A little over three decades ago, I was a loyal fan of The Electric Company. I’m not sure which season I started watching it, but it almost certainly was not any of the first three. The show and I came into the world the same year, so I assume I had to have been at least 4 or 5. The ‘Hey you guuuuyyyyyys’ bit was apparently added to the opening title in Season 5, and that has been in my head since then.
Last night, in the course of a rambling search of the net for movie trivia (triggered by my first ever viewing of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), I found that Morgan Freeman was a cast member of TEC during its entire run. He was Count Dracula! And Easy Reader! I love learning that actors I’ve come to enjoy watching in my adult life had already been part of my childhood. It sucks that I never made the connection, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
The rambling search then led me to YouTube, where I found a great many TEC clips. But this one stands out not only as one I remember, but it made me chuckle even now:
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