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Schoolhouse Rock! was a series of educational short cartoons — so short, that they'd fit into the space of a single commercial break — that aired Saturday mornings on ABC, originally between 1973 and 1985 and again from 1993–2000.Back in the day, Saturday morning children's programming was supposed to be at least tangentially educational, and Merchandise-Driven advertising was severely limited. Networks couldn't advertise things related to the cartoons they were airing in those timeslots, so there was an opening for educational shorts even after running through cereal commercials.At around the same time, advertising executive David McCall noticed that while his son was struggling in school, he had no trouble remembering the lyrics to his favorite songs. Thus the idea to introduce basic learning concepts to young minds via simple-but-catchy rock, jazz, folk and pop tunes — most of them written by jazz mainstay Bob Dorough and eventual Broadway lyricist Lynn Ahrens — accompanied by entertaining visuals, animated by a team led by Tom Yohe.The initial pitch was made to Michael Eisner, then vice president of ABC's children's programming, who brought along one Chuck Jones. Jones loved the concept, Eisner persuaded his regular program lineup to snip three minutes off each program's running time to accommodate it, and a legend was born. The Saturday morning format provided a perfect vehicle to repeat the shorts over and over until the lesson was learned; from the start, Schoolhouse Rock! was a roaring success as both education and entertainment, running for 37 episodes repeated endlessly over 12 years. Many of the shorts were permanently burned into the minds of young viewers.Along with the educational content, the series won accolades for the consistently high quality of the songs — besides Dorough and Ahrens, performers included genre legends Jack Sheldon, Blossom Dearie, Essra Mohawk, and Grady Tate — and the overall cleverness of the lyrics and animation. Taking cues from Sesame Street and other contemporary educational programming, Schoolhouse Rock! avoided the blandness and conformity plaguing most animated shows of the era and instead presented a hip, inclusive, fast-paced, and funny (often downright snarky) attitude to learning.Episodes initially fell under one of four headings, in order of production: Multiplication Rock, Grammar Rock, America Rock (history, mostly released around the 1976 American Bicentennial) and Science Rock. 1983 saw an earnest but ill-fated attempt at Computer Rock (a.k.a. Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips) and in 1995/96 the original team reunited for the much more successful Money Rock. In addition, two new Grammar Rock segments ("Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton") were added. The shorts continued airing, now part of the One Saturday Morning block, until 2000. Reruns later aired on Toon Disney in the mid 2000s.In 2002 the team reunited again to produce two new America Rock segments ("I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" and "Presidential Minute") as a Milestone Celebration. In 2009, yet another reunion produced Earth Rock, about environmental issues.Between 1995 and 1998, a series of CD-ROM games were published by the now defunct Creative Wonders. A live stage show, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, began touring in 1993.On February 1st, 2023, ABC celebrated the show's 50th anniversary with a special called Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong. As the name implies, this is a singalong, with 10 new arrangements of the show's most famous songs sung by various celebrities and musicians, and hosted by Ryan Seacrest of American Idol fame.All of the classic Schoolhouse Rock! shorts are now available on DVD — save one installment of "Scooter Computer" thought lost until 2013, which eventually emerged on YouTube. The newer Earth Rock set is also available as a separate release.
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Creator Cameo: David McCall influenced the design of one of the "very weird creatures" Interplanet Janet meets on Earth. Several cameos are also seen in "The Good Eleven", including Tom Yohe (wearing a red bowtie), George Newall (riding a bike), and McCall (looking in a mirror). Several of the names on the different selections in the voting booth in "The Preamble" are the names of the show's creators. That's Yohe laughing as King George in "No More Kings". A boy in "Ready Or Not, Here I Come" can be seen wearing a shirt which says "Camp Yohe", though it inexplicably changes to "Camp Newall" at one point.
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Gaia's Lament: "The Energy Blues" is a literal example, in which the Earth itself, voiced by Jack Sheldon, is singing about the depletion of its energy resources and the need for conservation.
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Title Sequence Replacement: Each subseries originally had its own intro sequence. In 1977, these became replaced with a scene of children walking into a schoolhouse, taken from "Figure Eight". After a few years, this gave way to the intro containing Schoolhouse Rocky, and the song quoted at the top of this page. The DVDs cut out the title sequence altogether, although the 30th Anniversary Edition at least plays the "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and the "Figure Eight" excerptnote with the music replaced before taking viewers to the main menus of discs one and two, respectively.
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The Metric System Is Here to Stay
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The Metric System Is Here to Stay: The Metric Marvels, a cartoon bumper series produced by the same folks who made Schoolhouse Rock!. It had shorts intended to teach about metric units such as the meter, liter and kilogram, featuring metric super heroes like "Super Celsius" and "Wonder Gram".
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Epileptic Flashing Lights: "Electricity" has the word strobing in yellow against a black background most times the word is sung, including a couple of instances of the word appearing in several rows of yellow lettering, all of them flashing.
