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No political cartoonist could get George III this accurate.
Spectator #1: AW! You threw the wrong way!
Spectator #2: DARN! You just lost the game!
Spectator #3: HURRAY! I'm for the other team!
— "Interjections!"

It wasn't enough for Schoolhouse Rock! to have stellar show tunes; it had to go the extra mile and be hilarious in the process.


Multiplication Rock

  • "Three is a Magic Number":
    • The magician at the beginning pulls a number 3 out of his hat that changes colors and turns into a rabbit. The rabbit gets bigger and bigger until it disappears.
    • The magician's two demonstrations of counting by threes are cut short by football players making their entrance. Both times, the large player with the "30" jersey crashes through the tunnel.
    • During the "multiply backwards from three times ten" montage:
      • In "three times nine is twenty-seven", one baseball team is joined by two others. They all wave each other off to catch the ball which drops.
      • "Three times eight is twenty-four": a tired octopus wakes up for a brief moment, then freaks out when it suddenly grows sixteen more tentacles.
      • In "three times seven is twenty-one", the magician serenades his girlfriend on a moonlit boat ride. After two extra weeks are crossed off on the calendar, the girlfriend sinks into the water. Both give an Aside Glance.
      • "Three times four is twelve": a sleeping hen is keeping four eggs warm. Suddenly, she lays eight more eggs which all appear in a crate marked "one dozen". The hen looks down in shock.
      • "Three times three is nine": Poseidon holds a three-pronged trident which grows six extra prongs. When he notices this, he blows bubbles underwater. A sleeping fish next to him opens up its left eye and makes an o with its mouth to notice the sudden prongs.

Grammar Rock

  • "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing":
    • There's not only the bit mentioned on the main page about Mrs. Jones's dog turning on her after the narrator and her brother give it a bone (it chases her up a street sign pole), there's the trip on the ferry to the Statue of Liberty where the narrator finds her friend already waiting for her—which she then explains with the parenthetical aside "He took an early ferry." And then it snows in the middle of summer.
    • Also, the first bit where she takes a train has the gem of the bandits (right out of the Old West) running into the hillside on horseback when the train goes through a tunnel, and then when the narrator is naming all the nouns the engineer pulls a reverse stick-up on the bandit.
  • "Conjunction Junction":
    • This line in the song:
      Eat this or that, grow thin or fat,
      Never mind, I wouldn't do that,
      I'm fat enough now!
  • "Interjections!":
    • After Geraldine tells Geraldo, "Hey! You're kinda cute!", her compliment appears above them in big, bold letters. Then, when the singer recommends replacing the exclamation point with "a comma when the feeling's not as strong", Geraldo turns into a frog, much to Geraldine's disgust. The text also transforms into, "Hey, you're kinda cute.", written in small, plain letters.
    • On "...or frightened", a snake sneaks up on a girl but yells "Eeeeeek!" when she makes a scary face at him.
    • "Darn! That's the end."
    • "Or excited..." WOOOOOWWWW!!
    • "Hurray! I'm for the other team!" The spectators then give the guy a Death Glare prompting him to get a nervous look and the words to change to "Hurray. I'm for the other team."
    • Ever since the invention of the Game, this clip has gotten funnier:
      Spectator: Darn! You just lost the game!
    • The song starts with a boy named Reginald coming down with the flu. A doctor comes over to give him a shot, but Reginald cowers under his sheets. As a result of this, the doctor gives him an anal shot.
      Reginald: YOW! That's not fair, giving a guy a shot down there!
  • "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla":
    • These lines, coupled with the animation and Jack Sheldon's gloriously hammy delivery.
      Sometimes, when we take 'em all on the bus
      People really raise a fuss.
      They start shouting out a lot o' pronouns at us, like
      "WHO brought that rhinoceros on this bus?" and
      "WHAT made that horrible noise?" and
      "WHICH one of them is getting off first?"
  • "The Tale of Mr. Morton":
    • The scene of Mr. Morton talking to his cat: "Hello, cat, you look good."
    • And the neighbor chasing his kid: "Come here, kid, come on!"
    • Also, Mr. Morton "rhym[ing] pretty words":
      Roses are red,
      But Morton is blue.
      Boo hoo hoo

America Rock

  • "No More Kings":
    • George III rubbing his hands together and laughing fiendishly at the thought of taxing the Colonies.
    • One of the Colonists Blowing a Raspberry at George III. And another throws a bucket that lands on his head.
    • George III keeps trying to stop the Colonists from making their own country and electing George Washington president, only to be continually thwarted by the animator in a manner reminiscent of Duck Amuck.
  • In "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", the Lexington Battle has a gunshot with the word "Bang!" in a cloud. The image then fades to a globe with a voice balloon from Asia saying, "What was that?"
  • In "The Preamble", the Constitution is stamped with "Right On!" Also, the little girl who keeps trying to vote only to be disappointed—in the past segment she's too short to reach the ballot box, and in the present-day segment she rather smugly waits for her mother to finish in the voting booth, only to be startled as her mother carries her off by the hand.
  • "I'm Just a Bill" has many funny or flat-out odd moments in it, mostly from Bill himself.
  • "Fireworks":
    • When the Paperboy gives a Congressman a newspaper, he skims through it, only to ask, "No comics?"
    • One of the Congressmen takes "pursuit of happiness" a little too literally, as he's seen chasing after a scared woman.
    • A battalion of redcoat soldiers marching on top of a fuse and having firecrackers explode underneath them.
  • "Mother Necessity" depicts the creation of several important inventions. For the airplane, we see two boys playing when their mother comes to the door:
    Mrs. Wright: Orville and Wilbur, go outside this minute! And there continue with your silly playing! Take these plans, take these blueprints, take this funny-looking thing! Take this wheel, take this wing, I can't hear a thing that Mrs. Johnson's saying!
  • In "Three-Ring Government", the members of Congress get out of a clown car.

Money Rock

  • At the end of "$7.50 Once a Week", the boy is balancing the $7.50 sign and says "I balanced my budget." Only to drop and break it, then he gives the viewer an embarrassed look.
  • "Tyrannosaurus Debt": Bill running away from the eponymous dinosaur at the end.

Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong

  • "Unpack Your Adjectives":
    • The sketch features Kermit singing and Fozzie occasionally referencing bits from the original video, including the girl and turtle's habit of placing adjectives on items. This frustrates the host for the segment, Fortune Feimster, enough to start chasing Fozzie around the set. Trying to escape, Fozzie comes across a locked door and seems trapped... only to unpack "unlocked" and stick it on the door for it to open!
    • It's ironically humorous hearing Fozzie quote the line, "Boy, that was one, big, ugly bear!" (which is also his only speaking line, he mostly just makes noises for the rest of it) complete with him shapeshifting into the bear just like the turtle did. There's also Fozzie getting stepped on by the really tall girl and running from the bear.
  • The ending of Jenny Mollen and Jason Biggs' performance of "I'm Just a Bill".
    Jason: Yeah! Alright! Nailed it!
    Jenny: Can I try on the bill sticker?
    Jason: No. I'm the bill.

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