Episode Summaries
The letters "EKA" on this page denote the "earliest known appearance" of a segment repeated in the series.
- Hello!
- Gob/gab shoes
- Giggles/goggles - "Giggles/goggles"
- Fargo North - "Gus, go get gas. Gert"
- Cartoon - "Get it together"
- The cast demonstrate two sounds of "g"
- Two sounds of "g" (cont'd)
- Two sounds of "g" song/phone call from Crank
- Gladys the glow worm
- Monolith - "oo"
- Cartoon - "Boom/bloom"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting...The boy is getting sick of sitting"
- Cartoon - "I am going over there"
- Short Circus - "Punctuation"
- Cartoon - Parrot and the plumber
- Theater in the Dark - "And Leave the Driving to Gus"
- Easy Reader (next to Stanley the word board)
Last word: "Garbage"
- Hank shaving cream: lot/let/lit/lip/lap
- Lorelei and Carmela sing "You need an L"
- "Yell" word animation (red on white)
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - Top 3 chart/"Jelly Belly"
- "Yell/yellow" word animation
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Bob is tall"
- Here's Cooking at You - Julia Grownup prepares grilled
dill pickles with chilled vanilla filling
- Bill Cosby sings "Hello Dilly" and cracks up
- "pl" letter animation (blue on white)
- J.J. writes sign "Please Play Plenty"
- "pl" letter animation (blue on gray)
- Vaudeville - Pandora and Skip "The Platter of Plums"
- Hank in white mist: "light"
- Cartoon - Man in dark "night/light/bright"
- Vi's Diner - Zachary complains about the food; Easy reads
soda bottles and a poster
- "Delightful" word animation
- Rita cake judging "light/lighter/lightest"
- Winnie judges wigs "light/lighter/lightest"
- Cartoon - "Harry works high in the sky"
- Mr. Klein's Sign Shop - Lorelei minds the store/Hank's
"l" riddles
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting...The boy is watching..."
- Stanley the word board - The Short Circus teaches
Carmela the "Jelly Belly"
Last word: "Love"
Cold open: Mop/pop/cop/stop skit
- Rita Moreno watches floating letters form "mop", "pop", and "cop"
- Fast stop-motion sign: STOP
- Bill Cosby and two kids pick out missing "st" in words
- Slow reader cartoon - "Step back!"
- "Stout/out" word animation
- Cartoon - Diva sings "cloud"/"proud"/"loud"
- "Ou" cheerleaders "What about a loud shout!"
- Marching band forms "Ouch"
- Brenda tells J.J. "no"
- Short Circus with Rita Moreno - "An 'E' on the end" ("not/note" version)
- Cartoon - Bathroom rob/robe
- Winnie explains to Crank silent 'e' for rob/robe
- Brenda's "ing" song (sitting on top of a bee)
- Love of Chair - "...The boy is patting the dog...The dog
is sitting"
- Rita: I'm sitting on top of a cop!
- Stanley the word board - Easy and Brenda read sentences and a dollar
- Crank calls Winnie again about silent 'e' (cont'd)
- Cartoon - "Sam sees the monster and conquers it."
- "Conquers" word animation
- Lorelei and Hank unscramble "Meet the wolf man" message
- News of the Day: Report on the mop/pop/cop/stop story
- Street sign song (..."Home sweet home")
- Mop/pop/cop/stop cast: Sign Song Parody (...Mop Sweet Mop)
Last word: "Stumble"
This Friday episode is not followed by a full-length credit scroll.
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out some segments for time.
- Gloved hands: sad/fad/fan/ran/can/candy
- Mad scientist (Cosby) and assistant (Freeman) need "contact" and "reactor"
- Magician gets Carmela to read "Thirty thirsty thinkers think
through thick and thin."
- Winnie and Carmela in haunted house find "that"
- Mel Brooks cartoon: "That doesn't swing"
- Monolith - "all"
- Brenda interviews outfielder trying to catch fly balls
- The Director - "All for one and one for all"
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Bob is tall" (EKA 2)
- Bill Cosby and two kids pick out missing letters in words
(we't', me'n', me't')
- Short Circus - "He Ho Hi"
- Love of Chair - "...The boy is sitting up...The boy is
sitting tight..."
- Fargo North - Pandora and "Sending you furpo/candy"
- Stanley the word board - Easy records his voice in a
magic paper bag
- Cartoon - "Harry works high in the sky" (EKA 2)
- Street sign song (..."Home sweet home") (EKA 5)
- Sign Song Parody (...Here's your hat. Goodbye!)
Last word: "Fall"
Cold open: "Cotton candy can cause cavities"
- Bill Cosby types a letter
- Silhouettes - "c/an/can"
- "Caterpillar" word animation
- The cast demonstrate two sounds of "c"
- Two sounds of "c" (cont'd)
- "Cincinnati" word animation
- "Puerto Rico" word animation
- Two sounds of "c" song
- Cartoon - "Clip"
- Monolith - "ow"
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "I'm Just a Clown Who's Feelin' Down"
- Slow reader cartoon - "Duck!"
- Giggles/goggles - "Duck/dick"
- Giggles/goggles (cont'd)
- "Crackerjack" word animation
- Short Circus with Rita Moreno - "An 'E' on the end" (alternate "cut/cute" version)
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "I am cute"
- Facial emotions
- Vi's Diner - "Unday" song
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting...The girl is sitting"
- Santa Claus
- Lorelei - "Clarence, Clarence"
- Phone call from Crank
Last word: "Crackpot"
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
- Word timeclock
- Cartoon - "Hot," with a man panting in the desert
- A typewriter types out "-op" and "-ob" words while Skip Hinnant sits on it
- The Florist: Looming Violets
- Skip Hinnant runs around the block
- Cartoon - "Blow"
- "Blow/show" word animation
- "Shoo Shoo Sunshine" song
- Cartoon - "Sh/sheet"
- Cartoon - "Rob/robe" (EKA 5)
- Short Circus - "An 'E' on the end" (EKA 5; "note/not" version)
- Cartoon - Sprayman turns a glob into a globe
- Bob is a fink
- Cartoon - "Once upon a time, there was a dog"
- Jolly Roger's scrambled treasure message
- Wild Guess! game show - Cinderella answers the question of "Who wears a glass slipper?"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting...The pants are splitting"
- Easy Reader's birthday party
Last word: "Hot"
- Camel names passing behind wall on humps
- Camel seller sings the names of all the camels
- Story of "a bump on the hump of a camel named Gump"
- Cast recites the same story of Gump
- Brenda adds "Sm" on theater marquis ("Smiling Smith...") and
Carmela reads it
- Cartoon - Diva sings "cloud"/"proud"/"loud" (EKA 5)
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Found Hound"
- The Director - This road goes "on" and "on"
- Pet store - "Pet the Pet King" and "Cute Rat Pets"
- Cartoon - bird "pet/pete"
- Hank and the Short Circus sing the combining words game
- Winnie's popcorn eaten by the cast and J.J. gets none
- Winnie's popcorn passed by the cast to J.J. (cont'd)
- Carmela and Lorelei play the "Scrambled Sayings Game"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is rising...The boy is falling..."
Last word: "Elephant"
- Max the giant arranges the words "tan," "tap," "top," and "tot"
- Missing "tot"
- "Together" word animation
- Cartoon - "Get it together" (EKA 1)
- "Top/Pot"
- Top hat/Pot top
- Cartoon - An alligator spells out "Trip" with his machine
- Talking Tessie doll
- Cartoon - "True Blue Sue"
- Shadows moving across the bedroom wall
- Sh- darkened chalkboard segment
- "Barley Farmer's Bar" song
- Hark, hark, the dogs do bark
- Street sign song (..."Home sweet home") (EKA 5)
- Fat/thin animation
- "I'm in Love with a Giant" song
- Big/little animation
- Little green men cartoon - "I will not!/Yes you will!"
- Box of chocolates
- Robots animation - "It is a bird"
- Theater in the Dark - "No Can Do"
- Fargo North - "Help, I am stuck on an island"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting...Watch him stop"
Last word: "Time"
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out some segments for time.
- Carmela sings "The Sound of 'i'" (rip/zip/pip)
- Bookcase: did/dim/him/hit/fit/exit
- Big/little animation (EKA 14)
- Giggles/goggles - "Duck/dick" (EKA 10)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Duck!" (EKA 10)
- Giggles/goggles (cont'd) (EKA 10)
- Cartoon - Is this phil on the phone?
