Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong (2023) Movie Script
(upbeat jazz plays)
SEACREST: Fifty years ago,
a pop-culture phenomenon was born.
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
3, 6, 9
12, 15, 18
SEACREST: It began with the dream
to teach kids with music
as they watched their favorite cartoons.
The unforgettable songs
earned generations of fans
and four Emmy Awards,
all while delivering lessons
that last a lifetime.
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
SEACREST: These are the songs
that make you sing, learn,
and rock 'til you drop.
That's what's happening
SEACREST: Let's celebrate
Schoolhouse Rock!'s
50th Anniversary, singalong-style.
Class is now in session.
(harmonizing)
As your body grows bigger
Your mind must flower
It's great to learn
'Cause...
It's Schoolhouse Rocky
That chip off the block
Of your favorite Schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock!
(opening theme playing)
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Knowledge is power
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
Hooking up multiplication to music
Rocking with grammar
And science and history
With music on the menu
Learning's really no mystery
When you're in Conjunction Junction
Fun's your function
Picking up some knowledge
Rockin' 'round the clock
Accumulating power
Watching Schoolhouse Rock!
Hey, Chef, what's the special today?
The whole enchilada and a side of fun.
(music ends)
(bell rings)
(indistinct conversations)
Please, take your seats, and welcome
to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
You know, growing up in the '70s and '80s,
Saturday morning was all about sheer joy,
custom-made for kids.
It meant sitting in your PJs
with a bowl of your favorite cereal
and watching hours of cartoons.
Kids across the country were united
in the wondrous adventures
of crime-solving canines,
animated rock bands, and superheroes.
And, whether they knew it or not,
they were also learning something.
Tonight, we invite you
and your family to singalong
with some famous friends
as we relive fond memories,
you know, the moments
that shaped who we are,
with a tribute to the sensation
known as Schoolhouse Rock!
This groundbreaking series
of short cartoon musicals
was designed to make learning fun
and the lessons unforgettable.
-Hmm
-Hmm
-Ready, Pop?
-Yep.
-Ready, son? Let's go.
-Mm-hmm.
(funky music plays)
SEACREST: Maybe you were captivated
by these indelible, three-minute songs
and their old-school animation
from the beginning.
Maybe you caught them in reruns.
Or maybe you aren't sure how
your folks and their grownup friends
know the words to "Conjunction Junction,"
"I'm Just a Bill,"
and "Three Is a Magic Number."
By the time this hour is up,
you will know them, too.
So, whether you're
from the Class of 1973 or 2023,
gather the family, singalong,
and show everyone just how smart you are.
Up first, a journey
through our solar system,
at least the way the solar system looked
when Pluto was still considered a planet.
Here's our guide,
galaxy girl Julianne Hough,
with "Interplanet Janet."
(cheers and applause)
Oh, oh
Ooh, ooh
Whoo! Oh, my gosh!
These songs are, like, no joke to sing.
I'm so out of breath.
Especially when you're soaring
through the galaxy.
(dings)
SEACREST: We've got nouns,
interjections, verbs,
not to mention a very famous bill.
As you'll see, Jason Biggs
and his wife, Jenny Mollen,
took their roles very seriously.
This is great.
-I just don't get, like...
-Yeah.
...how you're the bill.
-Like I'm just the bill's friend?
-Oh, baby, not this again.
-I'm not even like--
-No, don't start this again, baby.
-No, but it's weird. Like, it's weird.
-It's too late.
I don't even have a name. I'm just Boy.
They made the costumes already, baby.
I'm sorry you're Boy,
but Boy is very, like, an iconic boy.
Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock!
for helping to educate the world.
I'm old enough to remember
when Schoolhouse Rock! started.
It was the best part of Saturday morning.
It made me love learning
about how bills were made
and how grammar works,
and it made me love the blues.
-(mouthing lyrics)
-Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
Welcome back to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
You know, considering the Top 40 hits
I've introduced over the years,
I never dreamed
I'd be hosting a show of songs
that touched so many lives
with so many different styles.
There was jazz, pop, folk,
funk, and country,
even this next song,
about the subject of a sentence,
by future Tony Award-winning
Broadway composer Lynn Ahrens.
So, when you're looking around for nouns,
who better to sing along with
than the stars from Disney on Broadway?
(cheers and applause)
Ah, that one takes me back.
As we celebrate Schoolhouse Rock!
we'd also like to honor teachers
and spotlight Donors Choose,
the leading platform
for giving to public schools.