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The Cameo: The Bill from "I'm Just a Bill" makes a brief appearance at the very end of the Money Rock song "Tyrannosaurus Debt". The titular dinosaur looks down over the Capitol and sees Bill sitting there. Bill looks up at it and runs away in terror.
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Dance Sensation
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Dance Sensation: "Do the Circulation" is structured like a song in this vein, framing the circulatory process as a new dance craze.
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Stealth Pun: From "Mother Necessity", "Elias, how?"note Elias Howe
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Talking Animal: Lucky Seven Sampson is a friendly and helpful rabbit.
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Trash-Can Band: One of the Earth Rock shorts (literally called"The Trash Can Band") involves one of these composed of three Animate Inanimate Object pieces of "garbage" — Box, Bottle, and Can.
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Flat Joy: Interjections, which are set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.
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Claiming Via Flag: "The Great American Melting Pot" shows a bunch of people from different cultures showing up on America with flags to show that the country is multicultural.
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Starfish Aliens: Little Twelvetoes is human-shaped, but he can pop his head off and stretch out his body at will, and said body appears to have pieces that either are invisible or missing completely (yet not harming him by their absence). This is probably why that short is so often labeled Nightmare Fuel.
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Heart Is an Awesome Power
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: Zero the Hero's power seems useless on the surface... but then he alters any number by the power of 10 through adding (and presumably removing) zeroes. He also alters weights by the same means, making them literally heavier. He even creates money by altering the $4 written on a piggy bank to a $4000... and there doesn't appear to be any limit to any of this. Thus, theoretically, he could for instance take a box of "10 guns" and grow it into "1,000,000 guns", enough to supply an army. He could also potentially reduce the opposition's arms, funding etc to zero. Granted he didn't do much in the video besides making some small-time money, but he is still young yet... The video.
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Exaggerated in "The Tale of Mr. Morton". Mr. Morton and Pearl get married after one planned date, though Mr. Morton didn't even have the nerve to go through with it. On the other hand, the song clearly tells us that his infatuation (and presumably some small talk) lasted for long enough to grow flowers from seeds, so the "pre-courtship" lasted months at the very least.
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Uncommon Time: "Naughty Number Nine", appropriately enough, is played in a 9/8 time signature.
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The Abridged History
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The Abridged History: "The Shot Heard 'Round The World" offers an abridged history of The American Revolution itself and glorifies Washington and his army.
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Smart People Wear Glasses
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Subverted in "Unpack Your Adjectives". The protagonist sees a boy wearing glasses and a boy without them, and labels the glasses-wearer with a "brainy" sign and the other boy with a "dumb" sign. Then, the boy without glasses spouts a complex math equation, and the protagonist switches the signs.
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Spelling Song: "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College". "Save the Ocean".
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Butt-Monkey: The protagonist of "A Victim of Gravity". He's just trying to impress his partner, only for gravity to ruin everything, from making a cup break by dropping it to falling in a manhole to tripping over a football.
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: "Naughty Number Nine" was nearly unaired due to the fact that a recent television mandate at the time had issued a ban on cigarette commercials, and ABC didn't approve of the fact that the cat in the song smoked a cigar. However, the showrunners managed to get ABC to change their mind due to the fact that the mandate never prohibited smoking in children's shows, and that the cat was meant to be the villain of the song, thus dissuading children from being inspired to smoke. ABC relented, and "Naughty Number Nine" has gone completely unedited ever since.
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Girl Next Door
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Girl Next Door: Pearl from "The Tale of Mr. Morton" is a very sociable girl who's willing to confront Mr. Morton about his love for her when he's too shy to do so.
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Educational Short
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Educational Short: One of the most famous series of these...
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Book Ends: Each vignette of "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing" begins and ends with the exact same sentence. (Well, almost exactly the same for the second verse.)
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Logo Joke
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Logo Joke: Each Multiplication Rock song ended with a giant rock reading "a x b = c" landing in front of My Hero Zero.
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: The whole point of "A Victim of Gravity", where the protagonist feels that gravity makes his life more difficult but acknowledges it's out of his hands.
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Luminescent Blush
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Luminescent Blush: It happens to the girl in "Telegraph Line" when she forgets her lines, and Max in "Tax Man Max" when Joy comments on his suit.