- Cartoon - Frankie sings "fall"/"wall"/"call"
- Brenda meets "Humpty Ferguson" the egg sitting on the wall
- Monolith - "alk"
- Humpty has fallen off the wall and tries to walk (cont'd)
- Two Cosbys sing "I Like You"
- Rita sings "I Like You" to her baby
- Mike the Word Repairman visits Vi's Diner to change "super" to "supper"
- Cartoon - "He is/was jumping"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is going to stand...But first,
he's going to sit."
- Millie the Helper - Milkman: Leave one b-- of milk
- Cartoon - Once upon a time, there was a dog" (EKA 12)
Last word: "Dim"
- "d/e/n" card game
- Cartoon - "My Bed"
- "Dig" doghouse
- Eye doctor "Dib dab dub"
- Cartoon - "Beld/bend"
- Lend a Hand
- Dribble Cola ad campaign
- Bill Cosby - Chop/chip split-screen
- Short Circus - "We Love Chow"
- Cartoon - "ch" at the beginning, end, and middle of words
- Silhouettes - "ch/at/chat"
- Monolith - "alk" (EKA 19)
- The mystical secrets of life
- "The hardest thing about learning to rollerskate" joke
- Short Circus - "He Ho Hi" (EKA 9)
- Charlie Chuckles, Theatrical Agent with Georgie the Giant
- Cartoon - "Harry works high in the sky" (EKA 2)
- Fargo North - "Hi ho Silver" with the Lone Ranger
- Love of Chair - "The boy is standing...Must be some misunderstanding"
Last word: "Champ"
- "g" letter animation (EKA 1)
- Gob/gab shoes (EKA 1)
- Giggles/goggles - "Giggles/goggles" (EKA 1)
- "Together" word animation (EKA 14)
- Fargo North - "Gus, go get gas. Gert" (EKA 1)
- Gladys the glow worm (EKA 1)
- "Groovy" word animation (EKA 1)
- Stanley the word board - Bill Cosby and three kids read
"ow" riddles
- J.J. gets Mark to play Simon Says (and Mark "grows")
- Cartoon - "Blow" (EKA 12)
- To give/to receive/to give back... (passing "to" back and forth)
- Cartoon - Sprayman turns a glob into a globe (EKA 12)
- Short Circus - "An 'E' on the end" (EKA 5;
"note/not" version)
- Cartoon - not/note/no
- Here's Cooking at You - Julia Grownup prepares fruit
salad with grape(s), raisin(s) and apple(s)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Go away!"
- Carmela and Lorelei play the "Scrambled Sayings Game"
(EKA 13)
- Cartoon - "I am going over there" (EKA 1)
- Love of Chair - "...The boy's feet are tired...The boy is
on his foot."
- Theater in the Dark - "And Leave the Driving to Gus"
(EKA 1)
Last word: "Gong"
- Cartoon - "I'm a busy bee"
- Cartoon - "Buzz"
- B-word role acting
- Milkman: Leave one b-- of milk (EKA 19)
- "Bottle" word animation (EKA 19)
- Lorelei (off-screen) - Bat, bag, bow, bowl, bone, box, Bob
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Bob is tall" (EKA 2)
- Bob is a fink (EKA 12)
- "Broadway Bob" song
- Giggles/goggles - "Rover/robber"
- Mel Mounds calls up Crank by mistake/"Brown Bread" song
- Monolith - "ow" (EKA 10)
- "How is Howard" song
- Cartoon - "Prince Charming"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is standing...No, he is taking the left step"
Last word: "Barber"
- Carmela in white mist: dig/pig/wig/big
- Big/little animation (EKA 14)
- Magician (Morgan) and Buddy: bin/wit/win
- Pin/spin animation
- J.J. and initialed handkerchiefs: spin/brim/drip
- Shadows moving across the bedroom wall (sh) (EKA 14)
- Cartoon - Man carves a "sh"
- Theater marquis - "Sheldon shouldn't shave sharks."
- Cartoon - "Sh/sheet"
- Cartoon - Radio dedication "for"
- Judy buys a pie "for" Skip from Rita and hits her with it
- Short Circus with Judy - "An E on the End" (win/wine)
- Crank calls up Hank about win/wine
- Cartoon - Father buys son a kite/kit
- Mr. Klein's Sign Shop - "The doctor isn't in."
- Robots animation - "It is a bird" (EKA 14)
- Fargo North - "Pay your electric bill."
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "I can't swim"
- Winnie in white mist - "I am happy"
- Carmela, Winnie and Brenda encounter "Free candy. Take two. One
is not enough."
- Cartoon - "Prince Charming" (EKA 26)
- Love of Chair - "The boy is missing...See the chair there..."
- Stanley the word board - Brenda and Easy "For you."..."I
can't."
Last word: "Shake"
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
- Lorelei: hero/hose/hammer/helmet/him
- Film: Rita buys "Heros"
- Norman Neat: favorite word is Hat
- Hank's cakes: it/hit/him/ham/Hank
- Film: Rita buys "Hot dogs"
- Short Circus - "He Ho Hi" (EKA 9)
- Wanted by Scotland Yard, Bernard "The Bodyguard" Gerard
- Winnie talks about the "rd" sound and Crank calls
- Norman Neat: favorite word is Third
- Monolith - "ow" (EKA 10)
- "How" adorable (Cosby as baby)
- Norman Neat - favorite word is Sound
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Found Hound" (EKA
13)
- Cartoon - "House"
- Cartoon - "Harry works high in the sky" (EKA 2)
- Cosby tries to buy a soft/softer/softest ball
- Fargo North - "Help, I am stuck on an island"
(EKA 14)
- Cartoon - "Happy Birthday, Miss Jones! You sure got nice bones!"
- Love of Chair - "...The boy is missing...Where is the
boy?...The boy is sitting."
Last word: "Clown"
- Jack-in-the boxes kid/kit/kin/skin
- Cartoon: Interview with an "elk"
- Giggles/goggles - "Duck/dick" (EKA 10)
- Slow reader cartoon - Duck! (EKA
10)
- Giggles/goggles (cont'd) (EKA 10)
- "Crackerjack" word animation (EKA
10)
- Slow reader cartoon - Step back! (EKA 5)
- Theater in the Dark - "Back to Back with Jack and Mack"
- J.J. shops in the "Mask Department"
- Cartoon - The skull is connected to the skeleton
- Cartoon - Painting the word "paint"
- Mad scientist (Cosby) and assistant (Freeman): Where is the brain?
- Slow reader cartoon - "Go away!" (EKA 23)
- Vaudeville - Pandora and Skip "Elaine and the Train"
- Winnie and "Elaine in Maine"
- J.J. reads "Love of Chair"
- Cartoon - Lion is king of all the beasts
- Short Circus with Judy - "An E on the End" (win/wine)
(EKA 36)
- Cartoon - Father buys son a kite/kit (EKA 36)
- Bill Cosby uncap/uncork split-screen
- Kids narrate Joe packing/unpacking
- Stanley the word board - "wires. my uncross Please"
- Cartoon - Once upon a time, there was a dog" (EKA 12)
- Cartoon - Onomatopoeic sounds (beep, ring,...)
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting quietly...He has had
a lot of practice."
Last word: "Skeleton"
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
- Vaudeville - Hats hum/hop/hit/hen/hat
- Film: Rita buys "Hot dogs" (EKA 37)
- Morgan the artist completes "Hot dog" with mustard
- Vaudeville - "Hold on There"
- Hark, hark, the dogs do bark (EKA 14)
- Short Circus - "Hard Hard Hard"
- Cartoon - Faucet writer interview
- The cast takes hats "off"
- Morgan and Skip as two rabbits, "hope" to "hop"
- Brenda's "ing" song (sitting on top of a bee) (EKA 5)
- Lorelei tells Winnie about -ing words for a party
- Film: "HOTEL" sign
- Millie the Helper - Milkman: Leave one b-- of milk
(EKA 19)
- Love of Chair - "...The boy is sleeping on the chair...He
is sleeping fair."
- Film: Rita buys "Heros" (EKA 37)
Last word: "Holding"
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
Cold open: Don't forget your yo-yo
- Haunted House - A disembodied hand spells out "yes," "yet," "yell," and "you"
- J.J. sings "You"
- Morgan interviews the Yo-Yo Contest champ
- Wild Guess! game show - Miss O'Day from L.A. doesn't guess "fly"
- "Fly/flow" word animation
- Carmela comments on J.J.'s list of "-ow" words and throws snow.
- Jennifer of the Jungle - teaches Paul kit/pip/rip & silent e
- Short Circus trying to meet Rock Swagger - "It is!"
