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02x02 - Episode 3 & 4

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Vegetable Soup". Aired: September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978.*
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02x02 - Episode 3 & 4

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[Laughter]

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and now today's adventure of outer scope to watch out for that bulldozer

while the kids were in the Attic reading about sailor bill in the gold medallion the garbageman picked up outerscope and

carried it away thinking it was junk the city dump is not a very safe place for a

space ship [Music]

[Music] I wonder if they're gonna let us in here when we tell them what happened

like wait before we go in do we have everything we need to make a disco fly yeah I've got everything we need right

here in a duffel bag stuff from the east I've got that come on you guys permission well maybe so but there's no

one around here after all

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if it's over there we're at a prob oh come on maybe they dumped it on the other side [Music]

boy this place is enormous no outerscope nothing but junk hey

everybody what what what is it good for you Henry

come on Edgar [Music]

we'll keep the diary here okay but you keep the map on you good idea in case

something happens nothing the diary won't be together okay but we better get going Oh rose

where is that girl he's got the ease

I don't want to get [Music]

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come on [Music]

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to the tools we should figure out [Music]

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next time separation and now for the big

job hunt [Applause]

sorry max the marvelous machines and that villainous farm at Long John

spoilsport long johns oil sport is my name sabotaging the job hunt is my game all

of you out there who are playing along will soon be singing a very sad song so

here we go my fine feathered friend you will see a lot of my rottenness before

this show ends and yeah and now the host

of our show sue Taylor [Applause]

hi kids welcome to the big job hunt our contestants today will be from school 12

and from the Van Rentschler School

[Applause] hello max hello are you ready to go to

work work work that's all I ever do around here I should report you to the

SPC our SPC our Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to robots max don't be ridiculous

we've got a show to do now pull yourself together all right but I'm warning you I

won't allow myself to be exploited I'll remember that

now it's time to choose today's contestants first from school 12 Kevin

Pompey Larry Conyers Lynn coffee and

from the van rennselaer school Michel Lee Billy Joe he'll strobe

Cynthia hall [Applause]

we're glad to have you with us now will each of you tell us your name and what you would like to do when you grow up

starting from school 12 first Kevin I like to be a professional football

player a professional football player and how about you Larry a football player Oh - and how about you main architect

excuse me architect architect thank you very much now let's hear from the van Rensselaer

school how about you Cynthia psychiatrist psychiatrist and Michelle president of United States of America

mm-hmm and how about you Billy Joe truck driver truck driver thank you very much now

contestants please listen carefully to the rules of the game the object of the game is to guess the mystery job max

will pick the category in the questions questions are worth points at the end of the round the team with the most points

gets a chance to see a clue and name the mystery job now for you kids who are playing at home I've got a word of

warning watch out for Long John spoilsport he'll be up to his old and dirty tricks

hearty this habit of trying to confuse you so watch out yeah now for round one

max pick us a category please are you ready

well I could stand a couple of quarts of oil okay I'll see what I can do about

that let's get round one of this game on the road start spinning max get ready teams

categories potluck thank you don't mention it

this question is worth 10 points the word Colorado the name of one of the 50

states comes from what language is it a Spanish be English see Latin or D French

it's B it's B yes Michelle Latin I'm

sorry the answer was a Spanish it means red yeah I hope you kids in the audience

didn't let old spoilsport throw you off the track with the wrong answer let's get on to our next question max I

haven't gotten my oil yet forget about the oil I told you I take care of that

later just give me the question all right ready teams

categories thanks this question is worth

10 points this man call authored The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 1964 is

best known as the famous writer of roots a book adapted for television in 1977

his name is a hand off the buzzer yes Larry I'll tell

[Applause] that's right the intimacy Alex Haley the

score is now van rennselaer school zero to school twelve ten points okay max and

now for some more questions about that oil max the questions all right here it

is we are welcome I'm sure

now panelists I'm going to ask you five true or false questions each question is

worth five points the first question is number one in area Canada is the second

largest country in the world hands off the buzzer yes Michelle that's

right in the Soviet Union [Applause]

number two the American Indian Movement is an organization working to improve living conditions and to increase pride

among native and off the buzzer yes Michelle true that's right

[Applause] the American Indian Movement is an

organization working to help Native Americans number three in the early 1500s ponce de leon founded a small city

called kepada on the i yes hands off the buzzer Cynthia what true

ponce de leon did find a city in puerto rico number four

puerto rico is one of the 50 states hands off the buzzer yes Michelle that's

right what are we going and number five

the last question a society's total way of life is known as its culture hands up

the buzzer yes India that's right [Applause]

the score is now van Rentschler school 20 points to school 1210 boys

[Applause] van rennselaer you're ahead with 20

points so you get the first crack at today's mystery job keep your eyes on Max's eye okay max show us the clue