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Artistic License – History: Several of the America Rock shorts, which were produced around the Bicentennial celebrations. Suffice it to say that the nuances of history tend to be difficult to stuff into catchy three-minute songs, with the notable exception of "I'm Just a Bill", which gets the process of lawmaking impressively straight. "No More Kings" completely vilifies George III, pinning the blame for everything that lead to the revolution on him, and portraying him as a greedy, hedonistic fool. Never mind that it is now typically agreed that George had the least influence over what happened, and most of it was the fault of the British Parliament. The song also claims that the Boston Tea Party involved colonists dumping cups of tea into the harbor. What really happened was they stormed a merchant ship carrying bags of tea, smashed the crates they were being kept in, and dumped those into the harbor — the fact that they were dressed as Native Americans and used tomahawks to do so is also left out. "Fireworks" has a minor mistake regarding the Committee of Five. The five members are said to be Benjamin Franklin, Philip Livingston, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Thomas Jefferson. While this is mostly true, Philip Livingston was not part of the Committee. Rather, it was his cousin, Robert Livingston. The only thing Philip did was sign the Declaration in his place, as Robert ended up getting recalled by his state before he had the chance to sign it. "Mother Necessity" has quite a number of artistic licenses regarding inventions, some Played for Laughs, and some being historical inaccuracies. The rocking chair's origin is heavily disputed — often being attributed to Benjamin Franklin — but whoever it was, most historians seem to think that it wasn't created by one single woman. Eli Whitney did not create the original cotton gin. Its roots go as far back as Buddhist India. Thomas Edison created the first functional incandescent lightbulb, but he didn't create the first one, as fellow inventors were trying to create lightbulbs of their own, and the first definitional lightbulb was created by Humphry Davy 70 years prior to Edison. Edison also didn't create the lightbulb for his mother's sake, as he was an opportunistic inventor prior to its creation, with him having previously created the phonograph. Samuel Morse was never known for having an attachment to horses, and his inspiration for creating the telegraph came from an encounter with Charles Thomas Jackson, who was knowledgeable in electromagnetism, while he was traveling by boat. He was also originally a painter who invented Morse Code because he unfortunately missed the death of his wife due to mail regarding her illness taking too long to arrive. Elias Howe may have created the lockstitch sewing machine, but he did not invent the first sewing machine, with it being attributed to Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal exactly 90 years prior. The Wright Brothers weren't working on the first airplane as kids, and instead first sketched the blueprints for it when Orville was in his 20s and Wilbur was in his 30s. Their mother also wasn't a nagger, and in fact assisted them in many of their projects when they were younger. Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, with Alexander Hart being the one to create the first functional one. Fulton merely sought to improve upon the finalized design. Guglielmo Marconi was not American at all. He just visited the country a few times when setting up radio stations around the world. Henry Ford had no involvement in the creation of the automobile, with Gustave Trouvé being the one to create the first functioning automobile. Ford's contribution was mass producing automobiles. Factories have a history that go over 10,000 years back. Samuel Slater is only known for inventing textile manufacturing factories.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: The entirety of Earth Rock. "The Energy Blues" also counts, which saw it featuring in Earth Rock after its debut in Science Rock.
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Sweetheart Sipping: The main character of "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing" does this with her "best friend" at the local Malt Shop.
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Extra Digits
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Extra Digits: "Little Twelvetoes" has six fingers on each hand, and six on each foot.
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Dissonant Serenity
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Dissonant Serenity: In "Unpack Your Adjectives", asked to describe her trip to eager friends, the protagonist promptly unpacks... "frustrating" and "worst". "Then I picked 'soggy' and/Then I picked 'foggy' and/Then I was ready/To tell them my tale...". All this without breaking the adorably chipper tone of the song.
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Instant Costume Change: The singer of "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" demonstrates this ability.
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Cannot Spit It Out: Poor Mr. Morton blushed, fainted, and even ran away (twice) instead of talking to Pearl.
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Synchronized Swarming
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Synchronized Swarming: Used all over the place in "Busy Prepositions".
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Meaningful Name: The three generations of Lolly in "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" have a name that, like most adverbs, ends in "-ly".
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Invisible President
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Invisible President: In "I'm Just a Bill", the viewers see nothing but one of the President's arms when the Bill imagines the President signs it. When the President does turn the Bill into a Law, it happens offscreen and the viewers only know it happens because somebody shows up to announce the news. In "Three Ring Government", however, the President appears in full; depicted as a white man with dark hair and a long nose.
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Four-Fingered Hands
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Four-Fingered Hands: Depending on the song, each character has either four or five fingers. The prince from "I Got Six" has six rings on each finger, by multiplying 6 by 10 to get 60. Everyone in "Ready or Not, Here I Come", as that song is about multiplying by 5. Noah and his son have five fingers when multiplying 2 by 10 to get 20. Little Twelvetoes, from the song of the same name, has six digits on each hand/foot.
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Extreme Omnivore
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The bear is an Extreme Omnivore as he eats the adjectives.
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Named by the Adaptation
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Named by the Adaptation: Some of the characters were given names in the games. For example, the Noun Girl became Connie, Naughty Number Nine's mouse became Elroy, the Verb Boy was named Tommy, and the Adjective Girl became Molly.
