Another (fairly) early to bed, early to rise morning. I think that I am liking this.

A few weeks (?) ago, I was talking about the Schoolhouse Rock! series of edu-toons. I mentioned how neatly packaged the educational information was with catchy tunes; I’m willing to bet that most of you can recite (parts of) “Conjunction Junction” or “The Preamble” or “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly (Get Your Adverbs Here).”

I’ve mentioned before, I like cartoons. No big surprise there. One that I used to watch regularly was Animaniacs. I was listening to my Animaniacs CDs the other day and I realized that the music writing staff at Warner Brothers is (was) equally talented. And they had a much more twisted sense of humor… but, they had a little more “free reign” when it came to irreverence than their SHR! counterparts. Some of the more interesting selections are:

  • Yakko’s World, which lists all of the countries of the world (imagine that), with the notable exception of South Africa;
  • Wakko’s America, which names the states and their capitals;
  • Dot’s Song, a parody of the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme;
  • I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual, a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General;”
  • And three of my personal favorites:
    • The Monkey Song
    • Yakko’s Universe: “It’s a great big universe, and we’re all really puny, we’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney…”
    • I’m Mad – You have to appreciate a song that has the lines: Are we there yet? I’m tired. I’m hungry. How far? My nose is snotty, need to move my body, gotta use the potty, better stop the car.

If you get a chance to find these songs (or CDs), get ’em! They’re entertaining… and even educational, in a couple of cases.

Well, that’s it for now. I think that I’ll go read for a bit before work.

Peace.