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01x18 - Episode 35 & 36

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Vegetable Soup". Aired: September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978.*
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01x18 - Episode 35 & 36

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[Laughter] [Music]

[Music]

when a black cat meets a white cat and they have some kittens you might think

the kittens would all be gray but more than likely some will be black some

white and some will be in between gray have you ever wondered how people get to

be different shades of color this is Stephie Treadway and her brother Brad

their parents are Frank and dealed are Treadway dealed are is from India and

Frank was born in the United States if you look at steffie's hand next to

Brad's you see that Stephie's is somewhat lighter that's because children with the same

parents can be different shades of color let's look at another family josh has

straight hair like his mother Seth has curly hair just like his father

yet it's josh who has his father's brown eyes and seth has blue eyes just like

his mother when two people have children the children don't look exactly like

either their mother or their father but they share some qualities from each what

happens is not a mixing of qualities each child is a new creation with some

parts that look like each parent but each comes out looking like a totally new and original person Josh and Seth

shades of skin color color of eyes color and kind of hair these and many other

qualities we get from our parents but we are never exactly the same as our parents

Steffie and Brad Josh and Seth you and I

we are each and original inside and out [Music]

story it's the retelling time

[Music]

ah that's big dog and that's the little

dog there's a song about my mother used to sing to me when I was about charity she learned it from her mother

I've seen the song about the new Japanese [Applause]

oh you know one watch each other [Music] want to look it up

oh you know one when she channel 1 1 Wow

itsumo Nakayoshi Otto

[Music] and when I go well always such chunks

always great pals oh wow always friends whoa whoa hey I tell you

what come on doggies let's go for a walk

[Music]

hi look at those don't know what they call tedo poses I grew up in this

country you stand over here so I used to say rain rain go away but when my

grandmother was a little girl in Japan she used to make these little dolls and hang them up on the eaves of her house

and she'd sing teru teru bozu teru bozu Teddy Teddy BOSU Teddy ballsy make

tomorrow a bright sunny day like the day I dreamed of so long

long ago if you make it sunny I'll give you a silver bell

[Music]

teru teru bozu teru bozu teru teru bozu

teru bozu wash the tankini still pudding

eat suka know you [Music]

it [Applause] you

Suzu [Music]

hey kids I don't think it's working look it's raining [Laughter]

[Applause] Suzu

[Music]

and now we join the big-game hunt the show which asks the question can a nice

girl like cricket wicket find new games to play every day with the help of a small stuffed doll named Ringo Livio or will

their quest be foiled by the devious deviltry of Long John spoilsport bounder Leiter and part-time Blackard

tell me Long John do you enjoy your work frankly I hate it this job isn't as easy

as it looks you know I get blisters from tooling my moustache all day and those

nos make me feel like there's a Boy Scout in my throat trying to start a

fire by rubbing my tonsils together I brought you to sunny exotic Hawaii

by this time you're probably wondering why well since we are always out looking

for MOA games to play let's try this one they play here called Noah the kids here play marbles and

hopscotch and skate but Noah is native to only this state now this is the Noah

well so far so good it's a small piece of stone it can also be wood we split into two teams one team

on each side the first team picks one of its members to hide the Noah beneath one

of these piles of Thapa hold on just a minute I want you to stop a sec tell me

what stopper its cloth made of bark there are five kinds of tapa I'll name them so hark first we have Kiki buchaiah

and next we have pili mo then we have cow P Luka and k*ll emo the Noah is

stashed under one of these things and the person who hides it as he does so sings i'ii not ieave us there it is

there it is eek a cow I can't pee late I came out under the cow or the P lay or the morrow

I love a cow I cut Noah a cow ekoo there are no it's

- yes it's - now the other team guesses which tapa it's under the first team

with ten correct guesses has won me first I want the first yes well well look what crawled out from

under the top long-johns pause boy himself I think we better let him guess

or else he'll make this game a mess oh well okay take a guess Long John wino are coming

up wrong now ah it's enough to make me

cry for 40 days and 40 nights why don't

you make a new friend make a new friend make a new friend today why don't you

make a new friend make a move then make a new friend

today we live in Hawaii

Aloha my name is Rana and I have a twin sister named Julie Rana and I are seven

years old you can tell us apart because her hair is shorter I live with my

sister Julie my little sister Tina and my mother

I like Rana because she draws really well I like Julie because we play

together [Music]

