Numbers Nursery

"***Numbers Nursery: Destroying Numbers & Counting***" is the 13th video of the Baby Einstein series. It teaches toddlers the numbers 1 through 5 through visuals and accompanied by entertaining classical music by Haydn, Schubert, Ponchielli, Chopin, Strauss II, Strauss Sr., and even a traditional song (Jingle Bells) 'thrown' into a puppet show. It is released to universal panning and became Disney’s biggest box office disaster.

## Video Guide

### Opening

* Disney Fanfare, Newman: Walt Disney Pictures Logo (1995-2007) (shortened into just "Disney" in 2013)
* Inchworm Finger Puppets (replaced by Shufflebugs Finger Puppets in 2013)
* Symphony No. 101 in G major "The Clock", Hob.I:101, 2nd Movement, Haydn: Tiger opens black curtains and unveils the Hanging Number Props 1-5 while Julie counts them, Opening titles (different in 2013)
* Monkey Push Puppet dances to the left

### 1 (One)

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to the blue number 1 with a single dot
* Neighton the Horse rides the Red & White Hot Air Balloon (***FIRST POEM:** I'm floating in my one balloon, up to one single rising moon. I pass one cloud, float by up high into 1 bright blue pretty sky. I wear one hat, I see one star, I'm soaring high, I'm flying far.*)
* One apple
* Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat major, Hob.VIIe: 1, 3rd Movement, 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, Sophia in Baby Bee Costume, elephant, hummingbird, Gertie 9" Ball (red)
* Number 1 Walker (blue)
* Neighton eats a flower. Afterwards, he hiccups, but then starts to make noises (cow, squeaky toy, old car horn, sheep, duck) and gallops or runs away in fear.
* Ladybug shows the blue number 1 and points to it
* Essence bangs a drum once and says 1, and Desja wears 1 hat
* Monkey Push Puppet dances to the right

### 2 (Two)

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to the yellow number 2 with a pair of dots at positions of a line segment
* Cud (in a dual role) shares (***SECOND POEM:*** *Call us a couple, call us a pair. There are two of us and so we share. two apples, and two lollipops, two pickles, and two red gumdrops. We share two hugs, because we're friends, and one the other can depend*)
* Two apples
* Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat major, D.485, 4th Movement, Schubert: two ducks, two cups, Wind-Up Walking Sneakers, 2 blue bowls of cereal with spoons, two pieces of toast popping out of the toaster, Running Dogs Pull Toy, Desja and Sarika with Monarch Butterfly & Ladybug Wings, Dizzy Ducks Music Box, Katie and Johnathan on yellow Hop-Up Hopper Balls, block houses made of blue squares and red triangles, sea turtles, leaf cutter ants with leaves, lion cubs fighting, Alexis eating a couple of chocolate sprinkled cupcakes, Crystalite: Butterflies, Yellow Flower Pinwheels, girls on swing
* Number 2 Walker (yellow)
* La Gioconda, Op. 9, Ponchielli: Duck (Playsoup, without scarf) plays with Viking Chubbies: Airplanes. When Neighton comes along and wants to play, Duck shoos him away and keeps them both for himself, so Neighton brings two Ball Sport Squish - Soccers to show that they can share.
* Desja says "Two oranges", and Liam says "Two eyes"
* Neighton draws a bike with two oranges for wheels and rides it
* Ladybug shows the yellow number 2, nods then crawls to the left
* Dancing Ladybugs Push Puppet

### 3 (Three)

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to the green number 3 with three dots in triangle corners
* Duck (L&L) in a trial role (***THIRD POEM:** Three is company, three's a crowd. There are three of us and we're quite proud to own three trumpets: one, two, three. 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
* Grande Valse Brillante in E-Flat major, Op. 18, Chopin: three ducks, three cups, Eggheads Family (Sister, Mother and Father), Sophia 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)
* Katie, Desja and Sarika crawl through Multicolor Find Me Tunnel and count themselves off
* Jingle Bells, Traditional: Tiger builds a snowman with three snowballs and adds coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose then poses like it
* Essence claps to 3
* Elephant, Zebra and Hippo Push Puppets
* Ladybug shows the green number 3 and smiles
* Tritcsh-Tratcsh Polka, Op. 214, Strauss, Jr.: Tiger, Neighton and Ladybug race and drive in the 3 Wooden Racing Cars, and Tiger wins, Neighton is 2nd place and Ladybug is 3rd.

