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- Topics of Show 26 include the consonant B, the BR blend, and OW as in brown. In this show, Millie the Helper learns about the word "bottle", Mel Mounds and J. Arthur Crank cross paths, Broadway Bob treads the vaudeville stage, and Winnie sings "How is Howard". "Love of Chair" sees the boy taking a step and the last word is "barber".
- Today on The Electric Company, Junior gets some new sneakers. Marvelous mayhem with the letter M ensues as Morgan Freeman observes words ending with that particular letter (ham, him, rim, rum, and mum) on the basketball court, followed by an animation about the Magic MMM Machine, animated by Cliff Roberts and featuring voice work by Jim Thurman. J. Arthur Crank (Jimmy Boyd), meanwhile, is having a little trouble with his letters. He tries to show the audience the word "steal", but someone removes the S and L and inserts an S and E on the end. It's Spider-Man (Danny Seagren) trying to "tease" Crank! More EA words abound as Jimmy Boyd sings "I'm a Sneaker Freak", a sentimental ode to his old, worn-out shoes. He returns with Skip Hinnant and Luis Avalos to introduce the next topic, the SK consonant blend that can begin or end a word. Then, at Vi's Diner, Crank (Boyd) and Vi (Lee Chamberlin) have to help somebody who's lost and needs to find his way back to his street. If it's Not Skin Street, Skit Street, or Mask Avenue, where does he live? Would it help if I told you he's cute, furry, blue, and voiced by Frank Oz? Silent Sam (Avalos) gives a wordless introduction to the final topic: apostrophe S standing for the word "is", as in the words "that's" and "here's". Boyd and Avalos star in the final sketch, stranded in a rowboat and trying to conserve their energy by saying "he's" instead of "he is". Scanimate words include "magic", "ask", and "skunk". Tune in next time when the lady stands under a cloud.
- Where's a taxi when you need one? Lee Chamberlin finds out in the episode's opening sketch when she calls for a taxi but ends up getting Morgan Freeman wearing a hat bearing the word "taxi", and he ends up carrying her to her destination - on his back! "Did someone call for a taxi?" asks guest Carol Burnett. The letter T returns as Luis Avalos and Judy Graubart play a game of tic-tac-toe on the wall of their luxurious house... which is covered with tic-tac-toes. Next, Graubart visits Freeman at the lost-and-found to report a missing tot for one last review of the letter T. The next topic is the ending consonant blend FT, featured in the faux game show "I've Got a Secret Sound" in which a panel of four tries to guess the secret sound of Sarah Sanders from Soho (Graubart). Then it's on to the OA team as mother Moreno scolds son Jimmy Boyd for not putting on his coat... even though he's only going to take a shower. Freeman stars in one of his earliest Mad Scientist roles as he creates a "monsteer" (Boyd) that will "stire" the hearts of men and make blood "cure-dle". The monster has to correct him on the "er" sounds, giving viewers a reminder of the sounds of ER, IR, and UR. The ER sound pops up again in the word "slippery", which will hopefully save the Message Man from falling into a mop bucket! The Very Short Book of the day is Humpty Dumpty, who ends up getting turned into scrambled eggs by all the king's horses and men. After that, Crank (Boyd) complains, "I bought me a very short book and the pictures ain't moved even once!" Finally, Love of Chair sees the boy (Skip Hinnant) walk to the door and wind up hitting the wall. Tune in next time as Brenda tells Mark, "It was my fault".
- Today on The Electric Company, Sylvia will learn a lesson about sticks and stones. The ST blend starts off the show as Hattie Winston observes the words "sticks and stones" and recalls the old saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" This proves to be wrong as the words fall down and land on top of her! Luis Avalos also learns about the ST blend as he waits in the customs line at the airport. Will he be first at last? Hopefully Skip Hinnant will have better luck as he stops in at Morgan Freeman's store and asks for train paint, rain stain, and rail paint, all three of which contain the AI sound twice. Hopefully he has enough money for all of that! Then it's the Blue Beetle (Jimmy Boyd) to the rescue to restore rain to an old Western town, but the only person that gets wet is himself as he gets sweaty from all that rain dancing! AI pops up again in one of the series of Sign Song segments all about signs you find indoors, like "Push", "Private", and... "Wet Paint"! After that, it's over to the Very Short Book, and the story of the day is Tom Sawyer. Stephen Gustafson, playing the title role, paints his fence... on an easel. "I think I'll call it 'Fence'," he remarks. The last topic is the consonant Y, making the sound it does in the word "yes", which you'll find in the popular "Yes, My Sweet" animation. Near the end of the show, Judy Graubart gets tangled in yards and yards of yellow yarn. Well, wouldn't you if you had to knit a sweater for a giraffe? Scanimate words include "mist", "train", and "yell". Tune in next time when we'll read this: "Sherlock Holmes found a clue".