[Music] [Applause]

[Music] okay panelists remember you can talk it

over with your teammates before answering but you have ten seconds to name the mystery job start the countdown

max ten seconds have no fears they couldn't get it in a million years yes

man Rinzler

[Applause] that's right the the mystery job is a

dancer congratulations ranran Schley you just won the big job

I want to ask you something please not about your oil know about Long John

spoilsport I want him off the show because he gets

on my nerves I mean my circuits that's why all those wrong clues all those

snide remarks I wasn't built to play second fiddle to a creep like him if

he's going to be on this show he should be truthful and play fair that

clanging banging bore of a max has the nerve to criticize my act I'll show him

who's boss of this show he'll get his oil

[Applause] galloping Gophers I'm foiled again yeah

you see max guys like him always get it in the end

now let's take a look at a film about Debbie Allen who is a dancer in a choreographer have you ever wondered how

dancers are produced and handed down let's find out max roll it

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hi my name is Debbie Allen and I'm a choreographer that means that I design

patterns and movement in steps for dancing I was just sitting here thinking about something I'm working on right now would

you like to see how it's done come on

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[Music] I became a choreographer by teaching

dancing my students progressed so wonderfully that I was inspired to

create more and more movement for them and before I knew it I was putting together dances for them to music and

that's how I that started by teaching [Music]

to be a choreographer I had to study many different kinds of dancing I studied ballet and modern and jazz and

ethnic dancing and even a little tap so I could do as much as I want to do I've always danced and I love to dance

and I love choreography because it lets me express myself about the world and

the way I see things so lets me talk to people in a different way and let them know how I feel dance can

not only be recorded by film but it also can be recorded by method called dance notation which is a way of writing down

dance step by step and this way a person in California could read my dance notations and reproduce my whole

choreography for example this symbol right here means step left foot kick right then this means step right foot

kicked yet this symbol right here means

double turn to the right and in in second position back facing forward and this means the opposite just on the

other side double turn left back facing forward if I know it all sounds very confusing but I understand and it's

really not that difficult [Music]

dancing is really a lot of hard work and sweat but I love it and when I'm doing something that I love

I'm happy it's award time here on the

big job hunt and the grand prize the maxx trophy goes to the Van Rensselaer School

[Applause] [Music]

and to our fine runners-up school number 12 here's our consolation for ice the

minimax trophy who would want a trophy

of Max that moronic mass of metal and wax here's the prize you should possess

a trophy honoring my evilness yeah

thanks for being with us and we'll see you all right here on the big about

aren't you forgetting something I've got you covered oh that's wonderful

that feels so good and tastes delicious thank you you're welcome max thanks for

being here and we'll see you all next time on the big job [Music] [Applause]

I'll be back you wait and see bringing a bag full of badness with me yeah

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my name is Egon ënoí and I was born in Hawaii my grandparents came from Japan

my friend Kiana or knows it awayand

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pretty slow yeah you're gonna write on their next

Sunday I like to be a canoe paddler we

never be a canoe paddle that'll be big and tough like our wine you're Japanese

right you know any Japanese as strong as my cousin Charlie

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pagon let's go down to the beach oh no I can't go out to the beach I've gotten his language every day well

you never be able to meet other [Music]

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very making agent

well I hope you finished your homework [Music]

hey you know what you're doing you wanna move to move I'm gonna be a canoe Paulo and I with me okay looks good

keyonna honor said I'll never be big enough to be a canoe racer you remember

when I went out for basketball everybody was teasing me right but they're not laughing anymore

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right

it's son new Egan like judoka new club yeah let's do it but you gotta get our

spirit so you can make it yeah we get V you know what you gonna talk like a pro

you carryin words they made it hey lines how'd you get so good in peddling a lot

of practice practice

you guys want to go out and town let's go

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follow me okay when I come up with the fatter you come up to me to Kindle and I

caught a change one more after a change and then you go over to the next site that's it

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pick it up a little bit that's my kid right like that okay now I'm gonna make another change

change that's it [Music]

almost ran over that's it too much noise I'm a big man okay keyframe okay that's

it [Music]

all right two boys are doing fine with

your Nonna I can do it after all I'm a cunning paddler yeah yeah you're pretty

good at it [Music]

what would you do how would you feel

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hey let's try for the team rule practicing on a week well I heard the

girls talking down as a gym so what happened but they are talking about that black people are better at sports than

white people that's not true you beat me lots of times in your little ribbon I am - you should least have a try at it - I

was scared that people would laugh at me what would you do if someone told you you weren't good enough to try I just

try out for it I would just ignore them I wouldn't do it I guess I'll do anyway

just put that I can't do it what would you do

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get [Music]

