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Zoom 121, Repack, WGBH-TV, Boston. 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. You gotta zoom, zoom, zoom, a-zoom. Everybody's doing it, everybody's moving it. Everybody's having a bar, 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 John. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, 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 here's a game sent in by elizabeth allen of manchester massachusetts see if you can figure

out the rules as we play safari okay one two three we're going on safari i'm taking a tiger No, no, no, I'm going on a safari and I'm taking Turkey I'm going on a safari and I'm taking clothes i'm going on safari i think i'm going to take along my jacks yeah you can take that i'm going and i'm going to take along my nose you take that yeah oh oh i get it but i still don't get it don't say it don't say it if you get it there are some dumb people here i'm going on safari and i'm

I'm taking... I get it. My teeth. No. Going on a safari and I'm taking my finger? No. Why did you say that? What do you think it is? Well, first of all, I thought that if you touch the thing, but... No, because Jersey... You touch it. Could it be, like, when he said Jersey, he said thread, he said needle. telephone i'm out of it oh i'm going on a safari got it and i'm taking a tangerine i got it i got it i got it wait a minute um i got it i got it i'm going on a safari and i'm taking a towel no oh i think i got it i'm going on a safari and i'm taking I'm taking, uh, I'm taking Toothpaste.

I'm bringing Jeremiah the bullfrog. I got it. Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Okay, okay, okay. I got it. I'm going on a safari and I'm going to take some nuts. I know. I'm going on a safari and I'm taking Yankees. No. I'm going on a safari, and I'm taking a jukebox. Yeah! One day, a little girl was walking through the forest. She saw a gold and white cage. There were lions in it. There was another cage with a tall elephant. She took the elephant and went in the cage. The elephant ate her out. That night, the elephant made a big yawn, and the little girl came out. There were stars in the sky and the moon was coming out.

She went back to the house, hugged her little teddy bear and went to sleep. This was sent in by Melissa Pike, Framingham, Massachusetts. Christy Brandenburg of Baldwin, Missouri sent us a picture in a song. It's called Trinka Trinka. Trinka, Trinka, I love you. Your hair is soft and fluffy too Do you think you love me too? I love you Thank you, Christy What do we do with the arms and legs as well? That's all right in the middle Don't do it right about three different lengths because it holds tight up. Hey, Scott.

Maybe should I tape up this end? Yeah, tape up all the ends real well. Okay? Just so they don't break. It's getting smaller. Pass it. Pass it. Pass it. Pass it. Pass it. Pass it. Pass it. Don't you think it's too big? No. Too small for the mast, I hope. We can have a skeleton head. I'm not very good at skeletons head. Can I get him? Hey, wait, get off! Help! Help! Help! We have to take it. There we go. That's not so bad. Uh-huh. Hey, bring it over here. Here.

Oh, this is going to be hard because it's all in different shapes and sizes. You can go around there where it's kind of flat. Whatever you want to call me. Or whatever I want to call you. Whatever you want to say. Dr. Frankenstein did a very good job this time. Listen, help me take this over. This is the hard part. Watch it. Not all of it. Not all of it. Let me take this. Just see it. Okay. You know, I've got to make the face. You guys have to make the best of buttons that I do want to make down there. I think it's going to be a boogie monster. A boogie monster. Well, I saw the thing coming out of the sky. It had one long horn and one big eye. I commenced to shaking in the city. It looks like a purple people eater to me. It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater. One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater. One eyed, one horn, flying purple people, it sure looks strange to me. One eyed!

He came down to Earth and he lit in the tree. I said, Mr. Purple People, it don't eat meat. There was a one eyed, one horn, flying purple people, it One eyed, one horn, flying purple people, it One eyed, one horn, flying purple people, it sure looks strange to me. Get the vacuum cleaner. Get up! Get the arm out! Sister, come here! Hold it! Hold the monster! Oh! Smile! Come on! Smile, you stupid thing! Get up! Come on! She puts him here! Yes! Come on! She puts him here! If you want to make a monster like this,

write to Zoombox 350 Boston Mass, and I'll send you instructions on how to do it. If you had a machine that could do anything you wanted it to, what would you have it do? A genie machine. I'd make it make people be mad. Make snow. Make real giraffes. Make cotton candy. Make money. Make ice cream. Make sports equipment. Make me a racing car. To give me breakfast. Clean up my room. Fix the world up. I'd have it stop wars. I'd like it to make peace on Earth, probably. Remember a while ago I asked you which came first, the chicken or the egg? Thanks for all your answers. We got hundreds of them. Here are some of them now. Randy Pelosi of Wake Forest, North Carolina, said this in about the chicken.

