Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader is part 2 of the 20th episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog. It aired on September 20, 2000. 
==Summary==
Cleo has a difficult time giving up her role as "leader" in a game of Follow the Leader, but soon learns that playing with friends is more fun when everyone cooperates and takes turns with one another.
==Characters==
#Clifford
#Cleo
#T-Bone
#Janitor
==Plot==
The episode starts out with Clifford, T-Bone and Cleo relaxing by the Howards' house. T-Bone asks Clifford and Cleo what should they do today, but Cleo doesn't know. She then asks Clifford, but he doesn't know either. Just then, the dogs hear horns honking, and Clifford looks back and notices a line of cars that were being blocked by his tail. Clifford apologizes and raises his tail and the cars drive through. Watching the cars follow each other gives Clifford an idea of what they could do. Clifford decides to play follow the leader, which Cleo thinks is a great idea. Cleo makes herself the leader and T-Bone and Clifford follow her with T-Bone being second and Clifford being third.
First, Cleo tells Clifford and T-Bone to spin their tails. Cleo and Clifford spin their tails goodly, but T-Bone couldn't do it too well. Clifford shows T-Bone how to do it, and Clifford's tail cuts off the top of a bush like a lawn mower. Then Cleo tells them to spin them the other way. This time, T-Bone manages to spin his tail around, but his spinning tail causes him to rise up into the air like a helicopter. T-Bone then stops spinning his tail and he lands back onto the sidewalk. Clifford declares T-Bone that he did good. Next, Cleo tells Clifford and T-Bone to follow her up on their tippy toes. Clifford and T-Bone do so, but T-Bone doesn't like doing it and he asks Cleo is it his turn yet, but Cleo tells him it isn't. She also gets impressed with Clifford doing it. On the way, the dogs pass by the window of the shell store. Clifford then slips on the soap from a janitor's cleaning stuff and he then walks past the window, causing the janitor to accidentally spill soap onto the window. Clifford then comes back to the window and licks it clean, and the janitor thanks him. Clifford then keeps following Cleo and T-Bone on his tippy toes, when T-Bone asks Cleo when is it his turn, and Cleo answers to him saying when hers is over.
Next, the dogs arrive at the park, and Cleo and T-Bone crawl under a bench. When Clifford gets to the bench, he picks it up with his head and slides it across his back, down his tail and back down to the ground (with the two people sitting on it not noticing due to them reading a book and newspaper). Then Cleo lead Clifford and T-Bone to a bridge. When Cleo and T-Bone get onto the bridge, Cleo tells T-Bone she thinks the rules say she gets to do forty seven things as the leader, and she only did eight so far, much to T-Bone's disappointment. Clifford is surprised and states he never heard that rule before and Cleo tells him that's the way the professionals play the game. Clifford steps onto the bridge to follow Cleo and T-Bone across it, his weight bents the bridge down and the dogs fall into the river below. Cleo and T-Bone climb out of the river, but they then laugh and Cleo thanks Clifford for the swim, but she then reminds him she's the leader. When Clifford gets out of the river, the bridge bends back up again. Clifford then tells Cleo that he remembers, but it seems like it should now be T-Bone's turn to lead, which T-Bone agrees with. But Cleo still refuses to let T-Bone had his turn yet. T-Bone tells Cleo they're supposed to take turns. Cleo says they are, just her turn is a really long one, then she tells T-Bone and Clifford to hop. Cleo starts hopping, but T-Bone is disgusted. Clifford though tells T-Bone to not worry he'll get his turn soon. Clifford and T-Bone then start hopping with Cleo.
As they were hopping, Clifford and T-Bone follow Cleo to a big box full of stuff. T-Bone asks Cleo if they're stopping to change leaders, but Cleo tells they aren't and they're going to follow the leader to some goodies in the box. Cleo then jumps into the box, T-Bone tries to jump into too, but he couldn't, so Clifford helps him into the box. Clifford then tells Cleo he really thinks it's T-Bone's turn to lead now, but Cleo tells Clifford that the rules are that the leader decides when the next leader gets to start. Clifford however isn't happy about that, suggesting it doesn't seem like good rule, so he votes that T-Bone gets his turn now, and T-Bone votes for that as well. Since it was two to one, Clifford decides to make T-Bone the leader now, and he does so. With T-Bone now the leader, he tells Clifford to follow him. T-Bone jumps out of the box, and Clifford jumps over it following T-Bone. T-Bone suddenly notices that Cleo isn't following them, but Clifford tells T-Bone to keep leading, thinking she will follow, but Cleo calls out to them saying that she won't, but Clifford still suggests to T-Bone that she will, and let's him lead. So T-Bone tells Clifford to follow him, and Clifford follows T-Bone. While Clifford follows T-Bone, Cleo sees them leaving from the box and thinks they'll come back thinking she's still the leader. A truck then arrives and picks up and loads the box onto it. Cleo notices that the box she's in is on the truck that goes to the swap meet, much to her excitement.
Meanwhile, Clifford follows T-Bone through a forest, getting stuck between two trees along the way. As Clifford keeps on following T-Bone, the truck with the box with Cleo still in it passes by them. Cleo calls out to Clifford and T-Bone telling them she's going to the swap meet. T-Bone is shocked to hear what she said, but Cleo tells T-Bone he should have followed her. T-Bone suggests they should follow her, so T-Bone makes Clifford follow him to the swap meet.
At the swap meet, Cleo finds it the prefect place to play follow the leader. Cleo starts having fun, but she wishes Clifford and T-Bone were at the swap meet with her. So Cleo pretends they're with her. After jumping on a chair, she thinks of Clifford flattening it if he jumped on it, and T-Bone loving how soft and squishy it is. Cleo then gets sad and really wishes they followed her to the swap meet, and suggests they were probably getting tired of following her, since she was taking a pretty long turn. Just then, T-Bone emerges out from the pile of stuff, and so does Clifford. T-Bone tells Cleo he and Clifford have been looking all over for her, much to her surprise. Clifford tells Cleo they wanted to be sure if she was okay. Cleo was so glad to see her friends and asks them isn't the swap meet terrific, and T-Bone sees it really is a great place to play follow the leader. Cleo tells Clifford and T-Bone that she'll lead, but as she goes, she then remembers about her very long turn. She then finally suggests that her turns is over, and Clifford agrees with her. So Cleo tells T-Bone to lead, making T-Bone happy. She tells T-Bone he'll now lead, then it will be Clifford's turn, then hers again, and then T-Bone's again and Clifford's again, which Clifford thinks sounds good. So T-Bone starts to lead, and Clifford and Cleo follow him.
As Clifford and Cleo follow T-Bone, T-Bone runs across a teeter totter, and Cleo runs across it too, then Clifford walks onto a steal girder on a barrel and balances on it. Next, T-Bone rolls a wheel and Clifford and Cleo rolls wheels too. Then T-Bone runs through a small tunnel, and Cleo runs through it too, then when Clifford arrives at the tunnel, he sticks his tail through it. Then T-Bone says his turn's over, Clifford tells him that was fun. Cleo adds that he made a great leader. Cleo then apologizes to T-Bone for not letting him be the leader before, and she now knows it's more fun what you play fair, to take turns and not make up your own rules. Now it was Clifford's turn to be the leader and tells Cleo and T-Bone to follow him as he's leading them home. Clifford picks up the small tunnel in his mouth and Cleo and T-Bone follow him.
==Notes==
* Bob Carrau wrote this episode, while Tom Yasumi directed this episode.
* This episode is similar to Disney's The Weekenders due to the same title episode and similar storylines.
* This is the last appearance in Clifford the Big Red Dog: Volume 2 (2000).
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