak English and made me feel engaged. Lumber the clown also did the same so sad we don't have this anymore
It never really occurred to me how much this show taught me to read. Both this show and the original Electric Company from 1971 that I watched on DVD probably had the most influence in developing my reading skills.
I'm 18 now and i can feel the nostalgia hitting me like a bus....
halo MagiMoon me too 😭
I'm 26 and on the same boat
Me too! Ughh I loved this show so much as a kid!
Same
18, same
Ok, y’all are talking about Cliffhanger but I’m over here like “CHICKEN JANE DESERVED BETTER!” 😂😂 She should have left those kids
😂😂😂😂 exactly what I was thinking
Lol, I remember thinking that too every time something fell on her, or she got hurt. She should have just ditched them because it was too painful teaching them. And they always seemed to forget the lesson! Lol
She cares about them
I'm grateful to have grown up watching this show, with its amazing production values and smart humor. Forget learning to read - the various skits are a master class in how to introduce cultural references that make children more well rounded in general, and I'm not sure the effect can be duplicated so thoroughly with animation. The whole feeling around the Sam Spud segments, for instance, is down to the lighting, camera work and other live-action goodies that just come to life with the help of a talented crew. Thanks BTL!
I definitely think this show helped contribute to my lifelong love of reading, so it holds a special place in my heart.
$500,000 a episode to produce? My God. That's a lot of funding. This show had a lot of potential. It's sad that it got cancelled. A lot of children could have benefitted from watching it. I didn't have this kind of show growing up.
Not nearly in the same content or style, King of the Pride, with John Goodman, also took $1M per ep to create since the project was put together by Siegfried and Roy. Which is also the anagram for Sarmoti.
+Static Dust Wait... Father of the Pride. That's what I meant. XD
One of our cruise missiles costs more. Shows where our priorities really lie.
I was heartbroken when it was canceled it was literally my favorite show