- published: 29 May 2012
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The Electric Company is an American children's educational series for young children aged 4–8 on PBS, derived from the 1971 series. The series premiered as a four-episode mini-marathon on PBS on January 19, 2009, then became a weekly series with an episode shown each Friday. On September 7, 2009, it became a daily series. Like the original, this version is produced by Sesame Workshop. The series is sometimes referred to as The New Electric Company to distinguish it from the 1970s series. It airs on PBS.
The new version has similar short animations, sketches, and music videos to those seen in the original show, but each episode also features a story line designed to teach four to five vocabulary words with a mix of hip-hop- or contemporary R&B-style music.
Each story revolves around the Electric Company, a group of teenage literacy super heroes who battle a group of neighborhood villains dubbed the Pranksters. The heroes' headquarters is the Electric Diner, where their friend Shock, a beat-boxing short-order cook, works, and also appears in short-form segments.
Every track has a train
Every sink has a drain
Every cloud has some rain
And everyone has a pain
Chorus:
So what do you really gain
It makes no sense to complain
From purple mountain to the fruited plain
Everyone has pain
Every boat has a chain
Every bib has a stain
Every globe has a Spain
And everyone has a pain
Repeat Chorus twice
Everyone has pain
Everyone has pain