ZOOM, Series I; 609

Zoom number 609 in WGBH-TV, Boston. Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding is provided by this station and by other public television stations. Come on and zoom, there's room for all We're gonna sing and dance and have a ball Everybody's number one, everybody's having fun Everybody's right in the show.

So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom? Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Amy. I'm John. I'm Carolyn. I'm Nicholas. I'm Shana. I'm Jay. I'm Susan. You can help us 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! Here's a game sent in by Lynn Rents from Midlothian, Illinois. First take some petroleum jelly and put it on your nose. then you see how many cotton balls you can pick up with only using your greasy nose now you have to get the cotton balls off your nose onto a plate do you believe this Come on. Get one. Come on. Shana, you... I got... Ah! We did it! I got one!

Then I got to get you too. The other one. Come on. All right, don't be blowing them all out of the chair. All right. I don't know. Okay, no, it's fine. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eight. We got eight. Yeah, but... We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We got eight. We got eight. We got eight. We got eight. We got eight. We got eight. This is called a watermelon cooler. All you need is some watermelon, strawberries, and a bowl, a tall glass, cantaloupe and sherbet, and a masher. Take the knife and cut a piece, cut some watermelon, take the seeds out so you don't want to choke on it or something. Get all those seeds out. Then you take the masher and mash it out.

Get some good juice this way. You can leave the pulp if you want to. Then you take a drinking glass. I have some in already, so I'll close some in. And some sherbet, two of these scoops. Maybe one. There it goes. And some cantaloupe. some strawberries if you got it. Watermelon cooler. Good. Try it. What does a 200 pound mouse say? Here kitty kitty kitty. Here kitty kitty kitty. Dear Zoom, my little brother still doesn't understand yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

How can I teach him what they mean? Your friend, Samantha Thomas from Tucson, Arizona. I know. Like, tell him what's, um, like, tomorrow's always coming, but it never arrives. Because when tomorrow comes, like tomorrow, you say it's tomorrow, and then when tomorrow comes, it's today. Or you can say, now tomorrow is what happened. I mean, tomorrow is... You can tell them. Okay, yesterday... Excuse me, I get mixed up myself. Yesterday, you could say, was... What happened tomorrow. No, what happened... What happened the day before? Yesterday, you can explain. Remember what happened before you went to sleep today? Well, that was yesterday.

And now that you ate your breakfast, that is today. Here's an eight-tongue picture sent in by Joseph Smith and Kim Harris from Charlotte, North Carolina. Tried to say it five times fast. Joe's nose goes where Joe goes. Joe's nose goes where Joe goes. Joe's nose goes where Joe's goes. Joe's nose goes where Joe goes. Dear Zoom, I'm from Rifle, Colorado. My name is Teresa Downey. here is a riddle. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? They're spelled differently. That's good. Yeah, they're spelled differently. A jeweler doesn't have his jewels, but the jailer has his jewels.

What did you say? Why did you, the jailers, okay, now wait a second. Yes. Yeah. Answer. One sells watches and the other watches sells. Awwww! When you start a new beehive, you usually buy bees from the supply house. But we were lucky because we found a birdhouse that was full of bees, honey bees. Take the inner cover off. Take the covers off. Our only problem was we had to get them out of the birdhouse and into one of our own hives. We had to pry the cover off of the birdhouse to get the bees out. The thing was really, really loaded with honey.

We have more calm than we thought we did. Oh, wow, look at that. Look at that. Oh, wow, look at that. All we did was lift the combs out and fasten them to the empty frames. That's not going to fit. Just throw it on and we'll cut it. We're going to cut it. Where's the hive tool? Who's got the hive tool, Matt? That's good enough. OK, cut that off over there. That honey dust you're sticking? OK, let's lay it down. A beekeeper's hive is just a series of boxes with wooden frames in it. Another one ready? The bees build their combs on the frames, and then they store it with honey. OK. We fastened the combs to the frames with elastic bands until the bees could start working on the comb and make it fit to the shape of the frame. Let's shake. Someone help me shake these. After we had the combs in the hive, we just dumped the bees out near the door so that they could just walk in.

