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		redleggedfrog on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to ... 1966'er here, and watched myself a ton of Electric Company. I too ended up a life-long reader, and interestingly, ended up hardly watching any television past childhood. Anecdotal, but still...

petsormeat on Oct 26, 2021 [–]

1966 as well. I can still recall the Tom Lehrer bits about stuff like adverbs, and the go-go eco-groove about "-tion." Truly educational television.

dllthomas on Oct 26, 2021 | [–]

ICYMI, Lehrer recently(ish) put up most of his music effectively CC0, including a bunch of Electric Company songs: https://tomlehrersongs.com/index

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