ZOOM, Series I; 114

To be continued... Presentation of Zoom is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by this station and by other public television stations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Ford Foundation. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, I'll zoom. You gotta zoom, zoom, zoom, I'll zoom. Everybody's doing it, everybody's moving it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on in, zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Joe

I'm Nina I'm Kenny My name's Tracy I'm Tommy I'm Nancy. Oh, I'm Jolla. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Less than from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. Here's a Fanny Dooley that was sent in by Ralph Sprague of Macias, Maine.

He says, Fanny Dooley is half human being and half monster. Is that right? No, because Fanny Dooley hates monsters but loves the mummy. And now a Zoom movie sent in by Paul Guiondi of Concord, Massachusetts and Peter Klubbenoff of Lexington, Massachusetts. It's called Doom Dog. Eww doggie, fetch boy, fetch! Go fetch it boy! Good doggie, good puppy! Do you think you'll live?

It's only a superficial wound. What's superficial mean? I don't know, don't ask me. Good doggy. Yes, I love you too. Well, here's a riddle from Denise Dianne of Pasadena, California. She says, what flies and goes snap, crackle, pop? What? A firefly with a short circuit. That's good. Here's some limericks and some drawings that was sent in by Wendy Steinmetz of Lake Zurich, Illinois. This one's called The Cook. There once was a weird big cook who looked like a giant book, who cooked a big feast and used lots of yeast. What it tasted like was gook.

That's good. the mad lady there was a lady named split she always had a fit ah she laid in bed and turned all red and that's the end of it thanks thank you wendy wait i've got a thing here by allison fultz of dumont new jersey it's called the lady who kept her foot up once there was a lady who always kept one foot on the ground and the other in the air one day her husband said why do you always keep one of your feet in the air the lady said because if i got mad i could put it down that's silly said the man that was when the lady put her foot down this is one by well this is some jokes by kyle smith of denver colorado and what's a raisin why i don't know a worried grape i think it's all wrinkly yeah i like that that's what really

people do well um i have one i have some riddles from who that was sent in from fern fields of Willow Spring, Illinois. What did one ghost say to the other ghost? Do you believe in people? What's the best thing to put in a pie? What? Your teeth. When do chickens have eight feet. When? When? When there's two of them. No, when there's four of them. You don't know your math now. Okay. This is a joke by Tricia Sindler of Surfside, Florida. Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall? Why? To make up for a miserable summer. i love that hey here's another joke from stephen bindman of bay shore new york and you can be the

doctor okay can i be the boy okay he's a boy no he's like it's oh go ahead okay all right can i be the boy okay thank you all right doctor my brother thinks he's a chicken why didn't you Tell me before. Because we needed the eggs. That's beautiful. I like that. Good evening. This week's play is actually a short story sent in by Brent Watkins of Westville, New Hampshire. We made an animated film from it. Here is Brent's story called The King and His Money. The King and His Money.

Once there was a king who was greedy. He was so greedy, he demanded 600 conkers for tax. 600 conkers. One day, while walking to the village, the king found an old treasure map. He was so excited, he ran back to his castle, completely forgetting about the taxes. Inside his castle, he studied the map. For half a night, he read the map, and then he went to sleep. The next day, the king began to follow it. He took five big steps south, three small steps east, and two jumps west, and there was a cave. Inside the cave was an old chest, and he opened it up and found six conkers. He was so annoyed that he yelled with all his might, and the stalactites on the roof of the cavern began to shake.

He thought they were going to fall, so he ran into the cavern and was lost forever. Thank you, Brent Watkins. If you have a play or story that you have written and would like to see dramatized, please send it in to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Thank you. Here's a story from David Waller of Glen Ellyn, Illinois. And, uh, here's a little thing he's got here. Here's a story for you to read on Zoom, I hope. I thought it up, but my mother typed it. It's called My Friend Peppy. Last summer, when we used to go to the ice cream store,

We always passed a bush. It was a special bush because I had a friend who lived in there. But it wasn't the regular kind of friend because he was a rabbit. I call him Peppy, and he used to do really unusual things for a rabbit. One time when we passed the bush, he wasn't there. He was visiting his grandma in Oklahoma. I missed him. Then he came back, and I was happy again. The next thing he did was to get a pet. He couldn't take care of a dog, so he had a goldfish. His whole house was full of carrots, except for one little box of fish food. At least that's what he told me. I've never been in his house. The last thing I heard about Peppy was that he moved to Florida and works with a phone company. Instead of a... Instead of a screwdriver, he uses a carrot to fix telephones. Now, when we pass the bush, I think an owl lives there. At least that's what the owl told me.

