ZOOM, Series I; 310

Zoom number 310, 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. Come on and zoom-a, zoom-a, zoom-a, zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's proving it Everybody's having a ball, yes So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a, zoom Come on and zoom-a, zoom-a, zoom-a, zoom My name's Danny

I'm Edith I'm Mike I'm Donna I'm Timmy My name's Lauren I'm Neil Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you We need you So won't you zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation

and McDonald's Restaurants Fun and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Here's a game sent in by Becky Mon, who forgot to give us her address. It's called Crab Soccer, and here's how you play. Divide into teams. Get on your hands and feet with your face towards the ceiling like this. Using a ball, try to kick the ball across your opponent's goal line. Good luck. On your mark. Danny, get over this one. Get down. Get set. Go. Oops. Kick it in the ground a little. Get in. Danny, get down. Let's make a goal. Get down. Get down. Come on. Come here, Neil. Kick it.

It's a goal! It's a goal! It's a goal! What happened? That was a goal. Ready? Go! Kick it in! Right here! Hey, come on, you can't get down like that! That's the center! All right, bring it back! Bobby, you're coming to play! Come on, kick it in! That's it. You know. Get down. Save it. Save it. Save it. Save it. Why? Close. Get it down. Now it's your chest. Fuck it. That's it. Alright, pulled it. You're awesome. I'm a cheater. Oh. Get it down. Get it down. Get it. Knock it. Knock it. Knock it. Knock it. Knock it. Knock it. Knock it. And when you're not gone, I was being chased by Steele-Neal. And shimmy, shimmy.

It's kicking vigorously. Oh, there goes my foot. Oh, get in, girl. Get in. That was no go. Ha, ha, ha. Marshall. That's it, that's it. Ow, hit me. Mommy, be careful. Get out! Ow! What's happening? Daddy, daddy, you can get this way. Daddy, I'll be trying this way. Daddy. Oh, he's playing with a duck. Get, get, get, get, get, get, get. Oh, you gotta bend away. You gotta bend away. I'm like this, and I... Oh, it's just something. Kick it in, kick it in. That's it.

That's, that's... Oh, no! Oh! Oh! Oh, it's all right. Keep it down! The winner! Here's a fun idea sent in by Liat Benciera of Brookline, Mass. And she did all the illustrations herself. She calls it, if all things were one thing. If all alligators and rabbits were one thing, what a lovely alligabbit that would be. Now, you can put the candles where you want to on your cake. Okay. All right? Yep. Okay. The cake came out pretty good. I'm Fanny Jenkins. Today's my birthday, and I just turned 12. That's beautiful. Make sure you give me an end piece. How's the frosting taste? Delicious. When I was about five years old, my father told me I was adopted.

I don't really remember it, but he told me I didn't have to tell anybody. When you're adopted, some kids think that you're really different, but I don't feel that way. I'm glad that my parents adopted me. Now I feel as if they're my real parents. if there's nobody down the beach my dog really loves to go down there with me the only trouble is it's hard to get him started again after he lays down for a while get up come on come on boy come on that's good doggie huh that's it come on i told my friends that i was adopted because i think friends should be honest with each other come on oh not that again Maria and Julie are my best friends. They live just down the street from me, and they're sisters, too. A little while ago, Maria and Julie and I decided to do a fall festival, and we're going to do a Hawaiian dance for entertainment. It's not really supposed to be a serious dance.

It's just for the fun of it. When I told some of the other kids at school I was adopted, they kept completely away from me. Maria and Julie were really nice to me when I told them. Now, you guys start doing that. We're dancing, right? Here comes the moon and the moon and the moon. We've got one, two, three. You missed it again. For the Hawaiian festival, we're going to wear our bikinis. We're going to make grass skirts. You're going to be cold in the fall. I feel really lucky about all the friends and relatives I have because they're all so good to me. All my aunts and uncles live near my house, and they always come to my birthday party.

