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01x04 - Episode 7 & 8

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Vegetable Soup". Aired: September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978.*
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01x04 - Episode 7 & 8

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[Music]

[Laughter] [Applause]

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and now today's adventure of outerscope one betty surprises them all hi I'm

Willy I'll spaceship out of scope one crashed on a weird planet and my friends and I

are prisoners of the creatures that live here how are we gonna get away look they did it they must be punished

and they will be punished how are we gonna talk our way out of this one

mr. neat and mrs. tidy you have

discovered the most wicked crime in the entire history of sunny land oh yes

terrible terrible a scandal and outright

scandal where did you find this dirt

right on foaming suds way it was all over all down the path that proves it

that is where the outsiders were caught we'll scrub on and we'll polish and

shine 'm all over the place we'll soak them and steam them and brushing and

cleanin and then we'll be done with this ace

it's paulina we've got to get out of here you are dirty they come back what

is this it is a wonder a creature that

washes itself its own self cleans itself

it is the cleanest of clean clean clean

clean

hey this is our chance they stop the steam let's escape come on Benny follow

us [Music] come back

Oh cleanest one [Music]

stop we have to wait for Betty hurry Betty doll it'll catch us again

[Music] stuck on the rocks that's right how will

we get away if only we had something slippery why with a crime

don't I've got it just really need I

hear them coming oh my gosh

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[Music]

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we will keep you with us forever we will make you

Sani Landers don't leave us stay o

cleanest one catch them see

please it's got to work we have no way to defend ourselves next

time searching for help and my name is

rubber head I can draw on it with lead I'm fine for any line you can have a

real good time rub-a-dub-dub I am the

ruler of the Queen's Navy and a right good ruler - why so cheerful I'm gonna

speak at a conference a conference the Royal reunion of registered rulers

members of the ruling class as we travel through life along the straight and

narrow path always remember life's greatest pleasure is to measure and

measure see you later trouble with ruler he lacks

self-confidence hey look it's beautiful

that julia is a necklace made by Plains Native Americans Plains Native Americans

they traveled great distances so they made light brightly colored jewelry instead of heavy pottery and big hard to

carry baskets can we make a necklace like this no sweat

all we need is clay a nail magic markers

and string bear claws and teeth of animals for what they seem to use a lot

they also worked with beads and still do to this very day okay mr. e we're ready to start take the

clay and mold it into beads and claw shapes now take the nail through each

bead and claw make a little hole about this size will string them after the

clay dries I don't think the clay will get any

drier time to paint them the colors you desire and let me tell you while you do lack

foot Apache Chippewa Sioux are among the famous names of tribes that traveled on

the plains okay these look like the real thing all we need now is some string in

life as in the making of beads rubber head many times there are strings attached yeah and they're right

planes necklaces were worn by both men and women of the tribes you look lovely

my dear we chinchilla wait Jim Shella that's a rosebud Sioux word we

chinchilla means girl what about me

ocula means boy am I too late when you

go off to a conference on ruler II you miss making Native American jewelry

[Music]

what's been going on my name is Jerry Wright and I'm a hair stylist and then a

hair stylist for about ten years now hair styling is cutting and styling the

hair to complement facial features tell

me how you want your hair done today the way you've been doing it ever since I was a little boy Oh in other words what

you really want me to do today Islam maybe give you a ball here no no okay no I want you to use the karate on me all

right okay what we'll do is I'll leave very full and probably long back okay

good how did you get started

cutting hair when I was a young man about your size I used to shine shoes in my father's barbershop and of course

since I've worked around here so long and I um when it was time to choose the professions a job of course I chose this

because I knew more about it

who cut your Joe my wife Eunice cuts my hair in fact have you ever had a lady to

do your hair no no my goodness listen we're gonna have to arrange that for you one time okay okay all right now are you

here just like that working in this particular field you have the

opportunity to work with people and it's a very creative field and it's different

