I was re-watching the pinball animation on "Sesame Street" the other day, and I kept getting flashes of a live-action version of the same thing, a ball spinning around and going down ramps. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was a red ball (maybe not a pinball) on a silver or gold roller-coaster looking thing, and I think it had something to do with counting. Does this sound familiar to anyone, or am I imagining it?
> I was re-watching the pinball animation on "Sesame Street" the other day, and I > kept getting flashes of a live-action version of the same thing, a ball > spinning around and going down ramps. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? > It was a red ball (maybe not a pinball) on a silver or gold roller-coaster > looking thing, and I think it had something to do with counting. Does this > sound familiar to anyone, or am I imagining it?
Yep, that's an actual segment. It had some goofy sounding moog synthesizer music playing in the background. I guess it was designed to teach kids about the number 3. There are two or three different endings to this segment as well. One where the ball ends up being a cherry on a sundae, and another where the ball is ground up into powder. I don't recall a third offhand, but it seems like it had another ending besides the above mentioned ones. Anyhow, that's what I recall.
It was a segment I enjoyed about the number 3 where the ball was going all down and through these little contraptions.
There were actually 2 endings to this one. One where the ball lands in a metal boxlike thing and just clangs into it, then gets ground up into powder in three turns of the crank. The other one it lands into a box, then a real noisy engine goes on for about 5 seconds (I didn't like it.), but then three sundaes come by on a conveyor belt, and a cherry gets dropped on top of each one, then they all stop in front of a girl who eats the cherry off one of them with a spoon, and gives an "mmmm" to the camera at the end.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Lentz (JBL1...@aol.com or len...@mediaone.net)
If I recall correctly, they have one version of this segment on the video "Learning About Numbers." If it's out of print, you might find success searching ebay. I love the both versions, but especially the one where the girl puts the cherry on top of the ice cream at the end. Great memory!!! --Nance
> I was re-watching the pinball animation on "Sesame Street" the other day, and I > kept getting flashes of a live-action version of the same thing, a ball > spinning around and going down ramps. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? > It was a red ball (maybe not a pinball) on a silver or gold roller-coaster > looking thing, and I think it had something to do with counting. Does this > sound familiar to anyone, or am I imagining it?
And so the word went out from "Nancee" <hippiech...@uswest.net>:
>If I recall correctly, they have one version of this segment on the video >"Learning About Numbers." If it's out of print, you might find success >searching ebay.
Toucan Two-Step Two Little Dolls What's Going On In The Henhouse Today? I Just Adore Four Four Big Lions Six Soccer Socks The Land Of Eight Martian Beauty
But I've only included songs (due to my site) so I'm not sure which live action shorts are on it.
>I love the both versions, but especially the one where the girl puts the >cherry on top of the ice cream at the end. Great memory!!!
I never even thought to associate these shorts with the pinball song, nice work, gang!
> I was re-watching the pinball animation on "Sesame Street" the other day, and I > kept getting flashes of a live-action version of the same thing, a ball > spinning around and going down ramps. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? > It was a red ball (maybe not a pinball) on a silver or gold roller-coaster > looking thing, and I think it had something to do with counting. Does this > sound familiar to anyone, or am I imagining it?
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