Sesame Street Super Jumbo Crayons/As I Was Going to St. Ives (from Sesame Street)

Cast

 * Honker Purple as Purple Anything Muppet boy
 * Oscar the Grouch Green as Green Anything Muppet girl

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: Yes, that's a seven.

Honker 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?

Oscar the Grouch Green: Okay.

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: You met a man with seven wives?

Honker 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?

Oscar the Grouch Green: You mean how many were going to St. Ives?

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

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

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: What?

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: Oh, okay. I'll figure out on some paper here.

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: You met a man with seven wives. I know that.

Honker Purple: And every wife had seven sacks. ( Oscar the Grouch Green: Seven sacks. ) Every sack had seven cats, ( Oscar the Grouch Green: Seven cats. ) Every cat had seven kittens: ( Oscar the Grouch Green: Seven kittens. ) Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, ( Oscar the Grouch Green: Kittens, cats, seven wives. ) How many were going to St. Ives?

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

Honker Purple: How many were going to St. Ives?

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

Honker 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.

Oscar the Grouch Green: I'm still figuring. Ninety-nine cats, seventy-eight wives...

Honker Purple: No, no, no. You give up?

Oscar the Grouch Green: Well, no, I don't have time to figure, you see.

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

Oscar the Grouch Green: One?

Honker 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.

Oscar the Grouch Green: How many?

Honker Purple: What?

Oscar the Grouch Green: How many were going the other way?

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

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

Honker Purple: How about that?