The Electric Company

The Electric Company was a childrens TV program that ran in the 1970's on PBS.

Parodies

 * The Electric Company featured some short animated segments featuring Wile E. Coyote and The Road-Runner directed by Chuck Jones. These shorts showed the Coyote and Road Runner viewing words for the kids to read. The shorts were different from their Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons such as no physical violence was caused upon the Coyote (exept for falling off cliffs).
 * In one short Wile E. saw signs that tell him "Slow", "Walk", "Hop", "Skip", "Crawl", and "Run". Wile E. obeys the commands of the signs and when he came to a dead in he saw a sign that says "Jump". He jumps over the sign and off a cliff and sees a sign that says "Fall".
 * In another short the Coyote keeps falling off a cliff onto a trampoline with a sign that says "Bounce". Wile E. keeps bouncing on a bunch of trampolines until the Road-Runner with a bunch of signs in his wings. He was the one putting signs in the Coyotes path and that last sign said "Beep" so Wile E. did.
 * In another short the Road-Runner and Wile E. are at a starting line to run a race. The stoplight tells them "On your marks", "Get set" and when Wile E. thinks it said go he ran off but the Road-Runner calls him back with a "Meep-Meep!" and points at the traffic light which said "Smile". Wile E. smiles and obeys the lights commands. If it says "Laugh", Wile E. starts laughing. If it says "Cry", Wile E. starts crying, etc. It kept going faster and at the end it is revealed the traffic light was being oporated by the Road-Runner.