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to make a vegetable vegetable soup

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come on [Music]

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and now today's adventure of outer scope to separation at the dump Eleanor and

Edgar work on the fuel system while Willie and Henry tried to stop the bulldozer from crushing outer scope to

bits

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what do we do well usually handles the ship we don't even know where we're going what are we

gonna do I've got an idea I'll steer you try to do something about controlling

power good idea look at all otoscope go

well looks like we've been left behind Willie we just weren't quite fast enough

in me I sure hope they can handle the ship okay what do we do now Willie I

don't know Henry we'll have to figure something out the bulldozers gone so

let's sit down here and look at the map but what good is it without the diary we'll have to see

he saw them in dalian in 1873 right I think that's what the diary said but I'm

not sure why well well look for that date on the map see here it is here and

again off this island in the Caribbean but that's so far away but look Henry

the dotted line goes all the way to here what's that say super just shy of home

port off of Montauk Point well that's not far from here at all gotcha what are you kids doing here

anyway looking for a spaceship it's sort of like a big toy we built it got carried away by mistake and we thought

we might find it here well did you know we didn't this Montauk Point very far

away now why would you want to go there I don't know it's not much of a map

anyway I don't tell me it's a very valuable map you have there as the

secret is some sort of a treasure buried long ago right Wow how'd you know it's easy most kids your

age go treasure hunt you don't think it's real to you oh the map spelled very real but by now the treasure Z the long

gone or unfindable find it okay okay

let's take a break time for lunch anyhow come on you can share mine bring your map along and I'll point you in the

right direction and give you some tips

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I'm worried about hanging really anything could happen to them down there anything could happen to us up here

I wish Hanuman Willie run with us I feel a whole lot better try not to worry

girls everything will be okay okay are you kidding

Willie and Henry left behind I said here's still not knowing where we're going we've been heading east so far how

do you know that we've been heading away from the Sun all the time and it's going down behind us right oh I get it

Sun sets in the west so if it's setting behind us we must be going east

good thinking you guys know if the only new way we should be going check the

diary why don't you okay ah this is it we tacked westerly to

avoid a squall line this brought us closer to the heavily traveled sea lanes off the Eastern Shore of these United

States but we were still too far out to tell just where we're heading east - Wow

we could be over the East Coast ourselves I like it what's down there

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hi grandmother what took you so long coming home from school Wendy I was

beginning to get worried sorry for your mother what's wrong nothing it's nothing

besides it's hard to explain why not tell me about it anyway I don't know grandmother I think you'd

have to burn all their history books oh I see you don't like the history lessons

how come they call in American history they teach nothing of our people only had the Whiteman borders so-called great

civilization to it but our people we all have a very great history you know that

yes but the schools don't seem to know it and if they do they don't teach it well they teach is some junk about

Pocahontas falling in love with John Smith is somebody your other mother

I don't want to go back there what are you doing may I campout tonight I'll be on the

dunes grandmother I'll be able to see the tent from your back window can I please it looks like a skull

coming up please grandmother you'll be able to see me all the time besides you've always taught me to think

my problems through for myself by myself that's what I'll be doing well in that

case I guess you're better oh thank you grandmother have a good

time

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that sounds like trouble quick get the diary and see if we can give us a fix on somewhere anywhere before age north

continued fair I thought we would make home port without incident but such was

not the case we were suddenly fed upon by destructively ferocious storm a storm

so fierce i drowned the ship aground on the rocks off Montauk Point that's it Montauk Point that's more headfirst hey

we've gotta get the ship down out of the storm right away all avoid perished save

myself I've sold you short draped across a broken Mouse the gold chain and medallion still around my neck I knew it

I knew the medallion was safe you knew what boy sure I'll cutting this fuel system or furnace down to that

that's all we need I know we should have taken the ship up it'll be a miracle if we're not k*lled

next time lost in the storm [Music]

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the story of Arthur Schomburg New York City 1904 wow this is a really old

peaceful mr. breaks in your hands yes it's part of a manual script of Lemmy your Hayes and african-american

revolutionary hero you collect old books as a matter of fact yes I do

well can I treat you to a little cold drink I have more books and posts at

home on the African culture would you like to see them welcome to my study boy

it's like a museum here yes it's a library of peoples of Puerto Rican and

African origin how can you collect all this well being

what the Rican of African ancestry myself when I was about 16 years old in

Puerto Rico one of my teachers said that the n*gro had no history and I thought

about that and I found out that the n*gro does have a glorious history which

is over 3,000 years old and I dedicated my life to confirm that well now there's

an old etic I should like to see care to join me

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boy this place looks haunted well if it is I hope it goes get you I

