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01x03 - Elementary, My Dear

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Aired: January 6, 1973 – March 31, 2009.*
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Themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.

01x03 - Elementary, My Dear

Post by bunniefuu »

[male narrator reading]

[man singing]
♪ Forty days and forty nights

♪ Didn't it rain, children? ♪

♪ Not a speck of land in sight ♪

♪ Didn't it, didn't it rain? ♪

♪ But Noah built the ark so tight ♪

♪ They sailed on, children ♪

♪ And when, at last the waters receded ♪

♪ And the dove brought back
The olive tree leaf ♪

♪ He landed that ship near Mount Ararat ♪

And one of his children
grabbed Noah's robe and said...

Hey, Dad. How many animals
on this old ark, anyway? Huh?

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 2 is 4 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 3 is 6 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 4 is 8 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 5 is 10 ♪

♪ 2 x 1 is 2, of course
And it must occur to you ♪

♪ You get an even number
Every time you multiply by two ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 6 is 12 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 7 is 14 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 8 is 16 ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 9 is 18 ♪

♪ 2 x 10 is 20,
11 twice is 22 ♪

♪ Double 12, that's 24
13 twice is 26 ♪

♪ 14 twice is 28
15 twice is 30 ♪

♪ Now, you build it up on 30 ♪

♪ 16 twice is 32

[claps twice]

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ 17 twice is 34

[claps twice]

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ 18 twice is 36

[claps twice]

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ 19 twice is 38

[claps twice]

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ 20 twice is 40
And it must occur to you ♪

♪ You can double any number
All you do is multiply by two ♪

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 2 is 4 ♪

Whoo!

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 3 is 6 ♪

Yeah!

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 4 is 8 ♪

Whoo!

♪ Elementary, my dear, 2 x 5 is 10 ♪

Yeah!

[clapping] Now, if you want
to multiply 2 x 174,

or some big number like that...

[singer talking]

Plus 2 x 70 plus 2 x 4.

That's all.

So, 2 x 174 equals 200 plus 140 plus 8,

Or 348.

It's elementary.

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ Elementary ♪

♪ Twice 32 is 64, elementary ♪

♪ Twice 33 is 66, elementary ♪

♪ Twice 34 is 68, elementary ♪

♪ Twice 35 is 70, elementary ♪

♪ Yeah! Yes, it's elementary, yeah ♪

Now, what's 2 x 98?

Aw, that's hard.

No, it's very simple.

[Noah talking]

Minus 2 x 2, that's 200 minus 4.


Elementary.

♪ Forty days and forty nights ♪

♪ Didn't it rain, children? ♪