02/01/2023
In an era when Saturday morning TV was dominated by cereal ads and “wall-to-wall monster cartoons,” in the words of Action for Children’s Television’s founder, the three-minute “Schoolhouse Rock” educational cartoons provided a welcome respite to parents.
A half-century later, it’s their kids — now middle-aged Generation Xers — who treasure the memories of such classics as “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!”
The series, which ran until the mid-1980s and was revived in the 1990s, won four Emmy Awards.
Disney, the parent company of ABC, announced this month that ABC will air a “Schoolhouse Rock” 50th-anniversary singalong on Feb. 1, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and featuring Black Eyed Peas, Kal Penn and Shaquille O’Neal. https://wapo.st/40hy7H1