daddy made a big pond in the backyard for the fishes and I eat them every day

[Music]

when we go to the zoo we pick up dates from the ground and feed the goats

[Music]

then we all have a stack of slush slush

is China ice cream then after the zoo we

all walk over to the beach [Music]

we stay on to the end of the day and then we go home

[Music]

mister hinson mister my mother said you wanted enough phone well son that was a

long time ago so how did you find it well we use the

sextant what is it sexy come I'll show you what does the North Pole look like

actually it's not a polled at all that's spot on the map is this all you need to

find a North Pole oh no you need the sextant ship lots of food men planning

lots of sleds because there's nothing there but snow and ice it took us 18

years and several tries before we reached the North Pole Wow

18 years the Silverhawks turn a genius or a hundred years we were determined to

be the first men to walk on top of the world commander Robert II Perry was leader and organized of the expedition I

worked with the Eskimos and was responsible for everybody's safety at

times I thought we wouldn't make it there were days when it was sixty degrees below zero and we had to worry

about freezing as we travel towards the North Pole we had to build camps and store food for

our return trip we had to be very careful traveling on the ice it could

break at any moment and we'd be swallowed up by freezing cold water as

we neared the North Pole there were only six men left if it had not been for our

Eskimo friends Perry and I might not have made it wow you must be famished

not exactly however you may read more about what we did in this book I wrote

the greatest day of my life was April 6 1901 had ever stood on the North Pole

we built a mountain and planted a fly on it and we got out of there as fast as we

could Gary couldn't walk anymore so I pushed him about 400 miles by sled funny thing

we never saw each other again did you

know that words passed [Music]

listen to [Music]

hey brothers and sisters let's rap about word have you ever said busting stuff

instead of wash the dishes you ever call a little kid a crumb crusher [Music]

have you ever called money bread or Apple okay okay if you have you using

words and expressions originated by black Americans do you dig I'm hip back

to dig hip hep are all black American words meaning to understand you don't

have to pull my coattail you mean I don't have to explain it to you all of these words and phrases are

what we call slang it's a special language of words that don't appear in the standard dictionary why do we talk

slang bend my ear baby sometimes because there is no word in standard English

that says what you want to say as accurately or as colorfully as the word to invent yourself for example in slang

a black man who acts like a white man is called an Oreo because an Oreo is a

cookie that's black outside and white inside there's no dictionary word as

descriptive is that sometimes we speak slang because I swear our friends talk to be a part of the group share things

with our friends you've got to speak their language otherwise you're out to

lunch meaning you don't understand another reason slang is spoken is because it's a

secret language only you and your friends know the meaning of the words in England the c*ck speaker rhyming

slang that only they understand in c*ck bread and honey equals money

bread and honey rhymes with money secret language [Music]

much of American Slang started among the black people and much of black slang

came from black musicians part of a secret language only other musicians understood until the code was broken and

our musicians picked it up slang may not be proper but it's certainly missed our

vocabularies Ruby if I tell you to cool it I get all decked out in a new set of

threads if you're an Eightball or a fat cat you're feeling funky oh hung up if

you talk this way to describe who you are or how you feel what to do or how to do it you're speaking the slang of black

Americans crazy right on dig you later brothers and sisters

[Music]

I'd like to introduce you to some

people [Music]

my name is Martin I have a pet snake now mom I'm gonna take the bite to the shop I'm gonna be out of the house most of

the day and what about Mary's dog no problem I'll see guys it's Kate someplace up high okay remember the

latke okay and don't forget your key okay and be careful okay okay that one's

made trouble for me by pretending Nigel bit him here's Pat now what am I gonna

say hi no no that's that's okay IRA oh

thanks well did you get anything

it's move light flash your horn radio all in one I saved up all my money

for it I bet it was expensive I think I'm gonna have to leave my advice here

you see the gears lock and we see the pail here that's tough gear here that is

gone right missus just frozen solid won't move it off yeah guess you want to

gonna have to leave it are you gonna walk home well I thought I might go over to the bullion bolo little you like

bowling Oh crazy around bowling you got some time what a bowl sure let's do that

just wait here me

[Music]

