"Electricity," by Schoolhouse Rock

From the archive of educational songs comes this entry to Spoken Interludes. I offer you the Schoolhouse Rock classic "Electricity!"

I love Schoolhouse Rock (it was my favorite part of ABC Saturday morning cartoons). The Schoolhouse Rock segments always seemed to be paired with a commercial for Tootsie Pops and the Arbor Day Foundation (you know the one...with a red bird, perhaps a cardinal, chirping around some nonsense that "Trees are Teriffic!").

"Electricity!" is a bonus because it features TWO spoken interludes:

A generator is a machine that contains a powerful magnet that creates a magnetic field. When wires are rotated rapidly through this field, then a current of electricity is produced.

Now, if we only had a superhero who could stand here and turn the generator real fast, then we wouldn't need to burn so much fuel to make . . . electricity

and

Electricity at rest is called static electricity
Like in the winter, wearing a heavy coat
You get a shock off the doorknob
Or you scrape across a carpet
And sneak up on your very best friend
And zap him on the ear with a shock of -
Electricity, electricity