#schoolhouse Rock adverbs

[martymcdie88mph]

No truer words have ever been spoken 🙏

I just know how much he loves to use words like literally and very and actually and totally. And in phrases like she sadly wept and she gladly wept and so on

Such a master🙏

Go forth and use all those adverbs y'all!

[gameraboy2]

Schoolhouse Rock (1973), "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here"

[uwudonoodle]

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here

Writblr will never convince me that adverbs are the enemy when Lolly taught me differently.

[kahuna-burger]

Also :

And by contrast :

explain the difference between adverbs and adjectives in a way that makes sense i need help

Adjectives describe a thing or a quality. Blue, big, happy, lost. They tend to attach to nouns (or pronouns). The lost manuscript. The big blue box. I am happy.

Adverbs describe how something was done. Happily, dangerously, mostly, fast, fabulously. They tend to attach to verbs and change or modify the information the verb gives us. I danced happily. I walked fast. I am mostly funny. He waved his weapons dangerously. We were all fabulously drunk.

How's that?

[meetmeinmontana]

Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here - Schoolhouse Rock

[silvercaptain24]

Why do I have the adverbs song from schoolhouse rock stuck in my head

[driderwife]

used the schoolhouse rock Lolly Adverbs song logo to make a sign for my tarantula’s terrarium LOL

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Schoolhouse Rock has songs for all of these in their Grammar Rock subseries.  They will get lodged in your head and you will never forget them again.

Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronouns)

Unpack Your Adjectives

Busy Prepositions (a later cartoon, released in 1993, so the art and musical style are rather different from the rest)

Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here

Verb! (That’s What’s Happening!)

Interjections!

A Noun Is A Person Place Or Thing

Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function?

Bonus:

The Tale of Mr. Morton (Subjects and Predicates, which are parts of a sentence rather than parts of speech; this one is also from 1993)

i love that the english language has evolved in such a way that saying “shit fucks” is a positive thing

[2nerd4this]

Theatre Shenanigans

I'm stage managing for my college's production of SchoolHouse Rock Live!, and just in the first few rehearsals we've made a wonderful collection of quotes. (italicized is actual scripted lines)

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Cast: *singing* Mother Necessity, where would we be?

Music Director: On measure 25, that's where we'd be

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Dina, (about Lolly, Lolly Lolly): This seems a lot like child exploitation, where are the labor laws?

Stage Manager: It also seems like a terrible business strategy. How do they make money if all the adverbs are free?

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Tom: George? What are we waiting for?

George: The President

Tom: You mean Joe?

George: No, Joe is backstage. I mean Bill

Tom: Bill?

George: That's me!

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Tom: Listen to all those congressmen arguing. Is all that discussion and debate about you?

George: Lol no. They still can't decide which Republican they hate the least

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Dina: Do you realize how many pronouns you just used?

Dori: Enough to put a conservative into a coma!

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Music Director: So, there's a note in the script that we can change the lyrics about Pluto, since it's not actually-

Dina: Hold the fuck up!

Joe: Oh, absolutely not. I don't care what the astronomers or whoever the hell say

Assistant Stage Manager: I took an astronomy class, I know why its not considered a planet, and I still think they're dumb

Music Director: ...okay. Got it. Not changing the lyrics

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George: Darn! You just lost the game!

Tom: Aw god damn, now you made me lose the game

Everyone: Noooo please, now we've all lost the game!

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Dina *singing*: He worked hard and pulled the switch, he was smart...

Shulie *yelling*: And a bitch!

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(and now for my personal favorite)

Dina *singing*: So when you're happy-

All (including the directors) *shouting*: Fuck!

Dina: Or sad...

All: Fuck!

Dina: Or frightened...

All: Fuck!

Dina: Or mad...

All: Fuck!

Dina: Or excited...

All: Fuck!

Dina: Or glad...

All: Fuck!

[uncanny-tranny]

"If a trans person was really the gender they say they are, they wouldn't specify they are trans"

Hey, Google, define what an "adjective" is

[castielafflicted]

I'm finally done. I'm also barely high anymore and that's disappointing.

