June 28, 2004

Electric Company

Say does anyone remember this show? If it's the show I think it is then I watched it and loved it when I was in early grammar school. But I can't tell.. Google tells me that the SesameWorkshop (yea, one word) has send C&D orders to just about every Fan site, apparently trying to expunge the production from the history books.

What I can remember about the show that I *think* was the electric company (I could never figure out what the show was called while I was watching it :) is that it had a cartoon about a superhero guy, and a villian wizard who kept trying to mess him up by magicly changing letters used in words describing what the hero was up to. In one episode, the hero was dancing with some important gal, which was apparently a big FEAT. (what the hell is a "feat"? lol) and of course the evil guy magicked the "a" in that description into an "e", so the hero wound up with rather large FEET.

The hero would always fix things by pulling out a letter and repairing the damaged words. In another episode, it was exposited that the hero kept all of his spare letters in this TRUNK. The bad guy came by and transformed it into a pile of JUNK. (Yes, this ruined the whole 90's phrase "junk in the trunk" for me :) This was apparently a catastrophe, since the hero no longer had any letters with which to save the day! but, behold, there was a straggling letter H hidden somewhere.. so the hero used it to transform into a HUNK (?) and beat the bejeesus out of the evil wizard ;)

There were also people who would stand on either sides of the screen and say the beginnings and endings of words, pushing them together into the whole word. I think the two headed monster on Sesame Street did that as well.

But, one thing I liked about this show is something I've mentioned before: aside from geeky 80's camp, it had parody value just like Square One tv did later on.

Posted by jesse at June 28, 2004 12:55 AM
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I, too, was a huge fan of the Electric Company, as it was one of the only shows I was allowed to watch for years when I was a kid (you know, public tv = not damaging to your brain).

The C&D seems odd to me...what are they worried about? I found this: http://www.publicmind.com/enduser/group.jsp?node=619 - you can join a group to request Electric Company on DVD. Who knows if it would work but it's cool...

Posted by: sarah at June 28, 2004 10:23 AM

Hey, I know you you're Sarah Gilbert, the lady who doesn't like Gmail :) You do realize that it was your review that prompted me to go buy an invite? ;)

I'm now so over yahoo, and I'm so happy I'm not paying.. what'dja say again, $10-$20 per month? for big Imap. sheesh ISP's that charge that much give out IMAP accounts and don't care if you use a gigabyte :)

Posted by: Jesse Thompson at June 28, 2004 02:49 PM