My Hero Zero | |
Multiplication Rock!, Song 1 | | |
Air date January 13, 1973 | |
Written by Bob Dorough | |
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My Hero Zero is the first episode of Multiplication Rock!, airing on January 15, 1973. It goes over the powers of ten, & multiplying by zero. A young boy portrayed as a superhero (later redesigned as "Schoolhouse Rocky," the franchise mascot), shows his skeptical older sister the importance of the digit 0 as well as multiplication by powers of 10. This song was voted #11 on the 30th Anniversary DVD's Top 25.
Transcript
- GIRL: Zero?
- V/O: Yeah, zero is a wonderful thing. In fact, zero is my hero!
- GIRL: How can zero be a hero?
- V/O: Well, there are all kinds of heroes, you know. A man can get to be a hero for a famous battle he fought, or by studying very hard & becoming a weightless astronaut. And then there are heroes of other sorts like the heroes we know from watching sports. But a hero doesn't have to be a grown up person, you know; a hero can be a very big dog who comes to your rescue, or a very little boy who's smart enough to know what to do. But let me tell you about my favorite hero...
Music Video
- Main article: My Hero Zero (Music Video)
The Lemonheads (as well as Gibby Haynes, Melissa auf der Mar of Hole, and another Hole member, Patty Schemel) covered the song for Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks on track 8. The music video, being featured at the end on the America Rock tape, has one short clip from Lucky Seven Sampson (in which a certain cabbage truck passes said patch), containing anything from the least number of episodes. It also has the part where the boy throws a ball to a man who signs it put between the scene where the Dutch boy holds the water back & that where the boy gets in the telephone booth.
On the VHS that has the music video, the closed-captioning credits the voice that says, "Rocks and bones!" as if a boy did it.
Trivia
The girl might have been voiced by Bob Dorough's daughter