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Vanilla Edition
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Vanilla Edition: In addition to the 2-Disc 30th Anniversary DVD containing 52 songs, audio commentaries, and interviews, DVDs only containing one set of SHR songs also became available for classroom use. These editions are by-and-large rip-offs, however, as the price of an individual disc is higher than that of the 30th Anniversary DVD.
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Played for Laughs
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"Mother Necessity" has quite a number of artistic licenses regarding inventions, some Played for Laughs, and some being historical inaccuracies. The rocking chair's origin is heavily disputed — often being attributed to Benjamin Franklin — but whoever it was, most historians seem to think that it wasn't created by one single woman. Eli Whitney did not create the original cotton gin. Its roots go as far back as Buddhist India. Thomas Edison created the first functional incandescent lightbulb, but he didn't create the first one, as fellow inventors were trying to create lightbulbs of their own, and the first definitional lightbulb was created by Humphry Davy 70 years prior to Edison. Edison also didn't create the lightbulb for his mother's sake, as he was an opportunistic inventor prior to its creation, with him having previously created the phonograph. Samuel Morse was never known for having an attachment to horses, and his inspiration for creating the telegraph came from an encounter with Charles Thomas Jackson, who was knowledgeable in electromagnetism, while he was traveling by boat. He was also originally a painter who invented Morse Code because he unfortunately missed the death of his wife due to mail regarding her illness taking too long to arrive. Elias Howe may have created the lockstitch sewing machine, but he did not invent the first sewing machine, with it being attributed to Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal exactly 90 years prior. The Wright Brothers weren't working on the first airplane as kids, and instead first sketched the blueprints for it when Orville was in his 20s and Wilbur was in his 30s. Their mother also wasn't a nagger, and in fact assisted them in many of their projects when they were younger. Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, with Alexander Hart being the one to create the first functional one. Fulton merely sought to improve upon the finalized design. Guglielmo Marconi was not American at all. He just visited the country a few times when setting up radio stations around the world. Henry Ford had no involvement in the creation of the automobile, with Gustave Trouvé being the one to create the first functioning automobile. Ford's contribution was mass producing automobiles. Factories have a history that go over 10,000 years back. Samuel Slater is only known for inventing textile manufacturing factories.
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Perpetual Smiler
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Perpetual Smiler: The Noun Girl is almost always smiling during her song.
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A Wild Rapper Appears!
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A Wild Rapping Walrus Appears: During the solo parts of the otherwise rock & roll-themed "Save the Ocean" in "Earth Rock", provided by Eric "Badlands" Booker.
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GoodCounterpart
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Good Counterpart: The "Multiplication Rock" songs frame the number eleven this way in comparison to the number nine. "Naughty Number Nine" is a song all about how difficult and tricky nine can be to multiply, painting its subject number as a villain, while the very next song is "The Good Eleven", depicting eleven as a friendly, easy number to multiply while painting its subject number as an angel.
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Politically Correct History
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Politically Correct History: The "America Rock" songs tend to run into this, portraying an idealized version of America's founding and progress. Given that the album was produced to celebrate the United States bicentennial and that nuance can be difficult to pack into short songs for kids, this is not very surprising. The songs make very minimal references to the Native American populations already living in the country, and in the case of "Elbow Room", the displacement and suffering of Native populations as a result of American expansion are not mentioned. The cotton gin highlighted among the inventions in "Mother Necessity" is not mentioned to have been made to improve the productivity of black slaves, and white workers are depicted using it in the cartoon. "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" discusses the fight for the female vote and its success, which was a large step in women's rights but was also subject to segregation for some time afterward.
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Free-Range Children
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Free-Range Children: The girl from "A Noun Is A Person, Place, or Thing" travels on "a train to another state" and "a ferry to the Statue of Liberty" apparently alone.
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Noah's Story Arc
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Noah's Story Arc: "Elementary, My Dear" is a retelling of the Noah's Ark story, but to make it related to multiplication, Noah's son asks him how many pairs of animals are on the ship.
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Parental Bonus
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Parental Bonus: The use of established jazz and cabaret performers means this runs through the entire series, intentionally or not. See (for instance) "I Got Six" for a splendid example of just how intentional they could get.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: A few gags in the shorts play off this way. In "Unpack your Adjectives", the protagonist labels two boys "brainy" and "dumb", giving the one with glasses the "brainy" sign until the larger boy with no glasses spouts a complex equation, causing the girl to switch the labels around. In "Interjections", a snake approaches a girl... but the girl pulls a scary face and so the snake is the one left shouting "EEK!" In "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla", Albert brings up Rafaella Gabriella Sarsaparilla for another demonstration of how pronouns can be used to shorten sentences, after discussing Rufus and his kangaroo:
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Eye-Obscuring Hat
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Eye-Obscuring Hat: The male singer in "The Weather Show" wears one, as does Naughty Number Nine from the eponymous song.
