Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of fifty-two educational short films featuring songs about schoolhouse topics, including grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. Originally conceived by Thomas G. Yohe in 1972, the shorts were broadcast on the ABC television network between 1973 and 1986. They were then broadcast infrequently during the 1990s and 2000s with new shows created between 1993 and 1996.
For much of its run, Schoolhouse Rock! was played during commercial breaks at the top and bottom of the hour in which The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, a collection of Looney Tunes shorts, aired.
ABC has since dropped Schoolhouse Rock! from their Saturday morning lineup.
An additional short, I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College, was created for the 30th anniversary video release.
Often viewed with nostalgia by members of Generation X, Schoolhouse Rock! has become part of American popular culture.
The word "rock" is something of a misnomer, as only a few of the songs are in rock format (e.g., "Elementary, My Dear" and the progressive rock-like "Little Twelvetoes"), and the rest are either jazz (e.g., "I'm Just a Bill," "Naughty Number Nine," "Figure Eight") or are straight pop songs (e.g., "A Noun Is a Person, Place, or Thing," "Interjections!," "No More Kings").
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