Rating of every single schoolhouse rock song under the cut :3

Multiplication Rock 6/10 overall Three is a Magic Number: 3/10 My Hero, Zero: 5/10 Elementary, My Dear: 2/10 for the christianity 3/10 for enjoyability The Four-Legged Zoo: 4/10 Ready or Not, Here I Come: 8/10 I Got Six: 6/10 Lucky Seven Sampson: 5/10 Figure Eight: 7/10 Naughty Number Nine: 8/10 The Good Eleven: 6/10 The Little Twelvetoes: 7/10

Grammar Rock 8/10 overall A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing: 5/10 Verb: That's What's Happening: 7/10 Conjunction Junction: 10/10 my fucking beloved Interjections!: 7/10 Unpack Your Adjectives: 6/10 Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here: 8/10 Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla: 11/10 for the pronouns 9/10 for the song Busy Prepositions: 8/10 The Tale of Mr. Morton: 7/10

America Rock 1/10 for content and propaganda 6/10 for enjoyability No More Kings: 1/10 for propaganda 8/10 for enjoyability The Shot Heard 'Round the World: 2/10 for being about america 7/10 for enjoyability The Preamble: 1/10 for content 5/10 for enjoyability Sufferin' till Suffrage: 1/10 for how white centric it is 3/10 for enjoyability I'm Just a Bill: he's just a bill 10/10 The Great American Melting Pot: 5/10 for being very idealistic and not realistic in the all are accepted vibe it gives 7/10 for enjoyability Elbow Room: 1/10 for fucking yikes as hell 3/10 for enjoyability Fireworks: 1/10 for fuck america 4/10 because they did actually have fireworks in 1776 and 6/10 for enjoyability Mother Necessity: 1/10 edison didnt invent the lightbulb and elias how didnt invent the sewing machine 5/10 at least most of the rest were right but im too high to figure out like a third of them 8/10 for enjoyability Three-Ring Government: 3/10 for functionality 10/10 for accuracy about our govt being a circus 4/10 for enjoyability I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College: 1/10 for being about something fucking stupid 2/10 for enjoyability Presidential Minute/The Campaign Trail: 1/10 fuck this 3/10 for enjoyability

Science Rock 6/10 A Victim of Gravity: 5/10 Interplanet Janet: 6/10 The Body Machine: 7/10 didnt demonize food Do the Circulation: 5/10 The Energy Blues: 8/10 Them Not-So-Dry Bones: 2/10 i forgot about the religion themes until now 8/10 milk propaganda 5/10 for enjoyability Electricity, Electricity: 8/10 Telegraph Line: 7/10 The Greatest Show on Earth/The Weather Show: 7/10

Computer Rock 3/10 this sucked Introduction: 4/10 why is his friend a computer Hardware: 3/10 Software: 2/10 Number Cruncher: 4/10

Money Rock 3/10 Dollars and Sense: 3/10 Tax Man Max: 1/10 for implying they fix roads with taxes 5/10 for enjoyability Where the Money Goes: 1/10 for reminding me about poverty 3/10 for enjoyability $7.50 Once a Week: 1/10 for reminding me about prices 3/10 for enjoyability Tyrannosaurus Debt: 1/10 hell world hell country hell money 2/10 for enjoyability This for That: 4/10 Walkin' on Wall Street: 2/10 evil The Check's in the Mail: 5/10 i don't know where my checkbook is

Earth Rock i couldn't find an english version of the music videos so I'm watching the french version I found on the internet archive while listening to the songs on youtube 8/10 it fucks Report from the North Pole: 7/10 The Little Things We Do: 6/10 The Trash Can Band: 9/10 im in love with this vibe You Oughta Be Savin' Water: 10/10 The Rainforest: 9/10 Save the Ocean: 8/10 Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song: 8/10 A Tiny Urban Zoo: 7/10 Solar Power to the People: 6/10 Windy and the Windmills: 5/10 Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch: 7/10 The 3 R's: 1/10 why the fuck is there a real person why is this different its a real music video and isnt included in my earth rock rating. why does it use part of three is the magic number this is so fucking weird and very 2009 and is such a different vibe that i hate it

at 500 followers im going to finish watching supernatural.

[alicesloane13]

Where is my Schoolhouse Rock reboot?

Seriously, raise your hand if you learned SOMETHING from these! They were so good, and we learned so much. There is SO MUCH that could be taught in that same format today. Honestly, why are we not doing more of this? 

[quixoticrobotic]

the spine: Oh, Olly, Olly, Olly

schoolhouse rock demon that lives in my brain: GET YOUR ADVERBS HERE