That's just about all you have to do really to get a hive going. Once they're in there, they'll just start producing honey. Before you open a hive, you have to smoke the bees with a smoker. The reason is that the bees will think that the hive is on fire, so they load up with their honey and take off from the hive. They're so full of honey that their stinging muscles can't work and they can't sting you. Make sure they're nice and dry, too. Once the smoker's going, close the top, pump your bellows, and it just smolders there and makes a lot of smoke. That's just about it. And then you're ready to go check your hive. OK, let's go to it. Come on, give it the gas. Don't touch it till I give it a few cups of smoke. This is a hive that's already been established. You have to check it every so often to make sure that it's not diseased and you have to check your honey production.

Look at that. How's that for honey? Look at that. Look at that. Hey, we're going to take that back with us. Yeah, we might as well. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Yeah, you hang on to that. Let's take these back and eat them. Yeah. OK. OK. You guys put the hives back together. Put the hive back. If it's full of honey, you have to take some out because if you leave it there, the bees will just up and fly away because there's no more work for them to do. Or you can just add another box and there'll be more room to make honey. Let's go. Grab the hive tools. The reason we like to keep bees is that it's an interesting hobby, and not many people know about bees.

They think, bees sting, and that's all I need to know. Well, bees can produce honey, and bees can pollinate. So without bees, there wouldn't be any flowers. If a tomato, a lettuce, and a garden hole were in a race, how would it turn out? I don't know. How would it turn out? The lettuce would be ahead, the garden holes would be running, and the tomato would be trying to catch up. I was afraid of that. Habib, habibh, sababibh. Alright is this. Welcome everything I want. Welcome this will. Welcome everything we need.

We begin when we finish forward. How are you? Cubbies of a bubble-ubble. Ubble, uh, uh. Love it, mommy, trub-eye. Ah. Hm. Bubble-ubble, hubble-nubbies, bubble-ubbles. Hm. It brought him up from Australia. He's a very nice plant, don't you think so? Yes, dear, but he's kind of strange-looking. No, he's just different. Right, Brody? Yeah. What does he eat? I don't know. Oh, well, he sure is growing fast. Yeah, yeah. Oh, hello, Mrs. Krapp. How are you this fine, beautiful morning?

Oh, for three, what to know? And what is this stupid-looking plate she got over here? It's not stupid. It's boating, Mrs. Krapp. Oh, yeah? Well, explain to me these stupid little bones at the end of the store with a little fridge, isn't it? Well, I don't know what those are. Gotcha there! But I guess we'll find that out. Well, what can we do for you? I'd like some weed killer for my garden. It's overloaded with weeds as usual. Weed killer. I'll have to get it from the storage room. Hurry up about it! I ain't got a lot of time now! I think I'll check this plant out. Here's your weed killer, Mrs. Scrapp. Mrs. Scrapp?

Mrs. Scrapp? Where is she? I wonder where she could be. She couldn't have left. Look at Brody. He's... he's bigger. Now that you mention it, he has gotten bigger. Why, how are you, Mr. and Mrs. Danson? Hello, Miss Caretaker. Well, it's closing. Fine, let's go. Oh, what a dumb-looking plant. Hey, rip it again. Disgusting. She didn't even lock the door. Look at that floor. It's only half slept. You folks call for an electrician?

Oh, yes. What seems to be the problem? It's the electric timer on the vent window. Can you fix it? Yeah, but it'll take a while. Oh, that's okay. Take your time. We have some work to do in the storage room. Okay. What a stupid-looking plant. Don't go, don't go. Ew. Bad one. Look at Brody! He's... he's... gigantic! Yeah. Look, there's a screwdriver hanging from his butt. Oh, no. Do you know what this means? Brody's a people leader, and he doesn't like screwdrivers. But I like you. No, nice, Brody. Good, Brody. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful, beautiful, Brody. You gotta pow up, you gotta play. Hey, you gotta send him to Zoom right away.

We gotta barrel, we gotta do Ooh, you gotta send it to Zoom We need you Something to tell us, something to ask Got a good goodie, got a good mask We looked in our mailbag for something to do But something was missing, something from you So go get some paper and something to write with The mailman will travel all through the night with your letter And then she'll deliver it here And we will meet it, and we will greet it And we will read it with cheer. Oh, one thing more. As if you can't guess that. Send your new letter to the same old address. That's Zoom Z-O-M-Box 3-5-0. Boston Mets 0-2-1-3-4. Send it to the end. Have you ever thought about plans taking over the world? Debbie Cohn from Rancho Palace Verdes, California made a cartoon about it. It's called Growth. Oh, man.

