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01x01 - Three is a Magic Number

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.

01x01 - Three is a Magic Number

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[male narrator reading]

[music starts]

♪ Three is a magic number ♪

♪ Yes, it is ♪

♪ It's a magic number ♪

♪ Somewhere
In the ancient mystic trinity ♪

[thunder crashes]

♪ You get three ♪

♪ As a magic number ♪

♪ The past and the present
And the future ♪

♪ Faith and hope and charity ♪

♪ The heart and the brain and the body
Give you three ♪

♪ As a magic number ♪

♪ It takes three legs to make a tripod ♪

♪ Or to make a table stand ♪

♪ It takes three wheels
To make a vehicle called a tricycle ♪

♪ Every triangle has three corners ♪

♪ Every triangle has three sides ♪

♪ No more, no less ♪

♪ You don't have to guess ♪

♪ When it's three
You can see it's a magic number ♪

♪ A man and a woman had a little baby ♪

[baby cooing]

♪ Yes, they did ♪

♪ They had three in the family ♪

♪ And that's a magic number ♪

[man reading]

[all reading]

[man]
Multiply backwards from 3 x 10.

-♪ 3 x 10 is... ♪
-♪ 30 ♪

-♪ 3 x 9 is... ♪
-♪ 27 ♪

-♪ 3 x 8 is... ♪
-♪ 24 ♪

-♪ 3 x 7 is... ♪
-♪ 21 ♪

♪ 3 x 6 is 18 ♪

♪ 3 x 5 is 15 ♪

♪ 3 x 4 is 12 and 3 x 3 is 9 ♪

♪ And 3 x 2 is 6 ♪

♪ And 3 x 1 is 3, of course ♪

[knocking]
Now, dig the pattern once more. Three--

[singers reading]

Twelve.

[singers reading]

Twenty-one.

[singers reading]

Now, multiply from ten backwards.

-♪ 3 x 10 is... ♪
-♪ 30 ♪

♪ 3 x 9 is 27 ♪

-♪ 3 x 8 is... ♪
-♪ 24 ♪

-♪ 3 x 7 is... ♪
-♪ 21 ♪

♪ 3 x 6 is 18 ♪

♪ 3 x 5 is 15 ♪

♪ 3 x 4 is 12 and 3 x 3 is 9 ♪

♪ And 3 x 2 is 6 ♪

♪ And 3 x 1 ♪

[man] What is it ?

-[all] Three!
-[singer] Yeah.

♪ That's a magic number ♪

♪ A man and a woman had a little baby ♪

[baby cooing]

♪ Yes, they did ♪

♪ They had three in the family ♪

♪ That's a magic number ♪