- Cartoon - This is/isn't Fred/Jules
- Slow reader cartoon - "Do not enter"
- Millie the Helper - Mixed up list "Walk/Water/Pick up"
- Cartoon - "Hi, I'm a fly"
- Stanley the word board - "Try me later" and Easy's shirt
- Love of Chair - "Will he be found asleep?...No, he will be
lost asleep."
Last word: "Snow"
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
- Submarines - wet/yes/ten/dent
- Bookcase - elf/elk/else/elbow/elephant
- Cartoon: Interview with an "elk" (EKA 40)
- Clumsy the Clown's dressing room
- "Clever" word animation (EKA 10; different
music)
- Clyde the Villain - Clarissa the Spy will "never" give him the plans
- Cartoon - Parrot and the plumber (EKA 1)
- Clyde the Villain - She'll lose her "nerve"
- Vaudeville - A Fish Story (dinner/diner)
- Clyde the Villain - Going to sing & the hot/cold game
- Marching band "to" (EKA 23)
- Clyde the Villain - Clyde reads "How 'To' Make A Spy Talk"
- Winnie reads "I am going" with punctuation
- Christopher Columbus begs the Queen he won't fall off the "edge"
- Clyde the Villain - Clyde cries, he unties Clarissa, and she escapes
- Love of Chair - "The boy is sleeping...He is opening one
eye...The boy is half awake."
Last word: "Escaped"
- Bill Cosby writes "l" words on a mirror with shaving cream
- Max the giant arranges the words "pal," "gal," "lag," "leg," "let," and "belt"
- Cartoon - An alligator spells out "Melt" with his machine
- Animation - An acrobat wearing a kilt
- Interview with Milt the Stilt
- Monolith - "all" (EKA 9)
- The Director - "All for one and one for all" (EKA 9)
- "All/tall" word animation
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Bob is tall" (EKA 2)
- Fargo North - "Watch out for falling rocks"
- "Fall/fell" word animation
- Short Circus - "Jelly Belly" (EKA 2)
- "Jelly belly" word animation
- Here's Cooking at You - Julia Grownup prepares grilled dill pickles with chilled vanilla filling (EKA 2)
- "Silly" word animation (EKA 2)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Pull string and you'll be sorry"
- "Flibble" word animation (EKA 26; different music)
- Short Circus - "You Can Make Up a Word"
- Phone call from Crank
- Love of Chair - "The boy has opened one eye...What a surprise!"
Last word: "Tilt"
- Vaudeville - "T for me"
- Mel Brooks cartoon - t and tt words
- Max the giant arranges the words "tan," "tap," "top," and "tot"
(EKA 14)
- "Tot" word animation (EKA 14)
- Cartoon - test/best/pest
- Carmela draws a "STOP" sign
- J.J. puts up a "star"
- Mark hatches in a "nest"
- Brenda reads "west"
- "Star" word animation (white on gray)
- Slip of the Lip game show - Meter reader from Peoria - "ar"
- "ar/car" word animation (EKA 14)
- Vaudeville - "Barley Farmer's Bar" song (EKA 14)
- "Bottle" word animation (EKA 19)
- Roll call for "cutter" and "cuter" (with Jim Boyd cameo!)
- Vi's Diner - Vi and Iris sing "Don't"
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "I can't swim." (EKA 36)
- Fargo North - Harry and "Don't forget your lunch."
- Jim picks a friend up at the airport who has lost a lot of weight
- Cartoon - "I heard a bird"
- Love of Chair - "...He is climbing on the chair...Because
it's there."
Last word: "Don't"
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
- Bricklayer
- Cartoon - "Golly, This Lollipop is Following Me"
- Don't litter
- "Lip/flip" word animation
- "Float" in the kitchen sink
- Bill Cosby makes a flag
- Flip/flop
- Lorelei - "A Flashy Young Florist Named Flo"
- Arnold and Alice at the beach
- Cartoon - "ee/ea"
- The word fight (boxing)
- Phone call from Crank
- Letter Remover
- It's real
- "Slowly/quickly" advertising signs
- Cartoon - "Hi, I'm a fly" (EKA 65)
- Fargo North - "Fly your frog to London"
- Theater in the Dark - "The Bitter Lollipop"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is thinking...He also has a good chair on his head"
Last word: "Flower"
- Winnie reads valentine/vest/glove/television
- Lorelei reads vet/vat/van
- Magician in hat vanishes "vanish"
- Winnie borrows "vanishing cream"
- Haunted House - A disembodied hand spells out "very," "visit,"
"velvet" and "vampire"
- Cast reads V poem in a giant V
- Lorelei and Carmela - vacuum cleaner
- Mel Brooks Cartoon - "I am cute" (EKA 10)
- "I am a very cute vampire"
- Interview with Mrs. Victoria Vanessa Vandenvogel
- Rita - "My name is vanilla"
- Short Circus - "My Name is Kathy"
- Tom and Violet watering flowers
- Silhouettes - "ch/at/chat" (EKA 21)
- Mark takes a picture of cheese
- Cartoon - "Charlie Tried to Teach His Chimp to Cha Cha Cha"
- Bill Cosby - Chop/chip split-screen (EKA 21)
- Building Signs Song (push/pull/...)
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "This is Mr. Smith's hat"
- Vaudeville - Brenda sings "Apostrophe 'S'"
- Love of Chair - "The boy sees something...Will we see
what he saw?"
Last word: "Forever"
Cold open: "Banana split"
- "Bib" and other words with large "b" swinging in
- Cartoon - "Butterfly"
- "Bumblebee" word animation
- The words "Bing/bong/beep/bang/boom" zoom in on a black background
- Cinderella - "Bring me my brush"
- Cartoon - "Do you want to buy a broom?"
- Monolith - "oo" (EKA 1)
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Boom"
- Cartoon - "The Cool Fools"
- "Choo-choo" word animation
- Silhouettes - "ch/in/chin"
- Lorelei - "I'll Have a Chicken for Lunch"
- "Finch and Dench" song
- Wild Guess! game show - Mr. Pots of Hot Springs needs to say the word "bench"
- A Very Short Book - "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- Rowan and Martin cameo
- Easy Reader - walking through city streets
- Vi's Diner - Easy Reader asks for a Dr. Delight
- Easy Reader - walking through city streets (cont'd)
- Fargo North - "Don't lose your way" (Big Bird cameo)
- Love of Chair - "No he isn't! The boy is quitting!"
- "The End;" the cover of "A Very Short Book" closes
Next time: The strong man says ["Tomorrow I wrestle an elephant!"] (with no music)
(followed, for possibly the last time, by a light bulb turning off)
- Reverse ping pong balls hit/sit/fit/limit
- Mel Mounds introduces "Listen In On Me"
- Carmela sings "Listen In On Me" (The Sound of 'i') (EKA 19)
- Slip of the Lip game show - Clam cleaner from Claremont - "i"
- Walt Frazier - My name is Oscar Robertson - that was a
real 'slip of the lip.'
- Cartoon - Ditchdigger "Fill."
- Word animation "Dinner/diner" (on plate)
- Kids wear dinner/diner on chests - "I changed!"
- Cartoon - Two guitarists compete over "dinner/diner"
- Jennifer of the Jungle - super/supper
- Edith Ann: "And that's the truth."
- Kids wear cutter/cuter on chests - "U changed!"
- "Slimmer/fatter" word animation
- Brenda sings double-letter opera
- "Do not/don't" word animation
- Rita hits Luis with a pie - "I would."..."You didn't."
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "I can't swim." (EKA 36)
- Sign song - "I like fish food" (Vocal verse/silent verse)
- Cartoon - Factory turns "Do not" to "Don't"
- Morgan the magician "can/can't" pull the tablecloth
- Gary Owens - "Now that was silly"
- Cartoon - This is/isn't Fred/Jules (EKA 65)
- Short Circus waits to meet Rock Swagger - "It is!" (EKA 65)
- Cartoon - "I know I am a cow."
- Vaudeville - "Whaddya know, it's time for the show"
- Cartoon - crow/crowd
- Quotation marks animation (I said, "Perfectly.")
- A Very Short Book - "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
- Buddy tells Zachary, "I said, 'I'm playing my drums.'"
- Short Circus - "Hamburger"
Next time: The detective says ["Hey! Stop, thief!"]
(with no music)
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
- "Try not to Tremble" song
- Cartoon - "tack/track"
- Norman Neat: Favorite word is Fun
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Hugging a bug"
- Cartoon - Goldberg-esque machine "ai"
- Word animation "ray/rain"
- Cartoon - Goldberg-esque machine "ay"
- Kathy wants the rain to go away
- Here's Cooking At You - Today is Clay Day
- Cartoon - An intelligent and an unintelligent person demonstrate
opposites
- Slow reader cartoon - "Run!"
