# What was your favorite Schoolhouse Rock cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549 "2007-06-11T10:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/21 "2007-06-11T15:45:04Z")
Oh, I forgot about “My Hero, Zero”. “That’s why with only ten digits, including zero, you can count as high as you could ever go, forever, towards infinity. No-one ever gets there, but you could try.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/22 "2007-06-11T15:54:17Z")
“Good good good gooooooooood good eleven Never gives me any trouble 'til after nine” ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/23 "2007-06-11T15:56:00Z")
Verb and Lucky 7… both had that 70’s Urban Vibe and great music. A shout out to 4 legged zoo too. That Creepy cage always facinated me. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/24 "2007-06-11T16:00:08Z")
I’ve always liked “Verb: That’s whats Happening” and “Sufferin till Suffrage” my kids love em too. I also got extra credit by writing out the preamble on a history test, and Fireworks helped me remember that Thomas Payne book. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/25 "2007-06-11T16:27:12Z")
I never see this one mentioned, but perhaps my favorite is the wonderful [**Victim of Gravity**](http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Victim.html) sung by The Tokens (_The Lion Sleeps Tonight_). Great music and humor. Other faves: **Math** : _3 is a Magic Number_ **Grammar** : _Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla_ (pronouns) **History** : _I’m Just a Bill_ Favorite performer: Blossom Dearie (_Figure 8, Unpack Your Adjectives_) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/26 "2007-06-11T16:49:30Z")
Conjunction Junction Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here. and I thought I would be the first to mention Little Twelvetoes. I liked it but I never understood it. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/27 "2007-06-11T17:12:00Z")
I like all the history ones, but I’m particularly partial to Sufferin’ Till Suffrage. I also like No More Kings, The Shot Heard Round the World, and of course The Preamble. Oh, and The Great American Melting Pot is a good one, too. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/28 "2007-06-11T17:23:50Z")
Only problem with Schoolhouse rock was that it’s history lessons messed up my childhood. Mainly because it was an American perspective which didn’t jibe with my school lessons. You know coming from a family who remained in a colony of Britain until 1946 we weren’t as down on Royalty or the British as you guys were. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/29 "2007-06-11T17:31:44Z")
Obligatory [Wikipedia: Schoolhouse Rock!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock) link. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/30 "2007-06-11T19:04:21Z")
I always loved “Unpack your Adjectives.” > [@](#): > > Got home from camping last spring. > Saw people, places and things. > We barely had arrived, > Friends asked us to describe > The people, places and every last thing. > So we unpacked our adjectives. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/31 "2007-06-11T21:32:19Z")
**tdn** (and incidentally everyone): Please do not quote entire song lyrics. I’ve deleted down to a couple of lines. Generally, best approach is to quote a line and then provide a link to some site that has copyright permission. If you’re in doubt, please see [Forum Rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343601) and note post #2 … and [Rules for Posting on the Straight Dope Message Boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384736) and note post #3. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/32 "2007-06-11T21:43:42Z")
“Conjunction Junction,” “I’m Just a Bill,” and “Naughty Number 9” and though I really don’t like the original, the Skee-lo version of “Mr. Morton” works - “Mr. Morton is the subject of our sentence, and what the predicate says he does.” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/33 "2007-06-11T22:22:55Z")
BILL: _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. How I hope and pray that he will, But today I am still just a bill_. CONGESSMAN: He signed you, Bill! Now you’re a law! BILL: Oh yes!!! ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/34 "2007-06-11T22:29:49Z")
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Mr. Morton. Jack Sheldon’s voice is terrific, although I believe he considered himself more a trumpet player. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/35 "2007-06-11T22:36:33Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] Interjections, and Telegraph Line. “Darn! That’s the end.” [/QUOTE] Methinks that if _Schoolhouse Rock_ had been written in 2007, they would have used an entirely different set of interjections. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/36 "2007-06-11T23:07:46Z")
Since other people are posting multiples: Interjection Sufferin’ Till Sufferage Conjunction Junction A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing A Victim Of Gravity Mother Necessity I’m Just a Bill ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/37 "2007-06-11T23:38:04Z")
We got the DVD a while ago, and I discovered that there were quite a few I had never seen. I’m quite fond of Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla (I like the perky piano music). Our 2.5-year-old will do the interjections. She sits there and yells “Hooray! Aww! Eeek! Rats! Wow! Hey!” with the chorus. Watching “Number Nine” and “Little Twelve-Toes” prompted me to go figure out _why_ the digits in any product of nine will add up to nine, and how it works in other bases. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/38 "2007-06-12T01:22:38Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Number Eight has such a wistful melody, it’s the first one that comes to mind. [/QUOTE] They used the original Schoolhouse Rock recording as one of the songs in _The Squid and the Whale_. It was weird to see a movie montage set to a song using multiplication drills. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/39 "2007-06-12T03:41:12Z")
Hm. Now that I think about it, quite a few hip-hop artists have used school house rock. Queen Latifah used “I am a Bill”, Method Man of Wu Tang used Verb, I got my thang in action! And Wu Tang used Figure 8 also. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549/40 "2007-06-12T03:46:00Z")
My favorites weren’t quite Schoolhouse Rock, but they also ran on ABC in the 1970’s. One featured '50s style greasers singing a song about chewing tough foods in order to strengthen your teeth. It opened “They’re doing pushups in Peoria, they’re jogging in LA”. Another featured the line “Popcorn, you’re my favorite movie star”. Were these part of a series, and where can I find them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-schoolhouse-rock-cartoon/407549.md?page=3)