ZOOM, Series I; 203

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Everybody's grooving it. Everybody's having a ball. Yeah! So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Laura. I'm Kenny. My name's Ann. I'm David. My name's Nancy. Oh, I'm Jay. My name's Tracy. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you We need you We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just right

We're gonna teach you to fly, hide Come on and zoom, come on and zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke, I want a joke. Here's some little jokes called show me's that were sent in by Derek Meitzel of Annadale, Virginia. Show me a poison pickle and I'll show you a real killer diller. Rodney Hayden of Skowhegan, Maine, sent us this letter. My idea is a game called Limbo. The game is played with an arch, usually made of wooden sticks. The arch should be at least 4 feet high and about 5 feet wide. Oh, oh, oh, do the limbo, Tracy, go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo.

Forget it. She was fast, but she didn't quit. I didn't lose it. Limbo, limbo. Can he go under the limbo stick, limbo, you're out. And go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo. She ready, so she must be sick, limbo, limbo, David, go under that, limbo, limbo, oh, do the limbo, oh, do the limbo, oh, do the limbo, Tracy, go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo, I did it, she didn't, she didn't, she didn't, she didn't, she quit, limbo, limbo, and go under, Go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo. Come on, Ed. Oh!

Go, David, David. Go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo. Dad, it's out. He kissed it. He kissed it. You're out. You get on there. I won. Yo, you got to do one. You got to do this. Oh, oh. It's a wet spot. You kiss it. Oh, oh, oh. Go under the limbo, Tracy. Go under the limbo stick, limbo, limbo. This was sent in by Lynn Hirshberg of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Now you take a piece of string about 36 inches long, and then you get a nice big button, and you slip the string through one hole and then back through the other. and then you tie a knot in both ends of the strings and then you center the button put it in the center and then you twirl it around and move your hands back

and forth until you get a nice sound try it at home show me a nervous mosquito and I'll show you a jitterbug. Don't you dare, my turtle! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, but not a poor little dog. I didn't bite him. No, but you tried to. You're nothing but a big coward. Oh, I know it!

I sort of like the part because, like, I can be more like myself because that's sort of like me, a cowardly lion. What did you think of you striking a straw man? Is he strong? Of course he's strong! So that's why he went over so easily. Is the other one stuffed too? No, he's made of tin. Tin? He nearly blunted my claws. It made the cold shivers run up and down my spine. This is my favorite scene because he comes in and he's bouncing up and down. He's growling and he's really, he's funniest right there, I think. My life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage. You'll be very welcome. Hey, I can help you to scare off the wild beasts. All I gotta do is roar. Every day, the Boston Children's Theatre goes to different places, and we perform stage

mobile, and we do two shows, and we all set up the truck at the different places. One, two, three. We each have our own special jobs. Like my jobs are to put blocks behind the wheels of the truck so that it won't roll back while we're on it, and to jack up this part of the truck, the stage part. Debbie! Debbie! What does it put my zip up here? Debbie! Okay, do you want a round nose, a square nose, or a pointed nose? I want to try it. Okay, here. Do you want curly whiskers or straighties? Curly.

Curly. Yeah, I get nervous when I get nervous when I get nervous. I think I'm only nervous before I go on. As soon as I get on, I'm okay. Who are you? I'm a cowardly lion, afraid of everything. Please give me some courage. Because only you can do it. You're the greatest of all wizards. Bring me proof from the wicked witch's head. one thing that I have to work on when I'm on stage is coming in fast with the lines like not saying the lines fast but when someone says their line as soon as they finish it come in as quick as you can and start your line the Oz scene with the wizard we still have got to clean up those things with you tiptoeing off it's tiptoeing when you're the uh-uh okay but it was good it

really worked today you had the life that you should have had the last couple of times I don't know a lion is supposed to be the king of beasts but I'm afraid of everything the part of the lion is really like he's such a ham and that's what I am I'm a ham F-A-N-N-E-D-O-L-W Tammy Heribachi of Los Angeles, California wrote a story about Fanny Dooley and sent it in to us. Once there was a lady whose name was Fanny Dooley. She lived in Tennessee. One day, Fanny was walking in her garden with her goose tucked under her arm. When she was asked if she liked her goose, she replied, yes, but I dislike birds. The next day, Fanny Dooley went to the zoo. Fanny Dooley loved the zoo,