On DonorsChoose.org,
teachers across America
create projects,
requesting resources for their students.
Donors can give to the projects
that inspire them,
helping give students the tools
they need for a great education.
So, go to DonorsChoose.org to learn how
you can help make
a teacher's dream come true.
Or, if you are a public school
teacher yourself,
learn how you can post
your classroom projects.
Disney's work with Donors Choose is part
of Disney Future Storytellers,
an initiative that empowers
the next generation.
And now sing along
with Kal Penn and Raven-Symon
as they extol the virtues
of interjections.
(cheers and applause)
(Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" plays)
(coughing)
(giggles)
Our 50th Anniversary celebration continues
with more singing and dancing,
right after this on ABC.
(cheers and applause)
Welcome back.
I hope you've been singing along
to these timeless songs
on our 50th Anniversary celebration.
I also hope you're ready for some action.
Years before Black Panther
hit the big screen,
this groundbreaking character
played a crucial role
in leading the dialog around education
and America's Black youth.
Sing along as Ne-Yo performs
"Verb: That's What's Happening."
(cheers and applause)
(snaps fingers)
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Yeah
Verb!
Verb!
Verb!
Verb!
Whoo!
Mmmmmmm
Hey
What?
What?
Oh!
-Yeah!
-Ha ha ha.
Whoo!
Hey
Verb
Verb
(cheers and applause)
(dings)
The premise of Schoolhouse Rock!
was so simple,
even the youngest family member
could understand it,
combine catchy tunes
with colorful animation
to communicate the fundamentals
of grammar, math, science,
civics, history,
and even economics.
This enduring concept was the brainchild
of late advertising executives
David McCall, Tom Yohe,
and George Newall,
who passed away in December 2022.
What an amazing gift
these brilliant men have given the world.
Here's more on the legacy
of Schoolhouse Rock!
Oh, when I think of Schoolhouse Rock!
I think of the greatest
musical entertainment invention made
for kids, especially for our generation.
It's Schoolhouse Rocky
That chip off the block
Of your favorite Schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock!
What? That's my whole freakin' childhood.
I put a dime in the drugstore
Record machine
Oldies, goldies started playing...
Schoolhouse Rock! was part
of my melodic education.
Some of the greatest songs,
some of the coolest songs,
and I actually learned
some stuff, I really did.
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
The idea that there's a song
set to concepts and themes
and things that you need
to learn about in your classes
made learning fun and also kind of,
I think, reached kids whose learning style
was a little bit different.
It was how they were educating these kids
and how they were doing
these animations and these songs
to make learning interesting and cool.
Interjections!
You threw it the wrong way!
They understood that music is catchy
and these complicated things,
like interjections
or multiplication tables,
if you put some music to it,
people will rock out to it
and it just becomes a part of you.
Or by a comma
When the feeling's not as strong
And the lyrics are so freakin' powerful.
NE-YO: When I use my imagination
-Verb!
-I think, I plot
I plan, I dream
They really thought about, like,
how to inspire kids
at the highest level of sophistication,
but, at the same time,
the basic information
to go out and apply themselves
to the world.
NE-YO: To lo-o-o-o-ve
SEACREST: Prepare to sing along with
"Ready or Not, Here I Come,"
"Figure Eight,"
"Three Is a Magic Number," and more
when Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary
celebration continues right here on ABC.
(theme music plays)
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Welcome back to
our 50th Anniversary celebration
of Schoolhouse Rock!
So, what do amazing, incredible,
and hilarious have in common?
First, they're all adjectives.
They also describe our next guests
and this next song.
So, sing along with our talented,
another adjective, tenured professor
Ms. Fortune Feimster and The Muppets,
as they show you
how to unpack your adjectives.
(cheers and applause)
All right. Thank you, Sarah,
for that lovely show-and-tell.
Class, you're in for a treat.
We have two amazing guests here
to teach a very important lesson,
Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.
Fun fact, Fozzie and I
go to the same hairdresser.
All right, take it away.
Thank you, Ms. Fortune.
Whoa! (exclaims)
-(thud)
-(sighs)
(birds chirping)
Yeah, Kermit!
(chuckles)
(clatters!)
Oh!
All right.
(film projector whirring)
-(clatters)
-Ah!
Yeah.
(yelps)
Ugh.
(yelling)
-Whoa!
-Huh?
Boy, that was one big, ugly bear.
Hey!
-Aaaahh!
-Fozzie!
-(chuckles)
-FORTUNE: Fozzie!
