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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:
I guess The Electric Company is where a lot of my sense of humour comes from!
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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 “the plumber is here” it is everything in my power to not ask “are they here to fix the sink?”
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 monsters…the Morgan Freeman Dracula, the Jim Boyd Wolfman, and the Skip Hinnant Frankenstein.
Skip Hinnant, who also played the “Love of Chair” boy, was the voice of the decidedly NON-child-appropriate Fritz the Cat.
I constantly amazed at the number of people my age who, when I mention Electric Company, have no idea what I’m talking about. They all remember Sesame Street, but not EC.
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Frank the Crank (was he buddies with Oscar the Grouch?)
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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 “Spaghetti With a Spoon”…can’t remember all the words, though.