Morgan Freeman has such a commanding voice, it's deep and yet reassuring and soothing as weird as that sounds. I've never listened to a audio novel, but I know if I ever did I'd like him to be the guy in the sound booth, he could read a phone book and make it sound interesting. He and James Earl Jones should have a voice off, Easy Reader against Darth Vader, now that would be a great battle.
I did not see this one as a kid. I started watching at 3 years old in 1973, so if something was phased out before that, I wouldn't have known about it until the RU-vid and DVD days. I remember other Mel Mounds things. In fact, I met Denise Nickerson at a Comic Con, and she sang the Sweet Sweet Sway to me in person.
Easy Reader was actually the way I First saw Morgan, when I was a kid!! That's why when I later saw his acting seriously in roles that he's known for Now, it took me a while to appreciate him! Funny, now I'm almost embarrassed to see him as Easy Reader in these clips! :D
Had to see what Larry Wilmore was talking about. Wonder if I saw this when I was a kid. I mostly watched Electric Company for The Bloodhound Gang from what I recall.
Mr. Freeman...because of the richness in word development it is because of the Electric Company...I became an educator...Thank you for being an active participant to end illiteracy
Wow! I remember rushing home from school to watch Sesame Street,The Electric Company and Batman. Even while doing my homework. These were the greatest kids programs of all time. Do you agree?
Yes I do!! I remember how surprised I was when my sisters told me Batman was basically making fun of Batman. I thought it was dead serious, and I didn't get what she meant. But now I totally get it!
If you think about it, this could really be Peter Griffin, since they officiay exist in the same universe! Don't believe me? Well Spider-Man met Electric Company characters in the Spidey Super Stories comic, and then the Marvel universe had crossovers with the DC Universe, including Batman; Batman had a crossover comic with TMNT, and TMNT had a crossover with X-Files; Mulder and Skully from X-Files once appeared in an episode of the Simpsons, and in turn the Simpsons had a crossover with Family Guy! So there you go, same universe.
This was my favorite show when I was a kid. My dad was stationed in Germany and the Electric Company and Sesame Street were of a handful of programs in English. I hated Sesame Street from as far back as I can remember. I loved this show. I was 4 when Morgan left the show and I remember watching Driving Miss Daisy in 91 and saying, " Oh my god,that's the guy from the Electric Company". He was my favorite on the show. If I was rich I would pay him to narrate a day my life.
Where were you in Germany? Our family was stationed in Kaiserslautern from 72 to 75. I'm always trying to find my classmates. I didn't recognize Morgan as being a Electric Company actor until I watched the movie Street Smart with Christopher Reeves.
We were stationed in Fort Bliss Texas 1979 that was the first time I seen electric company and Morgan Freeman and there was a show called Zoom back then too
The voice on the phone is Jim Boyd, (the actor not the musician), he played Arthur Crank on the show and yeah...he sounds like he inspired the voice of Peter Griffin
I watched the electric company as a kid and then I saw “lean on me” with Morgan and I was like holy crap that’s the dude from the show… Never forgot that voice
MORGAN FREEMAN AND THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, the two are magnificent. Morgan Freeman is an actor that cannot be typecast. Hes played a detective in the movie "Seven", a prisoner in "The Shawshank Redemption", a chauffeur in "Driving Miss Daisy", God in "Bruce Almighty",and various other characters. And he's played them exceptionally well.
Nelson Mandela was in prison roughly 10 years at this point. I wonder what he would have said if you could have shown him this clip and said, "This is the man who will play you in a film some day.
Morgan's Mel Mounds was so legit that he could've Dee-Jayed on any radio station in America!! Still love "The Electric Company" to this day!! Great show. The only show to come even close to this classic was "The Great Space Coaster," which is a classic within itself.