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Falling into the Plot
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Falling into the Plot: "A Victim of Gravity" starts with a teacup falling from the sky and breaking when it hits the ground. Justified, as this is meant to be an initial showcase of the effects of gravity.
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Abhorrent Admirer
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Abhorrent Admirer: How Geraldine views Geraldo in "Interjections". The verse implies he's simply a Dogged Nice Guy, but after hearing his singing, you can't really blame her.
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Something Blues
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Something Blues: "The Energy Blues".
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: Even though the banker recommended that Becky Sue could invest her birthday cash and let it grow in the bank, she disregarded his advice and instead took out a loan from the bank to purchase "a guitar, an amp, and some quadraphonics, and several hundred dollars' worth of electronics" for her musical aspirations... and there was no electrical outlet to plug them all into on her farm. Lampshaded by the line "You gotta use them dollars with a little bit of common sense".
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Bears Are Bad News
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Bears Are Bad News: In "Unpack Your Adjectives", the singer goes camping and encounters a bear. "He was a hairy bear! He was a scary bear! We beat a hasty retreat from his lair!" In a subversion of the trope, however, as soon as the singer and her turtle run away from the bear, the bear just shrugs his shoulders and saunters off. The bear is an Extreme Omnivore as he eats the adjectives.
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Overly Long Name
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Overly Long Name: Rufus Xavier and Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla and Albert Andreas Armadillo, all used to make the point of how convenient pronouns are in a sentence.
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Rewritten Pop Version
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Rewritten Pop Version: Greg Raposo, Matt Ballinger and Stevie Brock performed a pop cover of "Three is a Magic Number" in 2004, which oddly enough wasn't a Schoolhouse Rock! tie-in despite keeping many of the key lyrics of the song. Instead, it was used in a music video to promote Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, which is also owned by Disney.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: In "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing," a Mrs. Jones sends her dog to bark at the protagonist and her younger brother for no explained reason. They feed the dog a bone, and the dog turns on Mrs. Jones. On the other hand, when the narrator is listing the nouns from that vignette, Mrs. Jones is given a flower and suddenly smiles and turns nice, so perhaps she simply needed a kindness the same way her dog did.
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Pop-Star Composer
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Pop-Star Composer: The song wasn't written by them, but "A Victim of Gravity" is the only Schoolhouse Rock! song performed by a well-known outside band, being sung by the Tokens in their doo-wop style.
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Alternative Number System
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Alternative Number System: The song "Little Twelvetoes" is about a friendly alien with six digits on each hand and foot, who uses base 12 and as such has an easy time multiplying by twelves. It only aired a couple of times, because they thought the duodecimal system would be too complex for kids.
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Truck Driver's Gear Change
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Happens in tons of songs from the series. See which ones here."I Got Six", "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing", "Verb: That's What's Happenin'", "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla", "The Tale of Mr. Morton", "Sufferin' Till Suffrage", "Elbow Room", "Mother Necessity", "Presidential Minute", "The Energy Blues", "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips", "Software", "Tax Man Max", "$7.50 Once a Week", "This for That", "Walkin' on Wall Street", "The Little Things We Do", "Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch"
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Medium Blending
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Medium Blending: The singer of "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" interacts with black-and-white photos and drawings.
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Dumber Than They Look
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Dumber Than They Look: Implied in the song "Unpack Your Adjectives". The camper places the adjectives "dumb" and "brainy" on two boys — one who is relatively average-looking, and one who wears glasses and a well-trimmed suit, respectively. However, when the average-looking boy starts spouting complex mathematical formulas, the camper switches the adjectives to indicate that the average-looking boy is actually the brainy one, while the well-dressed boy is actually the dumb one.
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Stay in the Kitchen
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Stay in the Kitchen: "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" calls out this mindset a few times. The singer unpleasantly recalls that before the suffragette movement and consequent passing of the 19th Amendment allowed women to vote for president, they just stayed home and did such menial tasks as mashing potatoes and washing dishes while the men cast their votes.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "INTERJECTIONS! SHOW EXCITEMENT! OR EMOTION!"
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: The first VHS copies cut out several songs in favor of new, live-action numbers performed by Cloris Leachman and a group of children. These songs disappeared from later home video versions, since they do not have the same composers as the original shorts.
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Standard Snippet
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Standard Snippet: "Interjections"'s melody morphs into the Hallelujah chorus from Haendel's Messiah.
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Floating Limbs
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Floating Limbs: Little Twelvetoes takes the concept to extremes. Empty space is apparently a key part of his biology (and his hat), and his head, hands, and feet are held on as if by magnets (i.e., easy to remove and stick on somewhere else).
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Opening Credits Cast Party
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Opening Credits Cast Party: VHS and DVD compilations from 1995-2002 begin with characters from the songs gathering together at Conjunction Junction Diner.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: "Three is a Magic Number" has parts that center on the connection between the number three and certain objects (like triangles, tripods and families).