- Pandora dances in front of the word "wow"
- Punctuation - A box! of Cupcakes!
- Julie eats cookies and a question mark
- Mark takes his Pet out of the doghouse
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "Silent E"
- Ernestine takes a call from Harry's wife
- Cartoon - "Harry works high in the sky" (EKA 2, new ending
music)
- "The End?"/"The End."/"The End!"
- Norman Neat inquires a fairy on the street about her favorite word
- "Win/wind" word animation
- Mona and Harold look for an apartment with two windows
- Cartoon - "Water/land"
- Walter asks a waiter for water
- "Witch/switch" word animation
- Silhouettes - "sw/itch/switch" (with visible faces)
- A ventriloquist asks his dummy if he can swim
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "The Sweet, Sweet Sway"
- Cartoon - Sweeping "sw" and "eep"
- Easy Reader - A wall full of words
- "oo/swoop" word animation
- Dedication to "oo"
- "I'm a Rooting, Tooting Cowboy" song, leading into a phone call from Crank
- Lorne Greene and Michael Landon answer a boot call
- Cartoon - Robin Hood's wood is full of hoods
- Wanted: Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
- Bill Cosby, at the light board, notes that "ph" sounds like "f"
- Cartoon - Philip and Phyllis
- Phil and Phyllis compete over a phone booth
- "Phantom of Love" song
- Transition animation (flowers)
- Jim picks a friend up at the airport who has lost a lot of weight (EKA 75)
- Short Circus - "My Name is Kathy" (EKA 128)
- Cameo: "My name is Barbara"
Next time: We hear ["What a dumb question."] (with no music)
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Cold open: Edith Ann - "sticks and stones"
- Park newspapers log/leg/let/lit/litter (EKA
109)
- "Litter" word animation (swept away)
- Jennifer of the Jungle - lifting "Paul's left leg"
- Carol Burnett - Paul shaving
- Hank shaving cream: lot/let/lit/lip/lap #2 (EKA 73)
- Cartoon - "Golly, This Lollipop is Following Me" (EKA 109)
- Lorelei lamp/lion/lettuce/ladder/lunch/Lorelei's lunch
- "Get a Laugh" machine (includes first season appearance of "Next
time" fanfare)
- Cartoon - Waiter bold/told/fold/mold
- "Hot/cold/hold" word animation
- Rita sings "Go Wild"
- "Mild/wild" word animation
- Cartoon - A man with a cold cat
- Rowan & Martin - reading in the dark
- Winnie - tie/pie/thief
- Cartoon - Chief/thief
- Silhouettes - "l/ie/lie" (with visible faces and
Crank commenting)
- Cosby at the light board - talks about Crank
- Two Cosbys sing "I Like You" (EKA 19)
- Cartoon - "For you"
- The Director - At last I have found "you"
- J.J. sings "(Nobody But) You" (EKA 65)
- Cosby at the light board - Can't take much more
- Cartoon - Gibberish/"What?"
- Norman Neat - Favorite word is What
- Cartoon - "What is blue and flies?"
- Edith Ann - Do you believe this?
Next time: Lester says ["Don't pester my jester!"]
(with alternate fanfare)
Pre-intro: Luis reads the "pull" signs
- Toy cars - pot/pots/tops/spot/stop
- Luis reads the "push" signs
- Cartoon - quarterback reads "pass"
- Joe Namath on Sesame Street - "pass"
- "pl" letter animation (blue on gray; EKA
2)
- Pedro's Plant Place - showing Rita the plants
- Cosby at the light box - "takes the cake"
- Cartoon - Goldberg-esque machine "oi"
- Luis reads the "Use coins only" sign
- Cartoon - creatures join together "join"
- Short Circus - "Poison"
- "Choice" word animation (choice of three)
- Silhouettes - "ch/at/chat" (EKA 21)
- "Check" - chess players, math problem, Noah's ark, scuba soup
- Cartoon - Man orders a "chop"
- Witch orders a "regular sandwich"
- "Finch and Dench" song (EKA 131)
- Marching band "of" (EKA 40)
- Tour of the "of" museum (by a "couple of nuts")
- Cartoon - Lion is king of all the beasts (EKA 40)
- Winnie's "of" song on a giant "of"
- A Very Short Book - "Sleeping Beauty"
- Bill has to "change the baby's d--"
Next time: Mark says ["Yawn."] (with familiar second-season fanfare music)
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
- Morgan Freeman raises his arms and makes a "Y"
- "Yell" word animation (red on white; EKA 2)
- Haunted House - A disembodied hand spells out "yes," "yet," "yell," and "you" (EKA 65)
- Underwater "Yield" sign
- "Yell/yellow" word animation (EKA 2)
- Gregory feels objects starting with "gr" blindfolded
- Cartoon - Ladies comment about firefighters sliding through their room on a pole
- "Grin" song
- A Very Short Book - "See Sally's Knee"
- Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton cameo
- Carmela comments on J.J.'s list of "-ow" words and throws snow. (EKA 65)
- "A Pitcher We Know" song
- Cartoon - An intelligent and an unintelligent person demonstrate opposites
- "Unbutton Your Heart" song
- Opposite scenarios: Uncombed and combed, unopened and opened, etc.
- Dressing and undressing film
- Transition animation (globe)
- "Mad/made" word animation
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "Silent E" (EKA 147)
- "Hat/hate" word animation
- Lorelei tries selling "lemonad"
- Wilt Chamberlain cameo
- Cartoon - Ape on a cape
- Victor Borge demonstrates sounds for punctuation marks
- Punctuation marks change with the weather for the sentence "It's a nice day"
Next time: The toy boy says ["You still turn me on."]
- Luis the tightrope walker needs "HELP"
- "His/hers" towels
- Underwater "Hill" sign
- "Hat" word animation (EKA 14)
- Description of "The American Cowboy"
- Gloved hands: hat/hit/hid/had/hand
- "100/hundred" word animation
- Lorelei - spend/send/lend money
- "The Tender Fender Mender"
- "Band/boo" word animation
- "Good/food" word animation
- Cartoon - Robin Hood's wood is full of hoods (EKA 150)
- "Robin Hood meets his doom this afternoon."
- Carol Burnett - Do you believe this?
- Robin Hood - Make a profit?
- Little green men cartoon - "Room"
- Cartoon - "T-I-O-N"
- Vi's Diner - Easy and Vi sing "T-I-O-N That's -Tion"
- Cartoon - Pollution/solution
- Vaudeville - Pandora sings "Hooray For Hate"
- Cartoon - mat/bit/win + silent e
- "The War of the Words" - Agents interrogate Silent E about plane/cod
- "Hydrant"
Next time: Santa says ["Ho, ho, ho!"]
Note: Noggin's broadcast (outlined here) edited out
some segments for time.
- Vaudeville - "T for me" (EKA 75)
- "Tot" word animation (backwards/forwards)
- Silhouettes - t/ot/tot (with visible faces)
- Mel Brooks cartoon - t and tt words (EKA 75)
- Top hat/Pot top (EKA 14)
- "Top/pot" word animation (backwards/forwards)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Do not bother this giant person"
- Notepad - tent/bent/gent
- Film: Rita buys "Ice cream"
- The Director - "Scream" auditions
- "Peace" word animation (EKA 10)
- A Very Short Book - "The Princess and the Pea"
- Monolith - "alk" (EKA 19)
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "I am talking"
- Cosby at the light board - alk/talk
- Burglar academy - stalk/talk/walk
- Cartoon - Talk and walk
- Brenda takes "walk" for a walk to the doctor
- Cartoon - Father buys son a kite/kit (EKA 36)
- Skating film "Take a stride"
- Crank lectures crowd about kit/kite
- Cartoon - Line/vine/dine
- Jennifer of the Jungle - Paul and quotation marks
- Morgan the magician - eggs/elf
- Cartoon - Interview with an "elk" (EKA
40)
- Morgan the magician - vest/pet
- Is that your pet? (walking a fish)
- "Energy" word animation (EKA 1)
- Buddy loans "something green" to Winnie
- "Grasshopper" word animation
- Green's Green Grapes
- "Grumble, Growl and Grunt"
- "Growl/grumble/grunt" word animation
- "Grow" word animation (EKA 23)
- Cartoon - Crow/crowd (EKA 142)
- Vaudeville - "Whaddya know, it's time for the show"
(EKA 142)
- Cartoon - "I know I am a cow." (EKA 142)
- "Slowly" word animation (EKA 23)
- How does your garden grow? Slowly.
