Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

The best had all the shorts the music everything I love it,

Very catchy song and music, makes learning and understand fun and easy! I recommend this to all my students who could use a bit of help without the frustration!

Man. How to begin? I was born in 1970, so Schoolhouse Rock was an integral part of my Saturdays growing up. Over the past thirty-odd years I've caught myself out of the blue humming "Conjunction Junction" more times than I can count! What a blast to go back and see them all again! I bought this as a surprise for my family (wife, son and daughter--and yes, me too!) for Christmas. I knew my wife would remember them and I wanted to introduce the kids to them to give them a glimpse of how seventies Saturdays were. It's been awesome. We'll watch an episode and my wife and I will talk to them about how we used to enjoy them. My son, who's into music bigtime, gets a kick out of the period atmosphere of the songs and the lyrics. My daughter thinks it's really cool how the songs can be so catchy and teach so much at the same time. Of course, I do too! My wife has always said I'm a lot like the kid on "Wonder Years"...always reminiscing. Guilty. It's just that some things are worth remembering, and this series is definitely one of them! I get the same kick out of this that I do out of the Peanuts Christmas/Halloween/Thanksgiving specials. There's an atmosphere about these toons that makes you want to stop whatever you're doing and just soak it up because it's so campy it's mesmerizing. You know you're witnessing something really nice. I'm not a grandparent yet, but for all of you who are and who remember the Rock, then this should be one of the first gifts you ever give your grandchildren. Young parents, take note...you may not remember these toons, but your kids will never forget them. Buy them. Now. LOADS of fond memories! (And they really help the kids in school too!) And they're so cheap you can't possibly regret it! By the way, my mystery is solved. I knew there was one of the toons that kind of spooked me out when I was little, but couldn't remember which one. Finally figured it out after three decades! It was the mathematics cartoon about number twelve...little twelve toes dude used to scare me! And the music was kind of surreal like a Pink Floyd song. Now I can sleep peacefully...ahhhhhhhhh! "Conjunction Junction, what's that function......" :)

Loved these shorts as a kid! They were there entertaining and educational at the same time. Still relevant now and still entertaining!

This is a great DVD containing all of the original songs we grew up with during our Saturday morning cartoon days. It's just as entertaining and catchy as it was in the early 70's, and if my daughter's any indication even children as young as 2 will find it enjoyable. What surprised me when I saw the list of songs was that there were many that I had never seen. In particular, all seven money songs didn't get on the air before I stopped watching cartoons, so there was actually new stuff (from my perspective, anyway ;-D). You can play the songs in a few ways. First, you can go to the Play List and select songs by their group -- grammar, science, history, money, multiplication. There's also an option called "The Whole Enchilada" which will play all 46 songs. Depending on the style you choose ("mild" or "spicy"), the songs either play back in order by group or in a random shuffle. There's also an option called "Jukebox", but this was deceptive. Instead of letting you pick any set of songs you want, you can only pick from the top ten songs (as determined by the publisher based on viewer feedback from years ago). My daughter just turned two in September, and she loves to watch the Grammar Rock set. Within two days of seeing it, she was singing the chorus of "Interjections!" (as well as a two-year old can sing, that is ;D). I don't know if it's mainly due to this or just the rate her language skills are naturally developing, but her use of pronouns has greatly improved in the last couple of months and that song is another of her favorites in the Grammar set. The other sections are moderately advanced for her age (especially multiplication rock and money rock), so she's not so interested in those yet. Surprisingly, she loves to watch "Suffering Until Suffrage" in the America Rock set -- probably because of the music. The bonus materials DVD is OK, but apart from the Emmy section it's mainly fluff. The Scooter Computer and Mister Chips set is the one set of songs that's visibly dated, just by virtue of the subject matter. And I'm not sure why they called "The Weather Show" a lost song -- I clearly remember seeing that on Saturday mornings, which means they had to have been playing it pretty regularly. Maybe it was "lost" from the Science Rock VHS tape, but then why not just put it in that set on the DVD? Overall, a definite 5-star buy!

I bought this for my son to show him how easy we learned about bills, laws, and the like when I was young. This was a Saturday morning staple that was catchy, but with relevant information that’s worthy to be shared with newer generations.

This dvd was so catchy. My son keeps wanting to watch it over and over. I had to change the region of my laptop to stream it through the tv as it was not compatible with my dvd player.

Just as I remember them when I woke up on Saturday Mornings to the sounds of "I'm Just A Bill" and "Conjunction Junction" among many other songs. This DVD set contained all the songs originally broadcast on ABC as well as some new and unreleased gems and the discs were in very good condition completely playable on my X-Box 360, the seller definitely outdid themselves with the swift delivery too

I was looking to bring back some memories with these cartoons

Finally I am proud to say I have found and bought the complete collection of Schoolhouse Rock and furthermore, there is so much extra stuff included on this awesome dvd!

Just what I expected, love it