ZOOM, Series I; 407

think you you you Presentation of Zoom is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it, everybody's having a ball, yeah, so won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.

I'm Howard. I'm Tishy. I'm Red. I'm Kate. I'm Norman. I'm Tracy. I'm Tommy. I'm Carmen. I'm David. I'm Andre. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. Well, we have another letter about the good old Zoom theme song. This one's from Jody Robinson of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Dear Zoom, do you really mean what you say in your song when you say, we need you? Jody, how can I tell you? Sure, we need you. We need all the kids who watch Zoom on it to help us. We need your ideas, plays, skits, and barrels, and all the other things that Zoom is about. So Jody, when we say, we need you, we really mean it.

So won't you Zoom, Zoom, Zoom-a-Zoom. Come on and Zoom-a-Zoom-a-Zoom-a-Zoom. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just why. We're gonna teach you to fly high. 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 knock knock who's there sue sue who surprise Yee! Once there was a town in the West that had a problem. It had no sheriff. Now a town with no sheriff is destined for trouble. Sam, you know exactly why I called you here. We must find a sheriff for our town. Do you have any suggestions? Well, Mr. Mayor, since terrible Tom,

the meanest man in the West, is coming this way, I wholeheartedly agree with you that we should find a sheriff. But we are the only men in the town, besides Grandpa Jenkins, and he is far too old to be the sheriff. Yes, I see your point exactly, Sam, but we must find a sheriff for our town. Wait a minute, I have a suggestion. Why not ask a sheriff from another town to come to our town until Terrible Tom has gone away? That would never do. All the other sheriffs have to stay in their own town until Terrible Tom is gone. Well, hello there, fellers. What's your problem? It seems that we can't find a sheriff. Well, that's silly. What's wrong with one of you big, strong, handsome fellers? One of you can be sheriff. Oh, no, that would never do. See, we all have important positions in the town's welfare. Well, what have we here? A bunch of sourpusses. Mrs. Grundy, we were just talking about not having a sheriff for our town. That's easy.

It is? Of course it is. Well, what do you suggest? Why not one of us? One of you? That's absurd. I think it's a wonderful idea, and it's the only solution to the problem. Okay, suppose, just suppose we did try it. How would we tell which of you two? A woman would be sheriff. Can't you men think of anything? A contest, of course. Now for the first part of the contest. There'll be a riddle. Why did the man throw the butter out the window? Because he wanted to see the butterfly. Correct. Now for the contest of strength. Whichever of you two women can lift me be the winner. Let's take them, Grundy. Right on. I don't exactly know which one of you two I should give the star to. Take it, Grundy.

Great. Now all we have to do is wait until Terrible Tom comes. Yes? It's Terrible Tom. No, no, no, no, just, just what is it that you want? I want to see your sheriff. I'll go get her. Her? What do you mean, her? A sheriff is a her. Oh, darn, I could never shoot a her. Hey, what do you mean you can't shoot a her? A her is no different from a him, and besides, you shouldn't shoot him either. Oh, Jim Lee, things just ain't the same around these her parts. Instead of shooting your sheriff, I think I'll have ball of sody-pom. Well, everyone lived happily ever after. And terrible time reformed and became terrific time and was a barber. Knock, knock.

Who's there? Butcher. Butcher who? Butcher feet on the floor. Oh! Dear Zoom, here's something you can rap about. I have a friend and we're always trying to be better than each other. To be smarter, to be able to do more things than gymnastics, and a lot of other things like that. What do you think about competition between two friends? You should compete against your friend. Only, you know, if you can do something in gymnastics and she can't do it that well. You can teach her, but you can't compete against her and say, aha, you can't do this. That's a good way of losing friends. If you're an honest friend, then if you know how to do something that she can't do, then you teach her, and you all know how to do it, like, about the same amount. Instead of competing with each other, then competing with each other can get you in a lot of trouble. Like, she's doing it on the parallel bars, and I think she has,

well, I can do better than you. She says, well, now friendship is broken, and then it just messes up everything, so just don't compete. You know, like, if someone's reading, right? and they can talk, you know, I can read better than you can. Instead of saying that, you know, I can do this good and you can do that good, they try and do better than the other person instead of doing what they can do. I have this one friend, he does a lot of things good. He draws good and he can sing good. And he tries to help me sing good, you know, and stuff. And, you know, coaches me in drawing whenever we have spare time. And he doesn't brag about his drawing. I just said, you know, I say to him, you know, what are you going to be when you grow up, he says? Maybe a cartoonist. You know, I really like this kid because he doesn't, he doesn't, you know, say, well, I know I'm a great drawer and I know I'm going to be a cartoonist when I grow up because you're just no good. He doesn't do that. He just says, you can be a cartoonist if you really try and I could help you. Now, that gives you a lot of confidence

and when you try, you know, you're going to do it. You know, everybody's conceited, but you know everyone is because they have their own conceit. Yes See, you know, they're proud of themselves. You should just be proud of yourself and not go around saying it Like at my school there was this kid he could do math good and For a while after he did it He wasn't so you know Conceited about it, but after everybody starts and you're smart, you know you know, could you help me with my math and everything?" So as soon as he got the idea, he was, you know, Mr. Smart, you know, he knew everything in the world. Then he started saying, well, I'm not going to help you anymore, because I am smarter than you, and I don't want to catch a disease of being dumb. You should stick with the talent you have and not try and be everything. Yeah, and don't be conceited about it, because someone can have something better than you. Here's another cartoon made by the kids at Oakdale Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska. Well, it's time to get out of here.