wouldn't worry there are no ghosts here you looking for some old journals I had

recently read some material that mentioned this place has been kind of a missing link with a portrait I've been

trying to find look mr. Shaw burger truck [Music]

the history of the African peoples has to be restored sl*very prejudice

injustice have damaged these social significance of the black culture that

is my hope to repair just a little of that damage as best I can

well I didn't find what I was looking for but then another way I did see these

writings and photos are sermons written by sl*ves and this here is on nursery rhymes in Bantu by the Sola tribes and

of course these old photos are just as valuable Oh so sometimes you're searching through one thing and you find something else

yes that's why my search is never over

who's that Manuel Rojas he was a commander of the Puerto Rican Liberation

Army who fought for the independence of Puerto Rico from Spanish colonization just like Washington did to the British

yes you're right there do you realize how important this information will be

in the future well mr. schanberg one thing's for sure now I'm putting everything down in my

diary yeah me too if I ever do something great like you I want everybody to know yes that would be

good as you know each man and woman is the history of his people that's the

book I found it to this day because of

his endless searching and hard work there is now the Schomburg Center free research of black culture it is the most

extensive collection of black culture in America [Music]

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[Applause] okay guys this time we're gonna throw rocks okay got it

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this game is called rock-paper-scissors remember rock breaks scissors scissors

cut paper paper covers rock in this team version of the game the group that

throws the winning signal tries to tag the others before they get home free the

tag pad is just a new addition to an old game that seems to be played all over the world the Rick back Rick chant

actually is borrowed from the English version of the game the game is also

played in China where it's Ching Chung Park and in Japan it's John Khenpo games

seem to spread about the world without concern for oceans boundaries of countries or differences in language

this one game rock-paper-scissors is part of many cultures what is culture

culture is a way of life in like a game culture is made up of rules customs and

traditions that people follow culture is expressed in food clothing language and

many other ways culture is a word that stands for an idea it's important to

keep the idea of culture separate from other similar ideas so here is what

culture is not Qasr is not your shade of skin color it

is not your hair color either in fact these three people could be from three

different cultures and you couldn't tell until you saw them in the traditional

clothes of their culture or using the manners and gestures of their culture for example would you believe that these

are all ways of saying yes most people in the United States not their hands but

in Bulgaria yes is like this and here's an American Indian gesture meaning yes

culture is also expressed in traditional dances sports and games [Music]

so culture is what people do that's it [Applause]

and because so many different groups of people have come to live in this country we are a nation of many different

cultures each culture has different ways of doing things and each culture gives

us the chance to see that the same game can be played with many different rules

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my name is Ellie Cano home and my family is Hawaiian this Saturday my grandma is

going to be so we're gonna have a thank you offer my mother wants me to

sing Asia learning stuff

oh come on Ellie you can think it louder let's try that again okay follow me now

[Music]

I can't do it you know this is too to

savor it song it's too hard I want to say meeting English you want to surprise

to too won't you yeah don't we try that again

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[Music] we're k*lling them on them he's in the

back with the father okay okay I can't

hold it you want to come out and play oh no I can't today to my grandma's birthday we're gonna have a big party

for you want to see this is normal only it's raw salmon with tomatoes this is

how pure it's made from coconut milk it's good

in have you been to a Hawaiian luau not

have it well why don't you come we have lots to eat hey what's the matter

come on you can tell me alone well then it's supposed to be a surprise that's

free but I don't want to see me barely because they're going to make fun of me

boom she doesn't want I've seen your final

k*lling on the string oh we know mark lol cupcake here so crystal K out

girl parolee many

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I'm enjoying this do children enjoying

yourself yeah you're not eating young boy you don't like for gonna sing in

Hawaiian like this I'm gonna make fun of

me don't worry you're the best singer in Hawaii to to only has a surprise she's

learned to sing in Hawaiian oh thank you

Ellie [Music]

thank you [Music]

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so many name so many brave you find out

so many name server degree [Music]

so many days what would you do how would

you feel what would you do

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hey Marcela why didn't you call me I thought you wanted to learn the dances

so you could be in your bum festival with me well some friends were saying that why people can't wear that kind of

clothes that they just look funny is that all you might need help getting into a kimono but you won't look funnier

than anyone else they said the whites look funny and he's doing clothes that's

silly I mean do I look funny in blue jeans no Jenny but what would you do if

someone said you shouldn't dress a certain way because you would look funny I wouldn't do it because I would be too

embarrassed I wouldn't pay any attention to them I'd tell him to shut up I probably wouldn't mind I look funny

doing a lot of things what would you do

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get [Music]

to make a vegetable the vegetable soup