What are your favorite number segments?

[ssetta]

I remember those! Did you know that was LeVar Burton doing the counting in those films?

 

[SillyJoeBob]

Thanks for the info!

SillyJoeBob

 

[ISNorden]

OK, here are my faves for every number:

0: the Señor Cero clips (politically incorrect, but a cute pun)
1: recent cartoon with a girl getting a 1 off a shelf; she hugs it and sighs, "My ONE and only!
2: "Two Is My Favorite Number" (Awwwww!)
3: Classic live-action film with the ball moving along a wire "roller coaster", triggering various moving parts in threes (the "sundae" version, not the "ball ground to powder" one)
4: Country fiddler's "Four Big Lions"
5: "Five People in My Family"
6: "Queen of Six"
7: "Alligator King"
8: "King of Eight"
9: "Bumble Artie's 9th Birthday"
10: "Ten Tiny Turtles"
11: "Eleven Morning" (cartoon with overweight woman counting various animals on a farm)
12: "Ladybugs' Picnic"
13: "Lucky 13" (sung by a cartoon cowboy who carries 13 of many lucky charms)
14: "14 Carrot Love" (Muppet sketch, Polly Darton/Benny the Rabbit)
15: "Doo-wop 15" (described already in this thread)
16: "16 Samba" (He was a 1 from the country...she was a 6 from the town; performed by Muppet musicians, dancers and numerals!)
17: "17 things 17 can do..." (rap cartoon)
18: Alice Cooper parody (18 sandwiches, I just don't know--forget the whole thing, I'll get a pizza to go!)
19: "1999" parody where singer parties with 19 of various animals
20: the classic 4-armed man clip, what else?
21: Numberella (I was surprised to see 21 as a sponsor that day!)

 

[Soul H]

My favourite number sketche's are:

0. Senor Zero

1. Would you like 1 (Harvey Kneeslapper)

2. Swedish Animation (2 girrafes and 2 elephants)
Toucan Two-Step
2 splendid snakes (Circus Trainer)
The Baker #2
Jazzy Spies 2
Mad Painter 2

3. Swedish Animation (3 mice, 3 owls, 3 penguins)
3 animals on a fat lady's lap
Rollercoaster 3
3 Falling Felines (Circus Trainer)
The Baker #3
Jazzy Spies 3
Mad Painter 3

4. Swedish Animation (4 ducks, 4 elephants, 4 dolphins)
4 Big Lions
4 Lordly Lions (Circus Trainer)
The Baker #4
Jazzy Spies 4
Mad Painter 4

5. Swedish Animation (5 worms, 5 butterflies, 5 swans, 5 flies)
5 Floating ["falling" more likely] Fools (Circus Trainer)
The Baker #5
Jazzy Spies 5
Mad Painter 5

6. Swedish Animation (6 camels, 6 pigs)
6 Marvelous Monkeys (Circus Trainer)
6 Soccer Socks
6 Rap
The Baker #6
Jazzy Spies 6
Mad Painter 6

7. Swedish Animation (7 piglets, 7 owls, 7 starfish, 7 turtles)
7 Swimming Seals (Circus Trainer)
7 Rap
The Baker #7
Jazzy Spies 7
Mad Painter 7

8. Swedish Animation (8 bats, 8 worms, 8 frogs, 8 eggs hatching, 8 buttons)
Holy-Moley 8 Balls of Fur
8 Polar Penguins (Circus Trainer)
The Baker #8
Jazzy Spies 8
Mad Painter 8

My personal favourite number:

9. Swedish Animation (9 ants, 9 singing tigers, 9 penguins, 9 birds, 9 sheep)
9 Enormous Elephants (Circus Trainer)
The #9 Special of the Day
9 Rap
Count Up To 9
Telly and a little girl talk about the number 9 (with help from dogs)
The Baker #9
Jazzy Spies 9
Mad Painter 9
Rubber Stamps 9
9 Spaceships
Climbing 9 Stairs
Martian Beauty #9
Question : Did they ever do a parody of "Love Potion #9"?

10. 10 Tiny Turtles on the Telephone
10 Brave Brown Bears (Circus Trainer)
The 10 Commandments of Health
Hypnotic 10
The Baker #10
Jazzy Spies 10
Mad Painter 10
Rubber Stamps 10

11. Disco 11
11 Purple Pooches (Circus Trainer)
Telly seeing the ginormous 11
Mad Painter 11
11 Rap
Rubber Stamps 11

12. Honk Around the Clock
12 Rocks in the desert
High 12
Ernie's poem about 12, no 21, no 12, no...AW FORGET IT!!!!
12 Fantastic Fluttering Finches (Circus Trainer)
Rubber Stamps 12

13. Telly cursed to get a thunderstorm whenever he says 13
Masks 13
Number Parade 13
13 Rap

14. 14 Carrot Love
14 Masks
Number Parade 14

15. How Hard It Is to Be 15
15 Rap
Number Parade 15
15 Masks
Rubber Stamps 15

16. 16 Blues
16 Samba
16 Masks
Number Parade 16
Rubber Stamps 16

17. Rubber Stamps 17
17 Masks
Number Parade 17

18. 18 Sandwiches
18 flips followed by wipe-out
18 Masks
Number Parade 18

19. 19 Masks
Number Parade 19

20. Swedish Animation (elephant counting to 20)
Rubber Stamps 20
Number Parade 20
Counting to 20 with disaterous numbers
Meditator counting to 20 with his 20 fingers

That's all I can think of now.

