ZOOM, Series I; 408

¶¶ We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it Everybody's having a ball and dance So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom I'm Hover I'm Tishy I'm Red I'm Kate I'm Norman Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. this program is funded by grants from mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund

and by public television stations the ford foundation and the corporation for public broadcasting Last summer, Zoom went to the Junior Olympics in Omaha, Nebraska. We're going to see more of the Junior Olympics later on in the show, so stick with us.

But now... Well, let's... You guys, let's see what's in the barrel. Here you are. Abby, you want to read yours first? Here's a letter sent in by Peggy Neithercutt of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The most funniest thing that happened to me was when I was in the third grade. I was looking for a book when I got my head stuck in the desk and I couldn't get it out. So they had to call the janitor. You wouldn't be. Here I go. Okay. Dear Zoom, the funniest thing that ever happened was I was sitting on the couch sewing. And when I was done, I couldn't lift it up. I sold it to my parents. And that was sent in from Larry Burns of Smithtown, New York. Dearsom, the funniest thing that happened to us when we were being babysitted and we went into the bedroom and we had nothing to do. We saw some scissors and wanted to cut each other's hair.

I sat in the bed with my head sticking out over the foot of the bed while my sister cut my hair. Then she laid over the bed while I cut her hair. When our mom found out we got a whipping, it's funny now, but it wasn't then. We were four years old then. And that was from Michelle Batstein of Grand Island, Nebraska. Oh, my God. Here's one sent in from Sonia Bernard of Jamaica, New York. Dear Zoom, once we decided to have some fun, so we put some bubble bath in the sink and turned down the water. Well, when the bubbles all came up, we took them and blew them all over the bathroom and each other. What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you? Oh, God. Well, one of the most funniest things that happened to me, when I was a baby, I was sitting there in, you know, in one of them high baby chairs, and my sister had made cream of weed, hot cream of weed, and she spilled it all over me. That's funny.

To her it was. How do you stop a rhinoceros from charging? Why, just take away his credit card. Julie English and Louise Hayne of Kennett Squire, Pennsylvania sent us this game of thumper, and here it is. Form a circle. First you make your own sign, and then someone else's sign. Then that person does their sign and another person's sign. If you miss your sign, you're out. What's the name of the game? Zapper! How do you play it? Like this! Now it's only the girls. What's the name of the game?

Zomper! How do you play it? Like this! That was going to be odd. This is odd. Let's see who wins. Wait, let me see. What's the name of the game? Zomper! How do you play it? Like this. Do somebody else a sign, y'all. Did you do it? Yeah. Hey, Tish, what kind of nut sneezes? I don't know. What? Cashew! it looks like dear blabby is late again for a deadline so there might be trouble doing

come on frank i'm busy i don't have time for your super clerk number now is that nice i just happen to be delivering the mail and it's for you it's for maxine and john smith of monzie new york you better go get a drink of water frank them hiccups sure sound bad dear blabby my friend eats popcorn he gets hiccups for seven hours but he can't stop eating popcorn because he really loves it what should he do dear blabby will not only answer the problem but I will demonstrate that the cure will work. Frank, come on in for a minute. Hold your breath and hold your ears, and I'll count to ten. Very slow. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. It didn't work.

This will work. Stand on your head. It'll always work. What the heck is he doing? I'm trying to cure his hiccups. Not you again! Just go get a drink of water or something. I can't even talk about it. You guys aren't hurt. Come on, get up. Thanks, Bonnie! You know what? You cured my hiccups! You can't go get a cure, but it's certainly not recommended by damn Blabby. Choke! Want me to cure your hiccups, Blabby? No, Bonnie! Won't Blockbuster Bonnie catch up with Blabby? Does Blabby stand a chance of making her deadline? Can Maxine and John's friends stop eating popcorn? Watch the next episode of As the World Zooms. If you want to help write As the World Zooms, we have a Zoom card that tells you how to do it. But when you send for a Zoom card, make sure you include a saisy. That's a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Write something, double-o-m, Cops, three, five, oh, Boston, that's those who want me home. Hey, Tish, here's another one for you. What color is a hiccup? I don't know. What color is it? Purple. I am one for you. What color is a guitar? Now, let me see. Plink. Special idea. Yep. Wow. Write it yourself. Yep. send it now send it where send it to zoom send it to home pose or cut or play whatever you got take your time a story or game you bet a riddle a feeling you've had now why don't you send it To Zoom. Boom. Name and address. A stamp. Yep. A CC2. Of course.

