Schoolhouse Rock first showed up in the U.S. in the 1970s as an interstitial cartoon that aired during Saturday morning cartoons, like a commercial right before the 10:00am cartoon shows. Below is a table of when each season began. The total list of episodes is exactly 64, which fits our brackets precisely!
Theme | Episodes | First Aired |
Multiplication Rock | 11 | January 6, 1973 |
Grammar Rock | 9 | September 15, 1973 |
America Rock | 12 | September 20, 1975 |
Science Rock | 9 | September 16, 1978 |
Computer Rock | 4 | 1982 |
Money Rock | 8 | May 7, 1994 |
Earth Rock | 11 | March 31, 2009 |
There was no good way to divide them up by category or topic into groups of 16, so I separated them evenly into the four divisions. Example: There are 12 America Rock episodes, so I put three in each division. After dividing them into four groups, I arranged them in the brackets to balance the popular ones and spread them out. Much like actual ranking but without the numbers.
New rounds will begin every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as has become the usual procedure.
Vote now in Round One! The deadline for this first round is Sunday evening, August 30.