 

[Cookie fan]

One of my favorites was a song Bert sang about the number 6, I'm not sure if the title is "My Favorite Number is 6", part of the song went something like:

"Now 2 are your eyes,
and 1's your nose,
and 5 are your fingers or your toes,
and 4 are the legs on an easy chair,
but nothing else can compare with 6"

That song was one of the greatest!

 

[ISNorden]

Did someone say "Swedish"?

I've seen the animations that Soul H identifies as Swedish, on both Sesame Street and a similar "homegrown" program for Swedish children. No, not Svenska Sesam; the title of the other show translates as "Five Ants Is More than Four Elephants". That would certainly explain the tuskless elephants in #2, #4, and #20 (the title animation for "Five Ants..." draws them tuskless also). And yes, the counting elephant still gets frustrated when he reaches 14--though the version shown in Sweden doesn't show him throwing a tantrum; it's more like "14...14...14" on a stuck phonograph record, sung in the same neutral voice as the other numbers.

P.S. Ironically enough, I thought that the producers of "Five Ants..." had gotten those cartoons from CTW, not the other way around. You learn something new every day!

 

[SillyJoeBob]

Couple o' questions

First of all, why has no one (besides me) mentioned any of the bellhop skits and why has only the person who started this thread mention the pinball counting machine vignettes? Those were both pretty entertaining in different ways; the former involved a man doing impossible duties in a neat Tin-Tin-ish animated background circa 1983 or so, and the latter was always mesmerizing, psychedelic, and energetic (And most recently, parodied on Family Guy with Stewie going through the pinball machine in a bubble-type thing ) That being said, it might be kinda neat if another classic cartoon skit were featured on Family Guy (Typewriter Guy, maybe?) I know they've also made references to the falling baker in one episode (the one where Peter gains more appreciation for women; a baker comes out, yells "10 banana cream pies!!!", and falls down immediately afterwards.)

Also, I noticed that for 2 thru 12, each number had a Bud Luckey song (It was neat that Bud narrated "Boundin'", the short film that followed the Incredibles when it came out in theaters), and I noticed that for numbers 13 thru 20, only certain numbers had songs (13, 14, 15, 16, and 18). Why didn't 17, 19, and 20 ever have songs (and for that matter, were "Lucky 13", "14 Ducklings In the Pot", "Forgotten # 15", "16 Blues", and "18 Sandwiches" all animated and/or performed by the same person?) As for #'s 0 and 1, their respective songs (the one with animals taking away the food for 0, and the Bob Dylan-ish singer and the big fat chicken thing for 1) all seemed to (strangely) come out later than 2 thru 12.

Well, that's about it for now,

SillyJoeBob

 

[Chris Von Count]

my favorite numbers segments

#2 with the two little girls and the doll house (a cute classic) and Super 2
#3 the little red ball rolling around the giant track, the mad painter and the number 3 (hilarious)
#4 the cartoon elephant counting his feet, next ends up kicking his feet up in a little jig, and then falls flat on his back.. (always get a kick out of that one) sorry for the pun HEHE!
#5 Kerrmit, Herry Monster, and Cookie Monster with the number 5, great at the end when Cookie eats the 5.. LOL
#6 Bert sings about his favorite number
#7 the crocodile king
#8 the penny candyman, ring master and the eight seals, King of 8
#10 ten tiny turtles on the telephone with the grocery store, also the Russian doll film, Count it higher with Little Chris and band
#11 the eleven cheer song
#12 Ladybug picnic, the ring master and his twelve feathery finches
#18 with the guy doing the eighteen back handsprings in his yard
#20 counting guru cartoon

Any of the baker films were great (did you know Jim Henson was the baker)?
also I know that the mad painter in the number 3 skit was Mr. Bently from the Jeffersons, along with a young Stockard Channing. But I can't remember if he played the painter in all of the SS skits?
Of course who can forget the pinball cartoons, or jazzy spies?

 

[Chris Von Count]

I almost forgot another numbers segment...

Does anyone remember a film that had jazzed up music, and a lady doing a voice over counting all sorts of airplanes?

 

[Chris Von Count]

New member Kerri jarred my memory of another numbers skit.

If you read her first post in the welcoming section she explanes the skit with a truck driver throwing boxes down a track while kids count them.