In honor of my wife's return to school and the start of the new term for myself and many of my friends in the area; I figured this would be a very appropriate FACT! subject! Though I'd probably make the creators disappointed in my terrible, terrible grammatical skills... And mathematical skills... And eating skills... Hell, even gaming skills.
A whole generation of kids just had a severe blast from the past with that logo. First debuting in 1973 from David McCall; Schoolhouse Rock was a very popular and surprisingly long running educational series. The cartoons were usually just a single song in length, usually about 3 minutes long, and dealt with a wide variety of educational subjects. The series was part of the much coveted Saturday Morning line-up for ABC. The series managed to score some hits with some of the songs... Who grew up in the 70s/80s/90s can't hum "Conjunction Junction?"
The initial run of the series was between 1973 and 1985 with a handful of spin-off series: America Rocks (in honor of the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), Grammar Rock, Science Rock and Computer Rock (with only a handful of shorts produced in the early-1980s.) A second series of shorts were released mainly from 1993 until 2002 with a few more new spin-offs.
Even after nearly 40 years, the series is still going strong. In 2009, the production team released a direct-to-video series named Earth Rock, with many songs written by the original band including Bob Dorough (who wrote the first Schoolhouse Rock song: Three Is A Magic Number.)
Welcome back to school, chitlins! Now I totally need to listen to "My Hero Zero."
