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Trivia about The Electric Company includes:

• Bob and Ray: They provided the voices for a couple of animated shorts featured on the show.
• Chuck Jones: He created special educational Road Runner & Coyote shorts for the show.
• Edited for Syndication: Reruns on Noggin cut episode number cards, previews of the next day's episode, and some sketches.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • If you watched the episode "Broken" of House first, you recognize Lin-Manuel Miranda (aka rapper of "Silent E Is a Ninja") as House's Bipolar I rehab roommate Juan "Alvie" Alvarez. He also rapped and beatboxed there.
  • Whoa. Why isn't Violet Beauregard still blue?
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: This led to Sesame Workshop making this show available to fans. Before, it resisted putting anything on DVD while fan sites who uploaded clips were forced to take them down when threatened with "cease and desist" letters. The Workshop expressed surprise at the response to the release of the first DVD that a Volume 2 was later issued. Out of the 780 episodes aired, only 40 have come to DVD, and another 29 to iTunes.
• Morgan Freeman: That's right, he was on this show. Don't be embarrassed, Morgan!
• Name's the Same: Cast member Jim Boyd is not the same person as Jimmy Boyd, the original singer of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
• Old Shame: For Morgan Freeman, who may still be best-remembered among the GenX set for this show, and who refuses to talk about it.
  • Contrast Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno, both of whom remember the show fondly, though they both had more benevolent reasons for participating than "I Was Young and Needed the Money"; Cosby chose to use his time on the show as credit toward his doctorate in education, and Moreno had a young daughter who was part of the first generation of Sesame Street viewers, and was so impressed that she agreed to join The Electric Company.
• Shout-Out: Whenever Letterman would come in to save the day, Joan Rivers would make a speech reminiscent of one used for Superman.

Faster than a rolling O! Stronger than silent E! Able to leap Capital T in a single bound! It's a word, it's a plan, it's Letterman!

• • Every "Love of Chair" sketch would end with the narrator and a cast member asking random questions, the second-to-last of which was always, "What about Naomi?" referring to producer Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.
• Tom Lehrer: He wrote a few songs for the show, all quite a change from his previous satirical work. Not surprising, however, as he was close friends with Joe Raposo, who served as the program's music director for the first three seasons.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • In illustrating the "fr" consonant blend, the word "Afro" was sometimes used.
  • The Big Applesauce video montage for the sing-along segments were a pastiche of New York scenes from the period.

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