each and every customer is there actually a new challenge I had to study

cutting hair shampooing giving scalp treatments massages all of these things

in my case there was two years I worked on the master stylist now there's a

hairstyle for each and every person depending on the type of hair the hair

for example you know some people have curly hair some have straight hair but

depending on the grade and depending on the texture or there's different styles

available for them the curly look is when you actually straighten the hair

with a Mauer relaxer and then roll the hair and you get a curly look it's a

straighter texture well how do you like it this nice I

really like it okay that's a new you you know thank you

the style of cornrows came from Africa cornrows has become

extremely fashionable among the kids among grown-ups everybody in fact even

the fellas so cornrows has become really a very popular style yeah you're looking

pretty sharp a taste [Music]

how you like that hey this out of sight I knew you're gonna like that looks

pretty good [Music]

hey Jerry how can I take care of myself well listen duh you have to wash your

hair at least once a week make sure you're all it comment and of course have depression and if you do that it will

take care of anybody's hair okay all right you got you take care now

uh-huh see you later Mike next please alright rice is cooked in

America any way you please and gohan that's good rice Japanese will need one cup of rice no we're not through 1 cup +

3 tablespoons of cold water to one good sized strainer one measuring cup from one arts food and a serving dish to

serve it up one heavy pot wash the rice

put it in the heavy pot and add the cold w*r you had let it all stand least half

an hour to give it old-fashioned good power now we are ready to cook and it's

a good notion to get someone older to help with the potion working around the

stove just can't be beat when there's someone bigger to help with the heat now

it's time to turn the OCO may that's uncooked rice indigo Hana that's something nice put it on the pot turn

the heat on high until the water comes to a rolling boil

[Music]

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now take the pot put the rice off the stove and it right into your 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 make a new friend today

hello my name is Samantha I am 4 years old I live in San Francisco with my

mommy and daddy where I live we do

Chinese things and American things we

celebrate American holidays and we celebrate Chinese New Year's I play

American things like checkers and I play Chinese games

I like American toys and Chinese toys

most of all I like to go shopping with my mommy this market has songs in

Chinese and English

there's fresh vegetables like bok choy I

choose the biggest carrot that I could find I'll show you how to make one ton

first thing we do is peel the shrimp then we mix the shrimp with lots of

things now we wrap it up 110k it is just

like a big fat noodle then we drop it

into chicken soup mmm that is good

sometimes we eat with knives and forks but sometimes we eat with our chopsticks

in our house it's lots of fun to do things two ways

[Music] I'd like to introduce you to some

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my name is Martin and Nigel is my pet snake Doug and I are camping out and sitting up our tent for the night Doug

there's an animal in my sleeping Bay I think it might be a snake okay uh move

your feet out slowly and unzip the bag I'll get something to I don't think they're any poisonous snakes in this

area but let's not take any chances hey stop wait don't hit it I recognized

him you recognized the snake it's Nigel what's Nigel it's not you my pet boa I

told you I got a pit bull that's him how did I get in there poor Nigel I

don't know how we could have poor baby Leone's k*lled you gee I'm sorry Nigel how could I know you

were a friend just goes to show you shouldn't hit something he can't see or hate something you don't know he's

really beautiful how are we gonna keep him safely tonight I have to put him in something can't get out of the cooking

pot how about her famous cooking pot yeah

Oh whoopsie where are you going Nigel

hmm you in here and I hope hopefully

you're gonna stay come on ya wanna suffocate in there no snakes don't need

much oxygen he'll be fine what singing a lullaby

[Music]

[Music]

[Music] hooray this is fun should start a hiking club

here there lots of you guys don't want you to well well what's wrong well I

guess I don't know how many of the new guys would like to pal around with me so

Oh like you wants to get to know you and hiking club is a perfect way to start besides you're my cousin from San

