Numbers Nursery

## Cover

Numbers Nursery is the 13th video of the Baby Einstein series. It teaches babies the numbers one through five through visuals and accompanied by entertaining classical music by Haydn, Schubert, Ponchielli, Chopin, Strauss Jr., Strauss Sr., and even a traditional song (Jingle Bells) thrown into a puppet show.

## Video Guide

### Opening

* *Symphony No. 101, "The Clock"* by Franz Joseph Haydn: Tiger opens dark green curtains and unveils the Hanging Number Props 1-5 while Julie counts them, Opening Titles
* Monkey Push Puppet dances to the left

### 1

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to 1
* Horse rides the Red & White Hot Air Balloon (*I'm floating in my one balloon, up to on single rising moon; I pass one cloud, float by up high into one bright blue pretty sky; I wear one hat, I see one star, I'm soaring high, I'm flying far*)
* One apple
* Music Video (*Trumpet Concerto in E-flat* by Franz Joseph Haydn): One duck, one cup, Rooster Ramp Walker, banana, Canada goose flying over ocean, Father Egghead opening mouth to the beat, Fantasy 2000 Block Set top, ballerina pirouetting, butterfly flying away, dog, girl in Baby Bee Costume, elephant, hummingbird, Gertie 9" Ball (red)
* Number 1 Walker (blue)
* Horse eats a flower, hiccups but then hears noises in the dark (cow, squeaky toy, car horn, sheep) and gallops away scared.
* Ladybug shows the blue number 1 and points to it
* Girl bangs a drum once and says 1, and girl wears one hat
* Monkey Push Puppet dances to the right

### 2

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to 2
* Cud the Cow (in a dual role) shares (*Call us a couple, call us a pair; there are two of us and so we share: two apples, two lollipops, two pickles, and two red gumdrops. We share two hugs, because we're friends; on one the other can depend*)
* Two apples
* Music Video (*Symphony No. 5, 4th Movement* by Franz Schubert): two ducks, two cups, Wind-Up Walking Sneakers, blue bowls of cereal with spoons, 2 pieces of toast popping out of toaster, Running Dogs Pull Toy, girls with Monarch Butterfly & Ladybug Wings, Dizzy Ducks Music Box, girl and boy on yellow Hop-Up Hopper Balls, block houses made of blue squares and red triangles, sea turtles, leaf cutter ants with leaves, lion cubs playing, girl eating chocolate cupcakes, Crystalite: Butterflies, Yellow Flower Pinwheels, girls on swing
* Number 2 Walker (yellow)
* *La Gioconda* by Amilcare Ponchielli: Duck plays with Viking Chubbies: Airplanes. When Horse comes along and wants to play, Duck shoos him away and keeps them both for himself, so Horse brings two Ball Sport Squeesh - Soccers to show that sharing is caring.
* Girl says two oranges, and boy says two eyes
* Horse draws a bike with two oranges halves for wheels and rides it
* Ladybug shows the yellow number 2 and nods
* Dancing Ladybugs Push Puppet

### 3

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to 3
* Duck in a trual role (*Three is company, three is a crowd. There are three of us and we're quite proud to own three trumpets: 1, 2, 3. We're musical, as you can see. We have three drums, we have three flutes, we have three bangs, we have three toots.*)
* Three apples
* Music Video (*Grande Valse Brillante* by Frédéric Chopin): three ducks, three cups, Eggheads Family (Sister, Mother and Father), girl and Huggy Buggy Cars, sunflowers, Penguin Wall Art, rabbit and carrots, banana split with three pistachio ice cream scoops, penguins in line, Wooly Sheep, Pull-Back Frogs, 3-Car Garage, Pop-Overs: Mouse, Red Wooden Block Cylinders
* Number 3 Walker (sea green)
* 3 girls crawl through Multicolor Find Me Tunnel and count themselves off
* Jingle Bells: Tiger builds a snowman with three snowballs and adds coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose then poses like it
* Girl claps to 3
* Elephant, Zebra, and Hippo Push Puppets
* Ladybug shows the green number 3
* *Tritsch-Tratsch Polka* by Johann Strauss, Jr.: Tiger, Horse, and Ladybug race and drive in the Wooden Racing Cars (sometimes they look at the viewers), and Tiger wins