Oh, that's great. This is a Fanny Dooley from Joe Butler of Boston, Mass. He says, in regard to this Fanny Dooley mess, I have an opinion. If she loves her daddy and hates her father, she likes the loving daddy because daddy sounds gentle, where in some cases father sounds rather harsh. If she loves food but hates to eat, she might be one of those self-conscious kids who wants to watch her wait. And if she hates TV and she likes Zoom, she might hate TV for some of the shows that don't appeal to her, whereas Zoom is probably more her age. So most of this is the way the words sound. If they sound gentle, they might appeal to her, and vice versa. Well, Joe, Fanny Dooley likes your letter, but hates your answer. my sister had a lot of friends that that took taekwondo like there was a couple of people she

knew they just took regular karate and like i kept i didn't keep getting in fights but i got in a few fights and like every day we practically passed right by the place and so i just asked my mother if I could sign up. Face the flag. The bowing to the flags is show your respect. Meditate. When you meditate you can think of like a certain special thing you're working or just think of just taekwondo. Up. Chimbi. Kamasi. Hike. Ten punches. Begin. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, ten. Come on. Shut up.

Coming out. Three punches. Begin. taekwondo isn't it isn't really karate like like it isn't like chinese or japanese but it's korean and it's mostly kicking and punching one two three taekwondo isn't for starting fights it's just for protecting yourself come on Come on. Show. Trimby. Slid off to the neck. Begin. Well, usually the belts mean rank. White belts are beginners. Then it comes to gold belt. Begin. It took me a little less than about two months to get my gold belt. Five. Come on. Show. Taekwondo teaches you a little bit of discipline, and you have to respect it. Again. One.

Two. Three. One. Two. Three. This kid tried to take my bicycle and he grabbed me in a hold and I just broke out of it using taekwondo. I jabbed him in the ribs of my elbow going straight back and then gave him a pseudo strike to the neck and then took one step back and a side kick to the jaw and that was it. You shouldn't really get mad at your opponent.

when you fix sperm because you learn from what they're doing like sometimes he can do it accidentally or he's when he does it purposely usually is showing you the different movements he can do they sweep you off your feet or kick you you just it startles you for a minute but you don't really get hurt if you break it that means you have your right pseudo strike if you break it with a kick means you kick break like if you don't break it like you did something wrong when you break boards you find out what you do wrong when you break the boards if you use your foot only you probably won't break it because you have to use your whole body power to shake it out you can't really say you know taekwondo the day you stop knowing something it's probably when

you die you may know some parts of it but you can't say you know all of it this fanny dually was sent in by kathy de rosiers of manchester new hampshire And she says, I think there are two Fanny Dooley's. One likes everything, and the other one doesn't. Well, Fanny Dooley likes your suggestion, but you're wrong. Who do you turn to when you're unhappy? Myself. Nobody. My father. My mother. Might be my father, might be my mother. My brothers. My sister Judy, she always tells me what to do. It depends on who I'm unhappy about. I just think about it myself. Myself, usually, I just go to bed and think of something or something like that.

I don't turn to anybody when I'm unhappy. All I do is go into my bedroom and sit there on my bed. I usually go down and play with my cats. Usually my jubbles. My tell hack, I guess. I like puppets. To my friends. The mirror. I went to this hospital once. You know, I... No, I went to this hospital where they have... There's this one little place where you go that you have to get across towards another building. And you have to go through where they bring drunk men and people laying on the street and so forth to check them over. And I was going through there once, and it was scary because they have all these policemen, big, huge guys, and then in comes this guy walking drunk, talking all this mess and stuff.

And usually I just stumble around the morning, I walked into my brother's room, and he was on the bed asleep with all his clothes on. Scary, wow. No, no, it's not that. It's not that. I says, uh, I walked in, I says, uh, Ma, Jack's, Jack's sleeping with all his clothes on. I know it sounds funny. I thought it was kind of funny. Then she says, uh, he was in an accident last night and he's in a state of shock. He got a concussion. Oh. And I mean, like, I didn't know what was going on because you're going and he's sleeping in his clothes. But, you know, it's something that, and then it shocks you because, you know, You know, you think it was funny at first and then he's getting a concussion because he's just there like straight out like that. This one night I was, I woke up and it was just after Halloween and I woke up in the middle of the night and I had my bag of candy next to the bin. You know, I rustled around trying to get some candy out, right?

