History YMMV / BetweenTheLions

** Scot and Dot deserve special mention. Not only do they not notice any danger (not even when both Chicken Jane and the audience see nothing but danger) until Jane points it out, they are more concerned with saving themselves than Jane. They also get off [[{{Pun}} scot]]-free, unlike poor Jane. Then there's their stilted speech pattern, which quickly gets old and makes you wish they would speak like normal human beings.

** “Ten Small Words”, which features Heath singing to a fun-jazzy tune.

* SeasonalRot: Happened around season 5. This season and beyond were radically different from the earlier seasons, focusing on consonants rather than vowels and showing two fifteen-minute episodes at a time instead of one thirty-minute episode. The theme of literacy even eventually became TheArtifact. Worse, Cliff Hanger got dramatically flanderized and other fan favorites such as Click, Heath, Walter, Clay and Busterfield were retired for no good reason.
* SignatureSong: "Cliff Hanger," "Sven Said Ten Tents," "Rocket-Doodle-Doo," "Silent E," "Grubby Pup," "Sloppy Pop," "If You Can Read AT," "When Two Vowels Go Walking," "Dance in Smarty Pants," "Get Your Mouth Moving," "Ten Small Words," or "Grow, Mane, Grow!"

* AccidentalAesop: In some of the Dr. Ruth sketches, a sentient word with a negative meaning gives up its first letter and replaces it with a new first letter, giving it a positive meaning. This can be seen as a message that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop changing your appearance will solve all your problems.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** A variation involving a spelling lesson rather than a moral lesson: one Dr. Nitwhite sketch has him appear on a talk show, discussing his discovery that the letters "EA" always make the "long E" sound, which is what kids are usually taught in schools. The host's response? "That's really [[BrokenAesop great]]."
** The story "The Queen who Wanted to Touch the Moon" is a complete inversion of the usual aesop about determination. Because of her determination to touch the moon, [[spoiler: the queen ended up falling to her death.]]

* SeasonalRot: Happened around season 5. This season and beyond were radically different from the earlier seasons, focusing on consonants rather than vowels and showing two fifteen-minute episodes at a time instead of one thirty-minute episode. The theme of literacy even became TheArtifact. Worse, Cliff Hanger got dramatically flanderized and other fan favorites such as Click, Heath, Walter, Clay and Busterfield were retired for no good reason.

** Buster’s song, “Must I Just Be a Bust”, where he sings about how he has been stuck in a dome since 1892 and wishes to be free.

* SeasonalRot: Happened around season 5. This season and beyond were radically different from the earlier seasons, focusing on consonants rather than vowels and showing two fifteen-minute episodes at a time instead of one thirty-minute episode. Worse, Cliff Hanger got dramatically flanderized and other fan favorites such as Click, Heath, and Busterfield were retired for no good reason.

** Arty Smartypants. That one messed-up eye and that the other one is cold, dead, unblinking and fixed on the viewer is already a bit unnerving, but his overall strange anatomy and his ''human hands'' can make his appearance downright harrowing to some viewers.

* SignatureSong: "Cliff Hanger," "Sven Said Ten Tents," "Rocket-Doodle-Doo," "Silent E," "Grubby Pup," "Sloppy Pop," "If You Can Read AT," "When Two Vowels Go Walking," "Dance in Smarty Pants," "Get Your Mouth Moving," "Ten Little Words," or "Grow, Mane, Grow!"

** The episode ''But, Mama, But...'' What really drives it home is when Leona sings her song [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "But Mama is Going Away."]]

** Arty Smartypants: Puts stuff into his pants, does a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dance that comes across as... twerking.]]. This is accompanied with the line mentioned below, under EarWorm, which adds to the awkwardness.

** Anything by the Monkey Pop-Up Theater. Doubles as an EarWorm.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Click.

* EarWorm:
** The theme song. C'mon, you can't tell us that theme song hasn't gotten stuck in your head at least ''once''!
** [[CliffHanger "Cliff Hanger!]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hanging From a cliff!]] [[ExpositoryThemeTune And that's why he's called]] [[PunnyName Cliff Hanger!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft53kxCxWAE "Ooh! Aah! Dance in smarty pants!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJc9OEJyjNE "Grow, mane, grow, mane, make it grow! Grow, mane, longer, go, go, go!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3F7MArjg7w "Meat shower, meat shower, meat shower!"]]
** [[https://youtu.be/w52ZxDr_vXI "And nothing else can top, the O-P OP, in Sloppy, Sloppy Pop!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73kPT52tbFc "What's cooking with Theo and Cleo? Check out what's cooking!"]]
** If You Can Read At.