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: The pool-playing cat in "Naughty Number Nine". For the entire duration of the segment, the cat puts a mouse through absolute hell on a billiards board; and at the very end, the cat tips his bowler, smiles at the audience, and struts away. But don't worry, the mouse pops out of the #9 ball, making for a Happy Ending.
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Lucky Rabbit's Foot
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Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Lucky Seven Sampson has a lucky foot with a 7 on it.
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Pluto Is Expendable
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Pluto Is Expendable: "Interplanet Janet" contains the lines "Nine planets" and "And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the sun". The fact that an entire generation grew up with Schoolhouse Rock! may have had a little bit to do with the fervor over Pluto's demotion from planethood. Some productions of the live show based on the series update the script and have someone interrupt the number and attempt to "correct" the song with an explanation about Pluto's decommission. And then the production has its audience vote on whether Pluto should stay. Others just use the updated lyrics of "Eight planets large and small, parading by" and "Pluto, little Pluto, used to be a planet, but now it's not". Another variant of that line is "Pluto, little Pluto, used to be a planet when they wrote this song".
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Educational Song
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Educational Song: ...With one of the most famous collections of these.
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The Homeward Journey
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The Homeward Journey: The main point of Science Rock is to complete all the activities to help Janet build her rocket so she can fly home.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Money Rock song "Tyrannosaurus Debt" is a polite one, as they go, but it still portrays the national debt as a gigantic, ever-feeding monster dinosaur.
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Cover Album
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comment
Cover Album: Schoolhouse Rock Rocks! (1996), which features 14 songs covered by hip-hop and alternative rock artists. Schoolhouse Rocks the Vote (1998), which features five covers of songs from America Rock, and five new compositions.
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b58c6c9d
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b7b18615
type
Phone Booth Changing Room
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b7b18615
comment
Phone Booth Changing Room: "My Hero, Zero" has Zero change into his superhero clothing by entering a telephone booth.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b7b18615
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b7b18615
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_b7b18615
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bb48f8ba
type
Timed Mission
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bb48f8ba
comment
Timed Mission: During the Road to Fame game in Math Rock, the player has 30 days to reach the concert before it is cancelled, and they need 30 coins to pay for the entry fee.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bb48f8ba
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bb48f8ba
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bee8baee
type
Faint in Shock
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bee8baee
comment
Faint in Shock: In "The Tale of Mr. Morton", the eponymous Mr. Morton faints after he reads a letter from his crush, Pearl.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bee8baee
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bee8baee
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bf9163d9
type
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bf9163d9
comment
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The backup singers in "The Weather Show".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bf9163d9
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bf9163d9
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_bf9163d9
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c1d57cf7
type
"The Villain Sucks" Song
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c1d57cf7
comment
"The Villain Sucks" Song: "Naughty Number Nine" is framed this way, singing about how nine is so difficult and nasty to multiply that you have to come at the task with tricks, all while depicting Nine as a cat tormenting a mouse on a pool table.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c1d57cf7
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c1d57cf7
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c1d57cf7
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c3f6e68
type
Dem Bones
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c3f6e68
comment
Dem Bones: "Them Not-So-Dry Bones" is all about the bones in one's body, and even starts off with the trope's namesake.
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c3f6e68
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c3f6e68
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c4d09d24
type
Couch Gag
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c4d09d24
comment
Couch Gags: The home video opening sequences used the following: On Golden Book Video compilations, part of Cloris Leachman's theme song changed to something describing the video's main subject. On compilations released by Walt Disney Home Video, the chef of Conjunction Junction Dinernote the same chef who burnt his hand in "Telegraph Line" always gives a different response when Rocky asks, "Hey, Chef! What's the special today?"
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c4d09d24
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: The newspaper that the Paperboy is selling in "Fireworks" comes from the Daily Bugle. In "Interplanet Janet", the people seeing her exclaim, "It's a bird! It's a plane!"
