Zooma-Zooma-Zoom-Zoom-Zoom vs. the Electric Company

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HEY YOU GUYS!!

― andy --, Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Zoom, by miles.

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Electric Co. for me. Im a sucka for the funk.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

another vote for the electric co.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Electric Company

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Zoom! It was more about real kids doing cool projects and having adventures and shit. Electric Company was all like, "Check me out, I can spell!" Plus they had that lame Spider Man guy.

― andy --, Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Pinwheel

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

321 Contact was better for real kids going on adventures and shit.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

and theme songs

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

God, the wiki entry makes Zoom seems like a truly noble concept... the 70's were cool like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOOM

― andy ---, Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Easy Reader. Case closed.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Bananas vs. Dyn-O-Mite

Does Scholastic still sell through schools? God, I bought so many sixty-five cent books, I wonder where they are now.

― andy --, Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I was so, so excited for the premiere of the Electric Company because my father told me it would teach me how to read, and I really, really wanted to be able to read WHOLE BOOKS ALL BY MYSELF - I loved that show and had huge crushes on half the cast

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Zoom was cool too, but it seemed like it was for older kids - I was a little intimidated by it

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Zoom.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Dynamite had fun projects; Bananas was more just Leif Garrett interviews.

Scholastic's still in the book club business, but maybe it's not so urgent now they've got all that Harry Potter money.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

And the winner is Villa Allegre

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Zoom is still on, and it's still pretty good.

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Zoom was just a bunch of kids in matching pajamas rolling around on some dark theater set, right? My vote's going to Morgan Freeman, Spiderman, and those two twins who would hurt each other by hurting themselves.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I...don't understand this thread. Zoom? Is that like Zaboomafoo?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Zoom

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Hey I just noticed the Zoom kids are barefoot... very free and easy... I wonder if there was any pre-teen love on the set?

Free To Be to thread as well...

― andy ---, Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Zoom is basically Zaboomafoo with fewer lemurs.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

And no Kratt brothers.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Electric Co. for Easy Reader and Rita Moreno. I found Zoom boring when I was a child, though I liked the theme song.

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Electric Company.
Never saw Zoom and the thread title made me think this was some sort of utility vs. rumpshaker thread.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't anyone remember Hot Fudge? Talk about funky! that theme song was the bizzomb.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Rita Moreno is cool as all getout, I'll admit that. I think she lives in the East Bay now.

― andy --, Friday, 27 January 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I think early exposure to Rita Moreno caused me to be attracted to bold curly-haired New York girls in my later life (and in fact I ended up marrying one).

Rita lives in Berkeley now according to imdb.

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Zoom is rad, it's just kids screwing up their projects, failing contests, talking about whatever's on their minds, and making peanut butter burritos. I like that they don't do everything perfectly. It's very endearing.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

I think that twirling-your-arms thing was the only usefull thing I learnt
in my early childhood.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 27 January 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

NEMO OTM!!!!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Troy the Toy Boy, that one girl from the Short Circus, "Fargo North, Decoder," Letterman vs. the EEEEEvil Spellbinder...no contest.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)

This, to me, is as utopian a vision as anyone could present. If this was what TV was always about there wouldn't be any need for neo-cons, meth, or fisting.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Definitely Zoom. Though I watched both of them when we were first visiting America and they made me thought it was a cool sort of a place. How wrong I was!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

HEY YOU GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYS!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

btw the answer is still "ZOOM"

― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, hell yes. I've been trying to tell Sunny about this show.

― http://tinyurl.com/mykb7s (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

i’m told the electric company debuted 50 years ago today

― mookieproof, Monday, 25 October 2021 19:53 (four years ago)

Was the British show Vision On shown anywhere else in the US besides the New York area?

Two things in particular stuck with me from that show--the artist guy who would draw elaborate pictures in parking lots using the machine they paint parking space lines with. And the little fuzzy worm thing that would zip around the set being pulled on a monofilament, and which was cool enough that eventually you could buy them at Woolworths.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 06:11 (four years ago)

On topic, definitely Electric Co. over Zoom, although my sister and I did occasionally write in to Zoom (z-double-o-m, Box 350, Boston Mass oh-two-one-three-four!). My sister wanted the lyrics to The Cat Came Back.

Electric Co. - I was probably in my 30's before I got the pun in Fargo North, Decoder.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 06:20 (four years ago)

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