(gasping)
(grunting)
(gasps)
Agh! He's un-bear-able.
Of all the unforgettable classics
of Schoolhouse Rock!
there have been more spoofs
of this next song
than any other.
It introduced the convoluted concept
how does a bill wind its way
through a legislative maze
to become a law?
That's a question many grownups
still wrestle with,
even some lawmakers.
I know you know this one, so singalong
as Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen
take the trek
up the steps of Capitol Hill
with "I'm Just a Bill."
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
(tapping)
(congressmen speaking indistinctly)
(Jenny sings)
(Jason sings)
(applause)
Yeah!
-All right. Nailed it, baby.
-Oh!
Can I try on the bill suit now?
No, I'm the bill.
It's no wonder
that's an educational classic.
And speaking of education,
as I mentioned earlier in the show,
tonight, we're spotlighting Donors Choose,
a platform where public school
teachers across America
create projects, requesting
resources for their students.
Donors can give to the projects
that inspire them.
Learn how you can support
the next generation
and make local teachers' dreams come true.
And if you're
a public school teacher yourself,
learn how you can post
your classroom projects
at DonorsChoose.org.
Some of the most remembered songs
are on the way right here,
along with Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert,
and the Black Eyed Peas
with the biggest hit of Schoolhouse Rock!
We're coming right back on ABC.
Welcome back
to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
Okay, class, how do we get
to the number 50?
Well, if you remember
your multiplication tables,
you can try 10 times 5
or you can sing along
with this tongue twister.
Here's Retta with
"Ready or Not, Here I Come."
(cheers and applause)
RETTA: Now, everybody...
I!
(cheers and applause)
You know, it wouldn't be a singalong
without the spectacular creativity
of a very special friend of ours.
Let's give him a call.
Derek Hough, you, my friend,
have been setting the bar
for these singalongs for a long time.
What do you have in store for us tonight?
Well, Ryan, it's been such a great time
being a part of these singalongs,
and when I first heard
the song "Figure Eight,"
it really made me think
of doing something classic.
And I haven't done like
a proper ballroom dance in a long time,
so it was a perfect excuse to do that.
So, tonight, we're going be doing
a beautiful foxtrot
quickstep type of dance.
So, as we say in the dance world,
five, six, seven, figure eight.
You always deliver. Good to see you, pal.
Thanks, brother.
Reimagined for our anniversary special
by the super talented Derek Hough
and his fiance, Hayley Erbert,
here's "Figure Eight."
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong
will return on ABC.
Schoolhouse Rock!
I can still remember
all the lyrics to the songs.
One of my favorites was...
(sings)
I loved it because all kids love trains.
So, when the song took us
to the railroad yard,
with the little conductor in his cap,
hooking up the boxcars
with his three favorite words...
(reads)
...it all made sense.
It was fun and it was learning.
But it wasn't like school.
Or was it?
Happy 50th Anniversary, Schoolhouse Rock!
(snapping fingers)
We're gonna rock...
We're gonna rock, rock
Schoolhouse Rock!
Welcome back.
Schoolhouse Rock! began with a question.
If kids could repeat the lyrics
to a rock 'n' roll song
just by hearing it over and over,
why not set their schoolwork to music?
So when musical director Bob Dorough
combined the three times table
with a catchy song
and the creators added
colorful illustrations,
the result was pure magic.
This is the song that started it all.
With their unique take
on "Three Is a Magic Number"
from the very first episode
of Schoolhouse Rock!
here are Grammy
and American Music Award winners
Black Eyed Peas.
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Twelve
Twenty-one
We hope you've enjoyed
singing along with our stars
as we presented just a few
of the classics.
I'm sure they took you back
to a time when Saturday mornings
brought lessons that were as easy as ABC.
So, what have we learned?
Like the famous theme song says,
"Knowledge is power."
Until the next time
we sing along together,
class is dismissed.
(bell rings)
(theme music plays)
Yay! We're done! Are we done?
Schoolhouse Rock!
Don't... Are you joking right now?
No!
Schoolhouse Rock!
And stream next day on Disney+.
Dis knee, not dis knee.
Dis knee...
(laughter)
-Conjunction Junction
-Ooh! Hey!
-What's your function?
-(Jenny laughs)
A special mus--
(speaking gibberish)
(scatting)
Interplanet Janet
Whoo!
And... yeah.
That's it. Goodbye.
Agh!
-Yay!
-Yay!
(laughs)
SEACREST: Fifty years ago,
a pop-culture phenomenon was born.