Maria and Julie have a friend, another friend that's going to... My father's just about the best father you could ask for. He's got gray hair now because he worries so much. At least that's what he tells me. My brother Tommy was adopted, too. We really don't talk about that much, though, because we really feel like we're brother and sister. My grandparents live right downstairs from me, and they never miss a birthday party. Well, they came home because it was going to rain. They were supposed to come home tomorrow. Oh, that was a long time ago, don't you? That was a long time ago. That was a long time ago. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night, I think of what would have happened to me if I wasn't adopted. I think of what my real parents would have been like. Did I live in a big house? Would I have lots of brothers and sisters? I'll make my wish now. But most of the time, I feel like the family I have here

is my real family, and I feel really lucky to be here. If all the horses and penguins were one thing, what a lovely horse-a-grin that would be. zoom phenomenon what's a zoom phenomenon hang on you'll see okay okay what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put all this pepper in this bowl of water it's gonna sneeze and I want you to see If you can put your finger in there and make the pepper go to the sides. Right in the middle where there's a lot of pepper. Just put your finger in. There's a place. It's the only place. It sticks to my finger. It doesn't go away. I'll try. Right there.

Ta-da! I'll try it. How do you do that? Gee, it doesn't like your finger. know what the secret is no well the secret is if i can just get some more pepper in the middle here secret is so what i did was put some a little bit on my finger so it would make it move away from the finger here's how you make it come back back to the middle of the water you got to come to the top again? Salt. Salt? Yeah, use salt to make it come back to the middle. I thought they were in competition. I wonder who spent years of his life trying to figure out... And see how it comes back to the middle? This guy's in his laboratory. Mmm, use salt. See, look at it, look at it. It's hungry. Oh, I wouldn't want to swim in that water.

Oh, it's polluted. If all the birds and dogs were one thing, what a lovely bird dog that would be. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our fabulous production of Little Red Riding Hood, sent in by Michael Warner of Providence, Rhode Island. The first scene opens as Little Red Riding Hood is skipping merrily through the forest. Why do I have to go through the same stupid story every day of the week? There must be more life than this. And in this dumb play, I don't even get a mother. So I have to wake up at the crack of dawn and bake these crummy cookies. I mean, it's really... Hi there, sweetheart. How are you doing today?

Oh, hi, Albert. I'm okay. But you realize in this dumb play, I have to wake up at the crack of dawn and bake these cookies. You think you've got problems? They haven't fixed my belly zipper yet. So every time I zip myself up, it pinches my contours. Well, we'd better get going to granders before she takes her fit. You know how she hates us to be late. Okay, could you slow down a little this time? Yesterday, you almost beat me there. Will do. See you around, sweetheart. Where is that beast? He's already seven minutes late. Yesterday, he was so late, I didn't have time to scream. This story is getting worse and worse every day. When I was a girl, I wasn't late all the time. I didn't make silly remarks about our dentures, no matter how dirty they were.

But then again, he didn't have dentures then. He was so young and handsome. Ah, those were the days. Are we ready? Ready? Ready for the same old story? I thought you'd never get here. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. not again

would you wake up albert oh hello little red riding hood what a nice surprise what have you brought me today cookies again right no sardines what do you think my what dirty dentures you have there she goes again well that's nice in there huh my what a big nose you have all the better to smell you and by the way the dirty danger that we're eating Wait a minute. Let's forget about the whole thing. Yeah, I'm sort of tired of all this racing around myself. Oh, I'm with you guys. It's really getting to be a bore. I nearly suffocate under this bed every day. I've got an idea for a new play. You see, it's about this girl, Goldilocks, who likes porridge.

Oh, I want to be Goldilocks. I'm tired of playing animal parts all the time. And besides, I love porridge. Okay, then, Granna, you and I would just have to be the bears. Oh, goody. I've been waiting for a pile where I can really show my stuff. That's what we do. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed our little production. Hope you'll join us tomorrow for... Goldilocks and the Two Bears. If all the snakes and ostriches were one thing, what a lovely snakerich that would be. Do-do-do-do, do-wa-zoom-do, do-wa-zoom-do. When we're finished putting these pieces of wood together,

we'll have the parts for a puzzle. This one has 60 pieces that have to be glued together to make the different sections of the puzzle. Puzzle making is one of our family activities, and we all help. My father invents puzzles and cuts all the pieces. And then we set up our assembly line and put all the parts together. This puzzle is called the Jupiter. When it's put together, it looks like a planet or a star. And there's only one way that it will go together. It's a complicated puzzle to build, but there are other puzzles that my sisters and I made ourselves that you can make, too.

