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Submitted by prairiechick
Watching these clips brought back so many memories. So many people passed tests solely because they remembered enough of these songs to get by. ABC should go back to their roots and start offering quality programming like this again. Try watching these videos without getting the songs stuck in your head.
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hahhah i have a dvd with every single song
Yay!!! About time!! School House Rock was awesomer than the awesomest thing on an awesome day in Awesometown!
That pretty much sums it up right there, yup. And I bet if you got a group of people together who had all experienced them you could start a spontaneous concert by just starting to sing one of the songs…
Could? I’ve been in several situations where someone started singing one of the more popular songs, “Conjunction Junction” or “Interjection!” or “Circulation”..and total strangers have joined in!
So you’re saying I win the bet?
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“Interplanet Janet she’s a galaxy girl…”
Yes you do, bodo. That’s not a bet I would’ve taken. I’ve been in similar situations to Amryseuss.
“I’m just a Bill sittin on Capitol Hill, and I hope that I will soon be a Law…”
Did anyone else notice that the “or” was on and ore car? I know. I’m a train dork…
I mean “an ore car”. Those conjunctions sometimes have a bad influence on me…
lulz
whenever i hear the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” i will always think of a school house rock episode i saw when i was younger, and whenever “the pursuit or happiness” came on, there was some guy chasing a woman across the screen… so i guess the pursuit of happiness means something about pursuing sex
Sheesh, we sure were desperate for good cartoons back then, weren’t we? The gags and music were good, but the animation was almost silly in how low-budget it was.
Just proves you don’t need a lot of ‘high tech’ to educate.
Ya, now we have the high tech glitter, and no content
precisely, I would rather have it simple, clear, fun, and educational, than complex, vague, confusing, and no point whatsoever.
YES. What will kids today have to refer back to when they are in their 20’s?
So cool! Wish I’d gone to school in the US!!
I think it’s available at borders.com…
…. yup!! the 30th anniversary version
http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=786936157826
this is the second time trying to post this…
you can get it from border’s… and probably also barnes and noble
but here is the border’s link
http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=786936157826
NOW it works… I swear…
Brit, we used to have the BEST cartoons! It used to be worth it to spring out of bed on Saturday mornings to watch them.
One of the best wins since the site began! Stellar!
It’s finally heeeere! Thank you OUAW!
These songs helped me pass my entrance test to get into Honors English my Junior year.
Who knew knowing the names to sentence parts would be on an entrance test this late in High School, but I tell ya, I was totally humming and singing all of the answers to myself that day. “Over the raaaaaainbooooow! Over is a prepostion.)”
My favorite song was “Interjection”.
HURRAY! I’m for the other team.
Darn, that’s the end.
LOLz!
I have been waiting for this one!!!
What? No “I’m just a Bill?”
….a lonely old bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill….
“Yes, I’m only a Bill…” are the actual lyrics there.
Well, for those in LA, Jack Sheldon (the original singer) plays weekly at Jax in Glendale. And, yes, he plays “I’m Just a Bill”…right in between the dirty jokes…
Love, love, love Schoolhouse Rock! I love it so much I own the boxed set and the DVDs. I even saw a musical based on it once in Chicago!
My all-time favorite – “Verb! That’s what’s happening!”
The grammar ones were exquisitely fun. Do you see how I unpacked my adjectives? The government ones weren’t as good; they should have stuck to grammar. It was like brainwashing; I’m just a bill…but I get ratified! The magical government will fix everything, though, and there aren’t liars who don’t pay taxes, pay off cheating bank executives and look down their noses at citizens. YEEEAAH.
??? I didn’t get that at all from ‘I’m Just a Bill’ it made no social commentary, it basically said this is the process…actually, I think calling the gov’t a ‘three ring circus’ was just a bit of a nod to what you are talking about. You want social commentary/brainwashing, watch ‘elbow room’ (Sacagawea is the only Native American mentioned as we trampled the West).
Well, I didn’t get that when I was FIVE, of course, but I was still raised on the “red white and ALWAYS BE TRUE” diet.
same here! I didn’t think about it until some killjoy pointed it out to me a few years ago. SOMEone wanted to mention how they didn’t point out bad things… I wonder who that was…:)
Exquisitely is and adverb. Lolly taught me that!
“Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here….”
I’m in college and my Business English professor played a couple of Schoolhouse Rock videos for us. She assured us that her colleagues were aware that she plays cartoons. The inking job on the cartoons was terrible, but the sketches were strangely charming, even if the animation was “hack”. I had the misfortune of seeing these after taking a drawing course with an animation master.