Now why don't you send it to Zoom? Write Zoom. Z-double-O-N. Fox, speak, fight, oh. Boston, that's O-2-1-3-4. Send it to Zoom. Yeah. Thank you. My name is Kevin Gigan, I'm from Claude Hills, Illinois, and I'm a race walker. I started race walking in the 1972 Junior Olympics in Illinois.

Walking really isn't that publicized because I think I am one of the only walkers in my age group. You can go as far as you want for as long as you want walking because it is all rhythm. Your hips move from side to side and give you momentum to go faster and to move your legs farther. There are a few rules to walking. One rule is you have to have your leg straight at one point of your motion. The other is you have to have one foot on the ground at all times. the hardest part about the race is keeping your stamina and your strength for the whole race

because he takes all your energy away well in longer races or in any race you'd want to wear a hat and sunglasses to keep the suns out of your eyes and to keep the sweat from rolling down people think it's a funny motion but it really is all natural a lot of people you know laugh but they really don't know how hard it is my main goal is really to go to the Olympics or the world championship I think I can make it if I really work hard enough We tried in the studio what Kevin Gahagan did at the Junior Olympics, but it didn't work very well. We're not even going to try what Marcy Ravitz does so well. My name is Marcie Ravitch.

I started gymnastics two years ago and have been doing it ever since. I work out four hours a day, six days a week, all year long. Good night. at this point gymnastics is my entire life when i go home from the gym it doesn't stop right there i sleep it i eat it i dream it at this point it's a total commitment that a girl that's it nice move him beautiful wow keep it going now just take your time

Now, what's happening with that one-hand cartwheel? Doc has been my coach since I started gymnastics. That a girl. Good. He works me hard and has taught me to work myself hard. Good job. I don't resent any of the time that I put in the gym. and I don't even think of it as being time. Like, I look forward the whole day just to coming here. Pretty. Right now, I'm training very high for the Junior Olympics. I'm representing the New England region, and I'll be competing against 13 other girls from all over the country. Wow.

Thank you. when you fall off it's really just such a letdown it's such a disappointment because because you've worked so hard. Oh, yeah, you did a beautiful job finishing up that.

That takes a lot of money. So you have a miss? You miss, that's it. But you learned well when I said about... But what I had to think of was just that that was that event, and now it was over, and you can't dwell on the past. You just have to go and attack the future. Thank you. Now I'd like to announce the winners of the 1974 AAU Junior Olympic Domestic Championship.

In 6th place, Marcy Devine. And in 5th place, Marcy Rabbit. Have your eyes ever been checked? Yes. That's funny. Mine have always been brown. What a knee slapper. Yeah, I made it up myself. Here's a play called Zeep Zap Zoom sent in by Dana Goldstein of Manhasset, New York. Once there lived a man who was magic. One day he turned himself into a Fragantine. And since there is no such thing as a Fragantine, he couldn't change himself back. So he started to Talenta, which means walk in Fragantine language. But since there is no such thing as Fragantine language

and no such word as Talenta, he couldn't do it. Then he started to remember the magic words. He said, Zeek, zap, zoom. But nothing happened. So then he said, Zoom, zeek, zap. That's not right, he thought. I'll never get it right. But soon a witch came by. What are you she said? I'm a fragile teen. I turned myself into one. I can change you back ah This one's no good I'll try this one one two three Z zoom zap And so she changed them back Only Fargentines don't exist, and neither do witches. And there's no magic in Zeb, Zoom, Zap. My, it's raining cats and dogs today.