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are you all right first I got tonsillitis then appendicitis then pneumonia oh and then ending up with neuritis. Then they gave me hypodermic and inoculation. Boy, you must have had a hard time. Yeah, I thought I'd never finish with that spelling test. Oh! Hi, my friends. I'm a fubal armadermistabba, maybe, yubba-dobba, maybe, I'm a obby-bubby-dubby-bubby-zaboom cover. On the other hand, if you didn't understand me, You need an Obi-Dubi Zoom card. To get one, write Zoom.

That's Zoom, Z-W-O-M, Fox, Street, 5-0. Boston, Mass, O-2-1-3-4. Send it to Zoom! And don't forget to say Z. Dear Zoom, I get an allowance every week and i babysit sometimes too my parents make me save all of it i don't mind saving but i like to have more say about where my money goes do you have any say about how your money is spent your friend ronda rose heartsdale new york i get like money for my birthday and for christmas my mother puts it away in the bank but um like i don't mind because i know it's like for later on when i really really need it much more than right now and spend it on nothing I leave it up to my parents I tell them what I want to buy and they decide whether it's worthwhile enough and I think that they really are a little wiser money-wise than

me so I leave it to them mostly yeah like you should have at least some say about your money and so should your parents like you always say like they're wrong about how you should spend your money but they're really not so they're trying to help you best yeah it's really i think it's really dumb when people say well it's my money i can spend it how i want to because they gave it to you so um when i like saying somebody gives me money you know like my grandma or something you know i want to keep it and then you know i wait so weak i go to movies and buy ice creams you know and buy little things that i want that are gone that you know you eat or movies and then i'm sorry at the end of the week that i didn't give it to my mother because i could still have it have you ever been in those moods when you just feel like you gotta spend something right see when you buy something right then your friend gets the same thing except his jeep and you get real angry oh i got mine and so-and-so mine was only so-and-so you

Right. Suppose I was looking for a record, right? And I only had enough money to buy one. I'd go to, like, two or three different stores, and then I'd look, and I'd also check the prices, you know, because there might be the same one except cheaper than the other store. Sometimes your parents don't really warn you how you should use your money. Like everybody was saying, you go to the store like you spend it that week, Then you feel sorry the next week, but you just keep on doing it. Then you cut down a little bit. Then you tell your parents, how come you didn't warn me about spending my money? I thought I'd count on you. Really, sometimes they're doing it to teach you a lesson that you have to learn yourself if you won't listen. Ready for this poison on your plate? now i like food when i'm in the mood but when i'm sick i don't take a lick and when i find out

we're having cabbage for dinner my taste buds shrink i start to grow thinner and my sister once said, and it is very true, that when you eat spinach, it makes you turn blue. And when my mother says, eat your peas, I stiffen up and I knock my knees. And now comes broccoli, which is worse than the others. Don't eat it all. Give some to your brothers. Give some Some to your mom, some to your pa. Just keep on giving and don't ever stop. And now comes dessert and that's very nice because the rest of my food I gave to the mice. What's your favorite vegetable? My favorite vegetable?

Carrots. I like broccoli and artichoke. Corn. Carrot. Spinach. Squash. My favorite vegetable is cucumber. I don't like vegetables. Tomatoes. Potatoes. Broccoli. Broccoli. Carrots. Carrots. Peas. Everything. We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig in the ground the whole day through. To dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig is what we like to do. And while we dig, we always sing But when you dig, there's not a better thing Than a song, than a song To dig a version of this song We ho, we ho To make the garden grow We pull the weeds and sow the seeds And hoes, and hoes, and hoes The beets, the beans The orange tangerines

The lettuce heads off Snug in beds and mows and rolls and rolls of pods and peas and nectar for the bees. The garden treats all taste so sweet and so and so and so and ho and ho and watch the plants all grow. We work all day and that's the way we grow and ho. Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt That's why I love vegetables, you know what you're about Plant a turnip, get a turnip, maybe you'll get two That's why I love vegetables, you know that they'll come through They're dependable, they're defendable They're the best by a person ever bought

Wild with dreams and wishes Though they seem delicious Many times when they come true They're really not just what you thought So plant a carrot, get a carrot Not a Brussels sprout That's why the vegetables You know what you're about Life is merry if it's very vegetarian A killer plant, a garden is a bear, just a very, very bear, just a valerian. We need you, we're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom, come on and zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom, come on, give it a try, we're gonna reach for the sky, you can help us to fly, hi, come on and zoom.

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