- Today on The Electric Company, Rudolph tells us he's "not good". The show starts off with The Used News, presenting silly news stories such as a snail moving out of his shell and into an apartment building. Then it's off to the letter G as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Clown (Luis Avalos) loses his big gray (and invisible) dog, Gray Guy. Fortunately, Skip Hinnant finds him. After G comes the GR consonant blend. Judy Graubart is positive her house is plagued by green gremlins (Hinnant and Jimmy Boyd), but they never show themselves until nobody's looking! The Short Circus then tells their favorite jokes onstage - Steven Gustafson takes his (suit)case to court, then comes back with a ladder so he can take it to a higher court. The vowel team OA is the next topic, heard in words like "float" and "soap". Bill Cosby reads a "Watch your hat and coat" sign, which waitress Rita Moreno informs him is there so he can make sure nobody will steal his hat and coat. They're safe... but someone steals the table! Then Morgan Freeman, Graubart, Hinnant, Hattie Winston, and Avalos sing a silly rendition of "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" in which words containing OA accumulate in the hole - a goat, a toad, a roast. Paul the Gorilla (Boyd) tries to join in, but unfortunately, there's no OA in "banana". The last topic is the ING suffix. Screaming and fleeing will definitely occur when Graubart meets the Wolfman (Boyd)! The very last segment features Letterman in The Corniest Concert, who sets things right when the Spellbinder turns Colonel Cobb's horn into corn! Tune in next time when Fargo will decode this label: "Pigs".
- The third episode of The Electric Company starts out with the short vowel U as Morgan Freeman and assistant Stephen Gustafson spell out three words containing a U in the middle - fun, bun, and but. Rita Moreno then chimes in with four more - bus, bug, tug, and tub, all four of which she writes on a bus stop sign. She later sings the song "Unbutton Your Heart", a lovelorn rock song filled with "un" words like "unkind" and "unzip". Skip Hinnant's character Norman Neat, Man on the Street makes his very first appearance (his first four, in fact!) interviewing passersby about their favorite words. Another first: John and Faith Hubley's cartoon "True Blue Sue" makes its debut to introduce the topic UE to the show. Freeman shows up with another UE word: "glue", in big white letters which he glues to the wall. But perhaps he was a little careless with the glue - he winds up with his hands stuck to his workbench! Next, Freeman and Hinnant don sweaters with letters and recite a short poem about the letters Q and U. The QU sound returns in a game show setting - Wild Guess, featuring announcer Ken Kane (Bill Cosby) and host Bess West (Rita Moreno). Following that is more of the letter U, albeit its long sound, found in words like "dude" and "cute". You'll hear plenty of those kinds of words in the song "An E on the End", which introduces The Electric Company to one of its most popular topics - Silent E. While Tom Lehrer's famous song doesn't show up in this episode, two other famous animations do - one sees the Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voiced by Mel Brooks) perform his "I am Cute Very" routine ("Who's the dummy writing this show?") and the other tells the story of a talking dog named Spot. Scanimate words include "pup" and "quake" and the last word is "quiet".
- This show starts off with the short vowel A as gloved hands spell words like "ran" and "fan". The short A sound returns (to share the stage with the CT blend and the hidden word "act") as Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman build a monster but find themselves in need of a fact book, a contact, and a reactor. Freeman works his magic on the TH blend and challenges an off-screen Rita Moreno to read the sentence "Thirty thirsty thinkers think through thick and thin". TH also starts the sight word of the day: "that". Mel Brooks' Blond-Haired Cartoon Man reads the sentence "That doesn't swing" but knocks the "that" with his hand, making it swing back and forth. "Perhaps I was wrong!" That's not all - next it's the ALL sound! Lee Chamberlin interviews baseball player Glue-Glove Smith (Freeman) during the All-Star Game, where the tall and the small play together. Next, Moreno plays one of her most famous characters - Otto the Director - bossing around her star actor Cosby, who can't seem to remember the line "All for one and one for all!" (Look out for Morgan Freeman laughing the fourth time he gets it wrong.) If there's one thing the Electric Company knows, it's that consonants can change the way a vowel sounds. The Short Circus demonstrates this in their "He Ho Hi" song, in which the titular three words become "hen", "hot", and "hit" with the application of an ending consonant. After that, it's right back to the A sound as Fargo North (Skip Hinnant) is visited by Pandora the Brat (Moreno), who needs help deciphering a coded message from her friend in which "candy" is replaced by "furpo". To close the show, Easy Reader (Freeman) reads sentences containing topics learned throughout the episode, with the help of his magic paper bag. The last word is "fall".
