Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

Come on, it's School House Rock! You can't go wrong.

Elementary skills on a fun level

One of the best children's educational programs of all time from TV!

I had this on my wish list and finally bought it for myself.

School House Rock! I was not a big fan of cartoons growing up. That was my little brother's thing. However, I was intellectually cognizant when cable came out. Gone were those dang rabbit ears!! I could fully enjoy my adverbs! Lolly!In 2006 we bought this because we home schooled our kids, they and my Honey (Ricky) are all musically inclined, and it is very educationally fun. You can't be all "noses in the books" all the time when home schooling or it gets old really fast. I am very "Spock" & "Live long & prosper", while Honey is "shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy, wonderful world." So we balanced each other out. This was a definite no brainer, and a unanimous yes. I don't credit this movie with the following success of our children, but it helped, a lot. Kids need music to help them to learn and memorize, unless they have eidetic memories like me. Even then using music to associate education and retention really works.Fast forward to 2015. Our son is now freshly turned 22, married, and a father of a 4 month old son, and I wish he would pursue pitching professionally. Kid is a lefty and boy can he put some stank on it.. Our oldest daughter started college at 17 last year. She skipped a full grade and earned two scholarships that pay for tuition, dorm, & food. Our middle daughter is 16, two grades ahead, and graduates in June. Her and I are going to the same college in the Fall. Our youngest is going to be 15 in less than a month and is also 2 full grades ahead, and also has the same scholarships as the oldest girl at the same college already.So guess who this Nana is now teaching, and that includes using this very dvd we bought back then? That's right! My 4 month old chunky monkey grandson absolutely loves it!! This was one heck of an investment! As I recall it didn't take very long to get to us either, and we lived in the dang sticks, too. I mean the mail carrier used her very own vehicle and the route was considered rural. They didn't over or under package it. They didn't over charge either. It was our first ever purchase from Amazon, too. My how things have changed.I just thought I should come in and make sure I gave this purchase and product some better justice and credit. The dvd is setting on the shelf next to the player 24/7 now, instead of the dvd shelving. My grandson loves it so much that I am not wasting the energy to go back and forth anymore, lol! He even giggles when we do the Nana dance with my jam, the adverbs.

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......" :)

This is the schoolhouse rock we had on Saturday mornings. A great way for kids to learn math, history, grammar...

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 what I expected, love it

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!

The whole thing is all on Disc 1, and played in the same order as the VHS. Though unlike the VHS's, it doesn't have the titlescreens for each one or the end credits. But now I can take the VHS's for Science Rock, Multiplication Rock, and Grammar Rock off my shelf.