History Main / SchoolhouseRockLesson

[[AC: Film - Animated]]

->'''Brian''': Y'know, I just realized this [PSA] is like one of those "Schoolhouse Rock!'s". Except... y'know, without the "Rock".
->'''Stewie''': Yeah, it's like... ''school''.

** Parodied mercilessly in the skit "Schoolhouse Rock Reimagined". The characters from ''Schoolhouse Rock'' are fed up with the kids they taught growing into illiterate adults, so they go around beating the crap out of people for making spelling, grammar and math errors, and even for using a calculator to figure out how to split a restaurant check.

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' had a segment called "Public Schoolhouse Rock" parodying several Schoolhouse Rock songs including Nouns, Interjections, and Lolly, while mocking overcrowded and underfunded inner-city schools.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has the "How a Bill Does Not Become a Law" sketch, a parody of the "I'm Just a Bill" song in which the bill (Kenan) sits indefinitely on Capitol Hill until he gets knocked down the stairs by an executive order.

* The Season 4 premiere of ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' features a parody of "I'm Just A Bill" about the slave trade, performed by Music/TheRoots.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Knowledge", Raven teaches Starfire how to mean what she says, accompanied by an ArtShift to the Schoolhouse Rock art style.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Covid Vaccine PSA

** Parodied mercilessly in the skit "Schoolhouse Rock Reimagined", where the characters from ''Schoolhouse Rock'' are tired of the kids they taught growing up into illiterate adults, so they go around beating the crap out of people for making spelling, grammar and math errors, and even for using a calculator to figure out how to split a restaurant check.

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-->--''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Covid Vaccine PSA

-->'''Lisa:''' So it’s true. Some cartoons ''do'' encourage violence!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]", Bart and Lisa watch a parody of the show (which has replaced Itchy and Scratchy) on [=TV=], which features the song "I'm an Amendment-to-Be" and is a radical-right short about changing the constitution. Incidentally, [[ParodyAssistance Jack Sheldon]] lent his voice to the character.

The trope can either be played straight or parodied, if parodied, it tends to be a parody of the more well-known songs, like "I'm Just A Bill" or "Conjunction Junction", or even utilizes the characters from those songs.

''Schoolhouse Rock!'' has become such a pop culture icon, that other shows will often use its formula - that is visuals paired with music in order to teach a lesson, whether it be to characters in-universe or the audience.

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Schoolhouse Rock! has become such a pop culture icon, that other shows will often use its formula - that is visuals paired with music in order to teach a lesson, whether it be to characters in universe or the audience.

The trope can either be played straight or parodied, if parodied, it tends to be a parody of the more well known songs, like "I'm Just A Bill" or "Conjunction Junction", or even utilizes the characters from those songs.

** In "Running Mates", Peter highlights the school's new sex ed curriculum which features a parody of "Conjunction Junction" called "Vagina Junction", complete with the train conductor character from the original.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Knowledge", Raven teaches Starfire how to mean what she says , accompanied by an ArtShift to the Schoolhouse Rock art style.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' once featured an AffectionateParody of the show in one of its "Silly Songs With Larry" segments. More specifically, Larry performed a song from "Schoolhouse Polka" about homophones.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': In the short "The Sensitive Male", Johnny is approached by a man who lectures him that women would prefer him if acted like [[TitleDrop a sensitive male]] instead of the blunt CasanovaWannabe he normally is, with said lectures being given in ''Schoolhouse Rock''-style musical numbers (the character is even [[RoleReprise voiced by]] Jack Sheldon, [[ParodyAssistance the same voice actor]] who sang some of the better-known ''Schoolhouse Rock'' songs). [[spoiler:However, Sheldon's character ends up being revealed to be a CorruptedCharacterCopy, a man who lies about being sensitive in order to attract women (and he's already seeing ''three'' women simultaneously). Johnny, who [[EveryoneHasStandards while not a sensitive man, still isn't a lying two-timing scumbag]], reveals the truth to everybody and Sheldon's character is instantly beaten up by every woman in the street.]]

* Parodied by ''Series/{{Glee}}'s'' [[Recap/GleeS2E7TheSubstitute "The Substitute"]] in which substitute teacher Holly Holliday teaches a lesson by singing "Conjunction Junction".

** The show released a COVID vaccine PSA in September 2021, in which Stewie and Brian illustrate the vaccine, its mechanism of operation, and its benefits. Towards the end, Stewie remarks that this was like Schoolhouse Rock, but without a musical number, which basically means it was just school.