- Lorelei and Easy Reader sing "LY, We'd Be In Trouble Without You"
- How does your garden grow? Quickly.
- Short Circus - "Punctuation" (EKA 1)
- Cartoon - Bake/cake
- Willie Tyler & Lester - Silent E
- Cartoon - Shave/wave/save
- Short Circus with Lee - "An 'E' on the End" (plan/plane)
- Winnie - "There goes an E on the end!"
Next time: Esmeralda says ["When you're hot, you're hot!"]
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- "Dog" word animation (EKA 21)
- Silhouettes - "d/og/dog"
- Jennifer of the Jungle - Jennifer reviews "sad/glad/mad/bad" with Paul
- Cartoon - "Drop," with a trapeze
- Norman Neat interviews Dracula
- Cartoon - "Danger"
- Cartoon - "Little Drum Set Do-It-Yourself Kit"
- Lorne Greene and Michael Landon cameo
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "OU (I'm a Very Quiet Hound)"
- Theater in the Dark - "The Found Hound Sound"
- Mel Mounds' baseball game
- Lorelei wants to be a professional basketball person (Walt Frazier cameo)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Don't turn around"
- Tarzan - "A Mouse Around the House" song (EKA 132)
- Going out of the supermarket
- Cartoon - Door signs
- "In/out" signs in a restaurant
- Cartoon - Gibberish/"What?" (EKA 154)
- A mother asks her son to wash dishes; he only answers "what?"
- "Whistle" song
- Crank sits on a high-rise girder, commenting on the previous skit
- Transition animation
- Fargo North - "Dig deep by the dump before dark" with Tex Apthorp
- "D-D-D-D" song
Next time: The boy says ["The boy is sitting."]
- Breakstone the Magician rips a $20 bill
- "Rip/trip" word animation
- Train station - Red/Rip/Run
- Pot of gold - "I'm rich!"
- Short Circus - Allison and Kathy sing "Rap"
- Breakstone the Magician breaks the china
- "Tuck/truck" word animation
- Robots animation - "What has four wheels and flies?"
- Films: Traffic/trees
- Willie Tyler and Lester - Trees
- "Try not to Tremble" song (EKA 147)
- Mark glues "glue" to the wall
- Cartoon - "True Blue Sue" (EKA 14)
- Carol Burnett - Now that was wonderful!
- Edith Ann - And that's the truth (EKA 142)
- Lorelei finds a "true blue clue"
- Mel Brooks cartoon - My favorite color is blue
- "Might makes right." word animation
- Cartoon - "Right On"
- Cartoon - Typewriters "Write?"
- Lorelei - "light" (candle, star, sun, "head")
- Crank - One little candle
- Rebus - "Mandy can see a rocket."
- Cartoon - "That is not the note."
- Cartoon - Sprayman turns a glob into a globe (EKA 12)
- The Adventures of Letterman - "The Roar of Rage"
Next time: The detective says ["Find a clue."]
- The cast spell out words on balloons
- X marks the spot!
- "Extra" word animation
- Cartoon - An alligator spells out "Taxi" with his machine
- Wax museum
- Transition animation (flowers)
- The athletic athlete sinks with 18 gold metals
- Mel Brooks Cartoon - "I can't swim" (EKA 36)
- Monolith - "ee"
- Maiden Fair weeps from peeling onions
- Cartoon - "A cup of coffee and a sweet roll"
- Cartoon - Arnold pulls the plug on the lake
- Cartoon - An elephant sneezes
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "I Love to Do Things That Begin With SN"
- Cartoon - "See a seesaw"
- Cartoon - "Rob/robe" (EKA 12)
- A crook hands a bank teller a note: "I've come to robe you"
- Cartoon - "Not/note"
- Transition animation
- "Ring" word animation
- Cartoon - "-ing" song
- Slow reader cartoon - "Pull string and you'll be sorry" (EKA 73)
- Norman Neat inquires a string collector about her favorite word
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "That doesn't swing"
- Julie eats cookies and a question mark (EKA 147)
- Cartoon - Humpty Dumpty tries to catch a caterpillar
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Woman Bites Bear"
- Phone call from Crank (EKA 109)
- "The End?"/"The End."/"The End!" (EKA 147)
Next time: The old man sings ["I feel strong and healthy."]
Cold open: Gary Owens asks viewers why they're watching a television program
- Gary Owens stresses the importance of reading
- "Baseball" word animation
- Cartoon - "My Bed" (EKA 21)
- Big Bad Baby Blocks
- "Bib" word animation (EKA 131)
- "Bib" and other words with large "b" swinging in (EKA 131; no music)
- "Bottle" word animation
- Dean Martin cameo
- A miniature Pandora reads oversize greeting cards
- "Bicycle" song
- Cartoon - A banana in the ear
- Lorne Greene notes that he has a "Bonanza" in his ear
- Cartoon - "Bricks"
- Morgan Freeman seals his hand in bricks
- Judy Graubart eats the letters of "Breakfast" for breakfast
- Robber and the lady
- Skip Hinnant brushes his hair
- Jim Boyd wants brown bread at a store
- "My Broken Down Bronco Bruce" song
- Transition animation (circles)
- Monolith - "oo" (EKA 1)
- Cartoon - "The Cool Fools" (EKA 131)
- "Boom" word animation
- "Broom" word animation (EKA 131)
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Boom" (EKA 131)
- Cartoon - "Boom/bloom" (EKA 1)
- Judy Graubart is unafraid of a ghost in the woods
- Cartoon - "I am going over there" (EKA 1)
- The Three Chairs
- Two westerners call each other animal names
- Bill Cosby, at the light board, reminds viewers to pay attention
- Rita Moreno demonstrates "balloons" and "balloon"
- "You Ought to Try Two" song
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Hands Full"
- Love of Chair - "The boy is on his feet...The boy is on his foot"
Next time: The naughty child says ["You're nasty."]
- Bags, jugs, and eggs spelling those respective words
- Cartoon - Ladies comment about firefighters sliding through their room on a pole (EKA 166)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Beware of Dog"
- Robots animation - "What has four wheels and flies?" (EKA 189)
- Norman Neat interviews a giant and responds to Crank
- "Ant/giant" word animation
- A lion's "gr;" narrated word animation
- Cartoon - Two grapes
- "Grease" song
- The "ea" sound forms the basis of "eat" and "tea"
- A man wanders into Dracula's restaurant and inadvertently orders "tea with scream"
- A salesman sells nothing for "ten cents each"
- "Peace" word animation (EKA 10)
- Subway riders want a seat
- Skip Hinnant interviews people at a track race who run quickly and slowly
- Lorelei and Easy Reader sing "LY, We'd Be In Trouble Without You"
- "Take a Stride" skating film and song
- Discussion of the silent "e" of "hide;" narrated word animation
- Short Circus - "Punctuation" (EKA 1)
- "Hey, you guys!" word animation
- Love of Chair - "The boy is going...Go on, boy. It's your turn"
Next time: The Short Circus sings ["Burger baby, I love you!"]
- Lee Chamberlin calls for a taxi
- Carol Burnett asks if anyone called for a taxi
- Cartoon - An alligator spells out "Taxi" with his machine (EKA 197)
- Tic-tac-toe
- "Tick-tack-toe" word animation
- Cartoon - "Top/topple"
- Silhouettes - "t/ot/tot" (with visible faces)
- Mel Brooks Cartoon - T-Towel
- Missing "tot" (EKA 14)
- Cartoon - "A swift shift to the left"
- Jim Boyd (off-screen) tells Skip Hinnant to go left
- I've Got a Secret Sound game show - The panel is stumped by "ft"
- Cartoon - A goat afloat in a boat
- Tyrone must put on a coat before going oat
- A talking horse wants coats
- Cartoon - Typewriter plant
- The Mad Scientist - Creating an intelligent monster (Igor does not appear)
- "Rabbit/turtle" word animation
- Cartoon - "Burn"
- Slow reader cartoon - "Slippery when wet"
- A Very Short Book - "Humpty Dumpty"
- J. Arthur Crank expresses his disappointment about Very Short Books
- Love of Chair - "The boy is walking...The boy's not walking anymore"
Next time: Brenda tells Mark ["It was my fault."]
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
- A parachutist is reluctant to jump from a plane without his parachute
- Various "j-" words are spelled on a door as it is open and shut on a wintry day
- Traffic "Jam" word animation
- "Joke" card: Crank comments off-screen.