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
3, 6, 9
12, 15, 18
SEACREST: It began with the dream
to teach kids with music
as they watched their favorite cartoons.
The unforgettable songs
earned generations of fans
and four Emmy Awards,
all while delivering lessons
that last a lifetime.
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
SEACREST: These are the songs
that make you sing, learn,
and rock 'til you drop.
That's what's happening
SEACREST: Let's celebrate
Schoolhouse Rock!'s
50th Anniversary, singalong-style.
Class is now in session.
(harmonizing)
As your body grows bigger
Your mind must flower
It's great to learn
'Cause...
It's Schoolhouse Rocky
That chip off the block
Of your favorite Schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock!
(opening theme playing)
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Knowledge is power
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
Hooking up multiplication to music
Rocking with grammar
And science and history
With music on the menu
Learning's really no mystery
When you're in Conjunction Junction
Fun's your function
Picking up some knowledge
Rockin' 'round the clock
Accumulating power
Watching Schoolhouse Rock!
Hey, Chef, what's the special today?
The whole enchilada and a side of fun.
(music ends)
(bell rings)
(indistinct conversations)
Please, take your seats, and welcome
to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
You know, growing up in the '70s and '80s,
Saturday morning was all about sheer joy,
custom-made for kids.
It meant sitting in your PJs
with a bowl of your favorite cereal
and watching hours of cartoons.
Kids across the country were united
in the wondrous adventures
of crime-solving canines,
animated rock bands, and superheroes.
And, whether they knew it or not,
they were also learning something.
Tonight, we invite you
and your family to singalong
with some famous friends
as we relive fond memories,
you know, the moments
that shaped who we are,
with a tribute to the sensation
known as Schoolhouse Rock!
This groundbreaking series
of short cartoon musicals
was designed to make learning fun
and the lessons unforgettable.
-Hmm
-Hmm
-Ready, Pop?
-Yep.
-Ready, son? Let's go.
-Mm-hmm.
(funky music plays)
SEACREST: Maybe you were captivated
by these indelible, three-minute songs
and their old-school animation
from the beginning.
Maybe you caught them in reruns.
Or maybe you aren't sure how
your folks and their grownup friends
know the words to "Conjunction Junction,"
"I'm Just a Bill,"
and "Three Is a Magic Number."
By the time this hour is up,
you will know them, too.
So, whether you're
from the Class of 1973 or 2023,
gather the family, singalong,
and show everyone just how smart you are.
Up first, a journey
through our solar system,
at least the way the solar system looked
when Pluto was still considered a planet.
Here's our guide,
galaxy girl Julianne Hough,
with "Interplanet Janet."
(cheers and applause)
Oh, oh
Ooh, ooh
Whoo! Oh, my gosh!
These songs are, like, no joke to sing.
I'm so out of breath.
Especially when you're soaring
through the galaxy.
(dings)
SEACREST: We've got nouns,
interjections, verbs,
not to mention a very famous bill.
As you'll see, Jason Biggs
and his wife, Jenny Mollen,
took their roles very seriously.
This is great.
-I just don't get, like...
-Yeah.
...how you're the bill.
-Like I'm just the bill's friend?
-Oh, baby, not this again.
-I'm not even like--
-No, don't start this again, baby.
-No, but it's weird. Like, it's weird.
-It's too late.
I don't even have a name. I'm just Boy.
They made the costumes already, baby.
I'm sorry you're Boy,
but Boy is very, like, an iconic boy.
Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock!
for helping to educate the world.
I'm old enough to remember
when Schoolhouse Rock! started.
It was the best part of Saturday morning.
It made me love learning
about how bills were made
and how grammar works,
and it made me love the blues.
-(mouthing lyrics)
-Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
Welcome back to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
You know, considering the Top 40 hits
I've introduced over the years,
I never dreamed
I'd be hosting a show of songs
that touched so many lives
with so many different styles.
There was jazz, pop, folk,
funk, and country,
even this next song,
about the subject of a sentence,
by future Tony Award-winning
Broadway composer Lynn Ahrens.
So, when you're looking around for nouns,
who better to sing along with
than the stars from Disney on Broadway?
(cheers and applause)
Ah, that one takes me back.
As we celebrate Schoolhouse Rock!
we'd also like to honor teachers
and spotlight Donors Choose,
the leading platform
for giving to public schools.
On DonorsChoose.org,
teachers across America
create projects,
requesting resources for their students.
