Schoolhouse Rock!
Overview
 
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American
United States
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 interstitial program
Interstitial program
In television programming, an interstitial program refers to a short program which is often shown between movies or other events, e.g. a cast interview after movies on premium channels...

ming series of animated musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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. The topics covered included grammar
Grammar
In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...

, science
Science
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, economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, history
History
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, mathematics
Mathematics
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, and civics
Civics
Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....

. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1985, and was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999. Additional episodes were produced as recently as 2009 for direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
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 release.
Schoolhouse Rock! began as a commercial advertising venture by David McCall, half of famed Madison Avenue advertising agency McCaffrey & McCall.
Quotations

Adjectives are often used to help us compare things,To say how thin, how fat, how short, how tall.Girls who are tall can get taller,Boys who are small can get smaller,Till one is the tallestAnd the other's the smallest of all.

He was a hairy bear, He was a scary bear. We made a hasty retreat from his lair, and described him with adjectives.

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.Conjunction Junction, how's that function?I got three favorite carsThat get most of my job done.Conjunction Junction, what's their function?I got "and", "but", and "or",They'll get you pretty far.

When Reginald was home with flu, uh-huh-huh,The doctor knew just what to do-hoo.He cured the infectionWith one small injectionWhile Reginald uttered some interjections..Hey! That smarts!Ouch! That hurts!Yow! That's not fair givin' a guy a shot down there!

Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Yow!) or emotion (Ouch!).They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

So when you're happy (Hurray!),or sad (Ahhh!),or frightened (EEK!),or mad (Rats!), or excited (Wow!), or glad (HEY!), an interjection stops the sentence right!

So when you're happy (Hurray!),or sad (Ahhh!),or frightened (EEK!),or mad (Rats!), or excited (Wow!), or glad (HEY!), an interjection stops the sentence right!

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, got some adverbs here.Come on down to Lolly's, get the adverbs here!You're going to needIf you write or read,Or even think about it.

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.Got a lot of lolly, jolly adverbs here.

 
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