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c75df49a
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c75df49a
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c9869c78
type
I Know Madden Kombat
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c9869c78
comment
I Know Madden Kombat: "Three is a Magic Number" and "My Hero, Zero" has the Magician, Zero, and Zero's sister be assaulted by a barrage of football players.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c9869c78
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_c9869c78
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_ccc0d531
type
Settling the Frontier
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_ccc0d531
comment
Settling the Frontier: The episode "Elbow Room" is about the expansion of the United States from the original 13 states to its current size (not counting Alaska & Hawaii, the "freak states"). It also suggests that if we need to expand more we'll settle the moon.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_ccc0d531
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_ccc0d531
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_ccc0d531
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cce07799
type
Embodiment of Virtue
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cce07799
comment
Embodiment of Virtue: In "Three is a Magic Number", Faith, Hope, and Charity appear in the form of three women.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cce07799
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cce07799
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1.0
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hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cce07799
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cd0637d2
type
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cd0637d2
comment
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Newsboys hawking newspapers appear in "Fireworks" and "Walkin' on Wall Street".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cd0637d2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cd0637d2
featureConfidence
1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cd0637d2
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdb2653e
type
Africa Is a Country
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdb2653e
comment
Africa Is a Country: "The Great American Melting Pot" shows Lady Liberty's recipe for said melting pot, including people from many different countries, like Armenians, English, Italians, Norwegians, Cubans, but lists a general "Africans" among these demonyms as if Africa were not many countries.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdb2653e
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdb2653e
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdb2653e
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdd0cc3a
type
Earth Song
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdd0cc3a
comment
Earth Song: Every single song in "Earth Rock" is about ways to save the Earth.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdd0cc3a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdd0cc3a
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_cdd0cc3a
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d6fce880
type
To the Tune of...
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d6fce880
comment
To the Tune of...: "Interjections!" is set to a slightly modified version of George Frederic Handel's Messiah.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d6fce880
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d6fce880
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d6fce880
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d7c45a19
type
Cape Snag
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d7c45a19
comment
Cape Snag: Happens several times to Zero in "My Hero Zero".
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_d7c45a19
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd0882e0
type
Seal the Breach
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd0882e0
comment
Seal the Breach: In "My Hero, Zero", Zero and his sister greet a young Dutch boy who's constructing a dam from bricks. The dam breaks, provoking the boy to sheepishly cover up the breach with his finger.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd0882e0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd0882e0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd91f8d8
type
Audience Participation
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd91f8d8
comment
Some productions of the live show based on the series update the script and have someone interrupt the number and attempt to "correct" the song with an explanation about Pluto's decommission. And then the production has its audience vote on whether Pluto should stay.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd91f8d8
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd91f8d8
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd9e928d
type
Counting Song
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd9e928d
comment
Counting Song: The "Multiplication Rock" videos help listeners memorize a certain multiplication table.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd9e928d
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd9e928d
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_dd9e928d
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de0db2aa
type
Crush Blush
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de0db2aa
comment
Crush Blush: In "The Tale of Mr. Morton," Mr. Morton's entire face turned red when he saw Pearl out of his window.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de0db2aa
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de0db2aa
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de0db2aa
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de414a38
type
Bad Guys Play Pool
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de414a38
comment
Bad Guys Play Pool: Naughty Number Nine is a large anthropomorphic cat who plays pool with a mouse as the cue ball.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de414a38
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de414a38
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_de414a38
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e0b86bf6
type
Music Genre Dissonance
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e0b86bf6
comment
Music Genre Dissonance: The series has a Non-Indicative Name. It has been noted that a minority of the songs actually qualify as "rock", per se. Most are straight pop, but a few lean more toward jazz, blues, gospel, etc.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e0b86bf6
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e0b86bf6
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e0b86bf6
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e6f961a1
type
Garage Band
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e6f961a1
comment
Garage Band: Math Rock deals with Lucky 7 Sampson assembling the other protagonists of the Multiplication Rock videos to form his own garage band and get their first gig.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e6f961a1
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e6f961a1
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e77d9cc8
type
Tin-Can Telephone
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e77d9cc8
comment
Tin-Can Telephone: Facetiously suggested as an alternative to the normal telephone if the family stops paying the phone bill in "Where the Money Goes".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e77d9cc8
featureApplicability
1.0
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1.0
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_e77d9cc8
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb002293
type
Shrinking Violet
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb002293
comment
Shrinking Violet: Mr. Morton, the subject of the sentence, from "The Tale of Mr. Morton". He doesn't have the nerve to talk to his neighbor, Pearl, to the point where he runs away when she invites him over. But she was apparently so touched by the poem he wrote for her that she went over to his house and proposed to him.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb002293
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb002293
featureConfidence
1.0
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hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb002293
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb37fe59
type
Sequel Episode
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb37fe59
comment
Sequel Episode: Schoolhouse Rock: Earth includes a few: "The Tale of Mr. Morton" continues into "The Little Things We Do". The title character of "Interplanet Janet" returned in "Solar Power to the People".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb37fe59
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb37fe59
featureConfidence
1.0
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hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb37fe59
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb5cbe42
type
Me's a Crowd
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb5cbe42
comment
Me's a Crowd: The singer of "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" has this ability, as she represents all female voters in the United States.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb5cbe42
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb5cbe42
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1.0
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hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_eb5cbe42
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f32528de
type
Cut-and-Paste Suburb
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f32528de
comment
Cut-and-Paste Suburb: An occupational hazard of limited animation. If you see a bunch of houses in an aerial shot, they're probably going to be identical.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f32528de
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f32528de
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f32528de
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3d5d15f
type
Creepy Child
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3d5d15f
comment
Creepy Child: Arguably, the cute little skater from "Figure Eight", whose eerily ethereal song (by Blossom Dearie) includes the wholly non-sequitur lines "If you skate/Upon thin ice/You'd be wise/If you thought twice/Before you made another single move...".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3d5d15f
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3d5d15f
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3d5d15f
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3fe041f
type
Wallet Moths
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3fe041f
comment
Wallet Moths: In "$7.50 Once A Week" a moth flies out of the boy's pocket when he looks for more money, but has already spent his entire allowance.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3fe041f
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3fe041f
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f3fe041f
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f76b8969
type
Anthropomorphic Personification
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f76b8969
comment
Anthropomorphic Personification: Seen frequently. Most notably in "Tyrannosaurus Debt", where the National Debt is portrayed by a blue Tyrannosaurus Rex with stars and red stripes.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f76b8969
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f76b8969
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f76b8969
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f9f2c33
type
Running Gag
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f9f2c33
comment
Running Gag: In "The Good Eleven", an angel bumps against the number 10 at any utterance of "She never gave me any trouble till after 9".