### 4

* Duck conducts Tiger to ride the number train to 4
* Tiger, Pavlov the Dog, Baby MacDonald the Cow, and Horse laugh with tongues out, Baby Beethoven the Giraffe shows up with four spots on his face, rabbits, and roses (*Most furry mammals walk on fours: the tiger, the dog, the cow, the horse. They stick out four long tongues ad laugh. There are four black spots on this giraffe. And these four rabbits have four noses that love to smell these four red roses.*)
* Four apples
* Music Video (*Piano Concerto No. 11* by Franz Joseph Haydn): four ducks, four cups, Poppeteers: Pond O'Frogs Puppet, plates, forks, Duck finds plain easter eggs in the Look & Feel Memory Tower and counts them then smiles at the viewers, tomatoes, Discover & Play Color Blocks, Pavlov in a quad role, Pocket Pets: Ladybug, cookies, number books, oranges, Crayons, Pig in a trual role with Horse wearing the Pig Ears & Snout
* Number 4 Walker (purple)
* girl says four frogs, Girl claps to 4
* Ladybug shows the purple number 4
* Dancing Ladybugs and Dancing Bees Push Puppets

### 5

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to 5
* Pavlov (in a quint role) (*The five of us make quite a group, we fit inside this hula-hoop. We wear five flowers behind our ears, our grandma calls us "little dears". We eat five cookies, wear five bibs; we sleep in these five little cribs.*)
* Five apples, five ducks
* Music Video (*Three Marches Militaires* by Franz Schubert): five cups, Pocket Pets: Ladybugs, Toko Bird Puppets, Tumbling Bowling Bunnies, bananas, black sprinkled donuts, blue jelly beans, girl and Huggy Buggy Cars, toes, Eggheads Family (1 Mother, 2 Fathers and 2 Sisters), Mini Doll Sweaters, Pocket Pets: Ladybugs, Lacing Beads (5 yellow cubes)
* Number 5 Walker (red)
* Baby MacDonald rings 5 desk bells from left to right
* boy counts to 5 on his fingers
* Ladybug's dots are counted by Julie
* *Symphony No. 94, "Surprise", 2nd Movement* by Franz Joseph Haydn: Tiger stacks 5 blocks and Horse knocks the tower over.
* Ladybug shows the red-orange number 5
* Tiger drives train to the end while Julie counts to 5, Duck follows

### Closing

* Finale (*Symphony No. 100, "Military", 4th Movement* by Franz Joseph Haydn): 1 rooster, 1 dog, 2 turtles, 2 shoes, 3 frogs, 3 mice, 4 frogs, 4 blocks, 5 ducks, 5 Huggy Buggy Cars
* *Symphony No. 100, "Military", 2nd Movement* by Franz Joseph Haydn: Tiger helps Horse rearrange the numbers in the right order
* End Credits: (*Radetzky March* by Johann Strauss, Sr.)

## International Versions

Numbers Nursery was dubbed in several languages worldwide.

## How Many?

* *Waltz in G-flat* by Frédéric Chopin
	+ *Count the balls with us!* (Ball Party: Bounce, 3)
	+ *How many bangs did you hear?* (Playsoup Duck bangs Toy Drum once and smiles,1)
	+ *How many rockets do you see?* (Tin Pull-Back Rocket Racers, 2)
	+ *How many pumpkins are there?* (Glowing Halloween Pumpkin, 1)
	+ *How many eggs are in the bird's nest?* (Nest with bird eggs, 3)
	+ *How many seashells do you see?* (Spiral Seashell, 1)
	+ *How many funny giraffes are there?* (Giraffes and Birds Wall Art, 1)
	+ *How many sneezes did you hear?* (Horse, Tiger and Baby MacDonald sneezing because of an allergy to the Feather Ostrich Pen, 3)
	+ *How many sisters do you see?* (girls rocking, 2)
	+ *How many eggs can you count?* (eggs frying in pan, 2)
* *Piano Concerto No. 11* by Franz Joseph Haydn
	+ *How many animals do you see?* (Fun Capsules - Wild Animals, 4)
	+ *How many animals are dancing?* (Elephant, Zebra and Hippo Push Puppets, 3)
	+ *How many babies do you see?* (baby in Cute as a Bug Baby Costume, 1)
	+ *How many mice can you count?* (Pop-Overs: Mouse, 3)
	+ *Can you count the grapes?* (purple grapes, 5)
	+ *Can you count the mail with us?* (Pavlov gets letters, 3)
	+ *How many birds are there?* (Toko Bird Puppets, 5)
	+ *How many fish do you see?* (fish, 2)
	+ *How many moos did you hear?* (Duck watches what Baby MacDonald is doing then squeezes her nose with his beak causing Baby MacDonald to moo and Duck laughs)
* *La Gioconda* by Amilcare Ponchielli
	+ *How many horns did you hear?* (Tiger honking Bike Horns from left to right and then chasing his runaway tail, 5)
	+ *How many surprises did the duck find?* (Duck finds plain Easter eggs in the Look & Feel Memory Tower, 4)
	+ *How many fuzzy birds do you see?* (Feather Ostrich Pen, 1)
	+ *Let's bake a cake. How many things does Tiger add to the bowl?* (Tiger adds ingredients to a bowl, mixes, and bakes, 5)
	+ *How many candles can you count?* (Tiger takes the cake out of the oven, 5)

