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Gen Xers unite: ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ turns 50 with a star-studded celebration on ABC featuring the Muppets, Fortune Feimster, and the Black Eyed Peas

Gen X unite and sing! A noun is a person, place, or thing!

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If you were a child of the seventies with access to a television on Saturday mornings, you’ve likely already Googled the subject of this article to find out exactly when you can join in on the Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong. For the rest of you, whose hearts didn’t almost burst out of your chest upon hearing the news: The celebration, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, will air Wednesday, Feb. 1, on ABC at 8pm ET (7pm CT), and be available to stream the next day on Hulu and at a later date on Disney Plus.

Schoolhouse Rock! was a series of musical animated shorts that first aired in January 1973 between ABC’s Saturday morning children’s programming. Oh yeah, it was also super educational. It used ridiculously catchy songs like “Lolly Lolly Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here”  “Three Is a Magic Number” and “I’m Just a Bill” to help school-age children better understand grammar, mathematics, U.S. government, and more.

Wednesday night’s nostalgiafest will include the following celebrities singing some of the programs most beloved tunes:

  • Black Eyed Peas – “Three Is A Magic Number”
  • Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert – “Figure 8″
  • Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen – “I’m Just a Bill”
  • Julianne Hough – “Interplanet Janet”
  • The Muppets and Fortune Feimster – “Unpack Your Adjectives”
  • NE-YO – “Verb: That’s What’s Happening”
  • Raven Symoné and Kal Penn – “Interjections”
  • Retta – “Ready or Not, Here I Come”
  • Shaquille O’Neal and Boys & Girls Club of Atlanta – “Conjunction Junction”
  • Stars from Disney’s Broadway and touring productions – “A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing”

Yes, you read that right. Basketball superstar Shaq will be belting out “Conjunction Junction” with a bunch of kids. Will they hold a candle to Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn, and Janeane Garafolo’s version from Reality Bites (1994), the Gen X-iest movie to ever Gen X? Tune in and find out.


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Anne Sussman
Anne Sussman is a NY-based freelance writer for We Got This Covered. She's been writing and editing professionally since the 1990s and is fluent in Gen X nostalgia, the absurdist horror show that is U.S. politics, and binge watching all the things. She has a bachelor's degree in English writing and philosophy from Knox College, and a master's in social work from Fordham University.