Cool BE prof!!!
As for hack… I don’t know. They are amazingly endearing- cute, clearly identifiable (except for interplanet janet… I am not EXACTLY certain what she is supposed to be… ‘galaxy girl’ is a vague descriptor) and ‘identifiable WITH’ characters with catchy tunes set to appropriate and understandable storyboards.
Father son and Lolly selling adverbs here! thanks for the earworm!
that tribute album in the 90s sucked ass…in 8th grade in in my government class 82 i remember one girl admitting what the rest of us were “too grown up” to admit, than when we had to memorize the preamble to the constitution that every time the words “we the people” started all she could think of was that school house rocks song!…our teacher encouraged it saying that if thats what helps you remember then great!…this and in the news were THE things i looked forward to on saturday mornings and as many have helped me through many a time in school and even now…and we wonder why kids are so dumb today…this stuff would NEVER be made now…so sad
What about Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Doodlebops, and Dora? Can you say “hola”? “Hola” “Thank you for all your help today!” There’s letting kids be imaginative, and then there’s DUMB. I wonder if kids really fall for that crap or if they realize it’s just a recorded tape saying “giving” them responses. I.e. If Dora asks me if what color her shirt is, and I say blue, but it’s purple, she’ll still say “PURPLE! Goood job!” I wonder if kids fall for crap like the Doodlebops.
It seems the origin of the Schoolhouse Rocks stuff is exactly about that (someone noticed his kid couldn’t remember the multiplication tables but could remember the lyrics to current rock songs). At least, according to Wiki.
When taking my COnstitution test to pass High School back in 1985, over 3/4 the class was singing “We the People” to themselves. You could either see them moving to the music or mouthing the words.
But how many of you got back your papers saying it was WRONG!!????
I distinctly remember doing the exact same thing – humming and writing – but they left out the most important part of the preamble. “We the people OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in order to form…….. When I got my test back, I had gotten a “B” all I could think was “No way, I aced it!!” The teacher informed the class of the song’s error, but she wasn’t going to give us credit for the mistake.
It pissed me off so bad that they stuck the wrong thing in millions of kids heads. To this day it still makes me smile
LOLly LOLly LOLly get your adverbs here!!!
An earworm to end all earworms!!!
I got extra credit on a history test for knowing the Preamble (btw it isn’t exactly like the song says… but it’s darn close!!)- I was singing the SchoolHouse Rock version under my breathe to remember it!
Same here! I got the extra credit or having the Preamble memorized,but I think it annoyed my classmates when I had to start it off by humming the lead in “bum, bum, bum, bum. We the peeeeooopllleeee…”
I can also do the ‘Miranda Rights’ from memory too… but for some reason they never made a SchoolHouse Rock! for that.
These songs are the only reason I ever learned some of the things I know!!!
*sigh* those were the good days when we could learn what we needed to know through songs…
oh indeed! I learned more grammer and my multiplcation tables from these things…I spent a lot of time humming these tunes in school!
Just so everyone knows you can buy a DVD set that contains every song that was ever performed by the Schoolhouse Rock kids. Plus it even has a new song, “I’m Gonna Send Your Vote To College” as well as the long lost song “The Weather Show”. I must admit that nothing will ever beat the old Saturday morning cartoons.
um… actually i posted the link to border’s where they are selling it… but for some reason it didn’t appear…
NOW it is there… go figure.
I love those songs. Sometimes I walk around singing them for no reason. They were happy and much more educational than most things on kids’ television today.
I remember taking a test in civics class in high school where we had to write out the Preamble. We were all humming “We the People” & the teacher (who had no kids old enough to watch cartoons) had no clue what we were doing! Our English teachers also had us name the 7 parts of speech & inevitably, someone would yell “INTERJECTIONS!”
That’s because they’re generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.
hmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmm
OMG Schoolhouse Rock is huge huge win oh my yes. But no one has mentioned the math ones? That damn number eight song still makes me weep, it’s so sad and pretty…3 is a magic number also nice, and Little 12 toes.
how could 56 people FAIL this????? probably the ones who weren’t smart enough to remember these for tests, lol.
THose are probably teenagers who think anything over 5 years old is stoopid
Actually, (and I realize I’m in the minority here), I just personally couldn’t stand it growing up. Kudos for being fun and educational and all, but the songs were just ANNOYING. The first bit of the theme music was enough to send me screaming for the remote. ><
For the remote? REMOTE? Bah, I had to get up and change the dial.