to get up. Time to get up and start a new day. Bye, Mom. Hello, Harry. Hi, Frank. Looking a little pale today. I'm greener than you are. Oh, yeah? You are not. Yes, I am. Oh, no you're not oh yes i am you are not i am all right all right frank you're greener well that's more like it well you're greener but i'm smarter now we're even let's shake on it All right. Peace, brother. Yeah, peace. Knock, knock. Who's there?

Lance. Lance who? Lance when there is a rotten egg. Ooh! We're gonna roll out the barrel and to find out what's inside today. Here's a barrel from Laurie Smits of Clayton, Missouri. First, put on a blindfold, then try to draw a picture of yourself. Okay! There. I'm done. Are you done? Nope. You done, Tommy? Eek!

Oh, gross! They look all right. They came out weird, though. You can't see what you're doing. Oh, thank you. Well, you said about me. I know. It wasn't a joke. You didn't say that. I tried to make the stripes on the limbs here. I know, and they came out weird. Oh, gross. I made them in shorts, and then my feet are right at the end of the shorts. Mine is horrifying. Tishes is good. Tishes, you can't tell with the faces, though. No offense, but you can. I can. Now, won't you try this at home and send your pictures to Zoom? Hey, Steve, boat coming alongside. My name is Timmy Galvin, me and my brother Edward and my friend Darren have a really

great job in the summer. Every weekend we work on a big schooner called the Maddie. During the week, the Maddie takes out passengers on week-long cruises around the coast of Maine. We've been working on the boat for three years, and Deeren kind of knew a little about sailing when he started, but Edward and I, we didn't know the first thing about it when we started. She's 81 feet long, and there's quite a lot of stuff to handle. It's kind of hard to get a big boat like that under sail. Darren, we're going to be getting underway soon, okay? Okay, we'll get up the main and then the four, and after that we'll start cranking the anchor. Darren and Edward help Ted on the throat haggard. Timmy, you help Steve on the peak. All the way, all the way. Combs their hair with hot fish bones.

We're bound for Australia. Cape Cod kids, they got no sleds All the way, all the way Slide down hills on codfish heads We're bound for Australia Cape Cod doctors, they got no pills All the way, all the way Dose their patients with codfish gills We're bound for Australia Timmy, wait, hey, hey, yeah! Hold on. You down. Oh, they say I hang for money. Away, boys, away. But hangin' is so funny. For hangin' boys, hangin' old hangin' all together. Away, boys, away. And steer for bitter weather

Will hang, boys, hang Full fog watch today, Ted. Can I blow it next time, Ted? You sure can, Tim, but you've got to blow it a long blast. Okay? Okay. And nice and even? Yep. And at the 45-second mark? Yeah. Okay. On a foggy morning, we have to keep a full fog watch. You have to watch out for islands and little rocks and for buoys. You guys sure seem to pick the rotten weather when you come with us.

I know. First time we went with you, it was really pouring. So it was blowing harder there. Yeah. At least we had some wind. Did you go sailing this week here? Yeah, I did. I got a third, so in that, let's see, it was yesterday, in Friday, when there was no air and the fog was coming in. Last week you had something like two firsts and a second. This week you only got a third. Yeah, I know. Well, I had a lousy, I had a lousy crew. Oh, boy, I know exactly what you mean, Paul. Yeah, come on. I don't know, I better not get back to your crew. What's today, Saturday? We're really learning a lot about sailing with the captain and the crew. We help them, they help us. It's like a helping each other out and fun thing. On Saturday afternoons, when we get into port, we have to run errands and do a lot of cleaning and just get everything ready for the next cruise.

We have to bring on the laundry so that the bunks can be made, and we have to shine the brass so that the boat will look good, and we have to take on wood, because the stove's a wood-burning stove. There's a lot of stuff to be done, but we always find time to mess around with the crew. Hey, Jimmy. You know how you say it's a good day for a swim? Yeah, do it, do it! Steve, I'd like to kill you. We work on the Matty for free. It's worth it to us because Captain Anderson said when we're 15 we get the first option to be on the crew. All the way, all the way Combs their hair with codfish bones We're bound for Australia Cape Cod kids, they got no sleds All the way, all the way Fly down hills on codfish heads

We're bound for Australia Dose their patience with codfish Heels, we're bound for Australia. Jimmy, wait, hey, hey, yeah! Say, have you heard that our friends of Chim Puppets are back in town? No kidding. I wonder what they're up to. I couldn't sleep last night. Why not? I plugged my electric blanket into the toaster by mistake, and I kept popping out of bed all night. Knock, knock. Who's there? You. You who? You must be sick of knock-knock jokes. What do you call two spiders who just got married? Newlywebs. If you think we finger puppets are neat, and if you liked our friends, the chim puppets, we're glad to tell you that there's a Zoom card about us. Just write Zoom Z-O-O-M, Box 3-5-0, Boston Maps, Oh, two, one, three, four.