I invented one, and I call it Abby's Puzzle. All you need is 24 blocks of wood. Thank you. There's other shapes that you can make too.

You can make a cube and then also you can make a square with a hole in the middle. Want to try the square with a hole in it? Yeah, I guess so. That would be easy now. We've got to find a piece, if all of these pieces would light up to tell us which to use. Wait, I think I got it. Uh, no, no, no. I need this piece. And see, then there'll be a big hole in the middle. We'll just put this right here and here's a big hole in the middle and we don't use one piece. So we start all over again. Besides, that isn't a square. It's a, let's see. It's a rectangle. You try. I know, for me. Darn. This is aggravating. This puzzle's called the sleeper stopper, and this is how you make it. Thank you.

The object of the sleeper stopper puzzle is to get the bead from the red side to the green side. I can't do this.

All you need to make this puzzle is a popsicle stick and a piece of string. This is called the buttonhole puzzle. Now all you need to make it work is a buttonhole. First of all, you put the string around the hole and pull it down so there's material up here and stick the end of the stick through the buttonhole. Now the trick is to get it off. it looks like it just comes off that way doesn't it no what yeah just pull it like that but it

doesn't i know because i think it goes like this i guess it's big and then cotton We'll probably have to spend the rest of our lives with this thing. Donna. How do you do that? I don't know. I forget. You pull apart the string so it goes down the sweater. Pull it down. And then you put the stick through. and that's all there is to it if you want to find out how to make a buttonhole puzzle

or a sleeper stopper or abby's puzzle write zoom box 350 boston mass 0 2 1 3 4 if all fishes and birds were one thing what a lovely fish bird that would be Ding-dong. Yeah? Zoom, Lady Colleen. I'm going to make you so beautiful that your husband won't believe it. First, the eyelashes. Wait a minute, what is this? You're going to be gorgeous. It's dark in the eyebrows. But I thought they were already dark. Not dark enough. Not for some rouge. Not so much. Never too much. Now, the lipstick. Is this really gonna work? Absolutely. Now, last but not least, some eye shadow. There, you're gorgeous.

Me? Now, for a quick look in the mirror. How is that? I really didn't get to see. That would be $20.99, please. Anything for my face. There you go. When your husband sees you, he won't believe it. Bye. Bye. Oh, that's really a miracle. Wait till he comes home. Oh, hi, Amy. Who was that lady back in here? She was a... I didn't know I was that beautiful. Better take a look in the mirror. If all the rats and turtles were one thing, what a lovely turrat that would be. Hey, what's that? It's the Boogie Dipsy Doodle Woogie The what? The Boogie Dipsy Doodle Woogie The Dipsy Doodle's the thing to beware The Dipsy Doodle will get in your hair

And it'll get you a goonky worse The thing she'll say will come out in reverse Like you love, I and me love you That's the way the Dipsy Doodle works The Dipsy Doodle is easy to find It's almost always in back your mind You never know it until it's too late And then you're in such a terrible state It's like you're going to jump over the cafe hitle That's the way the Dipsy Doodle works When you think that you are crazy You're the victim of the Dipsy Doodle But it's not your mind that's crazy It's your tongue that's at fault that's a noodle You better listen to Friday good You try to do all the things you should But if you doodle, we'll get you someday You think it's crazy, the things you say Like rhythm I've got and hot am high That's the way if you doodle works The boogie boogie boogie boy Company Z

The boogie boogie boogie boy Company Z boogie boogie walkie hoogie Boogie boogie boogie When you think that you are crazy You're the victim of the dipsy doodle But it's not your mind that's lazy It's your tongue, that's it's all, not your doodle You can't listen and try to be good And try to be more of the things you should The dipsy doodle won't get you today You think it's pretty easy to say Like rhythm I've got and what am I That's the way the dipsy doodle works If all the giraffes and kangaroos were one thing,

what a lovely giraffe-a-roo that would be. Can you think of any funny combinations? Write them down, draw a picture, and send them to Zoom. Why don't you sit down and write something for us to put on Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fight I'm on it, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

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