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''Between The Lions'' was a [[PBS]] kids' show with puppet/marionette animal characters designed to teach reading. As the title suggests, the main characters are a family of lions who live in a library. The series lasted from September, 2000 to November, 2010.
The series was known to have a writing team who sometimes forget that this is an [[Edutainment]] show and made it far too amusing to watch, be the age group younger [[Periphery Demographic|or]] [[Parental Bonus|older]]. There were also a lot of jabs at famous children's novels, such as [[Dick and Jane]] becoming "Chicken Jane".
Yes, it's just as silly as it sounds.
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* [[Animesque]]: The "Little Wendy Tales" sketches. Pokes fun at ''[[
▲* [[Animesque]]: The "Little Wendy Tales" sketches. Pokes fun at ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' and anime clichés in general.
* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]] - Chicken Jane.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - Leona, dressed as a doctor, in "Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!," looks at the camera, saying "Oh, no! You know what we need... a miracle!"
* [[Call
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Cliff Hanger's theme.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Parodied, lampshaded, played straight ''and'' taken literally all at the same time. "Cliff Hanger" [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Dick and Jane]] - "Chicken Jane" series of sketches. Parodied to no end.
* [[Edutainment Show]]
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* [[Happily Married]]: Theo and Cleo, to the point where they [[Parental Bonus|openly flirt with each other]] during their cooking segments
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: The attempts made by Lionel's family to help him get over the fact he has antlers. Sure, they all mean well, but it's no less embarrassing... especially the "coat rack" bit.
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]] - Cliff Hanger, who appears in a series of animated vignettes, and is even the subject of one or two episodes. His life is [[Failure Is the Only Option]] in terms of actually getting off the cliff. (He does get off the cliff once, but he ends up following a sign that leads him right back onto it - in his defense, though, [[Too Dumb to Live|the sign
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] - Walter and Clay, the pigeons, constantly annoy Barnaby B. Busterfield III with this. (He doesn't like being called "Buster".)
** Incidentally, another character, Dr. Nitwhite, gets [[Berserk Button|ticked off]] when his assistant, Watson, calls him "Dr. Nitwit."
* [[Parental Bonus]] - Lots, being a PBS show.
** Theo and Cleo, during their cooking segments, display a '''lot''' of sexual tension. You can't help thinking that after they're finishing devouring that (as always, uncooked) hunk of meat, they'll start devouring ''each other.''
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Punny Name]]: Cliff Hanger.
* [["Reading Is Cool" Aesop]]: This was essentially what the seies was trying to promote, though it also focused on the basics of learning to read.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The title is not only a pun on "between the lines", but it also refers to the fact that {{spoiler|there are lion statues near the entrance of the library, which you must walk ''between'' to enter}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Take a Third Option]] - In "Bobby the Hopping Robot," Theo is sure that either he or the toy robot must be defective because he can't make it work, but Leona calls the help number and finds out that it's actually the instructions that are wrong.
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: "Between the Lions, between the covers of a book, it's time to look Between the Lions!"
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