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Series · ABC · 1973

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Schoolhouse Rock!

60Watch it awake.

Keep the three-minute civic songs and do not bother defending the rest.

The review

About three minutes, slipped in between the Saturday cartoons, built so a child would remember. Grammar, multiplication, a little science, a bill on its way to becoming a law, the preamble set to a tune. It is a screen, and a short one, and it was trying to teach rather than trying to hold the chair.

The civic songs are the best of the lot. A child who can sing the preamble has been given something the cartoons were not going to offer. The ditty is not the document. It is a door toward it. Play the song about the bill, then show where a law actually goes, and count it a success if the question outlasts the cartoon that comes next.

Journal

Keep Schoolhouse Rock! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Berenstain Bears

71 instead of 60

The Berenstain Bears is still a children show, and it scores 71 instead of 60. What you gain is household: The tree house is the world.

The eight

6
Industry
The songs take up grammar, numbers, and a bill doing the work of becoming a law.
2
Household
No family is on screen; the child being taught is sitting in your room.
4
Piety
The civic songs hand a child a public promise older than the cartoon break.
3
Courage
The bravest figure on offer is a bill that has to survive the long path into law.
9
Republic
The preamble is set to music, and a bill's path is taught as every citizen's business.
8
Temperance
Three minutes and it stops, so it will not train a child to sit and want more.
8
Truth
It tries to fix the real preamble and the real path of a bill in a child's memory.
8
Stewardship
A child is left words of self-government the cartoons were never going to give.

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Series · CBS · 1971

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All in the Family

60Watch it awake.

Don't laugh with Archie just because the chair looks familiar and Edith stayed.

The review

Archie works a loading dock, takes his chair, and says the neighborhood's prejudices out loud. Edith stays. Their daughter and her husband live under that roof and argue with him, so the rooms are full of people who can answer. The show wanted you to hear the ugly line and disagree with the man saying it.

Plenty of the country agreed with him instead. The laugh is the risk, and on a lot of weeks the laugh won. You can still see a working marriage and a crowded house, which is more than most comedies of the time bothered to build. The chuckle is not a verdict, even when the room treats it like one.

Journal

Keep All in the Family in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Andy Griffith Show

73 instead of 60

The Andy Griffith Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is temperance: Appetite is not the engine.