First the Fraggles, Now…
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The 70's classic Electric Company is coming back to PBS!
Y'all can look forward to hearing kids across the land screaming EC's famous opening, "Hey you guys!"
Production on the new Electric Company started this week, Tuesday.
The show’s new format will encompass interactive online elements and community-based activities across the country.
Music for the show's being looked after by Broadway babes, Chris Jackson, Thomas Kail and Bill Sherman (all from musical In the Heights, which was just nominated for a bunch of Tony awards).
We want Lambchop or Madam to come back next!!!!!!
Posted: May 13, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Re: ldy –
thats all you care about is $$ ??! what about a little thing called LOVE??
WTF?!@#$%^&*
yes! i loved this show growing up. now if only they would show the old episodes on cable like they used to. first the return of portishead, now this. this makes life a little bit more bearable. little bit.
Bring Back Reading Rainbow!!! That song still gets stuck in my head…take a look, its in a book, with reading rainboooooow!
awwww lambchop… the good ol' days
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THAT IS THE BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY. THAT IS EFFIN' AWESOME!
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Lambchop is totally already on a station called QUBO. I just discovered it the other day (in the 100's by NOGGIN), and my daughter is already hooked. Shari Lewis is effing fabulous.
I miss Lambchop!
Never heard of the show
YESSSSSS BRING BACK LAMBCHOP!!!
SHERI DIED ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO BUT HER DAUGHTER STILL HAS THE SAME LAMBCHOP PUPPET HER MOM HAD SO THEY SHOULD REVIVE IT!!!
i loooooved electric company!!!! good stuff!
hey perez? i know i call u a fat fuck, and say mean things, im sorry.
now, can u pleeeease do something about your fucking spammers?????
sooooo out of control on your site!!!!
color your hair blue, and i will forgive you of all your sins!! stop trying to be so main stream!!! we love you because you WEREN'T!!!!
love,
cyn
lambchop can't come back
sherry lewis died
def bring back lambchop!
Start the petition, tubby!
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
Woot-Woot! Let's hope there's no Jared Nathan post-'ZOOM' car crash deaths.
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I remember Morgan Freeman from this show. Even as a kid I remember enjoying watching him. We were both so young then.
What? No Morgan Freeman?
I'll only watch it if Morgan Freeman comes back to it as well….
i LOVED the electric company. I think it was the reason i took so many drugs as a young adult. i hope it's as awesome as it used to be…
lambchop!!!!!!
I loved Electric Company! Do you remember when an image of a kid running across the screen, only it looked like a 10 kids? Really dumb, but memorable!
And 3-2-1 Contact, too!
MY FAV!
Anyone know when Chicago stopped broadcasting the original The Electric Company?
yeah! this is so cool, I can't wait to see this show again!
I always thought Madam was really creepy.
HUGE YAY! new-school children's programming is totally soulless. and thanks to the electric company, I was able to read when I was three.
I felt old when you posted about the Fraggle Rock thing. Now I feel even older. Hey - at least my 9-year old daughter can partake. Electric Company rocked. Remember the silent Spiderman? Creepy.
Oh, and once again, thanks for the classy #1 post. I'm curious what country these people are from. No one in America says things like, "It is said…" or "Maybe this news be useful." Well, I guess no one I know.
Since everyone is "going green" nowadays, bring back Captain Planet!! He's a hero! Gonna take pollution down to zero!
****** I used to watch this show all the time & none of my friends now ever heard of it ! I thought this was a show that was only aired in Philly where I'm from !!!! I loved this fucking show !
perez…you can't bring lamb chop bag…that would be kind of disrespectful dont you think…i dont think i could watch lamb chop with another person doing the voices
Actually the show has a new twist - using a phenomenal beat-boxer named Chris Sullivan who doesn't speak. It's really fun!
Yes!!!
OMG, OMG, OMG!!! I can't wait! Now, if only Carnation would make Instant Breakfast Bars……
i know one of the kids on that show.
Perez, you weren't even borned when this show was on the air.
WE took drugs and watched it
It was your parents' version of Teletubbies.
yeah lambchop!
Wow. Lambchop so totally needs to come back, it's insane. They taught me how to make the colour pink when I was little lol.
wait fraggle rock is coming back?????????????????
AWESOME! I loved this show as a child! I will have my youngest child watch. Wish it was sooner for my 15 and 16 year old!
Ahhh, the electric company…I watched that and I grew up in Los Angeles (for the perosn who thought it might only be in Philly). Does anyone remember the opening song? All I remember is:
"The electric company
we're gonna turn on the power…"
The rest is lalalalala. (haha) And remember ZOOM?
"Come on zoom, zoom, zoomah, zoom
come on and zoomah, zoomah, zoomah, zoom.