The chicken evolved from the wild fowl, which evolved from the animal, which all other birds came from after many millions of years. The Yakiopteryx, I suppose you must think I'm weird. Well, I am, all 11-year-olds are. Well, here's one from... Here's one from Laurie Hover of Rochester, New York. She said the egg came first and God sat on it. Now, here's one sent in by Val McAlpine, Buffalo Grove, Illinois. And he says, I think the chicken came first because God created man first and all the animals. He didn't wait around for an egg to hatch. Here's one from Andrew and Chrissy Taylor, Newton Center, Mass. This Andrew says, egg because God had to check if the egg would work. Well, I guess so.

Ah, here's one from Susan Stebbins of Whitman, Massachusetts. I know the answer to which came first, a chicken or an egg. A chicken had to come first, because an egg cannot keep itself warm. And anyway, an egg can't just pop anywhere. And how can an egg make a nest, huh? Well, here's one from Jill Stancil of San Bernardino, California. She said the egg came first because God created the egg hatched. Laura Schwetman of East Meadow, Long Island says, I think the chicken must have come first because God made Adam a grown-up man, not a baby. Here's one from Ruth Ann Dunn from Bethelda, Maryland. She says, I think the egg came first because dinosaurs laid eggs and they came way before chickens. so there I think the chicken came first

writes Linda Johnson of Holliston Mass because two chickens went up on the ark not two eggs did you ever hear of two eggs going up on the ark no but here's one from Lars Olander of Brooklyn, New York he says the egg came first because once there was this plant suddenly an unusual thing happened. The plant grew in an egg. This wasn't an ordinary egg that has yolk in it. Instead it had a chicken in it. Now there were plenty of other plants like this, but one day it rained and when it stopped all those kinds of plants were gone. So naturally you would think that that was the end of the chickens, but you're wrong. That chicken lay an other egg like the one the plant rule so when the egg hatched the chicken in it laid another egg etc that's why I think the egg comes first you don't want to repeat that do you

Elizabeth Perry of Kennerbunkport Maine writes I know what comes first the chicken comes first because the chicken lays the egg and eggs can't lay chickens But how did the chicken get there? Quiet. Read your letter. Here's one from Beg Aubondoffer of Ka-Ka-Ya-Hugo, Falls, Ohio. I think they both came at the same time, because when the chicken lays the egg, the chicken is already in the egg, so they both came at the same time. Well, all right. Almost. But not quite. Ted Eccle of Perrysburg, Ohio. Here's what he says. Now, here's the question. What came first, the chicken or the egg? His answer is the rooster. And Rachel Bernstein of Newton, Massachusetts writes,

Dear Zoom, I think the egg came first because the chicken comes out of the egg. But the mother chicken lays the egg, so I don't know, really. I wonder which really did come first. Miss Lucy had a baby. She named him Tiny Tim. She put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim. He drank up all the water. He ate up all the soap. He tried to eat the bathtub, but it wouldn't go down his throat. Miss Lucy called the doctor. The doctor called the nurse. The nurse called the lady with the alligator purse. Miss said the doctor, mom said the nurse And the chicken box said the lady with the alligator purse Get out, you phony doctor, get out, you phony nurse Get out, you phony lady with the alligator purse Out came all the water, out came all the soap And out came all the bathtub

That wouldn't go down his throat, the end There are a number of events in gymnastics. There's bars, beam, and vaulting. How are your hands feeling, Jason? When you do bars, you need to protect your hands. And I use gloves that a doctor would put on a cut or something. You just wrap it around your two fingers to protect your hands so that the friction of the bars won't rip your skin. And then I put chalk on my hands so I won't slip. When I'm on bars, I just think about to keep going and not to have any swings in between. And I think about just to make every movement precise. You really have to think about what you're going to do. I like doing bars because I like the swinging movement. Sometimes it's a funny feeling to know

that you're going through the year if you're just about to hit something and twist right around it. I like the balance beam because it's slow and graceful. When I'm on the beam, I can express things that I can't say in words, like the movement of my body, the way I want it to go. It sort of makes me feel beautiful and graceful, and it really makes me feel good. For more information, visit www.fema.org

feels like you're flying through the year. Okay, let's stretch forward first, all right? Sometimes in the afternoon after school, I'll teach younger kids gymnastics. I like teaching people the same sport that I like to do so much because I work on it so hard and I like to see other people enjoy it too. And remember to push on the shoulders. If you don't push on your shoulders, you're just going to go right on the floor. It's going to collapse. What I want to do with gymnastics is, first I want to go into the Olympics. If I make it, I want to win a medal for the United States, but that's kind of up in the air right now. Push. That's good. That was better. Try it again. Most of all, I think I'd like to coach and teach because I like teaching a lot. Gymnastics gives me a little self-confidence, and it gives you a feeling that you can do something and that you're worth something.

