Thursday, May 15, 2008

It's Electric (boogie woogie woogie woogie)

So the word on the street is that PBS is reviving The Electric Company, which was pretty much the greatest television show of all time.
And the new one will be more plot-driven, and it presumably won't have Morgan Freeman or Joan Rivers or Bill Cosby or or Tom Lehrer or Rita Moreno (oh, wait! cameo by Rita Moreno! excellent), and maybe it will suck.
But also, maybe it won't.
And also, I will take any excuse to watch old bits from the old Electric Company and share them with you.
Here:

And here (special for my newly-married sister):

And here:

And one more, with some actual celebrities in it (did you catch Morgan Freeman as the voiceover in "Hot Shot," though?):

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