- Cartoon - "What is blue and flies?" (EKA 154)
- "Joke" card: People laugh at the "k" being upside-down
- Millie the Helper is woefully unprepared after her last flying-school lesson
- Cartoon - "Join"
- "Joy/join" word animation
- Transition animation
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of the word "if" (EKA 19)
- Cinderella - "If I wash the dishes"
- A quarterback, actress, carpenter, and others claim potential success in their fields, if not for their fatal flaws
- Cartoon - A man tries scaring his wife with his mask
- Here's Cooking at You - Julia Grownup prepares eggs for scrambling
- Cartoon - Two guitarists compete over "dinner/diner" (EKA 142)
- Kids wear letters for "diner" and "dinner" on their chests
- Fargo North - "Your dinner is bitter"
- Cartoon - "Hey Diddle Diddle"
- A Very Short Book - "The Little Dutch Boy"
- Love of Chair - "The boy sees the wall...It's as plain as the nose on his wall"
Next time: The mountain climber says ["Thanks. I didn't need that."]
- Gorgeous Gidget
- "g" letter animation (EKA 1)
- Cheerleaders cheer a player on until he's gone
- "Go" word animation (Yellow and green on black)
- Fargo North - "Gus, go get gas. Gert" (EKA 1)
- Cartoon - Ladies comment about firefighters sliding through their room on a pole (EKA 166)
- Slip of the Lip game show - Secret sound of "gr"
- "Grasshopper" word animation
- Slow reader cartoon - "Keep off the grass!"
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of the word "Why?" (EKA 65)
- "Whimper and Whine" song
- Cartoon - Gibberish/"What?" (EKA 181)
- Judy Graubart receives a phone call and asks "What?," "When?," "Where?," and "Which?"
- Morgan Freeman glues "glue" on the walls and lectures on "ue"
- Cartoon - "True Blue Sue" (EKA 14)
- A Very Short Book - "Little Boy Blue"
- Cinderella and the glass slipper
- SCUBA divers with underwater "deep," "deeper," and "deepest" signs
- The three pigs' houses: "Strong," "stronger," and "strongest"
- "Strong/stronger/strongest" word animation
- Cartoon - "Er" and "Est"
- Cartoon - "Danger" (EKA 181)
- Haunted House - "I smell danger"
- "Dangerous Dan" song
- Easy Reader finds himself in a room of explosives
Next time: Crank says ["OK. Read this word."]
Today: The movie star doesn't say ["Don't bug me."]
- Snug (Character in a sleeping bag)
- "Snug/hug" word animation
- Tub stop
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Hugging a bug" (EKA 147)
- Cartoon - "Bad luck"
- Slow reader cartoon - "Run!" (EKA 147)
- "F/un/fun" u-sound song
- The Adventures of Letterman - "A Rolling Bun Gathers No Seeds"
- Sun/stun
- The Director - "Don't bug me. Please stop."
- Cartoon - "A falling star in a jar"
- "Star" commercial break bumper
- Crank critiques the sounds of u on the "F/un/fun" song set
- "Cute/cut" word animation
- "Cub/cube" word animation
- A "tub" in a tube
- Morgan Freeman sits in a tube in a tub
- Buddy tells Zachary, "I said, 'I'm playing my drums.'" (EKA 142)
- Jennifer of the Jungle - Paul and quotation marks (EKA 176)
- Cartoon - "The chief said 'jump'"
- Harvey eavesdrops in a restaurant for the press
- "It's Not the Same Since 'U' Left" song
Next time: You'll see Paul be [sloppy].
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: You'll see someone sell tickets to the [circus].
- "Clang, Clunk, Clatter, Click" song
- Cartoon - Onomatopoeic sounds (EKA 40)
- The china salesman (Don't break anything)
- Self-destructing word - "Clumsy"
- Clarence climbs the cliff
- The Adventures of Letterman - "A Jarring Experience"
- Circus ticket seller
- Cartoon - "City cat"
- "Nice" sign being passed around
- "I Love to Take a Bath in a Casket" song
- Sound of "ea" machine supposedly out of order
- Monolith - "ea"
- Jimmy cleans and messes up his room
- Haunted House - "The Creature"/"The Preacher"
- Cartoon - "Cover/uncover"
- The unsoldier
- "Unbutton Your Heart" song (EKA 166)
Next time: You'll see Sally read this simple word, [some].
Today: You'll see Sally read this simple word, ["some."]
- Judy Graubart watches the letter "o" dance around and place itself in words
- "I Like Fish Food" song (beginning and ending truncated slightly; vocal chorus given both times)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Do not bother this giant person" (EKA 176)
- A giant, live-action person bothers a tiny person until his big brother intervenes
- Sally Simple gets a message and meets someone handsome
- "Someone handsome" word animation
- Cartoon - "Happy Birthday, Miss Jones! You sure got nice bones!" (EKA 37)
- Millie's first day as a police woman
- Self-destructing word - "Stop!"
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Stop!"
- "Hey, you guys!" word animation (EKA 227)
- A Very Short Book - "Hansel and Gretel"
- Easy Reader - walking through city streets (EKA 131)
- Easy Reader at the junk store
- Easy Reader - walking through city streets (cont'd) (EKA 131)
- The Adventures of Letterman - "What a Dragon"
Next time: Pedro will take on Maurice with some [gloves]. (with different music than usual)
Today: Sylvia will learn a lesson about [sticks and stones].
- Early Gibbons lectures on natural foods
- Sticks and stones
- Cartoon - First and last
- Pantomime theatre - Lester Hester jester vest
- Cartoon - "You are a pest"
- Customs inspector
- "ai" target
- Paint Store - Train paint
- The Blue Beetle tries making rain
- "Pull/Push/Up/Next Car" indoor sign song
- A Very Short Book - "Tom Sawyer"
- Self-destructing word - "Paint"
- "Yell" word animation (yellow on blue)
- Haunted House - A disembodied hand spells out "yes," "yet," "yell," and "you" (EKA 166)
- Cartoon - Arnold pulls the plug on the lake (EKA 197)
- "Yell/yellow" word animation (EKA 2)
- "Yards and Yards of Yellow Yarn" song
- "Trying to Live in a Trumpet" song
Next time: We'll read this: ["Sherlock Holmes found a clue."]
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Lightning bolts bring forth the "Children's Television Workshop" reference on this episode only.
Today: You'll meet Hircus of the [Circus].
- The cast sound out the "r" sound before Paul scares them away
- "Rock and roll" word animation
- Little green men cartoon - "Room" (EKA 172)
- Morgan Freeman dives and finds an "r" in alphabet soup
- "Railroad" word animation
- Train station
- Road Runner - "Road-Runner One Foot" sign
- "Randy, Randy" song
- Slow reader cartoon - "Run!" (EKA 147)
- Rita Moreno rows on the sidewalk
- Easy Reader - Sees a "Slow" sign
- Mary's garden grows slow because of the mower
- Cartoon - "Grow"
- Simon says
- "Throw" word animation (EKA 23)
- I shot an arrow in the air
- "Groovy" word animation (EKA 1; with music)
- Gregory feels objects starting with "gr" blindfolded (EKA 166)
- "Grin" song (EKA 166)
- Self-destructing word - "Grin"
- "Grin" word animation with face
- "Greedy Greg Grabbed the Green Grapes" song
- Cartoon - Typewriter plant (EKA 230)
- Hircus of the Circus
- "Rabbit/Turtle" word animation (EKA 230)
- Waiter, there's an "ur" in my soup
- Animation - "ur/curl"
- Curt pulls out Burt's tooth
Next time: Paul will lose his [voice].
Today: The clowns will make this word: ["Snip."]
- Alpha-Yummies with a Jill in the box
- Road Runner - Crossroad
- "Not" word animation
- "Ant/giant" word animation (EKA 227)
- Slow reader cartoon - "Do not bother this giant person" (EKA 176)
- Clown with an "ip" on its chest
- "Snip" word animation
- Self-destructing word - "Snip"
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "Silent E" (EKA 147)
- Cartoon - "Snow"
- Sneak thieves
- Monolith - "ea" (EKA 321)
- "Peace" word animation (EKA 10)
- "Fear" song
- A Very Short Book - "Frankenstein's Monster"
- Cartoon - "Myrna's Plant"
- Vaudeville - Brenda sings "Apostrophe 'S'" (EKA 128)
- Marvin's Lamp
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Sticky Finances"
Next time: Old MacDonald's cow will say ["moo."]
Cold open: Spider-Man on the Electric Company
Today: The director says ["To the Queen!"]