How do you know that? I just stepped in a pewter. Here's another cartoon made by the kids at Oakdale Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska. Ah! Look what you've done, Junior. You've been playing with my kid Chyna again. Oh! Jeez! I did it by accident! Well, these accidents begin to be habits for you. Gee whiz, Mom. It's just crummy old Chyna anyway. come on junior we're going to the restaurant now and you better behave yourself oh goody the restaurant i'll behave mom honest i will Junior, quit fooling around and come in here right now

Waiter, over here, waiter Yes, madame, here is the specialty of the house Thank you Waiter, waiter, this is an outrage Yes, ma'am Ouch, Junior, did you do that? Oh, shame on you, Junior Oh, you bad boy I love trouble, but I hate spankings What do you think about kids changing things? Do you think they should? Yeah, why not? Because it's going to be like, you know, when all the grown-ups, you know, all those grown-ups that are leading everything, it's going to be our world, don't forget. When we grow up, we're going to be ahead of it, so we should be able to have some change.

It's better to have ideas now than later on. Yeah, I know. Because kids are just as great as our world, too. We're living on it. We're, you know, walking on the ground. Why shouldn't we be able to do some things about it? We have the same rights as they do almost, sort of. I mean, I think we should get a chance to do it. In a way, I think that we should, in a way, I don't, because, like, the grown-ups didn't have their chance when they were kids, and they, like, now they have their chance, and they might be thinking that we're taking it away from them. And when we grow up, when we think about, you know, like kids trying to get as much power as the grown-ups, we won't like it. I don't know, because you don't know, because you don't, I don't know. Well, I wouldn't mind changing a few things. Like what? in our school there's one thing that the kids did do they voted on if the school should be torn down or not and all the kids voted okay yeah tear it down so they're tearing it down now they're making it sort of like a modern school for the kids in second grade now we'll enjoy it two years from now it'll be you know a nice little school in our school uh they had like this teacher or

a person that you complain to like I complain to my teacher yeah but you complain to some lady you can do something about it or like sometimes she's sort of like a psychiatrist and she takes yeah well I don't know about that then then you say like you can go up to the principal and say like can we have a party near the end of the year you know what we had in gym was it was a girl and boy gym period the girls and the boys were together in gym and we didn't like it because we always kept fighting and everything so um we had this big session on um on it and they said that whoever wants girl girls separate from the boys and boys separate from the girls and everybody did so they changed it they had one girls were on wednesdays with um our gym teacher and the boys we have it separate because that's what i like about us my old school we um we talked out everything had it the kids way and the teachers way in my school it didn't work that way in my school you just had it that way you didn't you didn't go you know that's it

because it's you know like it's gonna be our world and they're running it now so when we grow up we won't be able to change a lot of things we should just like change it the way that we want to want to have it yeah well we can't change it the way we want we have to change it the way they want if you're gonna make ideas and the everybody else elders have to approve of it because if If they don't, then goodbye. It won't work. So if we want to make changes, then we have to figure a way, you know, how we're going to get to the elders. I like to make everybody happy. Oh, goody. Teacher said we'd have a test today. Rain or shine. What's so good about that? It's snowing. Order, children, order. Okay, I'll have some ice cream and cake. David, why were you late?

Well, you see, there was a sign down the street. What has the sign got to do with you being late? Well, you see, the sign said, school ahead, go slow, so I did. And now let us start the arithmetic lesson. Did she? Teacher, would you scald a girl for something she didn't do? No. Oh, that's good, because I didn't do my homework. Oh, my dog can do arithmetic. He cannot. Yes, I asked him how much 2 minus 2 was, and he said nothing. All right, no more funny business. Let's get down to business. Mad how many feet in the yard? Well, that depends on how many people are in the yard. I said no more funny business. I have to go down to the principal's office. I'll be right back. We may calm, collected, and cool. Let's go.

And all king's horses and all king's command They couldn't put honking back again Mama, Mother Hubbard She walked into her cupboard Well, Mother Hubbard in her cupboard To get her dog a bone Yeah, when she got there Her cupboard was bare No bone, no bone, no bone, no bone Mary, little Mary She had a little lamb It followed her to school one day But that was against the rule But it made the kiddies laugh and play Just to be a lamb in school Well, bring around the rosies Mark, pull the posies Mark, sell the bus Like a pretty ass Turn to the east To the west Turn to the one You love the best Going in and out the window Going in and out Go on up! This is my sign.

This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. What's the name of the game? Blumber! How do you play it? Like this! Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fly high This program was funded by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund

and by Public Television Stations, the Ford Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We'll see you next time.