Come on give it a try…"
Yeah, I know…I'm a scary person.
Another big w00t here!
Wait, Fraggle Rock is coming back?! Woohoo!!!!
Oooh, now they should bring back 3-2-1 Contact and The Bloodhound Gang!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT.. YEAH!
for nostalgic reasons i understand the want to see some of our childhood favorites, but, really, they are OUR childhood favorites. why the hell can't companies come up with brand new ideas? it blows my mind. we have the freakin' pound puppies, strawberry shortcake, and now all of OUR shows? pretty annoyingvif you ask me…
Down at FRAGGLE ROCK!!!! OMG The ELECTRIC COMPANYYYYYYYYYY!!! Woohoo That is awesome YAY!
write zoom
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not sure if that box # is right! god i loved that show and i grew up in michigan so it was definitely all over the u.s.a
H R Puffinstuff!!!!
I was totally in love with that boy…was his name Jimmy?
I heard Dave Attell will be the new host of the Gong Show on Comedy Central!
Electric company Rawks! Watch the re-runs at 2 am on NOGGIN. Sheer genius- -along with a much younger still truly cool MORGAN FREEMAN. Cheers:)
Re: dillie – Good point- -everything is recycled into the nostalgia machine nowadays. haha! However, one good thing about the old stuff was the innovation in learning and a focus on diversity…something we could definitely stand to recycle.
I own the box set. There will never be another like the original.
Thiis won't last. They had Zoom come back with kind of a hip-hop flair and that didn't last long at all.
absolutely one of the best shows of the 70s!!!!! I hope they don't fuck it up …
Awe….I remember that show when I was 5 and 6 years old! "Hey you guys!" LOL>….I remember the lady who used to sit in the BIG chair and act like a little girl….and the two shadowed faces saying….c - at -CAT!!! We would watch it in school and wow Perez did that bring back some fun memories!!!!!!!
Does anyone also remember the New Zoo Review ???? LOL
Lamb to the Chizzop? Hellllllz yeahhh!
yay! hope they don't ruin it!
my friend is going to be in this show!!!
Re: Leese – OMG I remember the new zoo revue. WithHenrietta the Hippo, the owl, Freddy the Frog. Yeahup. "IT's the New Zoo Revue comin right at you." Ahhhhh nice memory.
WHAT ABOUT VILLALLEGRA????
Will Morgan Freeman be back as Easy Reader? And will they have Spider Super Stories intermissions? They fucking better!
Uh. Shari Lewis died. And, if anyone EVER made a new Lambchop's Playalong it would be a crime! That was THE best kids show ever.
OMG…Madam kicked much ass!!!!
ah..Lambchop, I remember those days where I didn't go to preschool so all I did all day was watch Barney and stuff like that(it's kinda like online collage except it is on TV and made for 3 year olds LOL).
Reading Rainbow is still on my PBS station every afternoon.
Lambchop with someone else would be like that new Kermit. It's just wrong. Yeah, Jim Henson and Shari Lewis would want their puppet friends to live in for new generations, but it's different and wrong and very, very disturbing to hear a different voice come out of Kermit's mouth.
Madame, def!!!!!! btw, Lambchop is dead and annoying. Wayland & Madame FOREVER!
dude,,,,,,you know that sherri lewis- whom voiced lambchop and half the "friends" has been dead for……like…..10 years, right?
oh so there is going to be a NEW Electric Company??? eh, won't watch that one
they should show the '70's one at night, that would be cool
What I would do for lambchop!!!! yess
Lambchop's Play Along needs to come back and teach these new children's shows how to work it.
How about re-playing Sesame Street MINUS Elmo! He's annoying as HELL!!!!
my brother started reading spider-man because of this show and never stopped!
I want Morghan Freeman to comeback, but what kid would get 'Easy Reader' as a character. Then again what kid got it back then?
And let's not forget Rita Moreno in her jungle outfit screaming the phrase "hey you guys" and Bill Crosby were also regular cast members.
I hope they all come back. It was my favorite show as a kid in the 70's!!! I wish it played in reruns.
Solid Gold was the best show on TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved this show as a kid. I remember Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno were some of the stars of Electric Company.
Another classic I liked was The Great Space Coaster. I still remember some of the theme song.
Get your LAMBCHOP fix: www.qubochannel.com
young kids won't care. they only watch shows where girls are sluts and the boys are fags who act straight. The generation of shitheads and gimmie gimmie right now but I won't work for it
I can't wait! I loved watching the Electric Company when I was little!!! So many cool people were on that… Morgan Freeman anyone???? WOO-HOO!!!!
OMG!!! I was just talking with my friends yesterday about how we'd love Lambchop to com