What was your favorite "Schoolhouse Rock" edu-toon?

[kmla]

Remember those? You could watch cartoons, and during breaks, you could learn something while watching an interesting little episode inserted in the commercial break.

Everything from the multiplication tables, to government, and proper language. I've seen the DVD collection advertised - I'm gonna buy it soon for my two boys. Alot more beneficial that having them watch some of the action/fantasy crap that passes for cartoons today.

*kmla scratches his head and realizes he just sounded like his father. He them pulls his pants up to just below his chest, sniffs like Barney Fife, and continues on with his day...*

My favorite? "I'm just a bill, yes, I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill..."

[Blue-Jay]

1. My faves

"I'm Just a Bill"
"Interplanet Janet"
"3 Is a Magic Number"
"Conjunction Junction"
"The Shot Heard 'Round the World"

To this day, I can sing every word each of those. I also can't recite the Preamble to the Constitution without singing it. Well...I suppose I can, but it's not easy.

[mac56]

3. "Lolly-Lolly-Lolly, Get Your Adjectives Here!"

My lovely wife likes "I'm Just A Bill" and "Interjection!"

[Blue-Jay]

8. ADVERBS!

man...

[mac56]

10. my God, you're right!

(hangs head in shame)

[Blue-Jay]

13. <pats mac56 on the head>

It's OK. We all do it once in a while. :)

[tom_paine]

18. I agree. Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adVERBS here! is best!

[RUexperienced]

2. "... So when you are happy- YEAH!

... or sad AWWW!

... or freightened EEEEKKK!

... or mad RATS!"

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I forget which one that is.

But it, along with, "I'm just a bill, sitting on capitol hill..." are my favorite.

[Loonman]

4. Verb

I get my thing in action (Verb!)
To be, to see, to feel, to live (Verb!)
That's what's happenin'


I put my heart in action (Verb!)
To run, to go, to get, to give (Verb!)
(You're what's happenin')


That's where I find satisfaction, yeah! (Yeah!)
To search, to find, to have, to hold.
(Verb! To be bold)
When I use my imagination (Verb!)
I think, I plot, I plan, I dream
Turning in towards creation (Verb!)
I make, I write, I dance, I sing
When I'm feeling really active (Verb!)
I run, I ride, I swim, I fly!
Other times when life is easy
(Oh!) I rest, I sleep, I sit, I lie.


(Verb! That's what happenin')I can take a noun and bend it,
Give me a noun -
(Bat, boat, rake, and plow)
Make it a verb and really send it!
(Show me how)
Oh, I don't know my own power. (Verb!)


I get my thing in action (Verb!)
In being, (Verb!) In doing, (Verb!)
In saying
A verb expresses action, being, or state of being.
A verb makes a statement.
Yeah, a verb tells it like it is!


(Verb! That's what's happenin'.)
I can tell you when it's happenin',
(Past, present, future tense)
Ooh! Tell you more about what's happenin',
(Say it so it makes some sense)
I can yell you who is happenin'!
(Verb, you're so intense)
Every sentence has a subject.
(Noun, person, place, or thing)
Find that subject: Where's the action?
Verb can make a subject sing.)
Take the subject: What is it? (What!)
What's done to it? (What!)
What does it say?
(Verb, you're what's happenin')


I can question, like: What is it?
(Verb, you're so demanding.)
I can order like: Go get it!
(Verb, you're so commanding.)
When I hit I need an object
(Verb, hit! Hit the ball!)
When I see, I see the object
(Verb, hit! Hit the ball!)
When I see,, I see the object
(Do you see that furthest wall?)


If you can see it there, put that ball over the fence, man!
Go ahead. Yeah, all right.
What?! He hit it. It's going, it's going, it's gone!
(What?!)


I get my thing in action.
(Verb, that's what happenin')
To work, (Verb!)
To play, (Verb!)
To live, (Verb!)
To love... (Verb!...)

http://www.school-house-rock.com/Ver.html

[populistmom]

5. My favorites

"I'm Just a Bill"
"Conjuction Juction"
"Electricity"
"Mother Necessity"

[Mikimouse]

6. After all the years of watching the program when my

children were growing up, I still like "I'm just a bill", but last night MAD TV did a skit about "Interjection" and I laughed so hard I almost fell off the couch. They were using interjections like: "crap!" and "that sucks!" and it touched my more than warped sense of humor. The cats even laughed, I think.

[Haviland_42]

7. Conjunction Junction....

...what's your function? *singing*


Yeah, that one!

[ikojo]

9. My fave was I'm Just a Bill and the

Constitution one...during my senior year in high school we were required to take a US government class. Part of the class requirement was taking a test on the constitution. The teacher wanted to make sure we knew the preamble so he required us to go up to his desk and recite it. Knowing that we all grew up watching School House Rock on television he said...

"And you cannot sing it."

Boy was that difficult! To this day I cannot recite the preamble without singing it....

[WoodrowFan]

11. We The People

We the People, it's how I can still recite the preamble to the Constitution...

[Shakespeare]

21. Oh, I forgot that one--add that to my list, too.

I would imagine that anybody in their 30s knows the preamble because of that song. Great, great stuff. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

12. *sigh* This thread has made me wax nostalgic.

So I ordered the Schoolhouse Rock DVD from Amazon.com. If I ever have kids, it'll be required watching.

[terryg11]

14. The Bill, electricity and three is a magic number

the remakes done in what, '97, some of them are truly awesome.

Also, ever catch the Simpson's version of "I'm just a bill"? that's a freakin' classic yet I can't remember what he was supposed to be instead of a bill

[dontomas]

15. It was....

an amendment, I think.

[KinkyDem]

16. A quick note about the producer of those ...

He and his wife died a few years ago as part of a UN Peace Keeping team. The truck he was driving went off of a cliff. He and his wife were delivering satalite equipment so that refugees could be caztaloged so they could find and relocate their relatives.

He also produced some of the most memorable commercials from that time period as well. Anyone remeber the Norelco comercial were Santa was riding an electric razor?

[djeseru]

19. I didn't hear that...

...that's too bad. The things you miss these days...

I loved that Norelco commercial - it just doesn't seem like the holidays since we don't see it any anymore.

"Electricity" and "Conjunction Junction" were my favorites, with "Verb" and "3 is a Magic Number" coming up close.

[Shakespeare]

20. He did that commercial?! They always showed it during Rudolph..

I LOVED that commercial.

My fave ones are:

Elbow Room
Three is a Magic Number
The Tale of Mr. Morton (which I find very moving)
Conjunction Junction

And ALL of the Grammar Rock songs are close runners-up.

[tom_paine]

17. Did you ever see the Simpsons' satirical take on the Bill o Rigts cartoon?

(you know what tune to sing it to)

I'm an amendment to be, yes, an amendment to be
and I'm hopin' that they'll ratify me

There's a lot of flag burners who've got to much freedom
I want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em

I'll stop whoever gets in my way
if Ted Kennedy tries, "I'll say that he's gay"

That's not quite the exact lyrics, but catches the spirit of the thing.

[noonwitch]

22. Bill is my favorite, but I loved "The Simpsons" take on it

I also liked Bart's comment, when Lisa explained about school house rock being something from Gen X-ers' childhoods.

"We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks". I guess in light of the Iraq thing, it's not as funny anymore.

[terryg11]

23. thank you

I couldnt remember what he was supposed to be. truly classic