Francisco aren't you yeah I almost forgot

now what would be a good name for the club did you hear that yeah I wonder

what it was it sounds like like a big animal we've been kidding around but

there are no bears in these woods there it is again one of us should go out and check well

we could just leave it alone and listen to the header all night you scared just a little while are you

let's cross cross

well wallah

mr. Chang Manchu jisu Panda does shaggy-dog I know he belongs to Larry

Thompson you remember him how do you do panda so that's what all the noises were

he must have been following us all the time he's dragging his leash he must have broken loose I'll tie him up till

morning why don't we have a nice big

breakfast pancakes and syrup some hot

chocolate would go great oh right okay

okay panty you can have some crackers we

just take Nigel out for a little while he needs to know how it is out in the wilderness [Music]

he'd never make it on his own I bet he wouldn't know how to hunt for his own food

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

Nigel don't you dare I'll get you a nice frozen mess when we get home

[Music]

you know what he hasn't forgotten you almost caught a little mess you should

have seen it well I guess we better put him back in the pot does he like hot

chocolate as long as it's warm he'll love it [Music]

it's kind of cold this morning don't worry it looks like it's gonna be a beautiful day

[Music] [Applause]

[Music]

what makes people's here look and feel different everybody's hair is made of

the same thing but it looks and feels different depending on the color and the

way it grows out of your skin let's pluck a few hairs and look at them up

close you know in the whole world there

are only three kinds of hair there's curly hair and straight hair and

wavy hair which is in between just looking at hairs however won't tell us

why they grow the way they do every hair on your head or your body grows out of a

tiny hole called a follicle a follicle is something like a tiny flowerpot that

the hair grows out of and the roots stay inside of if you have round follicles in

your skin then you have straight hair if your follicles are flat you have curly

hair and if your follicles are in between shaped like ovals then you have

wavy hair here's a way to show how this happens using three cake decorators each

filled with play-doh one has a flat opening and one has a round opening and

one has an in-between oval opening you squeeze the cake decorators and see what

happens curly

straight and wavy the shape of your

follicles and the color of your hair comes from your parents and your grandparents you can have red hair like

your mother and curly hair like your grandmother any combination of hair

color and hair shape is possible so that's why curly hair comes in all

colors and so just stray hair and so

does in between wavy hair Rajib but no matter what kind of hair

you have the most important thing is that you like it and you take good care of it you wash it and brush it Coleman

braid it and don't forget to love it I

[Music]

must show Lily my new Esther I must show Oreo my new hairstyle

aurilla look Millie look

[Music]

[Music]

[Laughter] [Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

and now today's adventure of outerscope one searching for help

the sandy lands are after us come back o cleanest one come back all of you you

can't leave us oh yes we can

well uh we say wow just in time ha

they'll never catch us now goodbye sandy land you won't see us again well here we

are again in not a space it's also

strange sometimes it feels like a dream

[Music]

hey remember this we're clean we're clean all this ad matters are clear yeah

they sure are clean they must have soap where their brain should be boy they sure went for Betty in a big way

good old Betty if it wasn't for her ooh they would have done something awful to

us but why did they hate us so much why were they so mean they hate everybody

everybody who's not from sandy land they don't bother to find out what anyone is really like it isn't fair imagine saying

you don't like someone when you don't even know them gee I wonder if everyone

in spaces like the Sandy Landers I hope they're not I want to meet someone

friendly someone who will help us get home again home hey we've been so happy

to escape we forgot all about that Oh how are we gonna get back hey what's up

ahead Wow looks like a lot of small planets they look like floating cities

or something oh I hope they don't hate us they're beautiful beautiful they look

like trouble to me they do look like cities maybe people

live in them hey Eleanor might be on to something it looks like Linda hey hey is when

there's land ahead I'm gonna stare for it oh no Lily that might not be so smart

we've got a chances and that's we might hell won't fly around wherever but it

could be another Stanley land or worse we're almost down

[Applause]

[Music] we're down we've landed

hooray we've landed good work Willie nice okay look at the notice anyway

listen to all the funny noises there's machines every direction I told

you so machines me people let's go find them but the people may not be friendly

maybe the mad scientist is something you're scared of everything listen here Edgar stop saying I'm scared