If you write to Zoom and you want a Zoom card back, here's a song which tells you how to do it. Here in the land of the Zumba tree, we're waiting for you to send a say-see. Because if you want Zoom to send a Zoom card to you, then that's the very thing that you have to do. Well, what the heck is a say-see? If you don't know now, don't you give up hope It's a self-addressed stamped envelope Self-addressed, that means address to yourself Add a stamp and then it will return itself I get it, SASE means self-addressed stamped envelope But what the heck do you do to SASE? Take another envelope and a pencil or pen In the upper left corner, write your name again Your number and your suite and your city and state And don't forget to zip so you won't have to wait Okay, okay, but what happens to the saisy?

Take whatever you want to send to Zoom And put it in the envelope and leave some room Now take your saisy and fold it right And put it in the envelope and seal it tight Burn on the envelope My Zoom's E-double-O-M-Block-3-5-0 Boston has 0-2-1-3-4 Take the Zoom! Okay, for my trick today, we have this tissue. And we've got to start tearing it like I just did. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, now I'm going to place this in my hand, like that, right? Yeah. Get it in there nice and snug. Now, I take this out, like this, and it's all back together. Presto! Ta-da! Perfect!

I just ripped it, well. One of the animals that I am sitting on is an ass. There's something so special about my family. We breed and raise asses. The way this all began was when my dad came into a little town and he saw this ass on the back of a battered old pickup truck. He couldn't rest until he had that animal in the barn. He took out everything he could imagine that he could trade And the fellow kept saying, no, no, no. And then finally, me and my brother went out to the barn. And at that time, we had a little litter of skunks. And we brought them over to this fellow. And he said, well, I'll trade those two skunks with that ant.

And that was about nine years ago. And that started our whole career with these animals. Hewlett and I have just begun to learn how to teach the little babies to leave. First we've got to catch them, and that's the hard part. Let's go with the girls. Now! Orcas, come back here. We'll try another one. I'll get that one. What now? I think I can manage her. We never really want to scare the animals or force them into things they do not want to do.

Most people call these animals donkeys, but we don't because donkey is a nickname for ass, and if you translate a donkey into ancient English, you would find that it came out dull color, or donkey, as they called it. Ass means ease of burden, which is in the Bible. But a lot of people just want to call them donkeys because they get offended by the word ass. Another thing people think of is that they're mean. My mother wouldn't let Will Harmony, my sister, into a corral with horses in it. But honey around the asses is as safe as can be.

These animals just like to come up here, be petted, and just are curious of what's going on here. You don't really realize how much ass is hard to do with helping our country to grow. The asses have helped America by plowing fields for the frontier families and early colonists. They can carry heavy loads, they can carry 50% of their weight, whereas a horse can carry only a sixth of its weight. So when people come to see us, we like to get the chance to tell them what asses are really like. These are small, long, wild asses and endangered species. Their ancestors, their grandparents, came from the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia. They're almost astring to, you can see, a water is less than 250 left in the world.

Why come they're so afraid of me? They just want to play games. You see the smiles on their faces. They just want to play games, that's all. My mother paints on China and porcelain. We might have a little licorice milk, might we, Justin? Wow, that's looking pretty. What are you painting? A goat. A goat? Our family is trying to help the public to like these animals and appreciate them more and to learn more about them. One time we took one of our animals to New York City to be on the Today Show. We took him right into a freight elevator and right into the studio and didn't have any problems at all. Our family's come a long way since we traded those two skunks for that ass from the Yankee Horse Trader. We hope to turn our farm into a large, large park

so more people can come and enjoy the asses the way we do. What do donkeys play at a patty? Hmm. Pinna-tilt on a kid. Oh no! Oh my aching head! Cowboonga! Ah! Self-addressed stamp envelope, self-addressed stamp envelope,

self-addressed stamp envelope. Oh, I just can't say it. Maybe you can't say it, but I can. Sasey, Sasey, Sasey, Sasey. That's not the same thing. Yes, it is. A Sasey is a self-addressed stamped envelope. S-A-S-E? Oh yeah, Sazy! Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy. If you want Zoom to write a Zoom card back to you, just remember to include a Sazy along with your letter. Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy, Sazy. Cause you gotta have friends. Friends, la-la-la-la-la-la, friends, la-la-la-la, friends, I'm talking about friends, oh that's right, friends, la-la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Come on, give it a try

We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fly high. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom, Zoom. Come on and Zoom, Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom, Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. 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. Presentation of Zoom was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Thank you.