but she hates most of the animals there. She only watched the animals she liked. First, she saw the aardvark. Some other animals she saw were the giraffe and the deer. One day, Fanny Dooley went to a swimming pool. She really likes swimming pools, but she didn't go into the pool because she dislikes water. Fanny Dooley's favorite number is three, and her favorite color is green. Fanny Dooley got married to a bookkeeper whose name was Harry, and they lived happily ever after. The end. If you've got a story about Fanny Dooley... Right zom, z-d-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o. Zoom will re-zoom after this important message. H-B-I- d-o-b-o-t-m-a-b-i f-u-b-i-l-a-b-a-k-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- manifest. And now, back to Zoom.

Show me an elevator operator, and I'll show you a guy who has his ups and downs. This week's play is called The Night the Bathtub Overflowed. It was sent in by Holly Thompson of Wenham, Massachusetts. The night the bathtub overflowed. We were staying at old Mosquito. Mosquito is an inn, you know. A funny place with a name like so. It overflowed on a night in June. An awful night when there was no moon. It overflowed unexpectedly. The water ran up to my feet quickly. The water rose up to my knees. It was very cold in the color of blue cheese. Then it went up to my waist. Oh my gosh, I'd better make haste.

I suddenly realized the faucet was on. So I pulled the plug and the water went down. It was an awful night at Mosquito. The night the bathtub overflowed. Show me a cat who drank vinegar by mistake and I'll show you a real sourpuss. I have a poem here from Anne Marie Leclerc of Manchester, New Hampshire, and it's called My Lazy Shadow. My shadow is very lazy in winter. It gets up late in the morning and goes to bed early at night. If I want to wake him up, I just turn on the light. That's cute. I have one. That's a good one. It's a poem, and it's by Robin Rosiello of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. And it's called, it's a poem, and it's called I Must Remember, and she wrote it herself.

I must remember turkey on Thanksgiving, pudding on Christmas, eggs on Easter, macaroni on Sunday, and spaghetti on Friday. But oh me, I'm such a dunce. I went and ate them all at once. Isn't that cute? I like that. That was good. Another one. Another one. from Molly Mockenberg of Napa, California. It says, what does a 200-pound mouse say? What does a 200-pound mouse say? What? Squeak. No. Here, kitty kitty. I have a story here called The Color-Eyed Dragon by Jonathan Lethem of New York, New York. Once upon a time, there was a dragon Whose eyes could be different colors Everybody thought it was bad But one wise man said You're all too busy reading fairy tales Where dragons are mean

Most dragons probably are very nice Well, nobody believed that So, the dragon, who is also magic Made himself small Sneaked into the traffic light And made his eyes red So no one could go So, all the traffic piled up for weeks and no one could go anywhere They all got angry with each other and started to yell and scream and honk They went to the wise man and asked him what to do You'll have to ask the dragon, he said It's up to him So, they all started to call for him and suddenly the light turned yellow Then they all said they were sorry and the dragon turned his eyes green So, the traffic jam cleared up and they all lived happily ever after That was good. The moral of the story is, never decide you don't like someone when you haven't met him. Oh, that's cute. I have one, and it is by... It is by... Suspense. Diana Kiesler of Burlington, Wisconsin.

And it is a joke. Oh, good. Do you realize, George, that this room was supposed to be haunted by ghosts? The ghost comes back every year on this date. at midnight he looks for a human sacrifice do you know that george george george george sorry it's so sloppy that's all right Show me a horse that got lost in a wheat field, and I'll show you an animal that's running against the grain. This is one of our favorite places.

It's a really good place to go fishing with your hands. you got to get the hang of grabbing them because they're all slimy and the first couple of times you're probably going to get poked a little by the fins on their back and then after a while you really get going and you probably catch a lot and you wouldn't get poked as much and they're really it's fast too you gotta be quick these won't get them hey we got three I got two I got one.