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f9f2c33
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f9f2c33
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_f9f2c33
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb3576b2
type
The Dog Bites Back
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb3576b2
comment
The Dog Bites Back: In "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing", a Grumpy Old Lady gets her dog to bark after the heroes, who give it a bone, causing it to turn against her.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb3576b2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb3576b2
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb3576b2
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb7bc4a8
type
Never Trust a Title
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb7bc4a8
comment
Never Trust a Title: Despite being called Schoolhouse Rock, there aren't many songs that can be classified as rock music.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb7bc4a8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb7bc4a8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fb7bc4a8
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fd76df83
type
Artistic License – Economics
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fd76df83
comment
Artistic License – Economics: "Tyrannosaurus Debt" observes the continuous growth of the United States debt and prescribes a balanced budget to "spend within our means". Outside of the most ardent fiscal hawks, most economists agree that government debt and deficits are normal as long as they don't outpace economic growth.
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fd76df83
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1.0
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fd76df83
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 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_fd76df83
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_name
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ItemName
 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_name
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 Schoolhouse Rock! / int_name
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Schoolhouse Rock! / int_name
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Schoolhouse Rock!

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 Schoolhouse Rock!
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A Wild Rapper Appears! / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Alternative Number System / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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An Immigrant's Tale / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Art Shift / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Audience Participation / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Awkward Collar Pull / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Bankruptcy Barrel / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Be the Ball / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Born Lucky / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Burning the Flag / int_6278a225
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Camp / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Cartoon Juggling / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Claiming Via Flag / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Clamshell Currency / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Country Matters / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Cover Album / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Cut-and-Paste Suburb / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Dance Sensation / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Dumber Than They Look / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Educational Song / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Embodiment of Virtue / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Epileptic Flashing Lights / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Falling Bass / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Falling into the Plot / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
First Contact Farmer / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Floating Limbs / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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From Entertainment to Education / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Fun with Homophones / int_6278a225
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Gaia's Lament / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Generational Saga / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Getting Crap Past the Radar / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Giant Foot of Stomping / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Giant Woman / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Heart Is an Awesome Power / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Heroic Dog / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Honest John's Dealership / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Instant Costume Change / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Introverted Cat Person / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Inventing the Wheel / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Invisible President / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Kangaroo Pouch Ride / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Late Export for You / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Literally Loving Thy Neighbor / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Lucky Rabbit's Foot / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Mad Bomber / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Malt Shop / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Misapplied Phlebotinum / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Muppet Cameo / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Music Genre Dissonance / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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My Hero, Zero / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Named by the Adaptation / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Noah's Story Arc / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Non-Mammal Mammaries / int_eb068245
 OldGlory
seeAlso
Schoolhouse Rock!
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Outdated Outfit / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Overly Long Spanish Name / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Own Goal / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Parody Assistance / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Playing Hard to Get / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Pluto Is Expendable / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Repurposed Pop Song / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Rough Overalls / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Saturday-Morning Cartoon / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Settling the Frontier / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Smart People Speak the Queen's English / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Smoking Is Not Cool / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Static Electricity / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Stock Footage / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Sweetheart Sipping / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Symbology Research Failure / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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T. Rexpy / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Talking Appliance Sidekick / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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The Artful Dodger / int_eb068245
 The Dark Age of Animation
seeAlso
Schoolhouse Rock!
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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The Suffragette / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Tin-Can Telephone / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Trash-Can Band / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Uncommon Time / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Uranus Is Showing / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
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Wallet Moths / int_eb068245
 Schoolhouse Rock!
hasFeature
Whammy / int_eb068245
 Seussical
seeAlso
Schoolhouse Rock!
 SchoolHouseRock
sameAs
Schoolhouse Rock!
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Opening Credits Cast Party / int_eb068245