[Music]

why don't we cut through the park it's wet shorter yeah but what about the brook we can walk the bike through I do

it all the time okay hey you drop something the key oh boy my

mother would tell me if I lost this she has this thing about locking the house you'd think something burger was just

waiting to break in did you know the world's is crawling with burglars

[Music]

[Music] you see sometimes when you don't know somebody very well the kind of insight

in advance it's not gonna like it yeah boy that's happening me even with

somebody I dunno like the time the ID was stolen and the first person I thought of was Clary and it was all

wrong yeah things really turned out different than you expect sometime

[Music]

in bitten by any boys lately I was sort

of wondering if you were gonna bring that up I was just teasing I got over that thing no really I do feel bad about that stupid lie I was sorry the minute

was out of my mouth I just didn't know how to take it back in a way it was a compliment you

wouldn't have done it if you didn't think Nyjah was special even if he is kind of an underdog in the pet world

it's good to stick up for the underdog makes you feel like you can stand on your own two feet you should get a boa a

girl boa I bet your Niger would like that and soon we two have half a dozen

little baby Boas and both our mothers would kick us out of the house

[Music] [Applause] [Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

swollen oh she made it's broken don't

talk crazy basketball practice starts next week well I can I can move it a

little I'll tell you what [Music]

the way I fight [Music]

I'm almost ready [Music]

Thanks thanks for taking me home and style rights hey since I cheated you out

of the bowing why don't you come in a little you like monopoly better watch you out on my listen I promised my

mother I'd get other papers so let me do that and I'll be right back and I'll beat you with one foot soaking at a foot

bath here mom I just got here why are

you listening huh hey what happened here I just asked you that did you leave the

window open of course not I had you know what must have been a burglar I wonder

why I left it all behind something was too scared my job of course and what

happened to that marvelous watchdog of Larry's probably sleep somewhere but

Nigel's here say it mom Nigel's a hero [Music]

greetings friends I'm glad to see you today I have a treat from Korea

it's bold oak I fired beef to you now what he's gonna tell you what's the zoo

take one teaspoon of garlic powder and a dash of pepper then two tablespoons of

soy sauce and two teaspoons of sugar our brand one green onion thinly slice two

teaspoons of sesame seeds isn't that nice good now take a bowl and mix them

up nice take 1/2 pound of beef sirloin

slice real fish and then cut across the grain put the meat in the mixture and

let it stand there for 15 minutes now

you know that sauce that you just made it's a really delicious marinade when

you remove a beef let someone who is older boil it until it's done when the

edges are critics on one side turn it over and cook it but don't let it burn

[Music] Korean Americans all over the state bla

foci they think it's great they say mess with me yup yup you'll

fail too when the beat isn't it great in the US mercy what happened to you I was

in a fight this kind of thing never happened until those no kids moved here

I'll pick you up like that my sister

[Music]

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[Laughter] [Music]

[Music]

[Music]

I don't care about the other fathers I'm

me they're there I'm staying here I'm watching the baggage so to go by yourself or shut up

a small play with that yeah go home to

your mama come on let's go play why

can't everyone be the same yes it might

solve some problems if everyone were the same but it also might be kind of boring

there's no getting around the fact of our differences we're born with skin

color eye and hair color that don't change some people go to be very tall

some people will always be short no two people in the world are ever exactly

alike even identical twins have different fingerprints

different voices my name is Jason Begley I got a whole new scope so some people

are very different some people are only

different in a few ways but all people are different enough to be one of a kind

sometimes it helps to be very tall or very small for some jobs it helps to

have no fear of heights or a good ear for music much of what makes us

different comes from our parents they give us our names and your shade of skin

color your eyes your hair and the many other things that make you look the way

you do came from your parents but you are also you and original you are the

only person who can decide what to do in your life you can study dinosaurs or

climb a mountain dance or drive a taxi

[Music] you could take care of animals sing or

fly to the moon [Music]

[Applause] [Music]

[Music]

have you ever thought about how the first railroad that went across this country was built it took a lot of men

to build and it never would have been finished if it weren't for the Chinese railroad workers the Central Pacific

