The thing with all the "un" words had an impression on me. I started studying computers when I was 9 years old, and when I came across a DOS command that had a "lock" and "unlock" option, I thought of this "un" thing that shows those words. When I first saw this, I was too young to know what they meant by "unconscious," but now I get it that he knocks the guy out with one punch, and I'm cracking up!
0:40--Louise is having a hard time trying not to tremble on that trapeze! 3:18--He just made up the word "fun" this morning?!?! 5:00--A lesson from the little blond cartoon guy--you have to be careful when you hug a bug! 5:42 and 6:11--They run both "ai" and "ay" through the contraption, demonstrating that they have the same sound. 6:28--Kathy demonstrates the same thing with her "Rain, rain, go away" ditty. 7:41--I always loved Julia Grownup, and at the time I didn't know that she was a spoof of a real chef named Julia Child! 14:14--Slow Reader struggles even with a simple word like "run"! 14:53--After 3 tries, Pandora realizes that they have the wrong punctuation mark on the word "WOW"! 19:05--Brenda's silent E gives Mark's pet the name Pete. 21:26--Sesame Street had a surprise Top 40 hit with the "Rubber Ducky" song. I think Tom Lehrer's "Silent E" is one of several Electric Company songs that also had hit potential.
Also good to see “Rain, rain, go away, Kathy wants to go out and play,”with Short circus member Kathy (Melanie Henderson) singing the song.(teaching both ai and ay, naturally.) Funny, when I was little I used to think it was raining inside Kathy’s house as well. At least the rain does “obey” her in the end, so she “can go out and play,” ha ha.
I saw the "Try not to Tremble" thing when I was 3 years old back in 1973. Now that I'm seeing it grown up, I'm crying my eyes out because I feel bad for Judy because she is so scared of falling off the trapeze, and she was probably pressured into doing the act. Also, she is embarrassed having to do it in front of an audience.
While it would be great to see all of the episodes in their original unedited versions. we are blessed to have access to them in any form. Some of the episodes on the Shout Factory Volume 2 DVD set were also edited, either to minimize duplication of specific segments or due to licensing issues involving material such as Spiderman and Road Runner/Coyote. I think those episodes also appear here in their edited form, although admittedly I haven't been paying as close attention to those particular episodes since I own both DVD sets.
@@MuzikJunky Agreed. I think that is the one that was most heavily edited for the DVD's. Perhaps someday the original version will get posted here? Fingers crossed!
what happened to the indeterminate origin site that had the electric company episodes? it seems it was shut down i miss that site cause that was where you could sign the petition to get the original electric company released on dvd.
1:06 I grew up familiar with a different, more musically polished version of Try Not to Tremble. This version was a bit more off-the-cuff, in Judy Graubart's signature comedic style.
The “BOINGAAAA!!!” sound heard @ 16:17 as Pandora kicks away the period (so as to replace it with the exclamation point) is the exact same sound effect on Sesame Street as Harvey Kneeslapper would slap a letter or number on one of his Fat Blue victims(when making a pun joke.)
Ok, that's so disgusting.Why is Julia Grownup (Winnie) putting clay on a turkey? That's so weird too.Why not have more EC episodes with the 3 and 5 seconds segments instead of the 5 and 10 second self-destructing words?
@@evthegreat9447 That would be cool since many TV shows officially named all their episodes even if the titles don't appear on screen. I don't think they did that with The Electric Company; they just used numbers.
@@skingerskanger Is there another "Best Of The Electric Company" besides the DVD's put out by Shout Factory a while back? I own both sets, and neither includes episode # 147. The closest numbers to that are # 131 in volume 1 and # 150 in volume 2.
