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01x10 - Episode 19 & 20

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Vegetable Soup". Aired: September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978.*
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01x10 - Episode 19 & 20

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And now, today's adventure of

Outterscope 1. The doors

open. What a crazy

place this is. Everything here

is confused. What a funny

garden. But it's all mixed up.

Paper comes from trees, but it doesn't

grow on them. Look!

A red girl! Huh

Oh, what's going on here?

A mouse chasing a cat?That's

impossible.

I thought cats chased mice.

Wow, that didn't make sense. Nothing

seems normal here. That's for sure.

Come look at the garden we found.

That's very interesting. Have

you noticed?I wonder

why. Quick, get down.

Why, he looks like a real man.

A human being like us. I wouldn't be too

sure of that. Shh, listen.

Dear, dear, will you look at my vines?

They got all wet, all wet. It must

have been the rain that got them all wet.

Rain indoors?In a room?

Poor vines, but in just a minute I'll

have them comfy and dry. No water for

them. Look,

he's drying the plants.

But why?Plants have to have water.

Oh my, what have we here?Why, the peanut

butter is almost ripe, and so is the

jelly. Peanut butter

and jelly, plants?

Well, Well if it isn't flighty.

How are you, flighty?

He has a pet butterfly. So,

Flighty, are you enjoying the weather?No

more rain, I hope. You don't like the

rain, do you?

Edgar, am I dreaming, or is that

man talking to a butterfly?

No, you aren't dreaming, Cynthia. He

sure is talking to a butterfly.

Come on in, Flighty. I'll get you your

breakfast. Honey drops, honey

drops, today.

Hey, look, he opened the

door. How come he can't open

doors here and we can't?This

room is the weirdest place we've been

yet. It looked normal at first,

but nothing here is the way you'd expect

it to be. I don't get it. There's

something special about this room,

but I can't put my finger on it. It's all

mixed up. All crazy. Yes.

Like that funny fireplace. Oh, yeah.

Let's show them the fireplace.

Why, it's filled with ice. Doesn't make

any sense. I'm not so sure of

that. I have a hunch.

Hide.

Oh, I've got to slow down. I've

got to slow down faster. I

must miss that train. The train to the

office. Oh, I've got to be late to that

meeting. Well, it's not much nearer to

the station.

Oh, oh, thank badness. It looks

like I've missed it.

Now, what was that all about?What's going

on around here?It looked like she was

running for a train. But what she

said didn't mean anything. I could

understand each word, but put together,

they didn't make sense. You know, it's

like like some kind of mystery.

The way they speak, the way they act,

the way everything in this room looks.

There's a mystery here. I have a hunch

that all these strange things fit

together. We just don't understand them

yet. There's one big thing that makes

this place special, and if we could only

figure that out, we'd know how to leave

here. You mean we could find the right

door?Gee, let's be

like detectives. I bet we could solve

this mystery if we try. Me too,

Henry. Yeah. How?

Well, I think we should spread out and

look for clues. That's easier said than

done. It looks like we'll have to start

trying. Otherwise, we'll never find the

door and we'll be stuck here forever.

OK, I just hope it's not dangerous.

To be continued. Next time,

collecting clues.

Did you know

that long

ago And

once

upon a time

Charles Eastman is my name.

And what boy would not be an Indian for a

while?And he thinks of the freest life

in the world.

In this book that I wrote, I will tell

you about my life as an Indian boy.

One of the earliest memories of my

childhood as a Sioux Indian is the

ride I had on a pony's side.

A girl cousin of mine and I were put in

fur-lined sacks and balanced on each

side of the pony. I had a very

pleasant game of peek-a-boo with the

little girl until we came to a big

snowdrift. Then it was not

so nice. During the

summer, nature is at her

best and provides a lot of food for the

Indian. All were alike,

rich in the summer. And all were

alike, poor in the winter and early

spring.

All boys were expected to go without food

and water for two or three days without

showing any weakness,

or run for a day and a night without any

rest.