*** Amusingly, these same singers appear in the only Justin Time sketch to appear in the series, and when they are done singing his theme song, he promptly tells them to go away.

-->''Oh, and Sometimes Y''
-->''Y, don't you cry''
-->''You're not a fulltime vowel,''
-->''but don't throw in the towel,''
-->''My little sometimes Y''.

** "Pygmalion's Song: in the episode "Hug, Hug, Hug!"[[note]]Fan name of said song: "In Other Words".[[/note]], if you're into PowerBallad love songs.

* TearJerker: The entirety of "A King and His Hawk", both in-universe and out-of-universe. About half of the episode consists of crying.
** "The Emperor's Seed", which tells the story of how a young Chinese boy named Ping, who's entire passion was flowers is unable to grow a single seed provided to him by the emperor in his search for an heir to the throne. Ping is forced to present an empty pot in the presence of hundreds of other young children who had grown impressive flowers, and admits that his best simply was not enough. Becomes a SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment as the emperor praises Ping for his honesty, revealing that the seeds he had given everyone were ''[[SecretTestOfCharacter cooked]]'' and thus unable to grow. For his noble act, Ping is crowned the new emperor of China.

** Leona receiving "The Gingerbread Man" as a birthday gift, only to be heartbroken when the story ends with him being eaten. Part of the party ends up playing out like a ''funeral'' in the gingerbread man's memory, with the lions even ''singing a song'' to say goodbye to him. Silly as the whole thing is, it evokes the very real pain that is characteristic of such a moment. As for the song itself, even when listened to without context, is a massive tearjerker on it’s own.

** Leona receiving "The Gingerbread Man" as a birthday gift, only to be heartbroken when the story ends with him being eaten. Part of the party ends up playing out like a ''funeral'' in the gingerbread man's memory, with the lions even ''singing a song'' to say goodbye to him. Silly as the whole thing is, it evokes the very real pain that is characteristic of such a moment.

** "The Emperor's Seed", which tells the story of how a young Chinese boy named Ping, who's entire passion was flowers is unable to grow a single seed provided to him by the emperor in his search for an heir to the throne. Ping is forced to present an empty pot in the presence of hundreds of other young children who had grown impressive flowers, and admits that his best simply was not enough. Becomes a SugarWiki/MomentOfHeartwarming as the emperor praises Ping for his honesty, revealing that the seeds he had given everyone were ''[[SecretTestOfCharacter cooked]]'' and thus unable to grow. For his noble act, Ping is crowned the new emperor of China.

* SeasonalRot: Happened around season 5. This season and beyond were radically different from the earlier seasons, focusing on consonants rather than vowels and showing two fifteen-minute episodes at a time instead of one thirty-minute episode. Worse, Cliff Hanger got dramatically flanderized and other fan favourites such as Click, Heath, and Busterfield were retired for no good reason.

** Lampshaded with the Sam Spud skits, which always ends with a young child commenting on how strange the show about sentient food is while watching it on TV, despite their parents insistence that it's "educational".

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73kPT52tbFc "What's cooking with Theo and Cleo? Check out what's cooking!"]]

** "The Emperor's Seed", which tells the story of how a young Chinese boy named Ping, who's entire passion was flowers is unable to grow a single seed provided to him by the emperor in his search for an heir to the throne. Ping is forced to present an empty pot in the presence of hundreds of other young children who had grown impressive flowers, and admits that his best simply was not enough. Becomes a CrowningMomentofHeartwarming as the emperor praises Ping for his honesty, revealing that the seeds he had given everyone were ''[[SecretTestOfCharacter cooked]]'' and thus unable to grow. For his noble act, Ping is crowned the new emperor of China.

** Scot and Dot deserve special mention. Not only do they not notice any danger (not even when both Chicken Jane and the audience see nothing but danger) until Jane points it out, they are more concerned with saving themselves than Jane. They also get off [[{{Pun}} scot]]-free, unlike poor Jane.

** "The Emperor's Seed", which tells the story of how a young Chinese boy named Ping, who's entire passion was flowers is unable to grow a single seed provided to him by the emperor in his search for an heir to the throne. Ping is forced to present an empty pot in the presence of hundreds of other young children who had grown impressive flowers, and admits that his best simply was not enough. Becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming as the emperor praises Ping for his honesty, revealing that the seeds he had given everyone were ''[[SecretTestOfCharacter cooked]]'' and thus unable to grow. For his noble act, Ping is crowned the new emperor of China.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Look up Peter Linz, the voice of Theo. You'll find that he's Tutter from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' and ''Franchise/TheMuppets'''s Walter!

* FunnyMoments:
** The Cliff Hanger segments are usually pretty funny, especially with its MemeticMutation status.