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Anna in CA

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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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?

Happy Halloween!

Anna :o)
Anna...@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/AnnainCA

Frodis

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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Anna in CA wrote:
>
> 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.

Frodis

JBL1975

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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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.

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Jonathan Lentz (JBL...@aol.com or len...@mediaone.net)


Nancee

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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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

Anna in CA <anna...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>

D.W. McKim

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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..and the cool thing was that these were done by Da Man himself, Jim
Henson!


d.w. mcKim

"I should be cool/But I'm burning hot/I should be good/But I fell
apart/Don't look at me now don't even start/Cause I've tried everything"

- Eurythmics, "I've Tried Everything"


Tiny Dancer

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Nov 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/1/99
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And so the word went out from "Nancee" <hippi...@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.

It's available through Amazon.com here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302276063/

The track listing I have for it includes:

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!

Cheers,

TD

Webmistress of The Sesame Street Lyrics Archive
http://i.am/tinyd

The Sesame Street Sounds Archive
http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/index.html

JBL1975

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Nov 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/2/99
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>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!!!

Correction. A machine puts the cherries on the three sundaes, and the girl
EATS the cherry off one of them.

Bob Keenan

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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it was for the number 12

it went...


1234..5..6789..10..1112

where the dots are pauses.

kind of hard to describe melody when u dont know how to read or write
music.


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Anna in CA

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Nov 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/29/99
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Thanks guys! I remember the ending now with the cherries.
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