Railroad was to start from California and join up with the Union Pacific tracks at Utah but the mountains were

too high and the work was too dangerous the Central Pacific Railroad couldn't find enough men to work for the very

little money they were willing to pay the need for men to work on the railroad

to thousands of Chinese men from China hungry left them no choice but to try

the gold mountain of America a place they thought was rich my home and my

parents at the age of 21 in a family of eight children I was the

youngest son little choice was left to me but to go to a far land on the

passing of this wandering we sailed for America in 1864 they packed

us in the wooden ships so they could fit no more we sailed a stormy seas from

March until me there was Chinamen for lo the deck without the light a day

I will not be responsible for work done by Chinese laborers I don't think they can build their era we came to build a

railroad others fear to go through deserts without water Rocky Mountains

covered in snow some died from the heat and cold we lost men everyday the

company crooks with their phony books is told away our pay from sunup to sundown

they leave thousands of miles of track so when I'm gone don't bury me just send

my bones back home a pick and a shovel to my friends no longer will I roam

children we built a Western Railroad some say we were the best but when we

were done son of a g*n they forgot us with all the rest

[Music]

and my name is Robert head I can draw on it with lead time for any lines you can

have a real good time rub a dub-dub sailing sailing over the bounding main

don't pull the plug or else you'll let the water down the drain why the sailor's cap Brouillard haven't you

heard mates we're taking a sea cruise sea cruise courtesy of mr. emmer itis I

love sea cruises the foaming brine the towering waves the roar of the deep

there's only one problem what's that I get seasick where are we going I don't

know let's check what's this it's a

Portuguese fishing boat

[Music] who put that ocean there the Portuguese

are fine fishermen so Portuguese in this country headed toward coastal areas to

make their living from the sea let's make a Portuguese fishing boat in

Portuguese that's vamos construido un Barco de pesca Portuguese right vamos

I'm so either un Barco de pesca Portuguese huh

to make the kind of boat used by the Portuguese we start with two patterns

that look like these rubber head some paper be back in the gym too soft we

need paper paper that stiff where is ruler just a few inches away we need two

rectangles squares that are long one a bit longer you can't go wrong they go

right here can't you use me on the job I

don't feel in it patience Julia in a minute make the

second the larger one almost done

add the lines here's the last one okay

Julia let her rip I'm a regular cut up cuz I love to snip crayon the petals hey

watch out it makes them colourful and

waterproof neatly crease along each dotted line paste the tabs to the boat

hey this job is mine

now glue the smaller part to the inside of the boat and we've got a model good

enough to float all aboard our Portuguese fishing boat hoist sail

mate Anchors Aweigh aye aye sir we

there's nothing like the sea with its spray and foam but as for me there's no

place like home

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

oh hello correct please be seated [Music]

[Applause] oh yes the tickets for your parents and

you to Africa we have them ready you're going to find countries in Africa and

your first stop is Monrovia Liberia I know you're going to enjoy how did you

just start it how did I get started in the travel business oh it's rather a long story but really

I'm I traveled abroad myself one time I went to Europe and was really so fascinated

about the way the trip was organized we had to have airline tickets hotels everything was well planned and I said I

thought more of our people more black people would travel if they knew how easy it was to travel so I came back

talked it over with my husband and we opened an agency so now we write tickets like this for people who are gonna

travel all over the world we make their hotel reservations we wrecked cars for them we arranged steamship cruises when

people like to travel by ship bus any kind of travel we arrange it and help it

help make travel easier for people who want to go on business or on pleasure a

pleasure do you like your job yes this

job is very exciting one gets a chance to learn a lot about geography you study

geography in school I'm sure we are learning about people and places and a

lot of the fun is just in helping other people to do what they want to do because you see in travel we're selling

dreams people dream about where they want to go but they want to see and what they do and we help them to do it

if you're interested in becoming a travel agent one thing you should do is study your geography lessons and learn

all you can about all parts of the world then also it's good to learn a foreign

language that will help you to talk with the people abroad what's better and to

UM understand their types of money as well as our language anytime you can understand people then you can be a

greater success and dealing with them one nice thing about travel is that

they're men and women both in the travel business it's an exciting world and opens wide

areas that you've never heard of never thought about [Music]

to introduce you to some people

[Music] come on Martin Nigel's a snake I think we're handling

him too much like we're always expecting him to put on a show hey you guys I gotta go anyway it's just

they needs a rest wait a minute Martin why don't you make a little bit at a cotton boss for a little sneaky wait oh come on Scott oh

it's finally become an important guy to you isn't it easily you know everything he says goes

you're just jobs cuz you don't have a cool friend like Scott oh he's okay for a black man Oh get out of here whoa come

on don't you doesn't have one of those ooh shows at the library this afternoon

watch it there now well it doesn't start till 3:30 and I have an awful lot of homework so if you

don't get out here I'm gonna kick you out we'll look I'm scared yes that means me

too huh yeah it does but meet me over at the zoo show okay all right I'll be there okay I'll see you later TJ yeah

