Sesame Street 50 Years and Counting nail polish/As I Was Going to St. Ives (from Sesame Street)

Cast

 * Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh! as Purple Anything Muppet boy
 * A Grouchy New Year as Green Anything Muppet girl

Lyrics
Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: Hi, there. Hey, listen, do you know what this is?

A Grouchy New Year: Yes, that's a seven.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: 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?

A Grouchy New Year: Okay.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.

A Grouchy New Year: You met a man with seven wives?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: 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?

A Grouchy New Year: You mean how many were going to St. Ives?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: (singing) How many were going to St. Ives? (spoken) Okay, that's the riddle. How many were going to St. Ives?

A Grouchy New Year: Oh, oh, boy. Are you kidding? See, you sang that song so fast, I can't add all those sevens so fast.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: Okay, well, I tell you what I'm gonna do.

A Grouchy New Year: What?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: I'll sing the song once more. And then you have to answer it, okay?

A Grouchy New Year: Oh, okay. I'll figure out on some paper here.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.

A Grouchy New Year: You met a man with seven wives. I know that.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: And every wife had seven sacks. ( A Grouchy New Year: Seven sacks. ) Every sack had seven cats, ( A Grouchy New Year: Seven cats. ) Every cat had seven kittens: ( A Grouchy New Year: Seven kittens. ) Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, ( A Grouchy New Year: Kittens, cats, seven wives. ) How many were going to St. Ives?

A Grouchy New Year: Yeah. That's the question. How many were going to St. Ives, huh?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: How many were going to St. Ives?

A Grouchy New Year: Okay, well, seventeen cats and seven-hundred...that's seven carried the two and then ninety-nine sacks.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: 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.

A Grouchy New Year: I'm still figuring. Ninety-nine cats, seventy-eight wives...

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: No, no, no. You give up?

A Grouchy New Year: Well, no, I don't have time to figure, you see.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: No, your time is up! And the answer is, the answer is one.

A Grouchy New Year: One?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: 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.

A Grouchy New Year: How many?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: What?

A Grouchy New Year: How many were going the other way?

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: Well, gee, I never thought about that. That's not part of the riddle.

A Grouchy New Year: 1 man, 7 wives, 49 sacks, 343 cats, 2,401 kittens. That makes 2,801 that were going the other way. Hmm.

Fa-La-Ah-Ah-Ahhh!: How about that?