Happy Birthday, "School House Rock!"
On this day in 1973, "School House Rock" debuted. Last night, apropos of nothing, my youngest brother mentioned that he had never forgotten any of the lyrics to any of the songs. They had become embedded in his brain, always there for access.
I felt the same way when I took a test in eighth grade in which I had to write the words to the Preamble of the Constitution. I, like everyone else in the class, simply sang the song under my breath as a I wrote.
'Course, I can't find the Preamble on YouTube, but I did find "How a Bill Becomes a Law."
Funny, but nowhere in that song does it mention that the president gets to attach any of his goddamned, fucking, wrong-headed, fascist signing statements to those laws.
Just sayin'.
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Just one little quibble
Submitted by Michael Bouldin on 6 January 2007 - 9:51pm.
...if we could please not refer to George Bush with that P-word. That confuses people who might think Al Gore had done something wrong.
:-)
We have the School House
We have the School House Rock interactive video game and Young Son enjoys it for itself, without any television or school context for it -- so it must be some pretty good stuff.
I have all sorts of classical music embedded in my head from old Bugs Bunny cartoons that weren't trying to teach children or adults anything, just using a (then more common and no doubt attractively uncopyrighted) handy cultural referent for the general population wanting to be entertained. . .