I merely like to point out possible problems come on guys what are we

waiting for let's go see who's out there wait a minute Illinois no screwdriver

what for with all those machines around it might come in handy

hey guys let's check out those big machines will probably bump into

somebody on the way let's call good idea

[Music]

ah I wish they'd answer like normal people maybe they're weird oh I'm

beginning to get the creeps that could be following us around hiding behind things like insanity land anybody here

nope maybe they're on a coffee break it just doesn't make sense nobody around

anywhere nothing about machines on my

gosh they talk and they feel things to heaven save us what kind of machines can

these be

to be continued next time a staggering shock

[Music]

hello my name is Linda Chavez and this is my son David David is in first grade

this year he's six years old he goes to school in Washington DC his class is

made up of children of all different ethnic backgrounds black children Latino

children and white children and being around other Latino children I think

will help him to identify as he's growing up as a Chicano

because I'm a working mother I have to arrange my schedule so that the

responsibility of taking my child to school and picking him up from school is shared with my husband

god I have worked with congressman Donna

Edwards of California for two years in the US Congress right now I am briefing

the congressman on today's hearings I'm letting him know who the witnesses are

and what they would be testifying to this morning and I very often have to

work late into the night and because of my family what I try and do is take my

work home with me and I wait until after my family's fed and my son is in bed and

I burned the midnight oil one of the

things that I do for the congressman is prepare questions for him to ask of the witnesses then besides preparing the

questions for the congressman I also prepare questions for myself so that I can ask the witnesses what

they're doing in civil rights enforcement

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the area perhaps of the of the greatest relevancy that come in with any real

fight you're saying that your department is no more r*cist than any other department in the United States right

it's now my turn to ask some questions of the witnesses one of the questions

from mr. Rangel I believe you said that there was a problem in terms of spanish-speaking persons moving outside

of the area from which they came image is the only complaint that we've had and I understand that we received one

complaint this week for some persons black spanish-speaking another person's discrimination is a process by which a

person is denied the ability to have a job because he is of a different race or

because that person is a woman and usually that job is occupied by men

when I was a little girl I didn't really think that I would grow up to be working in politics I wanted to be a model and

for a while I did model and I have also taught and done other things in areas

outside of politics I grew up in the

southwest I was born in Albuquerque New Mexico and when I was 10 years old I moved to Denver Colorado and living in

Washington DC is very very different from living in the southwest in Washington almost everyone who lives in

the city is in one way or another connected with the government one of the things that you realize when

you come to Washington DC to work is that an individual person can really have an impact on change and on changing

our society you have a part in making the decisions which affect the rest of the country

[Music]

that would have stories we celebrate

many parties like birthday parties and housewarmings where it is the custom for the guests to bring a present to the

host but the people of the Chinook the Queen's the Nisqually another Native

American tribes of the Pacific Northwest hold parties that work in just the opposite way the host gives the presents

to the guests it's called a potlatch and it's an important and happy event each

Northwest Native American tribe celebrates a potlatch for their own reasons and in their own ways but no

matter how or why a potlatch is held it is always important for the host to give

gifts to all the guests the people of the killyou tribe who live

on the pacific coast of the state of washington have a story that explains the origin of the potlatch and it goes

like this long long ago when the world was very young a strange and beautiful

bird appeared over the ocean near the k*ller you tillage all the young men of

the village tried to capture the bird [Music]

but try as they could none of their arrows could hit it Golden Eagle and

blue jay watched the hunters try for weeks to sh**t the bird until finally Golden Eagle said my children can catch

that peculiar looking bird blue jay disagreed your children are only girls

he said Golden Eagles daughters heard this conversation but they remained

silent the next day the two daughters went into the woods without telling a soul and stayed there many days and what

do you think the girls were doing there why they were making arrows of course

one morning just before the Sun came up the girls came out of the forest with

their arrows all of the k*ll you'd hunt errs were already out in their canoes trying again to sh**t the strange and

