Open Thread: Educational Television -- Pronoun Edition

Television hasn't always been stuffed full of mindless babble and propaganda pundits competing against the latest reality series for commercial advertising dollars. In fact, sometimes -- whether it's regular television across the airwaves¹ or via cable -- educational and informative episodes still air.

It's refreshing.

The best combination, in my opinion, is when a show is geared toward children and provides both education and entertainment...something which may not be as effective nowadays as it used to be. I say this solely due to one particularly fond memory of my younger years -- the Schoolhouse Rock episodes that helped shape a lot of younger minds.

From the Wiki,

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Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on U.S. television network ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The series aired between 1973 and 1986, and infrequently during the 1990s and 2000s, with new shows created between 1993 and 1996 until its cancellation by ABC in 2001.

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Lately, I wonder if more adults shouldn't sit down and watch a few episodes...alright, all the episodes...due to the lower quality of communication skills I've noticed throughout corporate and political America.

To get the ball rolling in hopes of starting a trend toward re-educating some of our adult "leadership" and to provide more educational entertainment for the children, I'll leave you with this little bit about pronouns:

This is an Open Thread.

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Leftovers -- Links from the Wiki
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Here are some of the links provided at the end of the Wikipedia article; they are self-explanatory.

• Unofficial Schoolhouse Rock website-listen to the songs
• Lyrics and other information on Schoolhouse Rock
• Podcast on the history of Schoolhouse Rock