
There are 50 different Schoolhouse Rock! episodes that have aired on ABC total, so what better reason is there to rank the top 50 Schoolhouse Rock! songs of all time? This was not easy to create and halfway through the making of the list I switched songs around to best reflect the quality of each, but I finally came up with my definitive ranking. Side note: I hardly disliked any of these, which is what made this so hard!
50. Hardware (1982)
49. Software (1983)
48. Number Cruncher (1984)
Lyrics That Rock! – “I’m not a math professor. I’m a data processor.”
47. The Weather Show (1979)
46. Walkin’ on Wall Street (1996)
45. Naughty Number Nine (1973)
44. The Check’s in the Mail (1996)

43. Where the Money Goes (1995)
42. The Tale of Mr. Morton (1993)
41. Sufferin’ Till Suffrage (1976)

Lyrics That Rock! – “Even Betsy Ross who sewed the flag was left behind that first election day.”
40. Do the Circulation (1979)
39. Tax Man Max (1995)

38. Unpack Your Adjectives (1974)

Lyrics That Rock! – “Girls who are tall get taller. Boys who are small get smaller. Till one is the tallest and the other’s the smallest of all.”
37. This for That (1996)
36. $7.50 Once a Week (1995)
35. The Four-Legged Zoo (1973)
34. Tyrannosaurus Debt (1996)

Lyrics That Rock! – “A fiscal misadventure with trillion-dollar dentures.”
33. The Great American Melting Pot (1976)

32. Ready or Not, Here I Come (1973)
31. Little Twelvetoes (1973)
30. Mother Necessity (1976)
29. I Got Six (1973)
28. Elementary, My Dear (1973)
27. The Good Eleven (1973)
26. The Energy Blues (1979)

25. Them Not-So-Dry Bones (1979)

24. Busy Prepositions (1993)
23. Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla (1976)
Lyrics That Rock! – “A pronoun was made to take the place of a noun ’cause saying all those nouns over and over can really wear you down.”
22. Telegraph Line (1979)

21. The Body Machine (1979)
Lyrics That Rock! – “Now I’d be a fool if I said that the fuel that we needed to burn was gasoline.”
20. No More Kings (1975)
19. Elbow Room (1976)
Lyrics That Rock! – “I’m sure we’ll find some elbow room up on the moon.”
18. Electricity, Electricity (1979)
17. The Shot Heard Round the World (1975)
16. Three-Ring Government (1979)
15. I’m Just a Bill (1976)

14. Dollars and Sense (1994)
Lyrics That Rock! – “Them green-back bills with the pictures of the presidents.”
13. Lucky Seven Sampson (1973)
12. A Victim of Gravity (1978)

11. Fireworks (1976)

10. Figure Eight (1973)

9. My Hero Zero (1973)

Lyrics That Rock! – “You can count as high as you could ever go forever, towards infinity. No one ever gets there but you could try.”
8. The Preamble (1975)
7. Verb: That’s What’s Happening (1973)

6. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here (1974)
5. A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing (1973)

4. Interplanet Janet (1978)

Lyrics That Rock! – “It’s a bird, it’s a plane! Why it must be a UFO.”
3. Interjections! (1974)

2. Three Is a Magic Number (1973)

Lyrics That Rock! – “A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes, they did. They had three in the family. And that’s a magic number.”
1. Conjunction Junction (1973)

Lyrics That Rock! – “I got three favorite cars that get most of my job done.”
Great list, Eli. I love all of these, too, and disagree with some of your rankings, but I’d have a hard time myself. Who can disagree with your number 1?! It is the essential SHR song. Kudos!!
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Thank you! I knew my number one pick was the one thing most people would probably agree with me on.
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