Schoolhouse Rock! quotes

Number nine will put you on the spot.

Number nine will tie you up, oh, in a knot.

When you're tryin',

Multiplyin' by nine,

You might give it everything you've got

And still be stopped.

If you don't know some secret way you can check on,

You'll break your neck on

Naughty number nine.

Now the first thing to keep in mind,

When you're multiplyin' by nine

Is that it's one less than ten.

You see, nine is the same as ten minus one.

So you could multiply your number by ten,

And then subtract the number from the result,

And you'd get the same product

As if you'd multiplied by nine

And you knew it.

Good, good, good, good, the good eleven, yeah

It's almost as easy as multiplyin' by one.

Good, good, good, good eleven. (Mmmm)

Yes, eleven almost makes multiplication fun.

Some people get up at a quarter till seven,

Other people lie abed till 8:45 or nine.

But I'm happy just to hang in there till eleven,

'Cause eleven has always been a friend of mine.

Now if man had been born with 6 fingers on each hand, he'd also have

12 toes or so the theory goes. Well, with twelve digits, I mean

fingers, he probably would have invented two more digits when he

invented his number system. Then, if he saved the zero for the end,

he could count and multiply by twelve just as easily as you and I do by ten.

Well every person you can know,

And every place that you can go,

And anything that you can show,

You know they're nouns.

A noun's a special kind of word,

It's any name you ever heard,

I find it quite interesting,

A noun's a person, place, or thing.

I get my thing in action (Verb!)

To be, to sing, to feel, to live (Verb!)

That's what's happenin'

I put my heart in action (Verb!)

To run, to go, to get, to give (Verb!)

(You're what's happenin')

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

Conjunction Junction, how's that function?

I got three favorite cars

That get most of my job done.

Conjunction Junction, what's their function?

I got "and", "but", and "or",

They'll get you pretty far.

When Reginald was home with flu, uh-huh-huh,

The doctor knew just what to do-hoo.

He cured the infection

With one small injection

While Reginald uttered some interjections.

Hey! That smarts!

Ouch! That hurts!

Yow! That's not fair givin' a guy a shot down there!

Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Yow!) or emotion (Ouch!).

They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,

Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

So when you're happy (Hurray!),

or sad (Awww!),

or frightened (EEK!),

or mad (Rats!),

or excited (Wow!),

or glad (HEY!),

an interjection starts the sentence right!

Got home from camping last spring.

Saw people, places and things.

We barely had arrived,

Friends asked us to describe

The people, places and every last thing.

So we unpacked our adjectives.

Adjectives are often used to help us compare things,

To say how thin, how fat, how short, how tall.

Girls who are tall can get taller,

Boys who are small can get smaller,

Till one is the tallest

And the other's the smallest of all.

We hiked along without care.

Then we ran into a bear

He was a hairy bear,

He was a scary bear.

We made a hasty retreat from his lair,

and described him with adjectives.

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, got some adverbs here.

Come on down to Lolly's, get the adverbs here!

You're going to need

If you write or read,

Or even think about it.