beautiful bird the two sisters tie the hair in front of their face so no one

would recognize them and they paddled their canoe in a zigzag line so no one

would see them coming until they were very near the bird the eldest sister k*lled a bird with her third arrow

that evening the girls told their father golden eagle we caught the bird and hid it in the

forest we want to use the feathers as gifts for they are very beautiful and of

many colors will you ask blue jay to invite all the birds to come to our lodge tomorrow next morning blue jay

went out with the invitation and soon all kinds of birds were gathered at the lodge of golden eagle my daughter's

caught the beautiful bird of many colors the host explained they want to give each of you a present the girls gave

certain colors to different birds yellow and brown feathers to Meadowlark red and

brown to Robin brown only to Reyn yellow and black to the little finch they gave

to each bird the color it was to have and they kept giving until they had no more feathers left

ever since then certain birds have had certain colors and since then they have

been many potlatches this was a story we call a myth the

story of the first k*ll you taught latch the first giving of gifts from the people who invite to the people who are

invited [Music]

I'd like to introduce you to some

[Music]

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 out of cotton ba*ls for a little sneaky wait oh come on

Scott oh I actually become an important guy to you isn't it easy you know everything he says goes you're just Joss

cuz you don't have a cool friend like Scott oh he's okay for a black man oh I'll get out of here come on yeah

hey don't you doesn't mean one of those zoo shows at the library this afternoon watching them now well it doesn't start

til 3:30 and I have an awful lot of homework so if you don't get out here I'm gonna kick you out oh look I'm scared yes that means me too

huh yeah it does but meet me over the zoo show okay all right I'll be there okay I'll see you later DJ yeah yeah he threw

up Martin what did you do Oh what

happened now oh nothing nothing I'm just cleaning out his cage oh yeah 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 this pushes himself through the water

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

him grip the land and dig the food hey

kid threaten though phone 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 oh I'm scared

[Music]

[Music]

pack your husky [Music]

there's no running in this library what are you looking for a kid he has

something of mine well 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 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 okay this is a green iguana this

found in South America it's called an de Bourgh you live

[Music]

[Music]

there's nothing to be afraid of it is kind of like Santa

[Music]

now you like that this is Paul but regular black does it

come out doing you J or at night you write tonight the reason for this is because of this

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

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

it's a non poisonous snake if it bites you it won't poison a fall constrictive

sub usually nice atoms don't hurt people they don't eat and then really there's

really no need to be afraid of in fact there's a fella out here now that has one thing he's not afraid of them at all

this 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 there's no need as long as you know how

the handling to take good care of them they're gonna be nice to you snakes have

no ears they can't hear a thing the way they do here is by sound sound vibrations they

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

[Music] [Applause] [Music]

[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

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 nodule 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 eaten

he's gone it's gone the kid to get us stalled the bag

Nigel must still be in the library [Music]

[Music] there's a sneak you better grab

something to hit it with if he had been

found we would have heard it by now let's just go and find it come on [Music]

lemme just deer look at the big whale yes dear

where come on let's go oh thank you

[Music]

you know why I left this library because nothing ever happens on Japanese soil

rice rice is cooked in America any way you please and Gohan that's cooked rice

Japanese will need 1 cup of rice no we're not through 1 cup + 3 tablespoons

of cold water - 1 good sized strainer one measuring cup from one large spoon and a serving dish to serve it up 1

heavy pot with a well-fitting top now we're ready to go - we're ready to stop but one cup of

strainer watch me planner wash the rice put it in

the heavy pot and add the cold water you had let it all stand least half an hour

- give it old-fashioned good power now we are ready to look and it's a good

notion to get someone older to help with the potion working around the stove just

can't be beat when there's someone bigger to help with the heat now it's

time to turn the OCO may that's uncooked rice into Gohan and that's something nice put it on the pot turn the heat on

high until the water comes to a rolling boil then turn the heat down but don't

lift the cover and leave it alone

now take the pot put the rice off the stove I'll take hardcore choose Mary

Frances she's a girl Lily so what she's the best hitter in the neighborhood

[Music]