The Electric Company/Show 40

Show 40
Season 1, Episode 40
Airdate	December 17, 1971
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The Electric Company — Season One

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Show 40 is the fortieth episode of the first season of The Electric Company, and the fortieth episode overall.

Segments

• Jack-in-the boxes kid/kit/kin/skin
• Cartoon: Interview with an "elk"
• Giggles/goggles - "Duck/dick" (EKA #10)
• Slow reader cartoon - Duck! (EKA #10)
• Giggles/goggles (cont'd) (EKA #10)
• "Crackerjack" word animation (EKA #10)
• Slow reader cartoon - Step back! (EKA #5)
• Theater in the Dark - "Back to Back with Jack and Mack"
• J.J. shops in the "Mask Department"
• Cartoon - The skull is connected to the skeleton
• Cartoon - Painting the word "paint"
• Mad scientist (Cosby) and assistant (Freeman): Where is the brain?
• Slow reader cartoon - "Go away!" (EKA 23)
• Vaudeville - Pandora and Skip "Elaine and the Train"
• Winnie and "Elaine in Maine"
• Transition animation
• Marching band "of"
• J.J. reads "Love of Chair"
• Cartoon - Lion is king of all the beasts
• Short Circus with Judy - "An E on the End" song (win/wine) (EKA #36)
• Cartoon - Father buys son a kite/kit (EKA 36)
• Bill Cosby uncap/uncork split-screen
• Packing/unpacking film
• Stanley the word board - "wires. my uncross Please"
• Cartoon - Once upon a time, there was a dog" (EKA #12)
• Cartoon - Onomatopoeic sounds (beep, ring,...)
• Love of Chair - "The boy is sitting quietly...He has had a lot of practice."
• Last word: "Skeleton" (followed by full-length credit scroll)

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