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** A primetime [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] special in 1974, ''Out to Lunch'', featured the ''Electric Company'' cast and the ''Sesame'' Muppets.
* [[Cut a Slice, Take the Rest]]: A staple. When it was used in a live segment, the character doing so remarked that he'd "learned this from the Spellbinder [Letterman's animated foe]."
* [[Educational Song]]: Frequently used, perhaps the most memorable being "Silent E."
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Letterman's foe the Spellbinder, a diminutive wizard in a turban who would play malicious pranks by switching letters in words, like turning a farmer's "rake" into a "snake". Fortunately, the hero was wearing his "C" shirt that day and turned it into a "cake". (Which the sneaky villain promptly stole while the hero and farmer were occupied eating it.)
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Paul the Gorilla.
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* [["On the Next..."]]: Usually follows a format in which a clip from the next episode plays, and a cast member announces, "Tune in next time, when [character] says [a word or phrase appears onscreen, accompanied by one [[Sound Effect Bleep]] for each syllable]."
** Episodes from the last four seasons recycle these as opening teasers, with "Tune in next time" replaced with, "Today on ''The Electric Company''..."
* [[Parental Bonus]]: With an adult and teenage cast, the humor in the skits derived from how people in those age groups would interact among themselves. For example, a large number of skits featured married characters.{{context}}
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* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: Morgan Freeman's Vincent the Vegetable Vampire, of course (though [[Word of God]] says that he was originally supposed to be [[Dracula]]).
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{{Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program}}
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