Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)
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• Schoolhouse Rock, the timeless collection of animated songs that taught an entire generation that "Knowledge Is Power," is on DVD for the first time in this Ultimate Collector's Edition 2-disc set. Now every day can feel like Saturday morning as you sing along with "I'm Just A Bill," "Three Is A Magic Number," "Interjections!" and the rest of your favorite tunes. Featuring a catchy new

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DVD Review: Schoolhouse Fun As Never Before!
Summary: 5 Stars

In the set, there is a book to start it off. The first pages are an interview with George Newall. The next two list all the features. Open up the flaps and you get the lyrics to the top ten shows. The next page shows the features on disc 2. Next page, the new song "I'm Going to Send Your Vote to College" lyrics. Next, is all the songs on this disc. That is the list.

After you finish the book, open up and start your show. When you put the disc in, there will be an opening. Ater the opening, you should go to the playlist menu. Here, you can choose to watch any category of Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar, Science, Money, Multipication, and America. You could also watch the new song, choose how to see them all, or go to the Top 10 Jukebox.

The Top 10 Jukebox is top on the menu. You could select up to ten songs and then press the play button. It will play all the songs in the order you selected. You could choose any of the following songs. They are in order of popularity: Conjunction Junction, I'm Just A Bill, Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, Electricity Electricity, Interjections!, The Preamble, Three is a Magic Number, Interplanet Janet, A Noun is a Person Place or Thing, and The Shot Heard 'Round the World.

Second on the list is Grammar Rock. You could select what you want to play or play all. On this menu, you could see: Unpack Your Adjectives, Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, Conjunction Junction, Intergections!, Rufus Xavier Sasaparillia, Verb: That's What's Happening, A Noun is a Person Place or Thing, Busy Prepositions, and The Tale of Mr. Morton.

Third on the list is Science Rock. You could select what you want to play or play all. On this menu, you could see: The Body Machine, Do the Circulation, Electricity Electricity, The Energy Blues, Interplanet Janet, Telegraph Line, Them Not-So-Dry Bones, and A Victim of Gravity.

Fourth on the list is Money Rock. You could selct what you want to play or play all. On this menu, you could see: Dollars and Sense, $7.50 Once A Week, Where the Money Goes, Tax Man Max, Walkin' on Wall Street, This For That, Tyrannosaurus Debt, and The Check's In the Mail.

Fifth on the list is Multipication Rock. You could selct what you want to play or play all. On this menu, you could see: My Hero Zero, Elementary My Dear, Three is a Magic Number, The Four-Legged Zoo, Ready or Not Here I Come, I Got Six, Lucky Seven Sampson, Figure Eight, Naught Number Nine, The Good Eleven, and Little Twelvetoes.

Sixth on the list is America Rock. You could select what you want to play or play all. On this menu, you could see: No More Kings, Fireworks, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, The Preamble, Elbow Room, The Great American Melting Pot, Mother Necessity, Sufferin' Until Sufferage, I'm Just A Bill, and Three Ring Government.

Seventh, you could see the new song, I'm Going to Send Your Vote to College."

Eighth, is the play all 47 song list. You could select either to play each one in the order just given or shuffle each one. It takes 140 minutes to see them all. Those are all the features on disc 1.

On the "Extra Credit DVD," you could see a lot of features. First, you may go see the long-lost song that would be in Science Rock, The Weather Show. There us the never released three song set, "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips." This set featurest three songs: Software, Hardware, and Number Cruncher. There is a documentary on the making of "I'm Going to Send Your Vote To College." After that, you may watch this show. There is the Top 20 Shuffle. It features 20 songs. They could only be shuffled. There are two games. The first one is the "Earn Your Diploma Trivia Game." You have to answer 5 questions for each category of Schoolhouse Rock. At the end, there is a word you have to unscramble. Do all 5 and then you get the monster jumble word. If you get that, then you have a little voting song at the end.

The second game is "Arrange A Song Puzzles." You arrange 3 songs in order. They are mixed up. The easiest song is I'm Just A Bill. The middle song is Conjunction Junction. The hardest is Three is a Magic Number. You may previw what you did wrong if you were wrong.

There are 4 music videos by contemporary artists for Conjunction Junction, I'm Just A Bill, Three is A Magic Number, and One more. There is an Emmy Award featurette. You will learn about every Emmy Schoolhouse Rock won. There is a commercial with Three Is a Magic Number being used, Audio Commentaries for selected songs, and little "easter eggs" to watch out for.

Well that about wraps it all up. This set is one of my favorites and you should really get it. This is from the back cover:

Now every day will feel like a Saturday morning when you sing along with I'm Just A Bill, Three is a Magic Number, Interjections! and the rest of your favorite tune. Feautring a catchy new animated song by the original series' creators, the 30th Anniversary Edition DVD rocks your history with every Schoolhouse Rock Short Ever Created.

Yes, I think you should get this. Get it and you won't be sorry. All of the shows are in excellent condition and sound quality is amazing. So I rank it 5 stars. It actually deserves more.

Darn! That's the end!

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