ZOOM, Series I; 331

Zoom number 331, WGBH-TV, Boston. Presentation of this program is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's pooping it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom

On life My name's Rose I'm Hector I'm Donna I'm Timmy My name's Sean I'm Dini Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Legend from you We need you, so won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom, zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you the smile We're gonna teach you the fly Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom

Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. zoom phenomenon what's a zoom phenomenon hang on you'll see okay i can make an apple or a grape seed sink or rise in soda water just by telling it to so i'll cut the apple open and Okay, give me a seat. Oh, look out.

Okay, watch this. Sink! You dumb seed. Okay, you want to get a grape seed? Oh, yeah. Oh, maybe the apple seed is more obedient. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Sink. Down. Up. Sink. Get up there. Try another apple sink. Down. Down. I said down. Down boy. Oh. Up. Yeah, this one's pretty good. Sink. Sink, sink, sink. Why do you think the seeds go up and down? Well, see, when it's up here, it doesn't have any air bubbles on it, right?

So it sinks down. But then when the air bubbles get on it, down at the bottom, the air bubbles help it up. It makes it rise, you see? Understand that? Yeah. Do-do-do, do-a-zoom-do, do-a-zoom-do, do-a-zoom-do. Thank you.

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And don't forget to send us a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can send you a Zoom card. Too Many Rhymes by John Kerrish of San Francisco, California. There was a boy named David Prime who had a habit of talking in rhyme.

Hello? David, this is Sam. You want me, that is true. Are you, by some chance, feeling blue? Not really. I just want the pages to the math homework. Forgot the homework? You're in a fix. The pages are 95 and 96. Thanks a lot. No trouble at all. I'm glad you gave me this little call. See, tomorrow. And by the way, stop talking and rhyme. You're driving me crazy. Goodbye. hello david this is mary i need the pages of the english homework homework homework you say with a frown next time why don't you copy it down will you stop rhyming and driving me up the wall i might consider not talking in rhyme if you copy the homework from the board next time

I'll call up Sam for the homework. Goodbye. It is getting annoying, all this talk. I think I'll go for a little walk. Oh, hi, David. How's it going? Just fine. But you see, Sam and Mary are mad at me. Why are they mad at you? Because every day, all the time, I love to talk in verse and rhyme. Well, to tell you the truth, David Prime, you're driving me crazy with your rhymes, too. Even though you think it's bad, talking in rhymes is the latest fad. If you think talking in rhymes is the latest fad, you're wrong. I can't stand your rhymes anymore. I'm leaving. I'm getting mad. I'm going home. Maybe I'll run away to Rome.

do you know what i'm gonna stop talking in rhyme even though i love to i can't afford to lose friends i'm gonna go tell him right now hi you guys hey guess what what i've decided to stop talking in rhymes i hope that's true If it is, we won't have to be mad at you. Hey, what are you talking in rhymes for? You know what you've done, David Pine? You've got us to start talking in rhyme. Oh, no. My name is Leslie Edwards. I've been playing drums for three years so far.

I started playing on my mother's pots and pans, and I beat them up real bad. Yeah, she got mad at me, finally got me a set of drums. One, two... About four years ago, my father started a family group, and we called ourselves the Edwards Generation. My dad leads the group, and it's Ronnie, Jeffrey, Myron, and me. I guess my dad, he's sort of professional, and I think he's good, and that's how we got

become good as we are now there's a lot of good young groups out here for us to be unique I mean yeah I think we work pretty good and we try hard we help each other out and things that we can't do and stuff like that like the music keeps us together we like practice on like weekdays before we go down to the wharf And, like, I practice by myself every time I can get a chance. Down in the wharf in San Francisco, a lot of musicians play on the street.

My father saw a group playing down there, so he came back to us and said, why don't we try that one time? We play down the wharf like every weekday and every weekend. We're not allowed to play with our electrical equipments on the wharf, so we play percussion. Say hey, say hey, say hey! I play drums real hard, that's the way I was born like that, to play hard so they can

Get ahead. We usually pull in a hundred on good Saturdays and Sundays and up Chinatown one day on a bad day we made about 75 cents. When you're on the street I think it's hard for a musician to make it. During our breaks we play football, basketball, and ride skateboards and talk to people. Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy.

Mommy, mommy, mommy. My father, I think he enjoys what he's doing down there. I think it's nice, too, because he's pretty old and he's holding out with us. Try to keep the family thing together, and that's more than most old men do. When you're on the street, you've got to work hard for what you can get. Once you're out there, I guess you've got to keep on trying. The future's wide open for us, all we gotta do is step through the door. Okay, what we need to make pretzels is one packet of yeast, four cups of flour, one and

one half cups of warm water, one tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon of salt. Sure. Okay. Here, Timmy. First, you mix the yeast. Whole packet? Yep. Mm-hmm. One and one-half cups of warm water. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Now, you put in one tablespoon of sugar. Sure, sure. Yeah. One tablespoon of salt. Are we done with the sugar? No. It's white. Brown. Okay, I think that's enough. Then what? Now I gotta pour in the... Fuck, it's a flower.