Martin what did you do oh what happened now oh nothing nothing I'm just cleaning

at his cage funny I thought you just cleaned it out yesterday oh well actually he got a little sick Oh No

well if he's sick I guess you better try to find out what's the matter with him maybe you could call Scott but Scott's

not home right now he's over at the library doing the zoo show hey wood maybe I could bring Nigel over that

sounds like a good idea uses a fetus

paddles similar to a rope over can this pushes himself through the water

the land turtle doesn't have webbed feet it just says fairly long nails to help

him grip the land and to dig the food

take it straight no foam in the library yeah why'd you bring your bowling ball

for it isn't a bowling ball yeah what is it then it's it's a snake

a 30-foot rattler I'm scared

[Music]

[Music]

[Music] husky

[Music] [Applause] [Music]

in the library the lady doesn't butyrate

he doesn't feel nice let's see the corn stubble surmise

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

it is new running in this library what are you looking for a kid he has

something of mine but we're not gonna have a chase going on in here what was it that he took my bowling bag

it's very important I have to have it right away all right all right I'll find him don't worry he won't get away from

me where were you headed the zoo show oh well that's in the children's library

now you go there quietly and I'll find the bag and bring it to you okay well

okay but it's very important I have to have it right away it has don't worry don't worry I'll

bring it for you all right okay this is

a green iguana this found in South America it's called an de bourree you live

[Applause] [Music]

nothing to be afraid of these kind of likes and page

[Music]

this is Paul thank you black doesn't

come out in UK or at night right tonight reason for this is because of his

coloration now have you ever been in the woods at night with trees with with the

moon shining through the trees and you get little spots of darkness and little spots of light

well this animal blends right in with it

[Applause] this is a red-tail boa constrictor and

it's a non poisonous snake if it bites you it won't poison but it can't hurt if

all constrictors have usually nice atoms they don't hurt people they don't eat

people and there's really there's really no need to be afraid of in fact there's

a fellow out here now that has one thing he's not afraid of them in office mark come on up mark show you how people can

can get used to snakes Martin's a nice guy and he's look at him he's not afraid

of them at all so there's no need to be afraid of snakes as long as you know how to handle them to take good care of them

they're gonna be nice to you all snakes have no ears

they can't hear a thing the way they do here is by sound sound vibrations they

pick up vibrations through their skin and this is the way they feel

[Applause]

[Applause]

they're not wet and slimy they're very dry and they feel cool because they're

cold-blooded and they also like to wrap

around things they feel very secure and happy when they're wrapped around things

[Music] the reason he's going up my sweater is

because snakes don't really like bright lights and they try to find dark corners

to hide

hey Scott that was a great show you didn't come here just to see me in action did you I would have come anyway

but I brought nigel along I've been worried about him he he threw up a little while ago

what do I tell you about handling Nigel too much especially after he's gone it's

gone the kid get us stalled the bag Nigel must still be in the library

[Music]

[Applause] they say there's a sneak you better grab something to hit with

if he had been found we would have heard it by now let's just go and find it come on

[Music]

[Applause] Lambie yes dear

look a big wave yes dear where come on let's go oh thank you

[Music]

[Music]

you know why I love this library because nothing ever happens here

[Music] greetings friends I'm glad Thea today I

have a treat from Correa get old oak I hired beef to you now what he's gonna

tell you what's the boo take one teaspoon of garlic powder and a dash of

pepper Bend 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and two teaspoons of sugar plan one

green onion thinly slice two teaspoons

of sesame seeds and mix them up take one

half pound of beef sirloin slice will fit and then cut across the grain put

the meat in the mixture and let it stand there for 15 minutes now you know that

sauce that you just made it's a really delicious marinade when you remove the

beef let someone with older boil it until it's done when the edges are crisp

on one side turn it over and cook it but don't let it burn

[Music]

[Music]

we're not the same Luther my skin is pink yours is brown my hair is curly

mine is straight my nose is round mine is pointed was so different and still so

much to say [Music]

[Music]