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Alphabet Song
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So you need to teach the alphabet and want to make it easy? Why not go for the Alphabet Song! The Alphabet Song is a song designed to teach others about the alphabet, typically by reciting the names of all of the letters of the alphabet. It is popular in two different flavors (although other variants exist): A song that associates the letter with an object or action e.g. "A is for Apple, B for Bus..." . Just singing the letters in alphabetical order e.g. "A, B, C, D...." This particularly shows up in media designed for younger children, usually as a simple and catchy way of teaching them the alphabet. However, it may show up in media aimed at an older audience, usually as a Parody or as part of a Subverted Kids' Show. Alternative versions also exist which do the song but go from Z to A instead, as well as those which emphasize the need to teach the phonemes associated with each letter instead. It should be noted that words beginning with X and Z are scarce, which may lead to words with the X or Z sound sometimes being used instead like "axe", "extra", etc. Also in British English, the letter Z is pronounced "zed" rather than "zee", which can mean that some versions do not rhyme. Usually takes the form of a List Song. A Sub-Trope of Educational Song. Compare Spelling Song. May involve Anthropomorphic Typography or Fun with Alphabet Soup. Not to be confused with the band ABC. Nor with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation or American Broadcasting Company, for that matter. Nor with the parent company for Google. |
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Bassie & Adriaan made one of the associating letters with words variety for their first series. | |
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Dinosaur Train has a unique take on the alphabet song with "Dinosaurs A-Z", which lists dinosaurs in alphabetical order. | |
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In the Sesame Street film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, when the rest of the Sesame Street cast are thrown in jail for asking for help in Grouchland, Big Bird begins singing the second version to his fellow Grouch prisoners, much to their displeasure. | |
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: The book goes over 26 children, one for each letter of the alphabet, which each die in different ways. | |
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Sesame Street: In one skit, a little girl sings the original ABC song, but substitutes random letters with "Cookie Monster". One of the many songs of the show is the "ABC-DEF-GHI" song, which is sung by Big Bird in one sketch: In the Direct to Video release, "Do the Alphabet", Big Bird sings "Do the Alphabet" to help Baby Bear say the alphabet by himself so Goldilocks doesn't have to do it for him. The "Alphabet Chat" theme is the alphabet sung to the tune of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's songs. One sketch has Elmo do a rap version of the alphabet. In a Season 25 insert, Big Bird demonstrates how the alphabet song would sound without the letter A at the beginning. "Alphabet Jungle" "The African Animal Alphabet", which is mostly about African wildife (although the song also mentions peacocks and tigers, which are instead exclusively native to Asia) |
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Fungus the Bogeyman: One book-within-a-book features a gross alphabet with things like "T is for tadpole tart". | |
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An episode of Baby Talk (1991) centered around an alphabet song created by the male lead, which a kid show host stole for his own show. The song is never sung in its entirety during the episode, being always interrupted by plot before 'G'. | |
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Blue's Clues had "I'll Never Forget My Alphabet" from "The Alphabet Train" as Joe describes what is in each train boxcar alphabetically. | |
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Forbidden Zone: One of the film's musical numbers is "Alphabet Song," a politically incorrect parody of the Three Stooges song "Swingin' the Alphabet." | |
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In The Noddy Shop episode "To The Rescue", there is a song called "The ABC's of Fire", which uses letters of the alphabet, in order, to teach fire safety rules. | |
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Mitsudomoe: Grade schooler Futaba has an Image Song titled "ABC, Then DEF!" which is a parody of a grade school Alphabet Song. Since Futaba is a little pervert, it's about bust sizes. In episode 8 of the anime, it plays during her Hard-Work Montage searching for a lost child's mother. | |
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Songdrops has the "CBA Song", which is the alphabet backwards. | |
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Big Mouth: Coach Steve, who can't read and doesn't truly understand letters, has his own version of the traditional alphabet song in which the letters are replaced by what Coach Steve thinks they are. | |
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Dora the Explorer used the actual ABC song in one episode, among with a parody called the "animal alphabet" song. | |
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What's with Andy?: In one episode, Andy is sent back to kindergarten for the day as punishment and he and the kindergarteners take part in the school talent show and diss the school faculty. Andy plays the teacher and asks the kindergarteners to sing the ABC, and the kindergarteners sing a song about how they start off happy but gradually get sadder: | |
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Matilda has the "School Song", which teaches the letters during the song by emphasizing them in a sentence (The letters occur on the downbeat of the bar, helping emphasize them in words that don't start with the letter in question). | |
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The kids' book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a poem book about a bunch of sentient letters racing each-other up a tree. Each letter is introduced in order and in a lyrical manner as they scale the tree, fall out, and suffer Amusing Injuries. | |
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In one licensed comic based on The Loud House, Lucy writes an alphabet poem to cheer up her crying baby sister. It involves lines like "S is for staircase where Leni pratfalls". | |
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Letter Kenny: Wayne once sang the alphabet in French. | |
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Lead Belly's "Rock Island Line" features a verse which begins: "A, B, C, double X, Y, Z / The cat's in the corner but he can't catch me. | |
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The "Alphabet Chat" theme is the alphabet sung to the tune of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's songs. | |
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The song "Sweet Song ABC" from Ojamajo Doremi lists a dessert or snack item associated with each letter of the English alphabet. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The episode "Plankton!", has Plankton trying to play his Musical Sting, only to put the wrong side of the disc and have it play a kids' song about the alphabet. However, said song only goes from A (for apple) to F (for fish). In the episode "I'm With Stupid", Patrick sings the alphabet song but hurries through the remaining letters after G after his "parents" show up. |
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Something Happens has a 13-strip parody variation on this that startshere, in that each letter gets a four-line poem, many of them full of Blatant Lies and other sillyness. It also gets the letter order wrong at the end. And as the strips go on, the accompanying pictures of children (which have nothing to do with the letters being discussed) change, and not for the better... | |
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bill wurtz had his own take with "alphabet shuffle", which mixes in his own brand of humor. | |
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Super Why! features a version of the alphabet song sung by Alpha Pig with a different melody than the traditional version. It merely goes through the alphabet before ending with the lyric "Sing with me." | |
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The "S is for Sucks" (Trogdor's prototype) song from Homestar Runner, performed by Strong Bad during "Trogday 08". | |
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The 1999 Baby Einstein video Baby Shakespeare has six little girls singing the alphabet song with their puppet friends. | |
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In The Three Stooges 1938 short film Violent is the Word for Curley the Stooges become teachers at Mildew Academy and lead a class of coeds through the song "Swingin' the Alphabet," which is basically a jazzed-up version of the song "The Spelling Bee" by Septimus Winner. | |
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Family Guy: In "Quagmire's Mom", a flashback of Quagmire as a kid shows him singing the classic alphabet tune - using the names of the men his mother slept with for each letter. In "Yug Ylimaf", Stewie has a flashback to the time where he forgot what came after G and had to fake it. The cutaway shows him make it through the first verse, only to completely make the rest up on the spot. |
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On their second album, Soft Machine bookend the track "Hibou, Anemone and Bear" with the two-part "A Concise British Alphabet". Both parts are roughly ten-second songs melodically reciting the alphabet, with the second part going backwards from Z in the same melody as the first.note And yes, because this is a British alphabet, it ends (and starts) with "zed". | |
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The Taiko no Tatsujin series often features The Alphabet Song as part of its song list. Despite the simplicity of the tune, on higher difficulties it can be surprisingly challenging. | |
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