![]() ![]() In one of the commercials made by the now-defunct retail store Mervyn's as part of its renowned "Open, Open, Open" campaign, a woman and the Bill are waiting outside at one of the store's locations. Chill/and we're sitting here on top of the hill" in their song "Top of The Hill" from their 1990 album Starting From Zero.Ī few lines from Deluxx Folk Implosion's cover of the song can be heard in the 2003 movie Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde and is included on the film's official soundtrack. Chill sings the tune with new lyrics "We're Groove B. The song was covered by The Folk Implosion as "Deluxx Folk Implosion" for Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996. However, an equivalent regulation was codified by the United States Department of Transportation at 49 CFR 392.10. In the song, the Bill becomes a law in reality, such a bill has never been approved by the United States Congress, and indeed, such a bill would be of debatable constitutionality. The Bill is for the law that school buses must stop at railroad crossings, likely a reference to the Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident. It is about how a bill becomes a law, how it must go through Congress, and how it can be vetoed, etc. ![]() The song is sung by Jack Sheldon (the voice of the Bill), with dialogue by Sheldon's son John as the boy learning the process. The segment debuted as part of "America Rock," the third season of the Schoolhouse Rock! series. " I'm Just a Bill" is a 1976 Schoolhouse Rock! segment, featuring a song of the same title written by Dave Frishberg. The music video (shown below, right) received over 99,000 views in over one year.An anthropomorphic bill sings of his efforts to become a law to a young child. On March 31st, 2021, YouTube musician Ginny Di posted a live-action music video which parodied the Schoolhouse Rock! music style, and teaches about rolling for attributes in Dungeons & Dragons. The music video (shown below, left) received over 1.1 million views in over nine years. On August 8th, 2013, YouTube musician Brentalfloss posted a music video which uses the Schoolhouse Rock! music and animation style to warn against buying game consoles too early after their launch. While the original site the video was hosted on no longer exists, the short was reposted to YouTube (shown below) by Jasmine Archer on September 17th, 2006, where it received over 411,000 views in over six years. The first known online Schoolhouse Rock! parody was posted in October of 2004 by Eric Henry, and was titled Pirates & Emperors (or, Size Does Matter). The shorts were often a satire of the American public school system (shown below, right). On MADtv, another late night television series, a short series of Schoolhouse Rock! parodies were featured on the show which were titled Public School House Rock. The short is rumored to have been removed from future airings of SNL. On March 14th, 1998, a Schoolhouse Rock! parody titled Conspiracy Theory Rock! (shown below, left) was shown as that episode's "TV Funhouse" animation segment from Robert Smigel. Other parodies were featured on late-night television shows such as Saturday Night Live. While it didn't directly parody a Schoolhouse Rock! song, it did heavily emulate the style of the original shorts. In the short (shown below, right) Stan recounts the tale of Oliver North's role in the Iran-Contra scandal that occurred during the mid-to-late 1980's. Another parody appeared on the animated comedy series American Dad in the episode Stanny Slickers 2: The Legend of Ollie's Gold, which first aired on May 11th, 2008. The short was a parody of I'm Just A Bill (shown below, left). The first parody was shown on The Simpsons episode titled The Day the Violence Died, which first aired on March 17th, 1996 on Fox. ![]() Schoolhouse Rock! parodies first started to appear on television in the mid-1990's. Other notable Schoolhouse Rock! cartoons are I'm Just A Bill, which first aired on March 27th, 1976, (shown below, left) and Conjunction Junction, which first aired on November 17th, 1973 (shown below, right). The first Schoolhouse Rock! short aired on January 6th, 1973, with the first of the Multiplication Rock series titled Three is a Magic Number (shown below). ![]()
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