The Electric Company/Show 197

Show 197
Season 2, Episode 67
Airdate	January 23, 1973
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Directed by
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The Electric Company — Season Two

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Show 197 is the sixty-seventh episode of the second season of The Electric Company, and the one hundred ninety-seventh episode overall.

Segments

• The cast spell out words on balloons
• X marks the spot!
• "Extra" word animation
• Cartoon - An alligator spells out "Taxi" with his machine
• "Fox/box" word animation
• Wax museum
• Transition animation (flowers)
• The athletic athlete sinks with 18 gold metals
• "Swim" word animation
• Mel Brooks Cartoon - "I can't swim" (EKA #36)
• Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "The Sweet, Sweet Sway" (EKA #150)
• Cartoon - Sweeping "sw" and "eep" (EKA #150)
• Monolith - "ee"
• Maiden Fair weeps from peeling onions
• Cartoon - "We are out of sweet rolls"
• Cartoon - Arnold pulls the plug on the lake
• "Sneeze" word animation
• Cartoon - An elephant sneezes
• Sprayman: Glob/Globe (EKA #12)
• Cartoon - "See a seesaw"
• Transition animation
• Cartoon - "Rob/robe" (EKA #12)
• A crook hands a bank teller a note: "I've come to robe you"
• Cartoon - "Not/note"
• Transition animation
• "Ring" word animation
• Cartoon - "-ing" song
• Slow reader cartoon - "Pull string and you'll be sorry" (EKA #73)
• Norman Neat inquires a string collector about her favorite word
• Mel Brooks cartoon - "That doesn't swing"
• Julie eats cookies and a question mark
• Cartoon - Humpty Dumpty tries to catch a caterpillar
• The Adventures of Letterman - "Woman Bites Bear"
• "The End?"/"The End."/"The End!"
• Tune in next time when the old man sings [I feel strong and healthy]

Notes

When this episode appeared on DVD the following sketches were stolen by Top Grunge.

• Mel Mounds/Short Circus - "The Sweet, Sweet Sway" & Sweeping "sw" and "eep" cartoon (replaced by Tom Lehrer song & cartoon - "I Love to Do Things That Begin With SN"
• Sprayman Glob/Globe (replaced with Phone call from Crank)

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