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02x02 - Verb: That's What's Happening

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.

02x02 - Verb: That's What's Happening

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[narrator]
What's happening next?

[narrator reading]

[upbeat music playing]

♪ I get my thing in action ♪

♪ Verb ♪

♪ To be, to see to feel, to live ♪

♪ Verb, that's what's happening ♪

-♪ I put my heart in action ♪
-♪ Verb ♪

♪ To run, to go to get, to give ♪

♪ Verb, you're what's happening ♪

♪ And that's where I find
Satisfaction, yeah ♪

-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ To search, to find to have, to hold ♪

♪ Verb, to be bold ♪

-♪ When I use my imagination ♪
-♪ Verb ♪

♪ I think, I plot I plan, I dream ♪

-♪ Turning in towards creation ♪
-♪ Verb ♪

♪ I make, I write I dance, I sing ♪

-♪ When I'm feeling really active ♪
-♪ Verb ♪

♪ I run, I ride, I swim, I fly ♪

-♪ Other times when life is easy ♪
-♪ Oh ♪

♪ I rest, I sleep, I sit, I lie ♪

♪ Verb, that's what's happenin' ♪

♪ I can take a noun and bend it
Give me a noun ♪

[women calling out]

-♪ Make it a verb and really send it ♪
-♪ Show me how ♪

♪ Oh, I don't know my own power ♪

-♪ Verb ♪
-♪ I get my thing in action ♪

-♪ Verb, verb ♪
-♪ In being, in doing ♪

-♪ Verb ♪
-♪ In saying ♪

A verb expresses action,
being or state of being.

-[women] A verb makes a statement.
-[man] Yeah, a verb tells it like it is.

♪ Verb, that's what's happenin' ♪

♪ I can tell you when it's happenin' ♪

-♪ Past, present future tense ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Tell you more about what's happenin' ♪

♪ Say it so it makes some sense ♪

-♪ Oh, I can tell you who is happenin' ♪
-♪ Verb, you're so intense ♪

♪ Hey, every sentence has a subject ♪

♪ Noun, person, place or thing ♪

♪ Find that subject, where's the action? ♪

♪ Verb can make a subject sing ♪

-♪ Take a subject, what is it? ♪
-♪ What? ♪

-♪ What's done to it? ♪
-♪ What? ♪

♪ What does it say? ♪

-♪ Verb, you're what's happenin' ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I can question, like what is it? ♪

♪ Verb, you're so demanding ♪

♪ I can order, like go get it ♪

♪ Verb, you're so commanding ♪

♪ When I hit, I need an object ♪

♪ Verb, hit, hit the ball ♪

♪ Ooh, when I see I see the object ♪

♪ Do you see that furthest wall? ♪

[man] If you can see it there,
put the ball over the fence, man!

Go ahead! Yeah, all right!

What? He hit it!

-It's going! it's going! It's gone!
-[crowd cheering]

What?

♪ I get my thing in action ♪

-♪ Verb, that's what's happenin' ♪
-♪ Ha ♪

-♪ To work, to play, to live ♪
-♪ Verb, verb, verb ♪

[all] ♪ To love ♪