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01x05 - Ready or Not, Here I Come

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Aired: January 6, 1973 – March 31, 2009.*
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Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.

01x05 - Ready or Not, Here I Come

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[male narrator reading]

Now, everybody try to find
a good hidin' place.

This old tree is gonna be the base.

I'm gonna close my eyes and hide my face
and count to a hundred by fives.

Ready? Go.

[man calling out]

One Hundred. Ready or not, here I come.

♪ Apple, peaches, pumpkin pie
Who's not ready, holler "I" ♪

-I.
-Oh, all right. I'll count it again.

But you better get hid, kid.
Here we go.

[man calling out]

There!

♪ A bushel of wheat and a bushel of rye ♪

♪ Who's not hid holler "I" ♪

♪ Twenty nickels makes a dollar
I didn't hear anybody holler ♪

[man reading]

♪ Everybody got to be hid ♪

♪ All eyes open, here I come ♪

Whoo!

Multiplying by five
is a little like counting by five.

In fact, if you counted along
on your fingers

as you counted out loud by fives,

your fingers would tell you
how many fives you've got.

OK, let's count together, now.
Count on your fingers.

One finger for each count out loud.

Get set. Ready. Go.

[all] ♪ 5, 10, 15, 20 ♪

Stop! Twenty.

You got four fingers.
See, that means four times five is 20.

Let's try another one.
Get set. Ready? Go.

♪ 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 35 ♪

Stop! Thirty-five.

Seven fingers. That's right.

Seven times five is 35.

OK, let's try a longer one.

Now, when you run out of fingers at 50,
you see, because five times 10 is 50,

Then start over with the same fingers

and remember that you owe 10.
Get set. Ready? Go.

♪ 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30,
35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 ♪

Stop! Ten and two, right?

That's 12 fingers, and 12 times 5 is 60.
See how it works?

Now, you may notice that if you multiply
five by an even number,

your product will end in zero,
and if you multiply five by an odd number,

your product will end in five.

OK, now. Let's do one more game
of counting by fives on our fingers.

This is a long number. Keep going.
Get set. Ready? Go.

♪ 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 35, 40, 45, 50 ♪

♪ 55, 60, 65 70, 75, 80, 85 ♪

Stop! Eighty-five, 17 fingers.

Look at that boy
with 17 fingers stickin' up.

How do you do that, kid?
Anyway, five times 17 is 85.

You see that's three fives
short of a hundred.

If you have three more nickels, 15 cents,

and added the 15 to 85,
you'd get 100, right?

♪ 'Cause five times 20 is 100
Everybody got to be hid it's ♪

[man calling out]

♪ 100, ready or not ♪

♪ Here I come ♪