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Number | 6 |
Number of episodes: | 26 |
Original airing: | January 6, 1973 - August 27, 2002 |
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The (25) Best of Schoolhouse Rock! or Schoolhouse Rock! Special 30th Anniversary Edition is a last Schoolhouse Rock! videotape featuring 7 songs from America Rock, 7 songs from Grammar Rock, 1 song from Money Rock, 4 songs from Science Rock, 6 songs from Multiplication Rock, and a new song "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" as a bonus. The videotape (and DVD) released in the year 2002.
Schoolhouse Rock! Special 30th Anniversary Edition is a first DVD featuring the episodes from Multiplication Rock, Grammar Rock, America Rock, Science Rock, Money Rock, and an all-new song. Also includes the lost episode The Weather Show and Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips.
Chapters (VHS version only)[]
- Schoolhouse Rock Intro (The Best of Schoolhouse Rock [the chalkboard's episode title does not appear in the DVD version])
- Elbow Room (As number 25, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Verb: That's What's Happening (As number 24, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- Them Not So Dry Bones (As number 23, part of Science Rock in the DVD version)
- Telegraph Line (As number 22, part of Science Rock in the DVD version)
- Naughty Number Nine (As number 21, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- Mother Necessity (As number 20, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- The Great American Melting Pot (As number 19, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Dollars and Sense (As number 18, part of Money Rock in the DVD version)
- Elementary, My Dear (As number 17, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- Ready or Not, Here I Come (As number 16, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (As number 15, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- Unpack Your Adjectives (As number 14, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- No More Kings (As number 13, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Figure Eight (As number 12, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- My Hero, Zero (As number 11, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- The Shot Heard 'Round the World (As number 10, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing (As number 9, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- Interplanet Janet (As number 8, part of Science Rock in the DVD version)
- Three Is a Magic Number (As number 7, part of Multiplication Rock in the DVD version)
- The Preamble (As number 6, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Interjections! (As number 5, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- Electricity, Electricity (As number 4, part of Science Rock in the DVD version)
- Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here (As number 3, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- I'm Just a Bill (As number 2, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Conjunction Junction (As number 1, part of Grammar Rock in the DVD version)
- I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College (Last song, part of America Rock in the DVD version)
- Schoolhouse Rock End Credits (The Best of Schoolhouse Rock, does not appear in the DVD version)
Script[]
- Rocky: Hey, chef, what's the special today?
- (VHS Version) Chef: My new 25 ingredient soup! I'm stirring in the 25 all time favorite songs of Schoolhouse...
Chef and Children: Rock!
Rocky: Wow! The all time favorites?
Chef: That's right! It takes 30 years to make a soup this good!
Rocky: 30 years! No wonder this suit is getting tight! - (DVD Version) Bob Dorough: The whole enchilada and a side of fun!
- Bob Dorough V/O (VHS Version):
- Hey! Looks like there's plenty of "Elbow Room" in that pot. So let's start with number 25.
- Now here's number 24: Verb, now that's what's happening. Action!
- Number 23 is a bone–i–fied favorite: "Them Not–So–Dry Bones".
- Number 22: (Imitating telegraph) "Telegraph Line".
- Number 21, here's that cat with a 9 on his tie: "Naughty Number Nine".
- ♪"Mother Necessity," where would you be?♪ Oh, about number 20!
- Number 19 of the all time favorites is: "The Great American Melting Pot".
- Remember Becky Sue? She's in: "Dollars and Sense". Number 18.
- No-ah doubt about it, number 17 is: "Elementary, My Dear".
- Ready or not, here's number 16: "Ready or Not, Here I Come".
- "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla". Phew. With a name like that you've gotta be glad that there are pronouns.
- Now let's unpack number 14: "Unpack Your Adjectives".
- Number 13 is: "No More Kings".
- Number 12, I'd figured it'd be: "Figure Eight".
- Who's your favorite hero? Mine is in the number 11 spot: "My Hero, Zero".
- And now we come to the top 10, right on target at number 10: "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".
- And now number 9: ♪"A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing", doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo♪
- Number 8, that galaxy girl: "Interplanet Janet".
- Number 7 is the song that got Schoolhouse Rock started: "Three Is a Magic Number".
- We the people pick number 6: "The Preamble".
- And number 5: Wow! Gee whiz! Oh boy! It's: "Interjections!"
- Flip that switch and what do you get? Number 4: "Electricity, Electricity".
- Number 3, indubitably: "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here".
- And now, number 2, the runner-up and still running strong: "I'm Just a Bill".
- And now the most popular Schoolhouse Rock song of all time, 1: "Conjunction Junction".
- And now to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Schoolhouse Rock, here's a brand new song that might help you understand the electoral college. It's called: "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College".
- (VHS Version) Chef: My new 25 ingredient soup! I'm stirring in the 25 all time favorite songs of Schoolhouse...
Trivia[]
- In the DVD version, Bob Dorough voices the chef, the children do not say "Rock!" and replaced by a one-note horn riff.
- On the DVD case, several characters (Bill, the Conductor, Zero, Lolly, Molly, the Suffragette, and the Magician) appear on it. Lolly says "INDUBITABLY" as well.
- In the video, the announcer does not say, "Number 15" before Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla plays (unless you count the closed-captions where "1: 'Conjunction Junction'." is transcribed as "What? 'Conjunction Junction.'").
- In the VHS version, Rocky's way of saying, "Hey, chef, what's the special today?", sounds different.