- "tr" pantomime
- Silhouettes - "tr/ick/trick"
- Trick or Treat at Dracula's
- Cartoon - "rip/trip"
- "Try not to Tremble" song (EKA 147)
- Cartoon - "tack/track" (EKA 147)
- "Train" word animation (EKA 375)
- Monolith - "ai"
- "Everyone Has a Pain" song
- Self-destructing word - "Spider-Man!"
- The Adventures of Letterman - "The Great Escape"
- The Director - "To the queen"
- The Punctuation Brothers
- Eggs/Fried Eggs?/Scrambled Eggs!
- Spider-Man - "Spidey Meets the Spoiler"
- Easy Reader and Valerie the Librarian - "Words, Words, Words, Words" song
- Paul plugs the Electric Company logo in and blows it up by mistake
Next time: The scout tries to [rent a tent].
Today: Valerie says ["There was."]
- Spencer the astronaut
- "Springing From a Sponge" song
- Cartoon - "See Spot run"
- My new loudspeaker
- Cartoon - "Supper/super," with snake
- The super is having his supper
- Cartoon - "Hey Diddle Diddle" (EKA 232)
- Cartoon - Two guitarists compete over "dinner/diner" (EKA 142)
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of the word "WAS"
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Who Was?"
- Self-destructing word - "Was"
- How was your dinner?/It was okay.
- Cartoon - Car for sale, "as is"
- Buster Boy's messy bathroom
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Who is that?"
- Blueberry pie
- "Pop" word animation (EKA 322)
- Honest John's used cars
- Cartoon - Prince Charming (EKA 26)
- A typewriter types out "-op" and "-ob" words while Skip Hinnant sits on it (EKA 12)
- The Mad Scientist - The blob
- Short Circus - "Here Comes the Blob"
Next time: See the [green gremlins].
Today: The customer says it's too [tight].
- Cartoon - "House" (EKA 37)
- "Spout/out" word animation
- Going out of the supermarket (EKA 181)
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Don't shout"
- Crank - "Oscar the Grouch" song with Oscar cameo
- Silhouettes - "wh/eat/wheat"
- The Blue Beetle helps Captain Kumquat find the white pail
- Self-destructing word - "White whale"
- "Whistle" song (EKA 181)
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of several "-ight" words
- "My Hair is a Fright" song
- Shoe Store
- Cartoon - "Right On" (EKA 189)
- Two girls go to bed and only fall asleep after an "-ight" sound lecture
- Wishing upon the first star
- Two girls get only up from bed in the morning after a trumpet performance.
- Road Runner - "Get ready"/"Get set"/"Smile" signal
- Street sign song (..."Home sweet home") (EKA 5)
Next time: The girl forms the word ["little."]
Today: The man says "Oh boy, am I [thirsty]."
- Sound of "ea" machine supposedly out of order (EKA 321)
- "Beat" word animation
- "Beans" word animation
- Jimmy cleans and messes up his room (EKA 321)
- "Peace" word animation (EKA 10)
- A man wanders into Dracula's restaurant and inadvertently orders "tea with scream" (EKA 227)
- Self-destructing word - "Scream"
- The same man wanders into Dracula's shoe store and inadvertantly asks for "a pair of leakers"
- The same man gives Dracula a deck of cards, and Dracula mishears his command as "your meal"
- Cartoon - "Math/path/bath" with snake
- Luis Avalos is thirsty
- "Fat/thin" word animation (EKA 14)
- A woman consults a doctor about her son sucking his thumb
- "Thick/thin" word animation
- A king's throne is too small
- "Think" song
- "Big/little" word animation
- A woman raises bees that make the "b" sound
- Cartoon - "My Bed" (EKA 21)
- "Bib" and other words with large "b" swinging in (EKA 131)
- Cartoon - "Butterfly" (EKA 131)
- "Bicycle" song (EKA 223)
- Cartoon - "I heard a bird" (EKA 75)
Next time: The spy says this spells ["trouble."]
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: Junior gets some new [sneakers].
- A giant interrupts a basketball player by dropping in words
- Cartoon - "Mmmmm machine"
- Egbert mumbles throughout the years
- Little green men cartoon - "Room" (EKA 172)
- Monolith - "ea" (EKA 321)
- Crank lectures on "steal" before Spider-Man "tease"s him
- Measles
- "Sneaker Freak" song
- A Very Short Book - "The Princess and the Pea" (EKA 176)
- "Majewski, Kluzewski, Patterewski" song
- Vi's Diner - Grover cameo
- Cartoon - "Ask/asking/king"
- Self-destructing word - "Ask"
- Cartoon - Dog in a mask
- "'s" on a wall
- "it is/it's" word animation
- Silhouettes - "it/is/it's"
- Two men on a lifeboat; one wastes energy by not using "'s"
Next time: The ladies stand under a [cloud].
Today: Rudolph tells us he's ["Not good."]
- The Used News, a humorous black-and-white filmreel
- Cartoon - Guitar man
- Easy Reader - Grab bag
- "Go" word animation (EKA 227)
- Garbage bag
- Cartoon - "Get it together" (EKA 1)
- Wig bag
- Slow reader cartoon - "Keep off the grass!" (EKA 253)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Clown has lost his invisible dog
- "Grasshopper" word animation (EKA 253)
- "Green Gremlins" song
- Cartoon - "Grow" (EKA 379)
- Short Circus vaudeville act - "I'm taking my case to court"
- Cartoon - "oa" wedding
- Watch your hat and coat
- Match sticks arrange themselves as a boat
- "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" song
- Cartoon - A goat afloat in a boat (EKA 230)
- Apartment dwellers have a load of coal delivered
- Self-destructing word - "Load of coal"
- Cartoon - "Helping"
- Selling an "ing" to a golfer
- Cartoon - "Walking, golfing, searching"
- Werewolf in the park
- The Adventures of Letterman - "The Corniest Concert"
Next time: Fargo will decode this label, ["Pigs."]
Today: We'll meet [Yankee Doodle].
- Neighborhood kids sing "Yankee Doodle"
- George Washington meets Yankee Doodle at Valley Forge
- "Yell" word animation (red on white; EKA 166)
- Underwater "Yield" sign (EKA 166)
- "Yell/yellow" word animation (EKA 2)
- Timed word - "Yankee Doodle"
- Spider-Man - "Spidey Meets the Yeti"
- Cartoon - Pictures of "you"
- The Mad Scientist - Creating a monster named "You"
- Cartoon - "Gordon, you drive me up the wall"
- Street sign song (..."Home sweet home") (EKA 5)
- Locking a door
- "Jump/jumped" word animation
- Parachutists jumping from a moving plane
- "Lift/lifted" word animation
- A Very Short Book - "Cinderella"
- Crank lectures on the "ie" sound in "piece of pie"
- Cartoon - "I Would Die for a Piece of Your Pie" song
- A reporter interviews restaurant patrons about the fate of a piece of pie
- A reporter comments in a restaurant about the fate of a piece of pie (cont'd)
- Cartoon - "What is blue and flies?"
- Crank comments again about people being hit with pies
Next time: The servants sing [plink].
Today: The kids sing about [Knock Knock Rock].
- Burglar with clock mask
- The Adventures of Letterman - "In a Pickle"
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Knock Knock Rock"
- "pl" letter animation (EKA 2)
- Pedro's Plant Place (EKA 165)
- Cartoon - A baby takes metaphors literally
- Monolith - "sh"
- Silhouettes - "sh/irt/shirt"
- "Hot Shot" song
- Cartoon - "Dig my sharp, shiny shoes"
- A Very Short Book - "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"
- Crank talks about an old lady who lived in a pair of galoshes until Valerie interrupts and reprimands him
- A clown shushes the others
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Don't shout" (EKA 453)
- "Wow" punctuation word animation
- Pandora dances in front of the word "wow"
Next time: The target shooter hits a [pot].
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: We meet the [Silver Sipper].
- Where words come from - "Grouch"
- Cartoon - Two grapes (EKA 227)
- "Greedy Greg Grabbed the Green Grapes" song (EKA 379)
- "Grasshopper" word animation (EKA 253)
- A Very Short Book - "Hansel and Gretel" (EKA 322)
- Letter "i" floats around in space
- The word "flip" flips on someone's palm
- A crook hands a bank teller a note: "This is a stick-up!"
- You are a pig
- Dr. Doolats gives a patient the "if" test
- The Adventures of Letterman - "The Wigged Out Lady"
- The Silver Sipper enters the saloon and sings her song
- Cartoon - "Sip"
- Timed word - "Sipper"
- "Gallop" word animation
- The Galloping Saddle
- "Nitty Gritty" song
- Millie's first day as a police woman (EKA 322)
Next time: The mice run up the [clock].