- Today on The Electric Company, Winnie says "lifted". It's all in the past as the past-tense suffix ED makes its way onto the show to turn "lift" into "lifted". Luis Avalos plays Pedro, the owner of Pedro's Plant Place puts it to good use in tending to his plants - plant ivy and it's planted, water it and it's watered. Silent Sam, another Avalos character, checks his mailbox for any letters, and he gets one - the letter Y! It's written on a very long piece of paper, along with words like "yet", "yawn", and "yield". Then Skip Hinnant and Morgan Freeman, as cowboys, call themselves yellow. "If you ain't too yellow, let's draw!" says Hinnant, at which they draw... with crayons! Yellow ones, of course. (The yellow birdie Skip Hinnant draws looks very familiar...) Avalos tells fellow patriot Jimmy Boyd a colonial joke: what was the favorite dessert back in 1776? The answer, of course, starts with a Y: Yankee Doodle Candy! Another thing that starts with Y is the word "you", which is the next topic of the episode, again yanked out of a mailbox by Silent Sam. Freeman and Boyd put that word to good use when waiter Boyd accidentally drops Freeman's meal. "Why, you... you... you!" Next, Bill Cosby appears on both sides of the screen in a setting reminiscent of a Grant Wood painting to sing "I Like You", a song teaching the uses of the words "you" and "like". To teach the last topic of the show, Rita Moreno and her silent assistant Avalos, the latter of who has an E on his chest, visit J. Arthur Crank to check out his paintings of the words "cub", "tub", and "cut". Of course, the addition of an E on the end turns them into three different words! Scanimate words are "yell", "you", and the sentence, "Peekaboo! I see you!" Tune in next time when the nobleman says "hop".
- Today on The Electric Company, the nobleman says "hop". The first topic of the show is the short sound of the letter O, as found in words such as "hop" and "flop"... not to mention lots of other words ending in -op, as you'll see in the Silhouette Blends segment of the day. Shortly after that, Luis Avalos plays a travelling mop salesman who's shocked to find out he's stopped in at a house where everyone has mop-like hair! Skip Hinnant sings "Slop the Hogs", demonstrating a phrase with two short O sounds, after which the animated Message Man stumbles upon a "beware of dog" sign. Next, Bill Cosby plays an astronaut who spills spinach on his spacesuit in a sketch with many words starting with the SP blend to spot. Speaking of SP, is it possible to eat spaghetti with a spoon? Sing along with Avalos and you might find out. Lovers of double consonants will love the "This Lollipop is Following Me" animated song, and they might also want to look out for a LL and a DD when Morgan Freeman and Jimmy Boyd believe they might have spotted the ghostly Galloping Saddle. The last topic is a good word to add to your vocabulary: "danger". That's what Rita Moreno and Judy Graubart believe they're in when they walk through a haunted house. Towards the end of the episode, Hattie Winston tells the story of Gunga Din (Avalos) who finds himself surrounded by the word "danger" on all sides! How will he make it through? Scanimate words include "hop", "sparks", and "bubbles". Tune in next time when Jennifer says "toast".
- Today on The Electric Company, the workman has fun. First on the menu is the vowel Y making the long E sound. Bricklayer Luis Avalos is overwhelmed by the heavy cement blocks he needs to construct a wall, so he substitutes alphabet blocks instead - and has a funny, sunny time spelling words ending with Y! Next, Skip Hinnant, backed by Jimmy Boyd and Morgan Freeman, croons "Randy, Randy". After the song, Randy herself (June Angela) smiles, "Ain't life beautiful?" Pandora the Brat (Rita Moreno) is hungry (another Y word!) for a snack, despite warnings that it will give her bad dreams... until a ghost (Avalos) shows up to give her just that! Luckily, he's hungry for a cookie too. Look out for two colorful animations dedicated to the words "happy" and "funny". Next comes the LY suffix. Moreno runs the Crazy Elevator, which closes its doors to reveal a word and a "ly" to describe how the passengers will leave - slowly, quickly, sadly, and sweetly. "I gotta quit," she remarks at the end of the ride. "This job is just too emotionally exhausting!" Third is the sight word "stop", but actress Judy Graubart can't remember that word and instead asks, "Is this the bus... station?" The Short Circus, caught up in a red octagon, sing "Stop!" "I'm gonna stop waiting for your call, I'm gonna stop giving you my all..." The last topic is end punctuation. June Angela, perusing books in the library, decides that a book with a period on the cover is dull and asks herself whether she should check out the question-mark book, but settles on a big brown-backed book adorned with an exclamation point! Scanimate words include "shiny" and "lovely". Tune in next time when Samantha points to the wall.
- Today on The Electric Company, JJ says, "hot". Topics of Show 110 include the consonant H, the PR, blend, and OW as in down. In this episode, Spidey meets the Prankster, Pandora sings "Hooray for Hate", and JJ is trapped in a creepy old house in a three-part sketch. Tune in next time when the caveman plays with his club.
