School House Rocks

[Mountain Man]

OK....

So I was out buying my copy of Monsters Inc. last night and I came across the Compilation DVD "SchoolHouse Rocks".

I immediately had to buy it. It was such a part of my Saturday/Sunday cartoon watching when I was a kid.

It was one of the few things that actually taught me someting while watching Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck go at it.

What do you remember about them, if anything? and which were your favorite songs?

 

[Mountain Man]

I always liked the ones about american history.

"The Preamble" is one that sticks in my head still

"Shot Herad 'round the world" and "Elbow Room" too


And "Interjections" and "Conjunction Junction"...I still rememberd the words

 

[Ginny]

oooooh i saw that at the store.....they has a series of the tapes re-released about 3 years ago....individual ones.....glad i didn't nab them then......definitely going to get it for the lil miracle.....and Mommy, of course....

omg....saturday morning memories.......


Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I got three favorite cars
That get most of my job done.
Conjunction Junction, what's their function?
I got "and", "but", and "or",
They'll get you pretty far.

 

[J.B.]

I'm Just a Bill

Music & Lyrics: Dave Frishberg
Sung by: Jack Sheldon

}} {Woof! You sure gotta climb a lotta steps to get to this Capitol
}} Building here in Washington! But I wonder who that sad little
}} scrap of paper is?}

I'm just a bill,
Yes, I'm only a bill,
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city,
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law someday...
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I'm still just a bill.



}} {Gee, bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage!}
{Well I got *this* far. When I started, I wasn't even a *bill* - I
was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law
passed, so they called their local congressman and he "You're right,
there ought to be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and
introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill. And I'll remain a
bill until they decide to make me a law.}

I'm just a bill,
Yes I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well now I'm stuck in committee
And I sit here and wait
While a few key congressmen
Discuss and debate
Whether they should
Let me be a law...
Oh how I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.

}} {Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and
}} debate about you?}
{Yes. I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far.
I hope they decide to report on me favourably, otherwise I may die.}
}} {"Die?"}
{Yeah: die in committee. Oooh! But it looks like I'm gonna live.
Now I go to the House of Representatives and they vote on me.}
}} {If they vote "yes", what happens?}
{Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.}
}} {Oh no!}
{Oh yes!}

I'm just a bill,
Yes I'm only a bill,
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
Well then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the President to sign.
And if he signs me then I'll be a law...
Oh, how I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.

}} {You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the
}} President can still say no?}
{Yes, that's called a "veto". If the President vetoes me, I have to
go back to Congress, and they vote on me again, and by that time
it's...}
}} {By that time, it's very unlikely that you'll *become* a law! It's
}} not easy to become a law, is it?}

No! But how I hope and I pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill!

}} {He signed you, bill! Now you're a law!}
{Oh yes!}

Schoolhouse Rock Link

 

[Mountain Man]

oooooh i saw that at the store.....they has a series of the tapes re-released about 3 years ago....individual ones.....glad i didn't nab them then......definitely going to get it for the lil miracle.....and Mommy, of course....

omg....saturday morning memories.......


Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I got three favorite cars
That get most of my job done.
Conjunction Junction, what's their function?
I got "and", "but", and "or",
They'll get you pretty far.

My girls love it...we haven't even put in Monsters Inc. yet..SchoolHouse Rocks has pretty much run continuously since i got home yesterday....even after the kids wen't to bed

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

That brings back good memories. I remember staying up super late on Friday nights when I was a kid, and then getting up early because Saturdays were "cartoon day."

Cable has ruined that, and now, my own kids think that I had the Cartoon Network when I was a kid. When I tell them how it used to be, I end up sounding like my grandfather, telling a "Back when I was a kid...." story.

Two things that I miss on TV (when I do actually watch TV) are Saturday morning cartoons and daytime game shows.

 

[PepperminTrish]

Oh my gosh!! I just loved Schoolhouse Rock!!
Conjunction Junction and I'm Just A Bill are my two favorites.

 

[Mountain Man]

That brings back good memories. I remember staying up super late on Friday nights when I was a kid, and then getting up early because Saturdays were "cartoon day."

Cable has ruined that, and now, my own kids think that I had the Cartoon Network when I was a kid. When I tell them how it used to be, I end up sounding like my grandfather, telling a "Back when I was a kid...." story.

Two things that I miss on TV (when I do actually watch TV) are Saturday morning cartoons and daytime game shows.

My kids keep asking me if what they watch on TV was on when I was a kid....I keep telling them nope...none of this was on...I had Sesame Street, Zoom, Electric Company and Bugs Bunny.

They just don't get it... I had 7 channels(lived in NYC) and most of those only had adult programs...ahhh but Saturday Morning....

