Schoolhouse Rock: Blessing or Curse upon a generation?

DVD Release news - various sources | 8/21/02 | Holofernes The Headless

[Holofernes]

Remember those catchy Schoolhouse Rock tunes that taught millions of children the fundamentals of math, grammar, science, history and money?...

[SevenofNine]

OHHH they bringing to DVD Very soon?

COOL RACK ITT

Conjuction what your function

I am just bill

YEAH BABY

I like see ABC bring them back I think it could talk to younger generation

[Paul Atreides]

"My name is Bill, just plain ol' Bill

And I run around on my wife named Hill..."

[Miss Marple]

Did you know that you can learn lots of things if they are set to music? I learned this from my grandmother, who taught in a one-room school in southern Indiana.

I made it through zoology class by making up songs such as this (tune is "Yankee Doodle"):

Sponges are Porifera,
Corals, jellies, hydra,
These have metagenesis and are Coelenterata.
Collar cells--Porifera; Sting---Colenterata.
Both lack mesoderm and are
The diploblastic phyla.

Twenty years later..and I can still sing it!

I think "Schoolhouse Rocks" was great, and my son learned a lot of information from it!

[x]

Curious, the bill was lonely, sitting around Capitol Hill waiting to become a law. Was this an appeal to deal with "gridlock" and the "backlogged national agenda," liberals so often speak of? Or is the bill to be praised for sticking to the Constitution and not seeking a dictator to rubber stamp him into law? And why was the bill so lonely, when there must have been plenty of unpassed bills sitting around in committee rooms and in the hopper? Or was the bill depressed because Congressman Studds was on his tail?

[TxBec]

sounds like "Lyrical Life Science" (do a net search) .. got that tape for my kids. At first they thought they were corny (ok, they are), but it grew on them :)

[Classicaliberalconservative]

I LOVE SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK.

[MattinNJ]

Does anyone remember the Schoolhouse Rock superhero Verb (it had a snappy little tune. Something like "to run, to hit, to catch, to flyyyy". Anyway, verb was this hugely muscular black hero with spindly little legs.

One day my buddy and I were playing college football when this freshman walks on the team. I swear to God, we both looked at each other at the same exact time and said that guys nickname shall be Verb. He just had this incedible upper body on two skinny little legs with ankles that constantly had to be taped. He was forever getting carted off the field with sprained ankles and strained calves but he was pretty impressive looking in the locker room. (No flaming from the homophobes please).

[Holofernes]

http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/pix/verb.gif

[Genesis defender]

I hope the song with "The Future Blob" is on this DVD.

This is one more thing to put on my Christmas list.

[lizma]

a sinister plot to promote a Left agenda?

No. They're pretty good. But Sesame Street is evil :-)

I would usually watch any PBS show with my kids, but one time the phone rang at the start of Reading Rainbow. Thought that would be OK for my 4 year old to watch. Wrong.

She got a graffic display of the birth of a baby. The PBS people thought this was appropriate for little kids. I did not. That ended PBS in this house.

[Wondervixen]

Unless you can find anything that points to leftist history revisionism, I can't see anything negative about them. They stand up to the tests of accuracy, I suppose, because history revisionists hadn't fostered the concept of LYING about our heritage yet.

[BradyLS]

Get your powder!

Get your gun!

Report to General Washington!

There's your lefty agenda: always a freakin' catch! :-D

[Lilly]

re: Post #13

Ain't that the truth!

I just loved S.H.R. and as a child learned so much from them. It was education in cartoon format, but somehow it had a hip edge to it. Like Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function....It had funk, it had an edge. It wasn't okay, let's teach the kids and play Namby-Pamby BG music. Like I said, it was hip, and I bought it!

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