Our games were with the bow and arrow.

There were foot and pony races and

wrestling.

We had play fights with mud ba*ls and

willow wands. We

played lacrosse, made w*r

upon bees, and in the winter coasted on

the ribs of animals and Buffalo ropes.

No people have better use of their five

senses. Than the children of the

wilderness. We could smell

as well as hear and see. We

could feel and taste in the wildlife.

I owe much to my early training.

This life was mine

until I was 15 when I

went to live with the whites.

I dedicate this book with love.

To Ohaisa the Second,

my son.

My name is Julius Scissors. And my

name is Rubberhead. I can cut a piece of

paper. I can draw on it with lead. I'm a

happy winter snappy. I'm fine for any

lime. If you learn the way to use it. You

can have a real good time rub-a-dub-dub.

Well, what do you know?Twinkle toes and

rubber nose. Look

who's here. The inchworm himself.

Crummy cut-up. Folding

phony. Lead head, dead

head. Let's go!

Quick! Into this tunnel!

That was no tunnel! That was a...

Long house! Right on, Rubberhead.

An Iroquois Longhouse. Iroquois?Who

are they, Mr. Amiritis?

Native Americans, Julia. The

Iroquois call themselves Haudenosaunee.

Haudenosaunee?People of the

longhouse. Today these are the places of

worship for many Iroquois people, and

they live in everyday houses.

Haudenosaunee. People of the longhouse.

Haudenosaunee. People of the longhouse.

Do you think we can build an Iroquois

longhouse?Can

we?You bet. Okay,

you guys. Measure up.

Cut five sticks, or cut

five pieces of reed about nine inches

long. Then cut some cardboard.

We're really going strong. Take

two sheets of paper towel and soak them

in cold water. I'm ready if you

need me. I do a

little shorter. Make

five even marks. On the other

side once more, now we punch out

holes. Where are those sticks we had

before?We'll push these

through the holes and glue each one the

same. Then cover with wet

paper. That makes a real nice frame.

And when everything's dry, we'll make a

door. It's coming out great,

that's for sure. Uh, how long?

LongLong

were the long houses, Mr. Emeritus.

Most of the houses were about 60 feet,

held eight to ten families. Feet

to feet. Kind of crowded, but

good for heat. The

women of the families really ran the

show. They had a special name for them,

beginning with an O.

Owatara.

Women of the family. The

Iroquois hunted and fished and farmed

'til dark. And covered their houses with

elm tree bark.

That sure looks nice and warm! And

comfortable! Hey, wait!

Come back here! Too late, ruler!

We're... whodunnishawnee...

people at the longhouse.

Hello, my name is John Kaskaski. I'm a

Kickapoo Indian. And I was raised on my

tribe's reservation in Mexico and later

moved to Oklahoma.

But I'm also a mathematician. I work at

the Goddard Space Flight Center near

Washington, D.C.

My job is to direct the flight of

satellites flying hundreds of miles above

our Earth. In order to keep track of the

satellites, I must work with numbers and

special computers.

Computers are important in my work, but

never are they more important than the

people who operate them.

A big part of my job requires that I work

with other people, each of us working

together as a team. Right now

we're changing the direction of one of

our satellites. Okay, down here are the

latest set of elements. Already. The

purge is 151

kilometers, aperture of



that what you're... What was that, the

purge?Let me take a look at

what the injection parameters... Oh,

that's close enough. Some of the

satellites can measure the amount of the

pollution in the air. Others determine

the weather conditions all over the world

and take pictures of the Earth from

hundreds of miles in the sky.

When I was a young boy, I thought my

reservation was the center of the

universe and all the mountains and the

valleys I could see. I remember climbing

our mountain and just looking as far as I

could see and wonder what was on the

other side.

Thank you. We will see each other again.

Real people I'd like to

introduce you to some real

people Real

people

Hi, this is Joey. We're all going to the

karate school. I take my first

lesson today. Jenny,

my daughter, Angelita.

This is my son. Joey.

