New Electric Company TV Show and DVD

[mikebennidict]

no it was just the TEC kids and no from the beginning the beginning the kids on the show were always older than the kids that the show targeted.

 

[Ziffel]

That's what I thought. It never dawned on me before that there weren't any little JonJons or Sharlas on TEC like there were all the time on SS.
Here's another one: Rememeber a guy laying out on a lounge chair and they sang a song with all these S words like, "See Sam", "See Sam sit", "See Sam sit sipping soda" Finally at the end Sam says, "Sensational!"
And then I liked that old guy telling a story and the words would appear on the screen that he said and each time a punctuation mark would appear a noise would be made. He ended the story with , "That is the end of that. And this is the end of this."

 

[mikebennidict]

I don't know who he was. think he was Jamaican or something. If you read that article it did mention about having geust spots durring the 2nd season only and while I don't remember seeing very many repeats of those durring the last 2 years of it there were a few. the man telling the story was victor Borge who was that famous classical pianist who would do funny things while playing. he even gueststarred on SS and the Muppet Show.

 

[Ziffel]

Yeah I thought I might have seen that same guy pop on there before.

Some more memories:

Skip Hinnant marching and saying, "March! March! March! March!" Then suddenly the music speeds up and he and the others go, "Cha Cha Cha!".
Morgan Freeman was the band leader and blew his whistle to stop every time they did that. Finally he asks them in disgust and confusion, "Why do you always go, 'cha cha cha' ?" But then I forget how it goes from there. I do believe that they ended up getting Morgan to be happy about the cha cha chas.

Then there was a hilarious sketch in the bedroom where Morgan Freeman and his wife are sleeping. Morgan keeps hearing noises and he is afraid but his wife doesn't hear them and keeps sleeping. Morgan tells his wife, "Something is going on out there!" But she won't listen. Finally a ghost rises up from the bed next to him (it may have been a sheet) and says, "Oh that was me, sorry." Then it is priceless how Morgan just sits there in terror and can't speak. He just makes a sound like, "Ha ya ya ya ya ya".

And one time the camera shows a closeup of Morgan and he is laughing hard. He keep saying, "Stah ha ha ha ha ha, Sta ha ha ha ha hop." Finally, the camera reveals that his wife is tickling his stomach. So he was trying to say , "Stop" but was going, "ha ha ha" so it kept sounding like "Sta ha ha ha ha ha".

 

[mikebennidict]

Shy Sheldon

Morgan Freeman and Lee Chamberlian are playing turtles. Freeman aka sheldon and Chambarlian aka Sherri and when she comes along and he hides in his shell and sings Shy Sheldon come out of your shell and share your life with Sharri.

 

[mikebennidict]

The Short Circus.

thought i'd mention there song. 1 that I only saw in the noggin reruns witch originally aired in season 1 was a song called He Ho Hi then another letter would be added He, can't rememebr what was added but the other would be Hot Hit. just a silly nonsense song.

 

[Ziffel]

Don't recall the Short circus one but I do remember the "Shy Sheldon, shy Sheldon, come out of yuor shell". Haven't thought about that since back at the time.

Remember a bizarre song sung by Jim Boyd called, "Trying to live in a trumpet"? He was shown as a tiny sized man inside a trumpet that somebody was playing incessantly.

 

[Ziffel]

And then a really cool song one was "Punctuation". Couldn't make out all the words back then but some of it was, "Punctuation. punc punc punc punctuation. They are ...... to make a sentence help you make more sense."
In between the song in parts a guy would say a sentence in various ways - "The boy is sitting." "Is the boy sitting?"

Also, there was some kind of picture song where it switched to a picture of the word they were singing. Some of the words were, "I like seafood how about you? Don't look now your hair is blue." At the end they say, "I love you." I think the I was a picture of an eye and the you was a picture of Uncle Sam (he wants YOU).

And in an animated one a guy is chiseling a rock to make the letter s and h together. A guy walks by and says, "What are you making?" He says, "Sh" (sounds like he is shushing him). So the guy whispers, "What are you making?" He again says, "Sh". A boy walks by and says , "I know what that is." He says, "What?" The boy says, "Sh." Then the artist exclaims, "It's done! It's done! At last it's done!" The guy says, "Wonderful! What is it?" He says, "Sh" and the guy looks bewildered.

 

[mikebennidict]

Interestingly their were 2 version of the puncuation song. the 1 you mentioned was Moreno and Chamberlian and the Short Circus going back to the very 1st episode. Now TSC was a singing group made up of TEC kids. it was redone during 1 of the last 2 seasons. with just TSC.

 

[mikebennidict]

some EC library skits.

he's at the library and these words keep showinf up that have the ow sound like snow, low, show and blow. can't remember all of the word let alone all of the exact word but in the last 2 he show's the show the book and tries to get it with the book but the show gets away and Morgen blows the blow away and says how are you supposed to get any reading done around here. alos remember when Skip Hinnant finds a book called explostion. he opens the book up and you know what happens. last remember June aka Julie goes to the library and finds these books with . and I can't remember what she said but she doesn't want to read that 1, she finds the ? book and says this is a ? should I? of course doesn't. also remember each time she speaks those funny sound that we usually hear that follow the puncuations can be heard in the reading room disturbing the patrons. finally the ! book she says I'll read it! and does. and old B&W movie with cars racing and crashing. she closes the book, Sylvia, obviously angry walks up to her saying Julie I am Very suprised at you you know you are not to read out loud in the library!