The Electric Company - episode 18A - modified version

   

aired on September 22, 1975   

The consonant blend BL, the vowel pair -UE and punctuation marks are featured. This show also has two sight words covered: "on” and “off”.

"Today on The Electric Company, the man asks...(Are you happy?)"    Two aliens discover a monolith reading "off". A deep-sounding voice then repeats the word which shakes the scenery, prompting the aliens climbing it to get off.    "On/Off"   On/off (fly on man's nose) (Animated by John and Faith Hubley)   Winnie places the word "on" on a table, but then accidentally flicks it off the table, and puts it back in several pieces to form the word "off" which surprises her and decides to leave the room afterwards.      Message Man Cartoon After Message Man reads a sign that says “Keep off the grass!” a policeman comes by telling him to do what the sign says. (EKA: Show 253) Office Sign Song (EKA: Show 55)    Julie is interested in finding out what's inside a book with a period on the cover, and claims "This looks dull." and says "I'll skip it." She then discovers a book with a question mark on the cover, and says "A question mark?" and then asks herself "Should I?", but then decides not to. She ultimately finds a book with an exclamation point on it, and says "This looks exciting!" and confirms "I'll read it!" When she opens the book, she discovers black-and-white slapstick film footage of cars crashing. Valerie the librarian approaches Julie and warns her she is not supposed to read out loud in the library.       "Go" as a statement, question, and exclamation.      After a female baseball batter fails to hit the ball, the umpire calls "Strike.", and the batter questions "Strike?" then the umpire yells "Strike!" The same process applies for "Ball", "Foul" and "Out" respectively.        Morgan Freeman asks a woman "Are you happy?" but after he asks the same question repeatedly, she says "I'm happy!" when really she is annoyed.     When an off-screen girl asks an off-screen man how quotation marks work, he says "perfectly". When she asks "What did you say?", he says "I said "perfectly"" while annoyed. (EKA: Show 142)      A Very Short Book Little Red Riding Hood (EKA: Show 368) Silhouette Blends(Non) Silhouette blends: BL  Blink word animation (blue version)  Skip uses a stopwatch to record how fast someone can say "Bleached Blonde Blanche blinked in the blinding blizzard" the fastest. Melanie says it in the fastest time - until a man from Mars (Morgan Freeman) says the phrase in barely over one second. He then says the phrase repeatedly and fast.  A man named Grover (Morgan Freeman) has purchased a new camera which creates instant photographs. He takes three pictures of his wife, Gabriela (Hattie Winston), and upon pinning it to a wall, it displays a blank at first each time, but then respectively displays a blimp, a blob, and Bleached Blonde Blanche - the latter being a callback to the previous segment.   A blizzard blows a flower bud in the winter, and then blooms in the spring.  Jim Boyd sneezes, and Morgan Freeman says "Bless you." Later, both men sneeze simultaneously and a voice from beyond says "Bless you", which scares them.  The word "blank" appears, then transforms into a boy holding a blanket, then the word "blanket" appears.        Mel Brooks Cartoon A blond-haired man in a derby says "My favorite color is blue" but the last word displays the wrong colors every time but eventually gets right but not until after the man's face gets coated with blue paint by a painter, whose favorite color is also blue. (Animated by Cliff Roberts) (EKA: Show 189)            "These kids have 5 seconds to read the next words they see. Can you read them before they do?"  A barefoot girl in a blue dress sings "True Blue Sue". (Animated by John and Faith Hubley) (EKA: Show 14) .    In a billiards parlor, a woman sings "I Lost My Cue" - a parody of "True Blue Sue".  The words "blue stitch" appear to the sound of a sewing machine. (EKA: Show 350)       A woman holds "-UE" in her hands, and informs the viewers of more words ending with "-UE" to come. How do you put an elephant on the ceiling? The clue is glue. But use stronger glue - that's the clue. A woman asks four men for help on how to get to Compton Avenue, and they argue with each other in the end. The letters in the word "argue" argue with each other. As a police officer writes up a ticket, the driver of a car argues his points in song. Road Runner Cartoon"Walk/crawl/hop" etc. signs (EKA: Show 375) The End?/The End./The End! (EKA: Show 147) Teaser“Tune in next time when the patient reads… (eyeball).”