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The Roar That Makes Them Run

Episode Number: 26    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday May 8, 2000    Prod Code: 126
Lionel and Leona visit a website about wild animals. This website teaches them that lions have a mighty roar --- a "roar that makes them run." Realizing that they have never heard their father Theo's roar before, they beg to hear it, but Theo cautions that it's not suited for a library. He demonstrates a number of other roars, but Lionel and Leona are not satisfying. They being to worry that their father does not have a mighty roar, or worse, isn't even a lion at all.

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Writer: Joe Fallon
Director: Dean Gordon (II)
Star: Peter Linz (Theodor "Theo" Lion),  Jennifer Barnhart (Cleopatra "Cleo" Lion),  Michael K. Frith (Various Animated Characters),  Tim Lagasse (Barnaby B. "Buster" Busterfield III),  Tyler Bunch (Walter Pigeon [ 1 ]),  Heather Asch (Click the Mouse / Clay Pigeon),  Kathryn Mullen (Leona Lion),  Anthony Asbury (Lionel Lion),  Fred Newman (Himself / Golf Announcer)
Guest Star: Adrian Martinez (Herself),  Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth Wordheimer)

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Lionel and Leona visit a website in this episode that is all about the wild. The URL for the website reads as www.pbskids.org, which the PBSKids official website. (edit)

Quotes

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Pigeons: Roar, roar.
Buster: Roaring is coarse and rude. Please stop. I'm asking you nicely. (edit)
Theo: (after he and the family roar together) Oh yes, my pride. It's good to be king of the library. (edit)
Leona: Daddy, I don't care if you have no mighty roar, I still love you. (edit)
Cleo: Lionel, what are you doing wearing a blanket over your head?
Lionel: I don't want anyone to recognize me 'cause my father's a big dog.
Cleo: Lionel, your father is a lion.
Lionel: A lion has a mighty roar. He has no mighty roar. So he must be a big dog. A nice dog, but a big dog. (edit)
Theo: Are you telling me that this library book was overdue for fifteen years?
Patron: I'm... kind of a slow reader?
Theo: Fifteen years?!
Lionel: He's gonna blow! (edit)

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Cleo serves as the designated reader in this episode. (edit)
Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: In this episode, Dr. Ruth assists a pairing of letters that is feeling down --- "un." "Un" feels like its nothing, but Dr. Ruth helps out by joining them up with a consonant that truly changes their outlook around. (edit)

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