A box of frootloops and the TV....

 

[Bob Waters]

"I'm just a bill, ohh oh I'm just a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill...."

Conjunction Junction and Interjection actually helped me remember what they were!

"Interjection, show excitment and emotion and is usually set apart from a scentence by and exclamation point or sometimes a comma when the feeling's not as strong."

Now who the f would EVER think that you could take a dry as dust statement like that one and make it so memorable that I could quote it word for word over 20 years later? Just goes to show you what's possible with a little creativity.

 

[pipercatt]

They were all pure genius. I'm glad they are back so we can enjoy them again.

 

[Mountain Man]

They have the Top 10 that you can play...i think they are

1. Conjunction Junction
2. I'm Just a Bill
3. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here
4. Electricity
5. Interjections
6. The Preamble
7. Three Is a Magic Number
8. Interplanet Janet
9. A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing
10. The Shot Heard Round The World


Darn!...that's the end...

 

[Artemesia]

I can't imagine growing up without Schoolhouse Rock.

I just remember sitting in 5th or 6th grade taking a test on the Preamble and listening to all of us softly singing... "we the people." If you could sing the song, and remember to add "of the United States of America" to the appropriate place, you passed.

 

[Nora]

Interplanet Janet and Interjections! are my faves. I also like Verb! and Zero, my Hero.

 

[crappie master]

that stuff was great

Remember
good good good eleven
never gave me any trouble till after nine
good good good eleven
yes eleven will always be a friend of mine


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[dreamer]

My sister JUST gave me a copy of this for my birthday today...I LOVE School House Rock.

I've been watching them all day...now I guess those MP3's of all the number songs I have are legal...hehehe

 

[Rambling Rose]

Number Nine will put you on the spot.
Number Nine will tie you up, oh, in a knot.
When you're tryin'
Multiplyin' by nine,
You might give it everything you've got
And still be stopped.
If you don't know some secret way you
can check on,
You'll break your neck on
Naughty Number Nine.

Now the first thing to keep in mind
When you're multiplyin' by nine
Is that it's one less than ten.
You see nine is the same as ten minus one.
So you could multiply your number by ten,
And then subtract the number from the result,
And you'd get the same product
As if you'd multiplied by nine
And you knew it.
I mean 8 x 9 is 80 minus 8,
And 7 x 9 is 70 minus 7, and 6 x 9 is 60 minus 6.
You could use those tricks.
'Cause you must have some secret way you can beat it,
Or else you'll meet it
With Naughty Number Nine.


Of course it doesn't hurt
To know the table of nines by memory.
It goes like this:
1 x 9 is 9, and 2 x 9 is 18.
(Mean Old Number Nine)
3 x 9 is 27, and 4 x 9 is 36,
5 x 9 is 45, and 6 x 9 is 54, and 7 x 9 is 63,
8 x 9 is 72, and 9 x 9 is 81,
And 10 x 9 is 90


Now the digit sum is always equal to nine.
I mean, if you add 2 and 7, the digits,
You get 9, the digit sum.
That's true of any product of 9.
If they don't add up, you've made a mistake.
'Cause you must have some secret way you can check it,
Or else you'll wreck it
With naughty, nasty, mean old Number Nine.

 

[sunstruck]

My Fav

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Adverbs Here
Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here
Lolly Lolly Lolly got some adverbs here
Come on down to Lolly's get the adverbs here
You're going to need if you write or read
or even think about it.
Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here
Got a lot of Lolly jolly adverbs here
Anything you need and we can make it absolutely clear
An adverb is a word
(That's all it is, and there's a lot of 'em)
That modifies a verb
(Sometimes a verb, sometimes)
It modifies an adjective,
Or else another adverb
And so you see that it's positively
very very necessary.

Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here
Father, son and Lolly selling adverbs here
Got a lot of adverbs and we make it clear
So come to Lolly

(Hello, folks. This is Lolly Senior saying
we have every adverb in the book.
So come on in and look.
Hello, folks. Lolly Junior here. Suppose
your house needs painting. How are you going to
paint it? That's where the adverb comes in.
We can also give you a special intensifier so
you can paint it very neatly or rather sloppily.
Hi. Suppose you're going nut-gathering.
Your buddy wants to know where and when.
Use an adverb and tell him.)

Get your adverbs
Use it with an adjective it says much more
Anything described can be described some more
Anything you'd ever need is in the store
And so you choose very carefully
Every word you use.

Use it with a verb it tells us how you did
Where it happened where you're going
Where you've been
Use it with another adverb at the end
And even more
How where or when, condition or reason
These questions are answered
When you use an adverb
Come and get it!

Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here
Quickly quickly quickly get your adverbs here
Slowly surely really learn your adverbs here
You're going need 'em if you read 'em
if you write or talk or think about it
Lolly ... Lolly ... Lolly (etc during voice over).

(If it's an adverb we have it at Lolly's!
Bring along your old adjectives too, like slow, soft and sure.
We'll fit them out with our-ly attachment
And make perfectly good adverbs out of them)

Get your adverbs here!
Lots of good tricks at Lolly's so come on down!
Lolly Lolly Lolly
Adverbs deal with manner, place, time
Lolly Lolly Lolly
Condition, reason
Father Son and Lolly
Comparison, contrast
Lolly Lolly Lolly
Enrich your language with adverbs
Lolly Lolly Lolly
Besides, they're absolutely free!
Lolly Lolly Lolly
At your service!
Indubitably!

 

[Mountain Man]

Preamble


Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: Lynn Ahrens

Hey, do you know about the U.S.A.?
Do you know about the government?
Can you tell me 'bout the Constitution?
Hey, learn about the U.S.A.

In 1787, I'm told,
Our founding fathers did agree,
To write a list of principles
For keepin' people free.
The U.S.A. was just starting out,
A bold, brand new country.
And so our people spelled it out:
The things that we should be.

{And they put those principles down on paper, and called it the
Constitution. And it's been helping us run our country ever since
then. The first part of the Constitution is called the Preamble,
and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.}

We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice,
Ensure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity,
Do ordain and establish this Constitution,
For the United States of America.

In 1787, I'm told ,
Our founding fathers all sat down
And wrote a list of principles
That's know the world around.
The U.S.A. was just starting out,
A bold, brand new country.
And so our people spelled it out,
They wanted a land of liberty.

{And the Preamble goes like this:}

We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice,
Ensure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity,
Do ordain and establish this Constitution,
For the United States of America.

For the United States of America.

 

[MechaBlade]

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

 

[crappie master]

what about my hero zero or was it zero my hero

 

[crappie master]

"Little Twelve Toes" was good too.

 

[Guest]

Oh my gosh!! I just loved Schoolhouse Rock!!
Conjunction Junction and I'm Just A Bill are my two favorites.

Yep, me too.

I remembered every conjunction from hearing that tune. And the train was cool.

 

[honeylick]

Now, I have a friend named Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla,
And I could say that Rufus found a kangaroo
That followed Rufus home
And now that kangaroo belongs
To Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla.


Whew! I could say that,
but I don't have to,
'Cause I've got pronouns,
I can say, "HE found a kangaroo that
followed HIM home and now IT is HIS"


You see, (uh) HE, HIM, and HIS
are pronouns,
Replacing the noun,
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla,
A very proper noun.
And IT is a pronoun, replacing the noun, kangaroo! (How common!)


Now Rufus has a sister named Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla.
If she found a kangaroo I'd say to you:
"SHE found a kangaroo that followed HER home, and now it is HERS."
But I can't say that...
'Cause SHE found an aardvark
That fell in love with HER, and THEY're so happy.


And my name's Albert Andreas Armadillo.
(No relation to the Sarsaparillas.)
Because of pronouns, I can say:
I wish SHE would find a rhinoceros for ME and WE'd be happy."


You see, a pronoun was made to take the place of a noun,
'Cause saying all those nouns over and over
Can really wear you down!


Now I could tell you Rafaella Gabriela and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Albert Andreas
Armadillo found an aardvark,
a kangaroo, and a rhinoceros. And now that aardvark and that
kangaroo and that rhinoceros belong respectively to Rafaella
Gabriela Sarsaparilla and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Albert
Andreas Armadillo!


Whew! Because of pronouns I can say, in this way:
"WE found THEM and THEY found US and now THEY are OURS
and WE're so happy."


Thank you, pronouns!


You see a pronoun was made to take the place of a noun,
'Cause saying all those nouns over and over
Can really wear you down.


Sometimes, when we take 'em all on the bus
People really raise a fuss.
They start shouting out a lot o' pronouns at us, like
"WHO brought that rhinoceros on this bus?" and
"WHAT made that horrible noise?" and
"WHICH one of them is getting off first?"


WHO, WHAT, and WHICH are special pronouns that can as a question
In a sentence when you do not know the name of the noun,
But I know:
I have MINE, and SHE has HERS,
HE has HIS. Do YOU have YOURS?
THEY love US, and WE love THEM,
WHAT's OURS is THEIRS -
That's how it is with friends,
And pronouns, you are really friends, yeah!


'Cause saying all those nouns over and over
Can really wear you down.

 

[Guest]