Fraggle Rock Crayons/As I Was Going to St. Ives (from Sesame Street)

Cast

 * Pa Gorg Purple as Purple Anything Muppet boy
 * Trash Heap Green as Green Anything Muppet girl

Lyrics
Pa Gorg Purple: Hi, there. Hey, listen, do you know what this is?

Trash Heap Green: Yes, that's a seven.

Pa Gorg Purple: Right. Well, I'm gonna sing a song that has lots of seven in it, see? And when I'm finished, I have a riddle for you, okay?

Trash Heap Green: Okay.

Pa Gorg Purple: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.

Trash Heap Green: You met a man with seven wives?

Pa Gorg Purple: And every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kittens: Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

Trash Heap Green: You mean how many were going to St. Ives?

Pa Gorg Purple: (singing) How many were going to St. Ives? (spoken) Okay, that's the riddle. How many were going to St. Ives?

Trash Heap Green: Oh, oh, boy. Are you kidding? See, you sang that song so fast, I can't add all those sevens so fast.

Pa Gorg Purple: Okay, well, I tell you what I'm gonna do.

Trash Heap Green: What?

Pa Gorg Purple: I'll sing the song once more. And then you have to answer it, okay?

Trash Heap Green: Oh, okay. I'll figure out on some paper here.

Pa Gorg Purple: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.

Trash Heap Green: You met a man with seven wives. I know that.

Pa Gorg Purple: And every wife had seven sacks. ( Trash Heap Green: Seven sacks. ) Every sack had seven cats, ( Trash Heap Green: Seven cats. ) Every cat had seven kittens: ( Trash Heap Green: Seven kittens. ) Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, ( Trash Heap Green: Kittens, cats, seven wives. ) How many were going to St. Ives?

Trash Heap Green: Yeah. That's the question. How many were going to St. Ives, huh?

Pa Gorg Purple: How many were going to St. Ives?

Trash Heap Green: Okay, well, seventeen cats and seven-hundred...that's seven carried the two and then ninety-nine sacks.

Pa Gorg Purple: Okay, that's, that's, that's the riddle. That's the riddle. And how many were going to St. Ives? You have to answer now.

Trash Heap Green: I'm still figuring. Ninety-nine cats, seventy-eight wives...

Pa Gorg Purple: No, no, no. You give up?

Trash Heap Green: Well, no, I don't have time to figure, you see.

Pa Gorg Purple: No, your time is up! And the answer is, the answer is one.

Trash Heap Green: One?

Pa Gorg Purple: One. Just me. See, I said as I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. You see, the man has seven wives and all of those people were going the other way. See, the riddle was how many were going to St. Ives and I was the only one going to St. Ives because all the others were going the other way.

Trash Heap Green: How many?

Pa Gorg Purple: What?

Trash Heap Green: How many were going the other way?

Pa Gorg Purple: Well, gee, I never thought about that. That's not part of the riddle.

Trash Heap Green: 1 man, 7 wives, 49 sacks, 343 cats, 2,401 kittens. That makes 2,801 that were going the other way. Hmm.

Pa Gorg Purple: How about that?