Please be seated. Come, Come

on. Ohh Joey, would you take your shoes

off, please?

This is Joey. Joey is going to be with

us. Come, Joey, have a seat.

Right.

Why don't why don't you sit like everyone

else is sitting, OK?Bring your legs out.

Right. RightI'll cross

this leg this way, right?OK. I

want you to sit like everyone else. Good.

Eric. Yes, Nisei?

Why do we study karate?We study

karate to make our minds and bodies

strong. Why

do we want our minds and bodies strong?To

be without fear. To be without fear.

Why do we want to be without fear?To know

ourselves. To know ourselves.

Joey, will you do Kumo one with me?

Uh-huhWould you step right here, please?

Kumo one. We'll do it soft. You

can be. Bring your hands up. Make them

touch. One.

Sit down on this leg here. Right.

Put your hand here. Step

two. Go

to the right, three.

Put your hands here,

four.

Step up, down block.

Step out, here,

six. Step straight,

rising block. Step

straight, rise and block.

Step straight, rise and block.

Little target punch step. Right.

Easy. Step around here.

Hands there, right. Just come like this.

Good. One.

Hands here.

Two. Over here.

Three. All the way around.



Hands like this. One.

Good. GoodJust.

Right.

Right

All the way around.

Put your hands here.

Right. Step out. Step

over here. Put it up here, Joey.

Ride. Eyes.

Step out. Come on.

Step.

Joe. Good, good

I like that. I like that, Joey. Please be

seated.

Class, everything has

its opposite. There is

no tall without short.

There is no smooth without rough.

There is no wet without dry.

There is no hard without soft.

Nature

consists of two principles,

Ying and Yang,

positive and negative,

male and female.

Everything has its

opposite

Tai chi, karate,

bagua. All the martial

arts are only

techniques, vehicles that

we use to perfect our

being.

Everything has its opposite.

We are those who study

the martial arts in order to

perfect our beings.

Meditation is a technique that we use

in order to still the mind

and reflect upon our true selves.

Calm your mind. Still your mind.

Drive all the thoughts out.

Calm.

Deeper and deeper into the calm.

Peace. Deeper into the

peace. Deeper,

deeper. The story of Joey continues next

time.

Hola, hola, I'm saying hello the way

it's said in Mexico, 'cause I've

got a Mexican-American tree called baked

bananas that can't be beat.

Mexican-Americans live all around the

United States in both city and town, but

mostly in and around the southwest where

their food is some of the very best. We

need eight bananas. Eight will do.

And sugar, and lemon juice too.

Remove the skins first, that's easy to

do. Then

dip the whole banana in lemon juice.

Now sprinkle with sugar, but don't you

think that we're through.

You've gotta put the banana back in the

skin! That's the truth!

Now wrap 'em in foil! Are you listening

to me?

Get a grown-up to help ya! Yes siree!

'Cause we'll be baking, as you'll see!

Bake the bananas for one half an hour at



play with your friend or hit theBut in

one half an hour, or when the skins turn

black, take 'em out and serve 'em hot!

What a tasty treat you got!

See 'em sizzling?Smell it! Smell?That's

why Mexican-Americans love 'em so well!

Platanos, aljordno son delicioso!

Big bananas are delicious! So good! So

good! I can't stop!

Did you know that words have

stories?Listen to one

now.

Asparagus?I hate asparagus.

You've never even tried it. Yeah, but I

know I don't like it. Well, that's just

prejudice. The clubhouse

is all finished, Mom. We even have a sign

that says, No boys allowed. Don't you

think that's being prejudiced?

I don't want to go. It'll be boring. No,

it won't. It's an opera for kids.

All operas are boring. Oh, don't be

so prejudiced. What's prejudice?

Prejudice comes from two words,

pre and judge.

Pre means before. And judge means to

make up your mind. Sometimes it's a

necessary part of life.

Like judging whether a branch will hold

you or not. Right. Prejudice

means making up your mind before knowing.