Not that I did.
I still remember my social studies and history teachers just steeling themselves when they got to the Constitution. It was *guaranteed,* no matter what, that you’d fall into the “We the people” rhythm and music. Even if you tried not to.
<3 these so much, even now.
Is there anyone else who has to count by threes in rhythm?
3…6..9… (pause) 12…15…18… (pause pause) 21…24…27…(pause)…30!!
(and counting beyond 30 is a problem…)
awesome grew up listening to these and in fact i have on my mp3 players the shot heard round the world LOL yes im a dork
Bonus win to have Daniel Johnston doing Unpack Your Adjectives!
I certainly wasn’t there when School House Rock was first released, but my mom got me a tape of ‘The Best Of’ when I was little and I watched it over and over!
that’s was a great comic!!!
The song “Interjections!” will make you lose the game.
If you didn’t already lose by reading this comment, that is.
Remember “VERB! That’s what happening!”. That one rocks!
I think everyone born before the 21st century should know these by heart.
The Preamble: In my Constitutional Law class in 1985, I could hear whenever anyone got to the final question — write the Preamble — because we’d start humming the tune to the “Schoolhouse Rock” song. Law school, kiddoes, that was law school.
Electricity, Eeeeee-lek-tricity!
Hahahahaha! I was just talking with a co-worker about the awesomeness that is School House Rock, and how I used to get excited as a child when it would randomly come on.
I minored in scientific communication in college and for my editing class, we’d do grammar on Fridays (Grammar Power Hour). We started out ever friday watching a school house rock video. Loved it so much that I bought the video. I now have 3 kids and that is one of their favorites. My daughter’s teacher even commented on how she sings school house rock when learning a new concept that she’s been introduced to with the video.
haha – I talked about my editing class and I made a grammar error – this is why you HIRE an editor – a second pair of eyes catches more!
I can’t believe this wasn’t one of the first 5 posted….
MAN AND A WOMAN HAD A LITTLE BABY!
YES THEY DID!
THEY HAD THREEEEEEEE IN THE FAMILEEEEEEE!
THAT’S THE MAGIC NUMBERRRRR!
lol
I knew my fiance and I were meant for each other when I found out he had the DVD set of the entire collection! Kinda scary how much I still remember after 30 years…
For Christmas this year, my roommate got me the 30th Anniversary DVD. There has been more than one night since then that the two of us have sat around and just watched it for hours on end. Phenomenal.
Multiplication rock helps me to this day, especially 8. “If you skate it would be great if you could make a figure of eight…”
American History rock helped me a lot too, but it sucks when no one knows what you’re talking about. We’ll talk about melting pot vs salad bowl in english and I have to resist the urge to start singing ” Lovely lady liberty with her book of recipes, and she knows just what she’s got. The Great American Melting Pot!”
Of course sometimes it’ll have nothing to do with school, I’ll just be stuck in a crowd and want to sing “Elbow room, elbow room, gotta gotta get me some elbow room…”
I vaguely remember these, although they were pretty helpful. I think there’s one about an Aardvark and a Hippo and sassafras and some guy named Rufus, but who knows…
Or maybe it was a kangaroo, not a hippo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_qYEwkTjQ
lol
When I was in sixth grade, I was in a School House Rocks musical–and then again in seventh grade! S.H.R. Is defanitely one of the biggest WINS. For some reason “Electricity, Electricity” is my favorite, not sure why…
But, yeah, S.H.R. taught us so many things and made it easy to remember. XD I’d be sitting in the middle of a test, and I can’t remember what an adverb is–I’d start very quietly singing the “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here” song, and everyone else would look at me like ” O__o WTF?!”
XD Yeah. WIN.
EPIC WIN!! I can still sing those songs and I havent heard them in probably 10 years
my brother actually changed his facebook status to “is learning about pronouns thanks to Albert Andreas Armadillo”
great now i have conjunction junction stuck in my head
It dumbfounds me that after all these years, no one has ever tried to make more of these. ABC stumbled onto possibly THE single most effective learning tool ever devised. An entire GENERATION knows all of these by heart, even a quarter century after they aired. And it wasn’t all just elementary-school basics either. “Little Twelve Toes” was teaching us base-12 math, in between episodes of Scooby Doo and Thundarr the Barbarian. Absolute genius.
And I challenge you to name anything else that contributed more ear worms to our cultural consciousness.