Comments on: Epic Win: School House Rock

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:21:53 +0000

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.

By: smashbros35

smashbros35 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:26:30 +0000

great now i have conjunction junction stuck in my head

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:46:39 +0000

my brother actually changed his facebook status to “is learning about pronouns thanks to Albert Andreas Armadillo”

By: Sarhii

Sarhii — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:37:08 +0000

EPIC WIN!! I can still sing those songs and I havent heard them in probably 10 years

By: Monty Python 4eva

Monty Python 4eva — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:00:22 +0000

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.

By: KBoy

KBoy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:36:54 +0000

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

By: ToaRabin

ToaRabin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:44:01 +0000

If you didn’t already lose by reading this comment, that is.

By: 'donis

'donis — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:34:59 +0000

hahhah i have a dvd with every single song

By: t02907

t02907 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:53:08 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_qYEwkTjQ

lol

By: ev149

ev149 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:54:09 +0000

Or maybe it was a kangaroo, not a hippo…

By: ev149

ev149 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:51:14 +0000

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…

By: crazykanga

crazykanga — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:00:20 +0000

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…”

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:46:26 +0000

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.

By: MaryB

MaryB — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:47:57 +0000

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…

By: crazy freak

crazy freak — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:45:06 +0000

hmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmm

By: Sheri

Sheri — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:56:43 +0000

MAN AND A WOMAN HAD A LITTLE BABY!
YES THEY DID!
THEY HAD THREEEEEEEE IN THE FAMILEEEEEEE!
THAT’S THE MAGIC NUMBERRRRR!
lol

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:35:56 +0000

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.

By: Fasfan

Fasfan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:19 +0000

I can’t believe this wasn’t one of the first 5 posted….

By: KQy

KQy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:04:59 +0000

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. ><

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:14:28 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:01:35 +0000

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.

By: Luna

Luna — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:27:18 +0000

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.

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:24:06 +0000

Electricity, Eeeeee-lek-tricity!

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:22:27 +0000

Father son and Lolly selling adverbs here! thanks for the earworm!

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:21:13 +0000

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.

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:20:19 +0000

YES. What will kids today have to refer back to when they are in their 20’s?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:43:21 +0000

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.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:24:14 +0000

I think everyone born before the 21st century should know these by heart.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:27:04 +0000

I can also do the ‘Miranda Rights’ from memory too… but for some reason they never made a SchoolHouse Rock! for that.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:25:35 +0000

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.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:18:56 +0000

NOW it works… I swear…

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:18:29 +0000

precisely, I would rather have it simple, clear, fun, and educational, than complex, vague, confusing, and no point whatsoever.

By: Green Is Good

Green Is Good — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:46:51 +0000

Remember “VERB! That’s what happening!”. That one rocks!

By: Ragtatter

Ragtatter — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:54:33 +0000

The song “Interjections!” will make you lose the game.

By: DownloadPacificPoker

DownloadPacificPoker — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:55:13 +0000

that’s was a great comic!!!

By: Taurin

Taurin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:56:22 +0000

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…”

By: Other side of the Fence

Other side of the Fence — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:12:51 +0000

Ya, now we have the high tech glitter, and no content

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:20:11 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:11:08 +0000

THose are probably teenagers who think anything over 5 years old is stoopid

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:07:57 +0000

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.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:52:29 +0000

NOW it is there… go figure.

By: hee hee

hee hee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:50:40 +0000

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…:)

By: Madsen

Madsen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:14:54 +0000

Bonus win to have Daniel Johnston doing Unpack Your Adjectives!

By: ascatal

ascatal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:47:46 +0000

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

By: CB

CB — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:13:34 +0000

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…)

By: toribug11

toribug11 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:07:45 +0000

how could 56 people FAIL this????? probably the ones who weren’t smart enough to remember these for tests, lol.

By: Failerella

Failerella — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:46:25 +0000

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.

By: Fuzzi

Fuzzi — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:26:58 +0000

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.

By: Fuzzi

Fuzzi — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:25:26 +0000

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…”

By: Harvey

Harvey — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:22:45 +0000

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!”