Donors can give to the projects
that inspire them,
helping give students the tools
they need for a great education.
So, go to DonorsChoose.org to learn how
you can help make
a teacher's dream come true.
Or, if you are a public school
teacher yourself,
learn how you can post
your classroom projects.
Disney's work with Donors Choose is part
of Disney Future Storytellers,
an initiative that empowers
the next generation.
And now sing along
with Kal Penn and Raven-Symon
as they extol the virtues
of interjections.
(cheers and applause)
(Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" plays)
(coughing)
(giggles)
Our 50th Anniversary celebration continues
with more singing and dancing,
right after this on ABC.
(cheers and applause)
Welcome back.
I hope you've been singing along
to these timeless songs
on our 50th Anniversary celebration.
I also hope you're ready for some action.
Years before Black Panther
hit the big screen,
this groundbreaking character
played a crucial role
in leading the dialog around education
and America's Black youth.
Sing along as Ne-Yo performs
"Verb: That's What's Happening."
(cheers and applause)
(snaps fingers)
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Yeah
Verb!
Verb!
Verb!
Verb!
Whoo!
Mmmmmmm
Hey
What?
What?
Oh!
-Yeah!
-Ha ha ha.
Whoo!
Hey
Verb
Verb
(cheers and applause)
(dings)
The premise of Schoolhouse Rock!
was so simple,
even the youngest family member
could understand it,
combine catchy tunes
with colorful animation
to communicate the fundamentals
of grammar, math, science,
civics, history,
and even economics.
This enduring concept was the brainchild
of late advertising executives
David McCall, Tom Yohe,
and George Newall,
who passed away in December 2022.
What an amazing gift
these brilliant men have given the world.
Here's more on the legacy
of Schoolhouse Rock!
Oh, when I think of Schoolhouse Rock!
I think of the greatest
musical entertainment invention made
for kids, especially for our generation.
It's Schoolhouse Rocky
That chip off the block
Of your favorite Schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock!
What? That's my whole freakin' childhood.
I put a dime in the drugstore
Record machine
Oldies, goldies started playing...
Schoolhouse Rock! was part
of my melodic education.
Some of the greatest songs,
some of the coolest songs,
and I actually learned
some stuff, I really did.
Conjunction Junction
What's your function?
The idea that there's a song
set to concepts and themes
and things that you need
to learn about in your classes
made learning fun and also kind of,
I think, reached kids whose learning style
was a little bit different.
It was how they were educating these kids
and how they were doing
these animations and these songs
to make learning interesting and cool.
Interjections!
You threw it the wrong way!
They understood that music is catchy
and these complicated things,
like interjections
or multiplication tables,
if you put some music to it,
people will rock out to it
and it just becomes a part of you.
Or by a comma
When the feeling's not as strong
And the lyrics are so freakin' powerful.
NE-YO: When I use my imagination
-Verb!
-I think, I plot
I plan, I dream
They really thought about, like,
how to inspire kids
at the highest level of sophistication,
but, at the same time,
the basic information
to go out and apply themselves
to the world.
NE-YO: To lo-o-o-o-ve
SEACREST: Prepare to sing along with
"Ready or Not, Here I Come,"
"Figure Eight,"
"Three Is a Magic Number," and more
when Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary
celebration continues right here on ABC.
(theme music plays)
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Welcome back to
our 50th Anniversary celebration
of Schoolhouse Rock!
So, what do amazing, incredible,
and hilarious have in common?
First, they're all adjectives.
They also describe our next guests
and this next song.
So, sing along with our talented,
another adjective, tenured professor
Ms. Fortune Feimster and The Muppets,
as they show you
how to unpack your adjectives.
(cheers and applause)
All right. Thank you, Sarah,
for that lovely show-and-tell.
Class, you're in for a treat.
We have two amazing guests here
to teach a very important lesson,
Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.
Fun fact, Fozzie and I
go to the same hairdresser.
All right, take it away.
Thank you, Ms. Fortune.
Whoa! (exclaims)
-(thud)
-(sighs)
(birds chirping)
Yeah, Kermit!
(chuckles)
(clatters!)
Oh!
All right.
(film projector whirring)
-(clatters)
-Ah!
Yeah.
(yelps)
Ugh.
(yelling)
-Whoa!
-Huh?
Boy, that was one big, ugly bear.
Hey!
-Aaaahh!
-Fozzie!
-(chuckles)
-FORTUNE: Fozzie!
(gasping)
(grunting)
(gasps)
Agh! He's un-bear-able.
