SEND IT TO ZOOOOOM!!
Another one of my favorites…I remember when they did I Won’t Grow Up from the Broadway Peter Pan, and the desert island themed episode.
It’s incredible that Electric Company is so totally forgotten that others in this thread have mentioned it to people and gotten blank stares.
I don’t get blank stares for that, but I do get them amongst fellow comic book fans when I mention that Electric Company had a version of “the Blue Beetle” as a recurring skit…no resemblance, other than the name, to any of the comic book Blue Beetles. Does anyone other than me remember that guy?
Oh, and I recall a song “I’m Mister Know It All”…part of it was the eponymous character singing
“I even know how many hairs on your head! One, two, three four! (picking up a whole hank of hair each time)”
And the punch line was that the guy he sang to asked him what time it was, and his watch had stopped.
Genius is so seldom appreciated.
Zoom, another one of my favorites. I can speak Ubby Dubby and I actually sent them a doodle.
*David doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
You put them in an envelope without a doubt.
Take your typerwriter, pencil or pen
And if you make a mistake you gotta do it again.*
Does Newton’s Apple still come on?
High up rooftop,
Never never there.
Just call me
Fiddler on the chair!
Hee hee hee. That takes me back.
We had Zoom in Alabama. Never heard of Vegetable Soup. Did any of you ever see The Letter People? Catchy theme song but a horrible kids show. Almost as dull as those handwriting lesson shows, but with puppets.
I
get
that.
:eek:
Ahhhh, Electric Company, how I miss you so.
Does anyone remember a show called “Powerhouse.” It was a 1/2 hour drama show about 4 or five kids (with the proper ethnic mix) who hung around a YMCAish place known as Powerhouse. They had various adventures including no less then 2 run-ins with a Skinhead-nazi typfe of guy, as well as a Soviet defector type story.
I used to love 3,2,1, Contact, and then one day I was awatching tv, and there was a commercial showing a mother and daughter walking alongside a lake and the daughter says," Mom, what do you do if you don’t, you know, feel “fresh’,” at which point mom goes on to explain the miracles and wonderers of douching.
That was fine except that the daughter was one of the girls from 3,2,1 Contact!!! She was the one who had sort of reddish blonde hair. Can’t remember her name for the life of me.
You had Villa Allegre? I thought that was limited to California, where I grew up.
I’m gonna have to watch Noggin, just to tape all these shows.
Robin
Texan checking in!
We had Allegre, Electric Company, Zoom, Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, and Mr. Peppermint’s Place…at least these were the ones I remember watching. I am waiting for someone to start a Sid & Marty Krofft thread!
Melanie
I don’t recall much about that show other than “Hey You Guys”. There is one skit that I think might have been on it though. It involves a guy sitting on a chair. Every time it cut to him he was still sitting in that chair. until one day it showed him stand up. Later in the show he took a step to the door. It kept cutting to him until he opened the door and left his room then closed the door. The next shot was an empty chair. I could not believe it, where did he go? Would he be back? Whats going on here?
I do not recall if that was just one show or a series of them, but for some reason that sticks with me.
That would be the soap opera spoof “Love of Chair”. It was the last segment on every show of the first or second season, I believe.
<deep announcer voice>“And what about Naomi?”<dav>
jayjay
Sesame Street
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
The Electric Company
ZOOM
3-2-1-Contact
Oh, MAN!!!
Wasn’t it Luis who sang:
I love noodles, I LOVE NOODLES…