Put it up before I leave it. Can we get away? Let's go get the clutch. Yeah, let's get a lot too. Well, after you catch all the fish that you need, You first look for good, light, gray clay. You gotta be careful when you're digging the clay with a knife. You gotta have it pointed down and out so you don't hurt someone. Then just get a pretty big bucket full. Or if you had a long shirt, then you'd use that to put the clay in. After you dig the clay up, it's going to be pretty hard, so you're going to have to get

water on it and squish it around with your hands or use a rock to pound it down. There's some grass, should be enough. Once it's all smooth, it'll be kind of a little watery so you need to add some grass to it. After you start a pretty good fire, you wait a while until it burns down, so it's mostly just hot coals. Then you move it over a little, and then you take the fish and the clay, and you move them where the fire was on the hot ground, and then you move the fire back with some sticks back on top of it, and then you just wait around 15 to 20 minutes.

After you have all the coals brushed off the fish, you should take a stick and you poke the clay and see if it's hard, like rock sort of, then you know it's done. And then you push them aside onto cool ground, so when you try to cut it open, you open yourself. After it's cooled off, you can sometimes see where the outline of the fish is, and then And then you cut around it and then you take the top off. I hope this fish comes out okay. I hope it tastes good too. You can have the first bite. Okay. It's really fun to stay out alone like with a friend or a brother or something and do it all yourself like living out in the wild, sort of like a caveman. And doing the things yourself.

And then see what you come up with. Here's a book from Vernique Bernard of Newton Highlands, Mass. She wrote it and illustrated it, and it's called So You Want to Be a Big Fish. Once upon a time they lived the loneliest, smallest fish in the world. He lived in the big blue sea with all the big fish. The little fish didn't have any friends because he was so small. He decided to eat for seven days and seven nights. He ate and ate and ate and ate and ate and ate. What a pig, my lord. And on the seventh day, he still ate. The little fish said, now that I'm so big, I can go with them.

On the other side of the sea, the big fish said, hey, you guys, let's go scare the little fish on the other side of the sea. Hmm, said one of the big fish. We're going to have fun. On the way to the other side of the sea, a boat came along with two children in it. One of the children said, Hey, there's a school of fish down there. Put the net down. Oh, oh, they got caught, said the little fish. I better help them. I'm going to bite a hole through the net. you're free I broke the net come on oh thanks said the big fish hey you're not bad though so you are small I thought it was as big as you are after ate all that

Come on with us. We're going to play. Okay. So they all swam to the playground. The end. I've been working on the railroad All the live long day I've been working on the railroad Just to rest the time away Can't you hear the whistle blowing Rise up so early in the morning Can't you hear the captain calling

Dinamome! Blow your horn! Dinamome! To blow! Dinawen! To blow! Dinawen! Find your horn! To go! To blow! Dinawen! Dino, won't you go? Dino, won't you go? Dino, won't you go? Someone's in the kitchen with Dino Someone's in the kitchen, I know Someone's in the kitchen with Dino Strumming all the old bands They're singing Be plunk, fight, plunk Fiddly, I-O Plunk, fee, fight, fiddly, I-O Plunk, plunk, plunk

B-plug, pipe-plug, Billy, I.O. Strolling on the old band show. I've been working on the railroad All of the live long day I've been working on a railroad Just to pass the time away Can't you hear the whistle blowing Rise up so early in the warm Rise up, rise up, rise up Can't you hear the catchphrase calling Dino, come and blow your horn Um,

um, um, I've been working on the railroad All the little day I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the time away Can't you hear the whistle blowing Rise up so early in the morning Rise up, rise up Can't you hear the captain calling Die-da BLOW YOUR!

HEART! SAY YOU WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT YOU GOT AN IDEA THAT'S OUT OF SIGHT SO YOU JUMP OUT OF BED, LOOK AROUND YOUR ROOM YOU'RE GONNA WRITE IT ALL DOWN, AND SEND IT TO ZOOM OR SAY YOU'VE JUST SEEN SOMETHING ON THIS SHOW Or someone cool, you just gotta know. Write it all down, don't make a mess. And don't forget your name and address. Include a stamp so we can drop you a card. Then dip your note in the bucket of logs. David doesn't know what he's talking about. You put it in an envelope without a doubt. Take your type, write a pencil or pen. And if you make a mistake, you gotta do it again. Write some T-O-O-N, block 3-5-0. Boston, that's O, two, one, three, oh. Show me a sassy bug and I'll show you a cocky roach.

We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you to smile. We're gonna teach you to fly, hide. Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations. Thank you.