You can just... Now I'll put it... I don't. It's turning like paper, ripped off paper. Okay, now we got dumped the one. Let's get some more. Timmy, want a try? Okay. Timmy, you're the cook. Just a little bit more. Okay.

I will. You want to try? Okay. Try and snowball. How does it feel? It feels gooey. You want to take it again? Pow. Yeah. Good for tearing her, a dough fight. A dough ball fight. Yeah, a dough ball fight. It's fun playing with dope.

Yeah. Like clay. Yeah. Especially when, like, you're making models. Looks like a wrinkled peace sign. Yeah, you could beat the egg now. Okay. Beat it up very well. Okay. Does that look good, Rose? Yeah, that's good enough. Okay. What do you do next? Okay, now we take the brush, and we can brush them with it. Oh, that makes the pretzel, like, kind of brown. Yeah, brownish. You finished, Hector? Mm-hmm. Okay. All right, now we gotta sprinkle some salt on it. Okay, you guys finished? Yep. Okay, the recipe says that we gotta put it in the oven for 425 degrees from 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Okay, you ready? Mm-hmm. Dear Zoom, My hobby is cartooning. Being a cartoonist is one of the most worthwhile jobs I know. It is very individual work because no two cartoonists can draw alike. It takes some talent and a lot of imagination to know how to jiggle or joggle a feature in the right way or with the right expression. It's a lot of fun. I am sending you a few samples of my work. Sincerely, Steve Weiss of Huntington, New York. Yep, I think I'll try it. Hmm, here's a good pretzel. Let's see now. Snap! Huh? Here's another one. Snap! Oops! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Rats! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! I don't see how they do it.

Do what? Thai pretzels. Huh? Wicked. I know, Wicked. Bad. How big don't you? Oh, they're stiff. Still warm. Does that look like a pretzel? Yeah. No, it's cold. They are. Especially the middle. I know, it's fluffy like. I put a lot of egg around here. See this part here? Yeah. And fried on. It's good. Tastes like regular pretzels. Mm-hmm. If you want to know how to make your own pretzels at home, write Zoom. And don't forget to send a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can send you a Zoom card. It's time to roll out the barrel. Here's a barrel sent in by Lynn Fredrickson of Danville, California. Dear Zoom, here's a barrel.

Get a potato chip and put it on the back of your hand and make a fist. Now try to get the potato chip in your mouth without bending your arm. You can throw it up or anything, but don't bend your arm. It can be done. Good luck. And to find out what's inside today. Oh, this is tough. It's too big, Jimmy, that's why. Oh, my chips. Good boy, Mr. Chips. Good boy, Mr. Chips. Make it in your big banana chips. Oh, I got it! To, like, potato chips. Hey, Daddy, turn it over the other way. Turn it over. Hey, you guys, do it one at a time, okay?

What's she doing? What's she doing? Saying hello again? She's banging on this, right? I won't bend this arm, and I'll throw it up, and it'll go into my mouth. Okay? I miss. Oh, that's royal. Oh, my hands are covered. Stop knocking on my door. Come tomorrow. I'm gonna pop up. I don't. Deanna, go. Deanna, you go now. Oh, let Mike get it. For years, we did it. Oh, my name is Macromatic.

I'm the leader of the band Although we're few in number We're the finest in the land We play at wakes and weddings And at every fancy bar And when we play at the funerals We play the march and song All the drums go banding As cymbals playing The horns are ways away But coffee, popsy, or the zoom Wash on the pipe to play And Tennessee, Tennessee Tooners and fluners And the music is something grand A credit to Rhode Island It's act of avid bands Right now we are rehearsing for a very special affair The end of celebration, all the gentry will be there When General Grant to Ireland came, he took me by the hand Says he, I never saw the lights of McNamara's band All the drums go bang, and the cymbals bang And the hornet lays away McCarty, Ponsy, and Balloon

Wash on the pipes to play And Hennessy, Hennessy, Toodles of Bloop And the music is on the grand A great to all I arrange is at the marriage band Oh, my name is Uncle Julius, and he's from Sweden, I've been come To play with my maddest band, and beat the big bass drum There's a rise and rise, and fields and meals, they come from Ireland But by everything, I'm the only speed, and my maddest band All the drums go away, and the cymbal clang And the horn, they play the way We got the bouncy old balloon Wash on the pipes to play And Hennessey, Tennessee, to the phone

And the music is not the grand A great tool, O'Brien, and the band of Mavis BAM! O'Brien's are nines and teens and man's And Hennessey, Dennis, oh no! Categories names of things that we need for Zoom, such as plays, jokes, barrels, phenomenons, games, footies, songs, right Zoom, right Zoom, right Zoom, right Zoom. Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation

and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. Amen.