Like deciding you hate asparagus, even if

you have never tried it. You know,

people who are not prejudiced have a

better chance to make new friends and

discover new experiences. Come on,

get inside. Here come some boys.

Hey, what are they doing?It's a camera.

They've got a movie camera. Yeah,

that's neat. Are you thinking what

I'm thinking?Yeah, just a second.

Hey, wanna use our clubhouse for your

movie?I don't know.

You wanna make a movie with them?I guess

so. Anyone can overcome prejudice if they

really want to. It's a choice.

You can look at people and see that

they're different shades of color, or

have a different way of talking, or

live in a different neighborhood,

or you can choose to see past the

differences.

You can look for the real person inside

all of us. Maybe

you'll see that people aren't really so

different after all.

It's dinner time. What are you having for

dinner?Avocado and fish. You told

me you didn't like avocado and fish. I

know, but that was before I tasted them.

And now, today's adventure of Outterscope

One. Collecting clues.

We're still in that crazy, confused world

and looking for a way to get out.

Gee, let's be like detectives.

I bet we could solve this mystery if we

try. Me too, Henry.

Let's spread out and look for clues.

Listen. A door's opening. Quick,

here.

Want some milk, Max?No, Pop. Very

good, Max.

Now don't get all clean. I don't want to

use the dirtying machine. Yes, Pop. And

keep your hat on. It's getting warm. You

don't want to catch a hot, do you?No,

Pop. That's my boy. Why don't

you play a game of Miss?Yes, Pop.

I won't. That's a bad boy. It's

almost time to eat. Now I've got to blow

out the stove and freeze dinner.

Freeze the dinner. Play Miss.

Catch a heart. What do all those things

mean, Elinor?Beats me. That's

part of the mystery, too. Do you think we

could ask him?He looks nice.

Well, I guess we could try.

Oh, uh, goodbye.

Goodbye?Oh, no, not yet.

Hello. How do you do?

My name is Henry. Go away.

Hey, we don't want to fight. No

fight?Of course not. Come on,

let's play. Throw the ball.

Throw the ball?Sure. Throw the

ball. I throw the

ball. Hey, you dropped the ball.

Oh, drop the ball. This

is a drop. That's

a throw. This is drop.

That's throw. Throw,

drop. Drop, throw.

Please stop it. Peace.

Peace?No, No

Hey, don't be frightened. Peace.

Peace?No! No

Gee, Elna, we scared him. We

meant well. But every move we made,

he took the wrong way. He took everything

backwards. Hey, you're right. That's

why he got so frightened when you made

the peace sign. He thought I meant

w*r. A few more clues like this,

and we'll begin to solve the mystery.

Gee, I hope the others are doing better

than we are. I guess we're flops as

detectives. Quick, get down!

This might be the chance we need. Umm

Whoever she is, she's dressed like a

housekeeper. She looks like those people

on television who make everything bright

and shiny.

But look, she's making everything dirty.

Now why would a housekeeper behave like

that?Well, I don't see any old clues.

But we've got to try to understand these

people. Otherwise they can't help us.

Maybe we could ask her why she's doing

it. Well, okay. I guess

she looks harmless enough.

Uh, good day. Good day?

Shame, shame, you mean bad

night, bad night. Bad

night?Well, awful night if

you insist. Awful night?

I don't understand. Why, I

think you're familiars, familiars

to hear. Are you found?

No, we're lost. We don't know where we

are. Yes, of course,

your familiars and familiars

need harm. Harm! I'll give

you harm. Don't! We don't want

any harm! No harm?No,

please! Well then, I won't give you any

harm. Hello, Hello

I didn't get any clues there. Every word

she said seemed backwards. Yeah,

bad night instead of good day. Found

instead of lost. And harm instead of

help. Help I

think she wanted to help us. If only we'd

known her words were backwards. Hey,

Cynthia, that's our clue. Our words

and their words are backwards from each

other. Oh, Edgar, we've got a clue.

Let's try speaking to her again.

Hello. Anyone there?Come out.

