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01x08 - Figure Eight

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.

01x08 - Figure Eight

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[narrator]
And now it's time to make a figure eight.

[pop ballad playing]

♪ Figure eight as double four ♪

♪ Figure four is half of eight ♪

♪ If you skate
You would be great ♪

♪ If you could make a figure eight ♪

♪ That's a circle that turns
'Round upon itself ♪

♪ 1 times 8 is 2 times 4 ♪

♪ 4 times 4 is 2 times 8 ♪

♪ If you skate upon thin ice ♪

♪ You'd be wise
If you thought twice ♪

♪ Before you made
Another single move ♪

♪ 1 times 8 is 8 ♪

♪ 2 times 8 is 16 ♪

♪ 3 times 8 is 24 ♪

♪ 4 times 8 is 32 ♪

♪ And 5 times 8 is 40, you know ♪

♪ 6 times 8 is 48 ♪

♪ 7 times 8 is 56 ♪

♪ 8 times 8 is 64 ♪

♪ 9 times 8 is 72 ♪

♪ And 10 times 8 is 80
That's true ♪

♪ 11 times 8 is 88 ♪

♪ And 12 times 8 is 96 ♪

♪ Now here's a chance to get off
On your new math tricks ♪

♪ 'Cause 12 times 8 is the same
As 10 times 8 plus 2 times 8 ♪

♪ 80 plus 16, 96 ♪

♪ 1 times 8 is 8 ♪

♪ 2 times 8 is 16 ♪

♪ 3 times 8 is 24 ♪

♪ 4 times 8 is 32 ♪

♪ And 5 times 8 is 40, you know ♪

♪ Figure eight as double four ♪

♪ Figure four is half of eight ♪

♪ If you skate you would be great ♪

♪ If you could make a figure eight ♪

♪ That's a circle that turns
'Round upon itself ♪

♪ Place it on its side
And it's a symbol meaning ♪

♪ Infinity ♪