and that you're just not another person. Once upon a time, three friars went into the floral business. One day, a few of the town's children ran into the backyard and were gobbled up by the man-eating plants the friars were growing. The parents of the children demanded that the plants be destroyed, but the friars refused, So the townspeople got the blacksmith, whose name was Hugh, to run the friars out of town. The moral of the story is, Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars. This was sent in by Brian Loofboro of Westfield, New Jersey. Did you tell her? No. I'm going on a safari and I'm taking, uh, a notebook. Yeah. Yeah, I got it. Kelly's the only one that doesn't have it. i'm going on safari and i'm taking what am i taking i'm taking a trip i'm taking tours i am bringing

oh jekyll and hyde i had a good thing you could bring all right um i'm going to safari and i'm bringing some nails go to it kenny Hey. Yes, Kenny? A TV set? I'm going on a safari, and I'm taking a jaguar. Yes, I don't know. What are you taking? A jaguar. I'm going on a safari. You are? Whoa. And I'm taking a tire. I'm going on a safari, and I'm taking Nina. All right. We're taking each other. All right, who's paying the bill? Okay, now. No, it's your turn.

It's your turn, Tracy. Yeah, what do you want to say? I'm going on a safari and I'm taking... I'm taking a teapot. Yeah! I'm going on a safari and I'm bringing along a jeep. I'm going on a safari and I'm taking along the Nile. Oh! I'm going on a safari and I'm bringing a kangaroo. Yeah! Tommy Coronado of Houston, Texas, asks if Fanny Dooley likes him. Well, she likes Tommy, but dislikes Coronado. The sons of the prophet are brave men and bold And white and accustomed to fear But the bravest of all of these men, I am told, was Abdul-Abulbul Amir. This son of the desert in battle aroused, could split twenty men on his spear.

A terrible creature, when sober or soused, was Abdul-Abulbul Amir. Now the heroes were plenty and well-known to fame, who fought in the ranks of the Tsar. But the bravest of these was a man by the name of Ivan Skavinsky Skubar. He could imitate Irving, play poker and rule, and strum on the Spanish guitar. In fact, quite the cream of the Muscovite team Was Ivan Skavinsky Skavar One day this bold Russian had shouldered his gun And gnawed his most truculent sneer Downtown he did go where he trod arm and toe Of Abdul-Abbul-Abbul-Amir

Young man, has your life grown so dull That you're anxious to end your career By Lynn Fidel, you know you have trod on the toe Of Abdul-Abal Amir So take your last look at the sunshine and brook And send your regrets to Caesar For by this I imply you are going to die, Mr. Ivan Skavinsky's goodbye. Said Ivan, my friend, your remarks in the end will avail you but little I fear. For you ne'er shall survive To repeat them alive Mr. Abdul-Abulbul Amir Lisa and Sydney Chambers of Denver, Colorado

Say that Fanny Dooley likes skiing But she hates snow They parried and thrust They sidestepped and cussed Of blood they did spill a great part The philologist flocks Who seldom grab jokes Say that hash was first made on that spot They fought all that night Neath the pale yellow moon They did it was heard from afar Great multitudes came So great was the fame of Abdul and Ivan's gavar. Jeff Leesman of Newton, Massachusetts says, Fanny Dooley dislikes soap, but loves bubbles. How about that?

As Abdul's long knife was extracting the life In fact, he had shouted huzzah He felt himself struck by that wily kamak Count Ivan Skavinsky Skubar The sultan drove by in his red-breasted fly expecting the victor to cheer. But he only drew nigh just to hear a last sign from Abdul-Abal Amir. Tsar Petrovich, too, in his spectacles blue, drove up in his new-crested car. He arrived just in time to exchange a last line With a Vinskavinsky's gavar Stuart Everett of Gales Ferry, Connecticut

Says that Fanny Dooley hates crocodiles But she loves alligators A Muscovite maiden Her lone vigil keeps Neath the light of the pale polar star And the name that she murmurs So soft as she weeps Is Ivan Skavinsky Skavar Now the sons of the prophets Are brave men and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear But the bravest of all of these men I am told was Abdullabal Amir. Carol Ziska of Maywood, Illinois, says that Fanny Dooley likes kittens, but dislikes cats. When you have figured out the solution,

make up a Fanny Dooley of your own and send it to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. I'm taking Joe I'm taking Tommy I'm taking Nancy I'm taking Tracy I'm taking John I'm taking Nina And I'm taking Sammy. You've got to take everything on. What are you taking on your safari? 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, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and 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. Thank you.