See More Blogs »

02.05.10 MORGAN FREEMAN BEFORE HE WAS GOD

“The Electric Company” was a children’s television show from the 1970s that continued airing re-runs well into the ’80s (which explains why I vaguely remember it). But I never realized that the show featured Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, and Rita Moreno (Anita in the film version of West Side Story).

Anyway, here’s video of Freeman rockin’ with the letter “G” — sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s soft, baby. That’s right, before he was Hollywood’s go-to septuagenarian granddaughter-humper of gravitas, he was just a groovy hippie in a tasseled vest and peach bellbottoms dancin’ with a white woman to improve reading skills. The ’70s were a crazy time, man. Vote Nixon!

[Funny or Die - thanks, WWSM]

15 Comments » TAGS: BILL COSBY, MORGAN FREEMAN, PBS, THE ELECTRIC COMPANY

‘TOTO, WE’RE NOT IN THE TOURNEY ANYMORE’ (With Leather)
lindsay is outraged (WWTDD)
WEEKEND PICKS: NO REST FOR THE NERDY (With Leather)
michelle bombshell hearts whites (WWTDD)
POWER RANKINGS: AMERICAN BUTT (With Leather)
stephanie seymour + bikini = win (WWTDD)
PACMAN JONES BLOWS OFF WORKOUT (With Leather)
katherine heigl was almost interesting (WWTDD)

There are 15 comments about:
MORGAN FREEMAN BEFORE HE WAS GOD

February 5th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Doug says:

Wow, you could cut the sexual tension in the air with a knife!

February 5th, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Enrico Pallazzo says:

Who would have known that years later, this guy would be fucking Tim Robbins on a Mexican beach.

February 5th, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Upstate Underdog says:

HIPPIES!

February 5th, 2010 at 1:44 pm

La Schmoove says:

I always wondered what Jimi Hendrix would be like if he couldn’t sing, play guitar and was addicted to reading instead of heroin and hashish

February 5th, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Chazz_Goodtimes says:

I wish I could tell you that Easy Reader fought the good fight, and that Carmela let him be. I wish I could tell you that – but The Electric Company is no fairy-tale world.

February 5th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Francisco says:

I kept waiting for the part where he showed her the difference between a soft G and a hard G, but all he did was dance around and read off that board.

February 5th, 2010 at 2:17 pm

Otto Man says:

Electric Company was the fucking balls.

February 5th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Tim Was Tim says:

Ain’ nothing but a G thing baybee.

February 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm

Shirts With Random Triangles says:

That show was frickin’ brilliant. It’s a shame who educational TV has devolved into crap like Barney.

February 5th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

AEVC again says:

A crying shame.

February 7th, 2010 at 8:51 am

Alan Davis says:

I have been told about this new website called http://www.twitterwurks.com and it is for geared towards NON twitter users + twitter users in a community.

NO LOGGING IN required.

Just go to the site and be entertained or informed by comedians, celebs, actors, famous people,Bands, and news.

It features over 180 twitters you can see, side by side in categorized pages with 15-25 twitters simultaneously per page.

http://www.twitterwurks.com

**So I find this to be interesting since I do not know of anything else twitter related that NON TWITTER USERS can use to benefit from twitter and its quick delivery of information.