Note: The DVD release of this episode (outlined here) contains some edits in segment structure.
- Steve Awesome, the Six Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man
- Cartoon - "Present"
- Silhouettes - "pr/int/print"
- A Very Short Book - "The Frog Prince"
- The Prowler
- Monolith - "ow" (EKA 10)
- Clayton - Paints and comments on "ow"
- Jennifer of the Jungle - Reviewing the "ow" sound with Paul
- Cartoon - "ow"
- The Corsican Twins
- "Ow" word animation
- Timed word - "Now"
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of the word "How?"
- The new king is a clown
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Having a Ball"
- The Director - "Is this the bus stop?"
Next time: We meet the [Pest Patrol].
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: The group asks ["Is it love?"]
- Cartoon - "Tuck/truck"
- Trick or treat
- Robots animation - "What has four wheels and flies?" (EKA 189)
- Easy Reader and Dwain at the music shop
- "Trumpet" word animation (EKA 375)
- "Trying to Live in a Trumpet" song (EKA 375)
- Goldberg-esque machine cartoon - "ai" (EKA 147)
- "ai" target (Bad aim)
- Cartoon - "rain/train"
- "It Only Rains Where I Am" song
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Singing in the Train"
- Marching band arranges themselves in the form of the word "IS" (EKA 19)
- "Is It Love?" song
- Cartoon - "2,000 Pound Canary"
- My name is Kathy; a sentence and sheriff face off
- "How sweet it is" word animation
- Happy Birthday Dr. Doolats/Fargo North - "The doctor is in"
- Cartoon - "He bites"
- Punctuation mark signs being passed around
- Comedy duo: "May I ask a question?"
- "Go" punctuation word animation
- Road Runner - "Walk/crawl/hop" etc. signs
Next time: The waitress asks ["Pie or rice pudding?"]
Note: The DVD release of this episode (outlined here) contains some edits in segment structure.
Today: The man puts out the [light].
- "Big Bad Ben" song
- "Bib" and other words with large "b" swinging in (EKA 131; different music)
- "Bib" word animation (EKA 131; different color)
- Cartoon - "Burn"
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Silver Threads Among the Bold"
- "The Story of Boris the Boxer" song
- Goldberg-esque machine cartoon - "oy"
- Cartoon - "Joy"
- Roy the Toy Boy
- Cartoon - "An egg sandwich"
- Jennifer of the Jungle - "Clear the dishes and weed the garden and sweep up"
- People and an ape arrive at a dinner party
- Timed word - "Shoes and socks"
- King Howard the Hungry
- Cartoon - "Right On" (EKA 453)
- "Light/delight/delightful" word animation
- Henry puts out the light
- Cartoon - "Good night Daddy"
- "I Feel Light as the Air" song
Next time: The prince tries on the [glass slipper].
Note: The DVD release of this episode (outlined here) contains some edits in segment structure.
Today: They put on [Mr. Vinton's pants].
- Here's Cooking at You - Julia Grownup bakes a "U"
- Slow reader cartoon - "Jump!"
- A police officer reprimands a person for painting a "u" on a fence
- Rub-a-Dub-Dub
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "Hugging a bug" (EKA 285)
- The Blue Beetle is mistaken by the Short Circus for an "ugly bug"
- Vi's Diner - "Unday" song (EKA 10)
- Paul helps Skip Hinnant comprehend the word "hug"
- "Snug/hug" word animation (EKA 285; with music)
- A Very Short Book - "Old Mother Hubbard"
- "Thud" word animation (EKA 475)
- A doctor's patient has a "th" stuck in his throat
- Silhouettes - "th/ink/think"
- Cartoon - "th" at the beginning, end, and middle of words
- A couple hear a thud and have their piano stolen
- Cartoon - "My Brother's Mother is My Mother Too" song
- Mr. Vinton's pants
- Cartoon - "Apostrophe-s" could own the world
- A western gun-slinger adds an apostrophe to Paul's hat
- Mel Brooks cartoon - "This is Mr. Smith's hat" (EKA 128)
- Timed word - "Paul's banana"
- Tom gets a mechanic to fix his "car"
- "Pete's Pickle" song
Next time: Robin Hood wins the [yellow arrow].
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: The sports monster will [bowl].
- Tom Lehrer song and cartoon - "I Love to Do Things That Begin With SN" (EKA 197; without extended animation at beginning)
- Morgan Freeman's big sneeze
- Sneak a Snack
- Cartoon - "Snow" (EKA 386)
- Silhouettes - "bel/low/bellow"
- Crank asks how words slide out of peoples' mouths
- Cartoon - "Blow" (EKA 12)
- Spider-Man - "Spidey Meets the Blowhard"
- "Row" word animation (EKA 379)
- The Mad Scientist - The all-purpose sports monster
- Cartoon - "Grow" (EKA 379)
- Mary's garden grows slow
- Easy Reader - Sees a "Slow" sign (EKA 379)
- "A Pitcher We Know" song (EKA 166)
- Timed word - "Snow"
- "Slowly" word animation
- Mary's garden grows slowly (EKA 179)
- Silhouettes - "slow/ly/slowly" (with variation in the music)
- Crank asks how words slide out of peoples' mouths
- Snowball and the 6 Dwarves
Next time: The director says [ice cream].
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Today: We see the [think tank].
- The Mad Scientist - Preparation for an "nk" experiment on Igor
- The Mad Scientist (cont'd) - Igor gets in the think tank
- "Stink/skunk" word animation
- The Mad Scientist (cont'd) - Igor is tired from blinking; the device is actually a "wink tank"
- The Mad Scientist (cont'd) - The think tank has been given a tune-up, and now turns out to be a "shrink tank"
- The Adventures of Letterman - "Small Talk"
- Spider-Man - "Spidey Meets the Prankster"
- Cartoon - A daredevil named Frank
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Clown has a cold nose
- Cartoon - One dog reminds another to close the door
- Junkers cereal
- "Quotation marks" word animation
- Timed word - "Junk"
- Goldberg-esque machine cartoon - "oi" (EKA 165)
- Silhouettes - "b/oil/boil"
- Breakstone the Magician
- A pay phone doesn't take coins because it doesn't work
Next time: The man says [toast].
Today: The lady asks, is it [nutty]?
- Try Nutty, Crunchy, Munchy Candy
- Crank lectures about the "y" suffix
- "I'm a Funny Guy" song
- Easy Reader - "Things are easy when you try"
- "Silly" word animation (EKA 2)
- Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "Why"
- Easy Reader - "A bunch of good-looking guys"
- Notes animation
- Crank - "An 'S' on the End" song
- Cartoon - "Bird"
- Paul Revere
- Cartoon - "If" song
- If it swims, we have it
- Crank critiques the previous film and the word "if"
- Judy Graubart reminds viewers that if they stay tuned, they'll see more "if"
- Cinderella - "If I wash the dishes" (EKA 232)
- Cartoon - Humpty Dumpty tries to catch a caterpillar (EKA 197)
- Crank responds to a punctuation phone call in the Electric Company office
- "Strike one/two/three" animation
- Are you set?
- "I Like Fish Food" song (EKA 142; full footage and sing-along chorus)
Next time: We write the word ["laugh."]
Today: Cindy says ["coach."]
- Silhouettes - "l/ie/lie" (with visible faces and Crank commenting; EKA 154)
- Cartoon - "I Would Die for a Piece of Your Pie" song (EKA 27A)
- "Pie/piece" word animation
- Buy a tie, $1.00 apiece
- Cartoon - "Chief/thief"
- The Mad Scientist - Creating a fiend
- Magic message - "Spies tell lies!"
- Bill Cosby - Chop/chip split-screen (EKA 21)
- "Choo-choo" word animation (with serif characters)
- Cartoon - "Charlie Tried to Teach His Chimp to Cha Cha Cha" (EKA 128)
- Cinderella - Her fairy godmother turns an artichoke into a couch
- Clayton - Commentary on Cinderella and "ch" words
- Cartoon - "Charge"
- Magic message - "Give a witch an itch."
- Monolith - "all" (EKA 9)
- Three musketeers
- "All/ball" word animation
- Cartoon - "Gordon, you drive me up the wall" (EKA 27A)
- Kids holding balls spelling words in front of a giant's face
- Cartoon - "Top of the 9th - There Goes the Ball"
- Spider-Man - "Spidey Up Against the Wall"
- "That's All" song
Followed by full-length credit scroll.
Contributors
- Mike Bode: 5, 475
- Brian Hilley: 2, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23, 36, 37, 40, 59, 65, 72, 75, 128, 142, 147, 154, 165, 172, 176, 179, 189