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.

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

Yes Dr. Nitwit

@@g-saviour6581 "NitWHITE, that's Dr. Nit-WHITE!"

OOH AHH DO THE SMARTY PANTS

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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...

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

"Meateor shower"😂

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

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

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. 👍

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.

@@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?

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.

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.

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 KZfaq now!

and ELECTRIC COMPANY!!

Liberty's Kids is AWESOME. I love that it's both educational and entertaining.

Me too, and Ruff Ruffman!

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLObq7KizcfIgoE.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...

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

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!

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.

Fucking same my dude.

I can tell ya which ones I recall. & not even from revisiting it on KZfaq! 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,

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...

That's amazing. You're a good parent doing that.

Yes

PREACH !!!!!

yes!!!

Yes

Oh, hey doggo

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

SAME

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.

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

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...

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

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

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 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

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

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

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?

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

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 literally got the same feeling. Omg I love this show

Omg I thought I was the only one 😂❤❤

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!

Makes sense after talking about a show that taught reading to kids.

Lol

He still needs that Blue Apron sponsorship

The excitement is audible.

Hey wow

Here’s how

@@Unsure.Certainty come and read

@@schelleluzius6527 between the lions

@@tysargent9647 come on

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...?"

AND THAT’S WHY HE’S CALLED *CLIFFHANGER!!*

Don't forget the story which gave me the other catchphrase "Justin TIME!" to go along with that one

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.

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.

(I remember watching Noggin as well.)

I heard noggin

MagicRainbow Kitties I remember doing that with my family too!

Pink Guy Yo, where that new pink season album at?

Press F to pay your respects to Chicken Jane F

#JusticeForChickenJane

He looks like Jimmy Neutron, Pee Wee Herman, and Woody had a threesome.

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

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

fresa cheesecake I used to watch this show almost obsessively as a child- by now, I had completely forgotten the opening theme & many lovable characters- mainly I remembered it for Fred Newman.

fresa cheesecake thanks for the depression

Same. I had completely forgotten about this show. I would watch it every single day after school. My favorites were the cliffhangers and Dr.ruth. I’m so glad this was here to remind us.

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.

You and me both dude. PBS Kids was the reason I learned english while being from Mexico as well:). English classes were so boring in school because by the time they taught me something I had already learned it on PBS Kids xD. I, to this day, still remember Vowel Boot Camp and the long/short sounds for the vowels:')

Bearcho Karofsky That’s amazing to hear! Thanks for sharing. :)

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.

yeah, not to sound like an old person, but I feel like kids nowadays don't really read books as much. I mean, they read phones and such, but it isn't the same. This show seems really cute and could get younger kids excited about reading? Or maybe they just watch the show idk

@@FireofGia111 I love physical books - I have two bookshelves to prove it - but I'm of the mind that a child reading is a child engaged and learning. Whether they're holding a physical book, reading on a tablet, or their dad's phone, it doesn't matter. Get. Them. Reading.

They should reair shows like Zaboomafu, Mr Roger's Neighborhood, and Reading Rainbow. I grew up with those shows, they're timeless.

@@foreverdead1248 that's a fair point. Literature is literature.

I LOVED this show, it made me love to read.

@geoandbenji, I will never forget this show because it scared the snot out of me with the tummy lady and Arty the puppet! Although I do not remember the tummy lady or the puppet! Tummy lady was pretty weird. In a bad way. It just scared me. I think Weird Al Yankovic is better than her 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The exact same thing happen to me

Oh my God! *Epic facepalm* I can't believe it took me this long to see it too.

i realized it at the beginning

SAME OMG

same