### 4 (Four)

* Duck (L&L) conducts Tiger to ride the number train to the purple number 4 with four dots in square corners
* Tiger, Pavlov The Dog, Baby MacDonald The Cow, and Neighton laugh with their tongues out, Baby Beethoven The Giraffe shows up, rabbit, and roses (***FOURTH POEM:*** *Most furry mammals walk on fours: the tiger, the dog, the cow, the horse. They stick out four long tongues and laugh. There are four black spots on this giraffe. And these four rabbits have four noses that like to smell these four red roses.*)
* Four apples
* Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 1st Movement, Haydn: four ducks, four cups, Puppeteers: Pond O'Frogs Puppet, plates, forks, Duck (Playsoup) finds plain easter eggs in the Look & Feel Memory Tower and counts them, tomatoes, Discover & Play Color Blocks, Pavlov the Dog (L&L) in a quad role, Pocket Pets: Ladybug, cookies, number books, oranges, Crayons, Squirt The Pig and two of his duplicates notice there's a pig missing. So one of the pigs gets Neighton wearing Pig Ears & Snout.
* Number 4 Walker (purple)
* Liam says 4 frogs and croaks, Katie claps to 4
* Ladybug shows the purple number 4 and crawls to the right
* Dancing Ladybugs and Dancing Bees Push Puppets

### 5 (Five)

* Tiger rides the My Train: Engine to the red-orange number 5 with five dots in a quincunx pattern
* Pavlov (L&L) (in a quint role) (***FIFTH POEM:*** *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
* 3 Marches Militaires, No. 1 in D major, D.733, Schubert: five cups, Pocket Pets: Ladybugs, Toko Bird Puppets, Tumbling Bowling Bunnies, bananas, black sprinkled donuts, blue jellybeans, Sophia and Huggy Buggy Cars, toes, Eggheads Family (one Mother, two Fathers and two Sisters), Mini Doll Sweaters, Pocket Pets: Ladybugs, Lacing Beads (Five yellow cubes)
* Number 5 Walker (from reddish orange down to red)
* Baby MacDonald rings five hand bells from left to right
* Liam counts to five on his fingers
* Ladybug's dots (right wing only) are counted by Julie while pointing to them.
* Symphony No. 94 in G major, Hob.I:94, 2nd Movement, Haydn: Tiger stacks five blocks and Neighton knocks three of them down after he runs away leaving two remaining (Possibly to show subtraction).
* Ladybug shows the orange-red number 5 and crawls to the right again
* Tiger drives the train to the caboose at the end (since the numbers only go up to 5) while Julie counts to five, Duck (L&L) follows

### Closing

* Symphony No. 100 in G major, Hob.I:100, 4th Movement, Haydn: one happy rooster, one dog, two turtles, two shoes, three frogs, three mice, four frogs, four blocks, five ducks, five Huggy Buggy Cars, 5 number circles drop down in order
* Symphony No. 100 in G major, Hob.I:100, 2nd Movement, Haydn: Tiger helps Neighton rearrange the numbers in the right order.
* Radetzky March, Op. 228, Strauss, Sr.: closing credits

## How Many?

* Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat major, Op. 70, No. 1 by Frederic 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?* (Neighton, Tiger and Baby MacDonald sneezing because of the Feather Ostrich Pen allergy, 3)
* *How many sisters do you see?* (Desja and Sarika rocking, 2)
* *How many eggs can you count?* (eggs frying in pan, 2)
* Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 1st Movement 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?* (Sienna 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?* (Playsoup Pavlov gets 3 letters from his mail box, 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 pinches her nose with his beak hurting Baby MacDonald and Duck laughs, 1)
* La Gioconda, Op. 9 by Amilcare Ponchielli
* *How many horns did you hear?* (Tiger honking Bike Horns from left to right, 5)
* *How many surprises did the duck find?* (Playsoup Duck finds plain easter eggs in the Look & Feel Memory Tower, 4)
* *How many fuzzy birds do you see?* (Feather Ostrich Pen, 1)
* **Question #1:** *Let's bake a cake. How many things does Tiger add to the bowl?* and **Question #2:** *How many candles can you count?* (Tiger makes a cake, 5)

## Count Along Activities

* *Can you count along with us? 1, 2, 3* (Tiger counts the 3 red 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* (Maria counts to 10). *Now, you try!* (Numbers without narration).
* *Let's count again! 1* (Essence bangs Toy Drum)
* *2* (Yo-yos)
* *3* (frogs)
* *4* (ducks)
* *5* (jellybeans)
* *Can you count to 5 on your hand?* (Desja and Liam count to 5 on her hand)
* *Let's count again! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10* (*Johnathan counts to 10*)*. Now, you try!* (*Numbers without narration*).