Please come out. We think we can talk to

you now. Oh, please!

To be continued. Next time,

Adding Up the Clues.

What do you want to be

when you grow up?

What do you want to

be

One, two, three, go.

sh**t flies faster than me I

gotta run, run, run I won't

see it And when the man

says, Bit my foot sh**t

flies

Domino's more than I do, and there's

a chance that he may really even know

more than you. When the man

says, I don't know what to do,

Domino's.

Butterflies over the hill

Can't find us and nobody will

One man says bake my bread

Butterflies

All right, it sounded fine. Hi, I'm Bob

Sakayama. The song you just heard was

called Shoo Flies. I wrote it.

And as you can see, I'm the engineer. And

I'd like to introduce the members of the

band to you. OK, first, on piano.

Bob Sakayama. On lead guitar.

Bob Sakayama. On rhythm guitar.

Bob Sakayama. On

drums. Bob

Sakayama.

On bass. Bob Sakayama.

On organ.

Guess.

Bob Sakayama. Lead

vocalist. Bob

Sakayama. Background

vocals. First background, Bob

Sakayama. Second background, Bob

Sakayama. In the recording

that you just heard, Shoo Flies,

I'm playing all the instruments. Uh

In addition to which I'm effectively

playing the electronics, that is,

the tape recorders, the mixing

console, and the things that you don't

really see me playing but are very

necessary, things like the echo, return,

things that make the things sound better,

make the things sound like a recording. I

play each instrument by itself, piano,

organ, drums, bass, guitars,

and each singing part. doing only one

thing at a time. Then I record each sound

on a special tape recorder. Next,

I do what is called a mix, which is

combining all of the instruments and

voices that have already been recorded.

Although the finished song sounds as if

it were recorded all at once, each sound

was recorded separately and then put

together at the end, and that's what you

hear. I started to like electronics,

and I always liked playing instruments,

and the two just came together. When I

was in school and it was a hobby and I

just found it a lot of fun. And when

something's fun, you do it a lot. When

you do it a lot, you get good at it. It

tends to get to be a job because of this.

There is a structure that you have to put

on to yourself. You have to make yourself

work. It's not just sitting down and

playing. There's definitely a discipline

involved. It is work, but it's work

that's that's enjoyable.

How do you find yourself?With our

very own voices and our very own hands.

Sing a little louder. How do you

find yourself?With our

very own voices and our very own hands.

Pigs. Pigs wrinkle

through the mud.

Flies get all over them.

They like to stay dirty. Very nice.

That's a haiku poem. And haiku poems came

from Japan. They represent

feelings that people have about nature,

and animals, and the weather,

and the seasons. And they're very

short and very simple. And that's what

we're going to do today. That's why we're

out here. Let's make up another one, OK?

We're getting the feeling of the summer

thing. Now let's make up one without

using the word-- Trees. Well, wait

a minute, wait a minute. Without using

the word summer, OK, just get the

feeling of the kind of days that

you experience when you are in

a summer day, when it's when it's hot and

when it's all the things that you talked

about. But we'll use the word summer on

the last line to let people know what

season it is. But before that, why don't

you give us the feeling of the kind of

days that you feel when it is summer?Like

you write all the things in summer and

you write summer last?Uh-huh, but we're

writing a haiku poem, don't forget. So

there's only three lines. So summer line,

let's let's make the summer line the last

line. And the first two lines give me a

feeling of the kind of day, okay?

Or the feeling of something that you see

when it is summer. You know,

a picture. Paint a picture for me.

And you find out?And then I'll find out

on the last line. On the third line, I'll

find out that it's summer. I'd like to

tell you. You could tell me on the third

line.

Tell me something about about what you're

seeing now, what you're looking at. A

pond. A pond, OK. That's

nice.

And a tree. Well, what

what else does the pond do?I mean, what

else do you see in the pond or around the

pond?Or what do you smell?What kind of

light is there?Sunlight.

