# Who was your favorite "Electric Company" character? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940 "2006-12-05T15:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/21 "2006-12-06T06:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] I remember The Electric Company fondly, but not well enough to remember specific characters. I was messing around on YouTube recently and found this hilarious clip, I vaguely remembered it: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cLywD77KBT0/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/cLywD77KBT0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque I guess The Electric Company is where a lot of my sense of humour comes from! šŸ™‚ [/QUOTE] That is one of the first jokes I ever remember retelling and I knew it was from Electric Company or Zoom Zoom. Thanks so much for the link! Where I work I often have to call the plumbers and they will come find me as the contact. When told ā€œthe plumber is hereā€ it is everything in my power to not ask ā€œare they here to fix the sink?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/22 "2006-12-06T12:41:30Z")
Rita Moreno singing ā€œ[Iā€™m in Love With a Giant](http://home.triad.rr.com/electriccompany/n18.htm)ā€ _Sometimes folks laugh, and then I sigh, ā€˜Cause itā€™s so hard to tell the reasons why Iā€™m in love. Iā€™m in love with a giant._ ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/23 "2006-12-06T12:48:04Z")
Trunk: > [@](#): > > Well, I was probably 5 or 6, just old enough to understand that thereā€™s no way that bird would have been saying ā€œmooā€ just because a cow sat on the egg. It frigginā€™ floored me. Itā€™s possibly the first absurdist humor I ever got. I donā€™t suppose you enjoyed _Horton Hatches the Egg_ as a child, then? My favorite was Mister Know-It-All. Not a recurring character, but great for that one sketch. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/24 "2006-12-06T15:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=zagloba] Donā€™t forget ā€œLoveā€¦ofā€¦chairā€ [/QUOTE] What about it? ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/25 "2006-12-06T16:02:45Z")
Iā€™d have to say Easy Reader and Letterman. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/26 "2006-12-06T22:23:43Z")
Frank the Crank (was he buddies with Oscar the Grouch?) Irene Caraā€¦one of the kids which comprised the Short Circus. hereā€™s the opening credits: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TFYMijdQ_sA/hqdefault.jpg "The Electric Company opening credits season 6") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFYMijdQ_sA) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/27 "2006-12-06T22:32:15Z")
I had the hots for Jennifer of the Jungle. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/28 "2006-12-07T00:33:25Z")
I loved Maurice the talking plant, personally. Like a cut-rate Audrey II. I was inordinately afraid of and at the same time rather fond of the trio of monstersā€¦the Morgan Freeman Dracula, the Jim Boyd Wolfman, and the Skip Hinnant Frankenstein. Skip Hinnant, who also played the ā€œLove of Chairā€ boy, was the voice of the decidedly NON-child-appropriate Fritz the Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/29 "2006-12-07T02:28:21Z")
Your rich uncle died and left you all his m\_\_\_\_\_ Fargo North, Decoder, without a doubt. I constantly amazed at the number of people my age who, when I mention Electric Company, have no idea what Iā€™m talking about. They all remember Sesame Street, but not EC. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/30 "2006-12-07T02:34:02Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] Frank the Crank (was he buddies with Oscar the Grouch?) [/QUOTE] You mean J. Arthur Crank? (Who was nothing more than an unseen and unheard character on the other end of the phone in the first season or so, then played by Jim Boyd) I still remember the tune to ā€œSpaghetti With a Spoonā€ā€¦canā€™t remember all the words, though. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/31 "2006-12-07T03:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] Frank the Crank (was he buddies with Oscar the Grouch?) [/QUOTE] Do you mean J. Arthur Crank? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940/32 "2006-12-07T03:10:49Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] I had the hots for Jennifer of the Jungle. [/QUOTE] Back then, who didnā€™t? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-electric-company-character/382940.md?page=1)