Of all the unforgettable classics
of Schoolhouse Rock!
there have been more spoofs
of this next song
than any other.
It introduced the convoluted concept
how does a bill wind its way
through a legislative maze
to become a law?
That's a question many grownups
still wrestle with,
even some lawmakers.
I know you know this one, so singalong
as Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen
take the trek
up the steps of Capitol Hill
with "I'm Just a Bill."
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
(tapping)
(congressmen speaking indistinctly)
(Jenny sings)
(Jason sings)
(applause)
Yeah!
-All right. Nailed it, baby.
-Oh!
Can I try on the bill suit now?
No, I'm the bill.
It's no wonder
that's an educational classic.
And speaking of education,
as I mentioned earlier in the show,
tonight, we're spotlighting Donors Choose,
a platform where public school
teachers across America
create projects, requesting
resources for their students.
Donors can give to the projects
that inspire them.
Learn how you can support
the next generation
and make local teachers' dreams come true.
And if you're
a public school teacher yourself,
learn how you can post
your classroom projects
at DonorsChoose.org.
Some of the most remembered songs
are on the way right here,
along with Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert,
and the Black Eyed Peas
with the biggest hit of Schoolhouse Rock!
We're coming right back on ABC.
Welcome back
to Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong.
Okay, class, how do we get
to the number 50?
Well, if you remember
your multiplication tables,
you can try 10 times 5
or you can sing along
with this tongue twister.
Here's Retta with
"Ready or Not, Here I Come."
(cheers and applause)
RETTA: Now, everybody...
I!
(cheers and applause)
You know, it wouldn't be a singalong
without the spectacular creativity
of a very special friend of ours.
Let's give him a call.
Derek Hough, you, my friend,
have been setting the bar
for these singalongs for a long time.
What do you have in store for us tonight?
Well, Ryan, it's been such a great time
being a part of these singalongs,
and when I first heard
the song "Figure Eight,"
it really made me think
of doing something classic.
And I haven't done like
a proper ballroom dance in a long time,
so it was a perfect excuse to do that.
So, tonight, we're going be doing
a beautiful foxtrot
quickstep type of dance.
So, as we say in the dance world,
five, six, seven, figure eight.
You always deliver. Good to see you, pal.
Thanks, brother.
Reimagined for our anniversary special
by the super talented Derek Hough
and his fiance, Hayley Erbert,
here's "Figure Eight."
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Schoolhouse Rock!
50th Anniversary Singalong
will return on ABC.
Schoolhouse Rock!
I can still remember
all the lyrics to the songs.
One of my favorites was...
(sings)
I loved it because all kids love trains.
So, when the song took us
to the railroad yard,
with the little conductor in his cap,
hooking up the boxcars
with his three favorite words...
(reads)
...it all made sense.
It was fun and it was learning.
But it wasn't like school.
Or was it?
Happy 50th Anniversary, Schoolhouse Rock!
(snapping fingers)
We're gonna rock...
We're gonna rock, rock
Schoolhouse Rock!
Welcome back.
Schoolhouse Rock! began with a question.
If kids could repeat the lyrics
to a rock 'n' roll song
just by hearing it over and over,
why not set their schoolwork to music?
So when musical director Bob Dorough
combined the three times table
with a catchy song
and the creators added
colorful illustrations,
the result was pure magic.
This is the song that started it all.
With their unique take
on "Three Is a Magic Number"
from the very first episode
of Schoolhouse Rock!
here are Grammy
and American Music Award winners
Black Eyed Peas.
(cheers and applause)
(music starts)
Twelve
Twenty-one
We hope you've enjoyed
singing along with our stars
as we presented just a few
of the classics.
I'm sure they took you back
to a time when Saturday mornings
brought lessons that were as easy as ABC.
So, what have we learned?
Like the famous theme song says,
"Knowledge is power."
Until the next time
we sing along together,
class is dismissed.
(bell rings)
(theme music plays)
Yay! We're done! Are we done?
Schoolhouse Rock!
Don't... Are you joking right now?
No!
Schoolhouse Rock!
And stream next day on Disney+.
Dis knee, not dis knee.
Dis knee...
(laughter)
-Conjunction Junction
-Ooh! Hey!
-What's your function?
-(Jenny laughs)
A special mus--
(speaking gibberish)
(scatting)
Interplanet Janet
Whoo!
And... yeah.
That's it. Goodbye.
Agh!
-Yay!
-Yay!
(laughs)