I'm just about to get out to get a drink of water with it, get out of my room. Because my room was, there are these short steps. My room was right at the top of the steps. I'm just about to get out, and I see this shadow. Ah, you know, and it, you know, there's the wall right by the steps. And I, oh, that really was so scary, because I thought there was this guy, you know, at the bottom of the steps. I tried to get back to sleep but I because I thought well yeah I'll probably just seeing something and I looked back and I thought I had seen the thing move and I kept hearing all these weird noises as though the guy was just moving away or moving up the steps so very calmly got out of bed i walked into the hall walked halfway up the hallway and then ran into my father's room said dad dad dad there's a man there's a man downstairs dad and so my father got me the

police number and he said he's gonna go downstairs and he's gonna he flicked the lights on and off to scare the guy away and he went downstairs and he said joe come here a sec so i walked down and some some some person had hung my jacket up on the door oh yeah that's happened so many times because in my house it's real old and see in my brother's room it's like here's our room and then there's a little hallway and over to the right right right right my brother's room and so a man a real old man that um like that sold the sold my mother the house he died in my brother's room that's lovely which is pretty scary well anyway sometimes sometimes um like when i'm the only one upstairs i hate this when i'm the only i have to go upstairs by myself

and all the lights are off you have to walk upstairs to go to bed but yes but just and and sometimes when you walk up there i get in the bed and i cover myself up and then you hear these little noises and you go out there who's out there and then it stops and you find out nobody's out Then you're scared to death because you hear all these creaks and you see shadows and everything because our hall closet and we have clothes hanging up on a rack and there's a window in the back of the hall that has broken glass in it so the clothes move and when you look out there you see this big shadow, this big heavy overcoat and it's moving like that. You really get scared. I have a Fanny Dooley, and it was sent in by Terry Anderson of Arlington, Virginia. And she writes, Dear Zoom, I have the solution to Fanny Dooley.

Here are some Fanny Dooleys. Fanny Dooley loves arithmetic, but she hates numbers. And Fanny Dooley loves birthdays, but she hates celebrations. Is that it? Well, no, no, because Fanny Dooley loves Halloween, but hates Christmas. Dear Zoom, writes Alison Beers of Mount Vernon, Maine, I have written a play called Alone. You can read it if you want. Once upon a time, there lived a little ant. Then she heard a giant. The giant's name was Bill. You're not alone, little ant. I'm here, but you can't see me because I'm too tall and you're too small. That was true. Bill was too tall and the ant was too small. What were they to do? Say, maybe if I could lie down, then you could see me. Then you wouldn't be alone.

That would be nice. Would you, Giant Bill, please, please? Well, okay, I will. Thank you, Giant Bill. You're welcome, little aunt. It grew darker and darker. I'm not alone anymore. But we're alone, and I'm scared of the dot. Wah! Wah! I want my mommy! Wah! Oh well. So there they lived alone. Forever after. The end. Oh, well, the Rock Island Line, it is a mighty good road. Oh, well, the Rock Island Line, it is the road to ride. The Rock Island Line, it is a mighty good road.

Well, if you want to ride, you got to ride it. Like you find it, get your ticket At the station for the Rock Island Line Oh, well, the Rock Island Line It is a mighty good road Oh, well, the Rock Island Line It is a road to ride The Rock Island Line It is a mighty good road Well, if you want to ride You got to ride it like you find it Get your ticket at the station for the rock-out-of-line Oh, well, the rock-out-of-line It is a mighty good road Oh, well, the rock-out-of-line It is a road to ride The rock-out-of-line It is a mighty good road Well, if you want to ride You got to ride it like you tried it Get your ticket at the station for the rock-out-of-line I may be right and I may be wrong

I know you're gonna miss me when I'm gone A, B, C, double X, Y, Z The cat's in the corner but he can't see me A, B, C, double X, Y, Z The cat's in the corner but he can't see me Oh, well, the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road Oh, well, the Rock Island Line is a road to ride The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road Well, if you want to ride, you have to ride it Like you fight against your ticket At the station for the Rock Island Line Noses store on the racing shop

Smokin' the water with a two-by-four Oh, well, the Rock Island Line It is a mighty good road Oh, well, the Rock Island Line It is the road to ride The Rock Island Line It is a mighty good road Well, if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you finally get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Light. Jesus died to save our sins. Glory to God, we're gonna need him again. I am Fanny Dooley, and it's sent in by Dave Stankus of Statusville, Rhode Island. He says the answer to Meanie Bully is she has a split personality, right?

Well, no, because, you see, Fanny Dooley hates to be insane, but loves to be loony. Who does Fanny Dooley love? Fanny Dooley hates Nancy. Fanny Dooley hates John. Fanny Dooley loves Kenny. Fanny Dooley hates Tracy. Fanny Dooley hates Joe. Fanny Dooley hates Nina. Fanny Dooley loves Tommy. Fanny Dooley loves all. But she hates everybody. We're gonna 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. Come on and zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Presentation of Zoom was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by this station and by other public television stations.