A pond?How about a pond in the

sunlight?OK, a pond

in the sunlight,

OK. What else is there?What

else is around?What do you hear?What do

you smell?I smell, um..

You smell anything fresh?Air.

Fresh air?Okay, and what else do you

smell?What do you

hear?Birds singing. Oh, birds

singing. How about that?A pond in the

sunlight, birds singing.

Okay. Now, Now maybe you can tell

me what the season is.

Now?NowUm, kind of

summer. Kind of summer?What do you

mean, kind of summer?Um,

like it's half of summer. It's half of

summer?All right. It's half of summer.

There's your poem. Can you read this?

A pond in the sunlight.

Birds singing. It's

half of summer.

Wonderful. That is lovely.

How do you find yourself?

With our very own voices and our very own

hands. Sing a little louder. How

do you find yourself?With our

very own voices and our very own hands.

I have a land poem.

Okay, why don't you read it?

Lambs are soft and feel like

cotton. The bird is

laying an egg. Very nice.

Very nice. What made you think of the

bird laying the egg?HuhThat

was a surprise. The many haiku poems have

surprise endings like that, which make

them very interesting, you know?Flowers

sleep when the sun goes down.

Animals go to sleep. And some wake up.

The worm is in the hole.

He went to the other hole to

see his friend.

Real people, I'd like to

introduce you to some real

people. Real

people. Hi,

this is Joey. I've been working very hard

at learning karate. It's helping me to

feel good about who I am, and I'm not

afraid anymore.

Beautiful.

Yes, yes, all right.

What do you want?I want my walkie-talkie.

I want my walkie-talkie. I don't know

what you're talking about, get out of

here. Yes you do, I want it back.

I said beat it, PR.

When you close your

eyes Do you see

White Lorelei

She's a dream

She's not half as

magic as sheBut she's

so much fun

to be with

When you close your

eyes Do you

see places that you've never

seen Yet you feel

lameYou've

been walking on the edges

of a dream And you're

so much fun to

be with

Okay, now when we go that way, we gotta

go like this, okay?

What did you do that for?Come on.

Break it, I dare you. What are you

talking about?That tree over

there. If you don't stop, I won't show

you anything. Just break it. That's all.

That's kid stuff. Then do it.

Face me. Put your legs this way.

OK. Now do what I do.

Step forward again, like that.

Turn.

When you

close your door Joey Don't say anything,

just think. Mentate. Joey.

Quiet. Frankie.

I didn't come to fight. Then what do you

want?

Just, uh, came to get a closer look.

My brother could break that tree in half

if he wanted to. Angelito?But he

doesn't want to.

I'd like to be your friend, Joey.

Mommy won't believe this.

When you close your door

with a sign,

do not disturb. Are

you disturbed to find?

That it's just as

magic as it feels

And you're so much fun

to be with

Paula, Paula, I'm saying hello the way

it's said in Mexico. 'Cause I've got

a Mexican-American tree called baked

bananas that can't be beat.

Mexican-Americans live all around the

United States in both city and town, but

mostly in and around the Southwest, where

their food is some of the very best. We

need eight bananas. Eight will do.

And sugar and lemon juice, too.

Remove the skins first. That's easy to

do. Then

dip the whole banana in lemon juice.

Now sprinkle with sugar, but don't you

think that we're through?

You've gotta put the banana back in the

skin! That's the truth!

Now wrap 'em in foil! Are you listening

to me?

Get a grown-up to help ya, yes siree,

'cause we'll be baking, as you'll see.

Bake the bananas for one half an hour at



play with your friend or hit the sack,

but in one half an hour, or when the

skins turn black, take 'em out and serve

'em hot. What a tasty treat you

got!

See 'em sizzling?Smell it. Smell?That's

why Mexican-Americans love 'em so well.

Guatanos, I'll hold no son delicioso.

Baked bananas are delicious! So good! So

good! I can't stand it!

This dude will be no trouble. He

can't run fast. We can roll the

ball of first base and beat him. I don't

need to run fast.

When I hit home runs.