Schoolhouse Rock! (Another tour down memory lane)

[dr wogz]

So, Saturday morning cartoons.. And, among the sugary cereal commercials, the toy commercials, there were these little gems to try & put some "education" into the cartoon stream..

Schoolhouse rock! Only on ABC if I recall..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock!

Numbers, nouns, adverbs, American History (that confused us Canadians a bit..) and there seems to be a few others that came about later; in the 80's & 90's..

I believe I can still sing most of them, once prompted!! I did have the soundtrack at one point..

 

[Fattbank64]

I enjoyed Schoolhouse Rock because it was another reason to watch Saturday morning TV.

IIRC Verb, Figure Eight, and I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill were some of the songs.

 

[Rob Campbell]

What a great memory. It made learning fun. Now I can't get the song "Conjunction Junction" out of my head!

 

[smstachwick]

I had the Top 25 VHS that was issued for the 30th anniversary. Good stuff in there.

I don’t know if it was strictly a SHR production, but leading up the 2004 elections, Nickelodeon did a short in a similar style dealing cards that listed American presidents that had served up until then. Getting to President Fillmore they interrupted the song to note “First Name: Millard”, at which point the portrait on the card asked “Why name a kid that?!?!”

Chester Alan Arthur also pointed out his weird facial hair and Richard Nixon simply stated “I resigned”.

I’ll have to see if I can find it….

 

[dr wogz]

seems appropriate..

 

[Huxter]

IIRC Verb, Figure Eight, and I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill were some of the songs.

You got me looking them up! I do remember these:

Tea party - no more kings!



The Constitution:

 

[Marc_G]

I've got the DVD collection, somewhere. I think I converted it to an ISO to get away from physical media. I wonder where I put it?

 

[Hyak]

Disney + has them all!

I still, to this day think of those when I need to explain a Noun, Verb etc to my kids

 

[K'Tesh]

T. I. O. N. I use this to help my students...



I love these too...

 

[Hyak]

I had the Top 25 VHS that was issued for the 30th anniversary. Good stuff in there.

I don’t know if it was strictly a SHR production, but leading up the 2004 elections, Nickelodeon did a short in a similar style dealing cards that listed American presidents that had served up until then. Getting to President Fillmore they interrupted the song to note “First Name: Millard”, at which point the portrait on the card asked “Why name a kid that?!?!”

Chester Alan Arthur also pointed out his weird facial hair and Richard Nixon simply stated “I resigned”.

I’ll have to see if I can find it….

Animaniacs for the Presidents, States/Capitols and of course couinties of the world!

 

[Bat-mite]

People are always amazed when I can recite the preamble to the US Constitution, but really I just memorized the Schoolhouse Rock song.

 

[Marc_G]

Did they do one on the role of lobbyists?

 

[Fattbank64]

Before I fall down the rabbit hole.

Verb - That's What's Happening

I Got Six

Fives (Here I Come)

 

[tsmmiller]

I guess I‘m at the age of failing memory. I remember SchoolHouse Rock, vaguely Conjunction Junction and I’m just a Bill but no others.

 

[smstachwick]

To this day, the melodies and images crop up in my head when I’m doing multiplication.

 

[alexzogh]

I prefer the updated version...



"I'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen"

 

[viney266]

People are always amazed when I can recite the preamble to the US Constitution, but really I just memorized the Schoolhouse Rock song.

Same here. It worked