## Count Along Activities

* *Can you count along with us? 1, 2, 3* (Tiger counts the 3 orange spheres on Abacus Toy)
* *1, 2, 3, 4, 5* (Ladybug's dots are counted by Julie)
* *1, 2, 3, 4, 5* (Tiger rides the number train from 1-5)
* *Listen carefully and count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10* (girl counts to 10). *Now, you try!* (Numbers without narration).
* *Let's count again! 1* (girl bangs Toy Drum)
* *2* (Yo-yos)
* *3* (frogs)
* *4* (ducks)
* *5* (jelly beans)
* *Can you count to 5 on your hand?*(girl and boy count to 5 on their hands)
* *Let's count again! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10* (boy counts to 10). *Now, you try!* (Numbers without narration).

## Trivia

* This is the first Disney video to feature Julie Aigner-Clark.
* This is the only Disney video to feature Julie's hand.
* The hanging number props and the puppets from the 5 poems were later in 2004, pictured and reanimated for the Numbers and Shapes Discovery Cards.
* Some tracks were later reused in World of Rhythm.
* This is the only time where Playsoup Duck is seen without his scarf.
* An image of the making of the 3 puppet show is seen on the old Playsoup site, which reveals that Tiger is played by Dave Privett.
* Duck (Playsoup) doesn't return until My First Signs.
* Baby Beethoven doesn't return until Meet the Orchestra.
* Pavlov doesn't return until Baby Wordsworth with new eyes.
* The 1st version of Baby MacDonald doesn't return until the 2008 version of Baby Mozart.
* This is the first appearance of Tiger who doesn't return until the 2008 version of Baby Mozart.
* This is the only appearance of Ladybug.
* This is the first video to have classical music by Haydn, Ponchielli, and Strauss Sr.
* Huggy Buggy Car by Hooray is from Baby Van Gogh and Discover & Play Color Blocks by Kids II was later seen on Baby Wordsworth.
* The audio from Language Nursery is reused on the discovery cards bonus feature.

## Puppets

* Tiger (Host) (played by David Privett)
* Horse (Playsoup) (played by David Privett)
* Ladybug (played by June Privett)
* Cud the Cow (played by June Privett)
* Duck (played by Chris O'Brien and Ryan Spittler)
* Pavlov the Dog (played by Chris O'Brien and Ryan Spittler)
* Baby MacDonald the Cow (Version 1) (played by June Privett)
* Baby Beethoven the Giraffe (Playsoup) (played by Chris O'Brien)
* Pig (played by Ryan Spittler)

## Kids

* Alese
* Alexis
* Desja
* Essence
* Gage
* James
* Johnathan
* Katie
* Liam
* Maria
* Sarika
* Sienna
* Sophia
* Ziya

## Discovery Cards

* 1 (Blue)
* 2 (Yellow)
* 3 (Sea Green)
* 4 (Purple)
* 5 (Red)
* 6 (Light Blue)
* 7 (Light Violet)
* 8 (Lime Green)
* 9 (Magenta)
* 10 (Orange)

## Toys

### How Many Toys

 Tin Pull-Back Rocket Racers
 Giraffes and Birds Wall Art
 Feather Ostrich Pen
 Cute as a Bug Baby Costume
 Bike Horns

## Songs

1. Symphony No. 101 in D major, "The Clock", Hob.I:101, 2nd Movement, Haydn (Opening)
2. Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, Hob.VIIe:1, 3rd Movement, Haydn (1)
3. Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485, 4th Movement, Schubert (2)
4. La Gioconda, Op. 9, Act 3, Dance of the Hours, Ponchielli (2 Puppet Show)
5. Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18, Chopin (3)
6. Jingle Bells, Traditional (3)
7. Trish-Trash Polka, Op. 214, Strauss, Jr. (Three Race Cars)
8. Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 1st Movement, Haydn (4)
9. Three Marches Militaires, D. 733, Op. 51, No. 1, Schubert (5)
10. Symphony No. 94 in G major, "Surprise", Hob.I:94, 2nd Movement, Haydn (5)
11. Symphony No. 100 in G major, "Military", Hob.I:100, 4th Movement, Haydn (Celebrating Numbers 1-5)
12. Symphony No. 100 in G major, "Military", Hob.I:100, 2nd Movement, Haydn (Celebrating Numbers 1-5)
13. Radetzky March, Op. 228, Strauss, Sr.(Closing)
14. Waltz No. 11 in G-flat major, Op. 70, No. 1, Chopin (How Many?)