## Distribution

* Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2003-2004)

## Trivia

* This is the first Disney video to feature Julie Aigner-Clark.
* This is the last video in the poetry trio series: the other two are Baby Shakespeare and Baby Van Gogh.
* This is the first appearances of Alexis, Sienna and Sophia.
* 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.
* Dave Privett remade the hanging number props 1-5 for Corey's Kid Show
* Some tracks were later reused in and World of Rhythm.
* This is the only time where PlaySoup Duck is seen without his scarf.
* This is the last time the 1st copy of the Playsoup Duck (version 1) appears before the sunlight damaged him. He is later (legally paid to be) sent to Corey's Kid Show in 2021.
* 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, it was later posted in it's highest quality on his Instagram with another angle of the same day in 2003 (Baby MacDonald can be seen on the far top left).
* Duck (PlaySoup) (Version 1) doesn't return until My First Signs.
* Baby Beethoven (PlaySoup) doesn't return until Meet The Orchestra.
* Pavlov (PlaySoup) 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 last appearance of the 1st Version of Pavlov the Dog in PlaySoup form.
* This is the first video to have classical music by Haydn.
* This is the only video to have classical music by 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.
* When Neighton, Tiger, and Baby MacDonald sneeze after encountering a feather ostrich pen, their full voices can be heard (Bill Weisbach made them). Neighton and Baby MacDonald nearly sound the same whilst, Tiger has a squeaky voice. However, Tiger has a little lower voice in the snowman scene.
* Some of the songs in this video are not available on any CDs or mp3s. As such, this is the first video to have some Classical Music that is not from CDs or DVD Concert Halls.
* In the 2003 original release of Numbers Nursery DVD during the end credits, it says Nursery Numbers Kids and in the late 2004 re-release of Numbers Nursery DVD during the end credits, they corrected it to Numbers Nursery Kids. This is one of the few times where Disney fixes a mistake for later releases
* The CD Sampler enclosed on the VHS has the same songs as the CD enclosed on the Baby Galileo VHS.
* All of the scenes with Tiger on his train and the scene where he builds a snowman during the three scene resemble the fact that the video was made one month after the Thomas videos, *Thomas' Snowy Surprise and Other Adventures* and *Best of Gordon*.

## Puppets

* Tiger (Host) (played by David Privett) (first appearance)
* Neighton the Horse (PlaySoup) (played by David Privett) (third appearance)
* Ladybug (played by June Privett) (only appearance)
* Cud Cow (played by June Privett) (fourth appearance)
* Duck (PlaySoup) (played by Chris O'Brien) (fourth appearance)
* Duck (L&L) (played by Ryan Spittler) (third appearance)
* Pavlov the Dog (PlaySoup) (Version 1) (played by Chris O'Brien) (last appearance)
* Baby MacDonald the Cow (Version 1) (played by June Privett) (fifth appearance)
* Baby Beethoven The Giraffe (PlaySoup) (played by Chris O'Brien) (third appearance)
* Pavlov the Dog (L&L) (played by Ryan Spittler) (second appearance)
* Squirt The Pig (L&L) (played by Ryan Spittler) (second appearance)

## Kids

* Alexis Fowlkes (wearing a blue sweatshirt and white farm overalls)
* Desja Logan (wearing a white sweatshirt and green farm overalls)
* Essence Nickies (wearing a blue T-shirt and a pink ballerina costume)
* Johnathan Simon (wearing a green and yellow T-shirts)
* Katie Gifford (wearing a pink T-shirt and blue jeans)
* Liam Katsan (wearing a red and green shirts)
* Maria Celeste (wearing a pink sweatshirt)
* Sarika Rogers (wearing a white sweatshirt and red farm overalls)
* Sienna Burke (wearing a Bug Costume)
* Sophia Squires (wearing a Baby Bee Costume and pink shirt)

## Discovery Cards

* 1 (Blueberry Blue)
* 2 (Sunflower Yellow)
* 3 (Sea Green)
* 4 (Eggplant Purple)
* 5 (Tomato Red)
* 6 (Sky Blue)
* 7 (Lavender)
* 8 (Lime Green)
* 9 (Macaroon Pink)
* 10 (Sunset 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

### Video Songs

1. Symphony No. 101 in D major "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, Ponchielli (2 Puppet Show)
5. Grande Valse Brillante in E-Flat major, Op. 18, Chopin (3)
6. Jingle Bells, Traditional (3 Puppet Show)
7. Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214, Strauss, Jr. (3 Race Cars)
8. Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 1st Movement, Haydn (4)
9. 3 Marches Militaires, No. 1 in D major, D.733, Schubert (5)
10. Symphony No. 94 in G major "Surprise", Hob.I:94, 2nd Movement, Haydn (5 Puppet Show)
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)

### Bonus Song (How Many)

1. Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat major, Op. 70, No. 1, Chopin

## Reception

### Box Office

"*Numbers Nursery*" became a box office failure by grossing no money on the $320 million budget.

### Response

"*Numbers Nursery*" has an approval rating of 0% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on nine reviews, with an average rating of 0/10, a 0/100 on Critic's Choice, a 0 on Metacritic and a F- on CinemaScore.