The BEST episodes of Schoolhouse Rock!
Every episode of Schoolhouse Rock! ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Schoolhouse Rock!!
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series produced original episodes between 1973 and 1986 (with 37 episodes created between 1973 and 1980, and four created as the "Computer Rock" segment between 1983 and 1984), with a return in 1993 and new episodes airing at least once a year between then and 1996, when production of the series for ABC was halted. Episodes continued to air for an additional five years after that, finally coming to an end after a 26-year run cancellation in 1999 by ABC. This television program was often rated TV-G in the United States.
#1 - Ready or Not, Here I Come
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1973
The Counting Guy, who's "It" in a game of Hide 'n Seek, teaches the kids trying to hide, how to count by 5's.
#2 - The Great American Melting Pot
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/1/1976
People from all over the world immigrated to America.
#3 - Unpack Your Adjectives
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/2/1974
A young girl and her turtle friend go camping in the forest, using adjectives to describe people, places and things they encounter.
#4 - Interjections!
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/1974
Reginald, Geraldine, and Franklin show us the power of interjections. "Darn, that's the end."
#5 - I'm Just a Bill
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/27/1976
Bill takes us through the process of how a bill becomes a law.
#6 - The Preamble
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1975
The opening to the United States Constitution, set to music.
#8 - Three is a Magic Number
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/6/1973
A magician shows how magic the multiplication of 3 really is.
#9 - Little Twelvetoes
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/1973
A friendly alien visits a country boy and teaches him about the multiplication of 12, and the still-uncommon duodecimal system.
#10 - The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1975
The story of the American Revolution.
#11 - Mother Necessity
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/10/1976
Necessity is often the inspiration for new inventions.
#12 - Verb: That's What's Happenin'
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1973
A young boy learns about verbs from a movie starring his favorite superhero.
#13 - Naughty Number Nine
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/1973
Learn about the multiplication of 9 during a cat-and-mouse version of billiards featuring a large anthropomorphic feline pool hustler.
#14 - Elbow Room
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/22/1976
The story of Westward Expansion, moving south and west from the 13 original colonies.
#15 - Electricity, Electricity
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/1979
Learn how electricity is created and what it is used for.
#16 - No More Kings
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1975
Colonization of the New World by Pilgrims, and their desire for a new government without kings.
#17 - A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1973
A young girl teaches us about nouns.
#18 - Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/1976
Learn the tricks of how to save your breath while talking about nouns with long names.
#19 - The Four-Legged Zoo
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/1973
A teacher takes her class on a field trip to the zoo, where they use the animals to learn the multiplication of 4.
#20 - Three-Ring Government
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/1979
Learn about the three branches of US government: Judicial, Legislative and Executive, and how they all work together to contribute to America.
#21 - The Tale of Mr. Morton
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/11/1993
The story of a shy man trying to win the affections of a woman named Pearl.
#22 - The Good Eleven
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/24/1973
Winged angels take us through the multiplication of 11 while continuously bumping into the number 10.
#23 - The Check's in the Mail
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1996
Learn about using checks instead of cash.
#24 - Report from the North Pole
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2009
This song teaches about global warming.
#25 - Conjunction Junction
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/1973
A train yard engineer helps us understand conjunctions.