Things I learned from the other Meter Man segment: 1 meter = distance from doorknob to floor 1 decimeter = length of popsicle stick 1 centimeter = length of staple 1 millimeter = thickness of dime
I remember Saturday Mornings of 1 NBC. Not only were the Metric Marvels great, so were Yogi's Space Race, The Godzilla Power Hour, The New Fantastic Four, The Fabulous Funnies, and The Bay City Rollers Show. It was called Saturday Morning Fever then.
@@saj8 Back in the 1970's, NBC had what is perhaps my biggest childhood favorite cartoon, The Pink Panther. I watched the 90-minute edition of The Pink Panther back in 1976 and 1977 as well, and was very surprised to find out that the longer format did not get high ratings. Huh? How is that possible?
This is a great find So far I liked what I’ve seen of the metric marvels It definitely reminds me of school house rock quite a bit Hopefully more episodes gets uploaded because this show is definitely lost media
It's a shame that most of these seem to be non-existent in the ABC vaults. Not the first time it has happened, though - the introductory episode of "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips" would have been gone for good if voice actor Darrell Stern hadn't uploaded his personal copy.
I remember this episode The Metric Marvels it's from the producers of Schoolhouse Rock created by Tom Yohe and George Newall in 1978 on Saturday morning!!!! I haven't seen it for years do you have anymore episodes of The Metric Marvels!!!! This takes me back to my childhood!!! 1978 was a very good year!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!! I love it!!! I love the 70s!!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!
There's a mara-mara-marathon that's just about to start Running on and on and on will take a lot of heart Meter Man is racing to show off his metric stuff Against the famous Miler who he knows is tough, mighty rough Now a Miler run in miles, you know, that's hardly any news But Meter Man runs meters, which the odds are certain used So watch them very closely as they run their hard foot race You'll learn some metric distances by following their face A meter is just a little longer than a yard That's not very hard Lay a thousand meters, and then at the end Then you got what's called a kilometer, one kilometer Now they're on, across the diameter New York to Chicago is a pretty heavy run 1140 since they heard the starter's gun If they head to Florida to get a little sun Miami in kilometers will be 1901 If they run to Boston to get themselves some beans "That's 2008 kilometers!" If they head for L.A. to make a movie scene "4153!" ...In kilometers Onto Honolulu is about a thousand more But it's not exactly easy running across the ocean floor Meter after meter, they run on and on and on Helping us see distance in kilometers, on and on and on Metrically, in their marathon Mara-mara-marathon!
Anybody find the one that goes ... ***Chorus*** Divide a meter into centimeters, you'll find that there are ten. Divide a meter by a hundred, you'll have a hundred centimeters then. Divide a meter by a thousand, you see this tiny little line? Well, it's called a millimeter, and it's as thick as one thin dime. ***Bridge*** A doorknob sits about a meter off the floor-or-or-or. And an ice cream sticks about a decimeter, a little bit less, a little bit more. And if if you're using a staple to fasten the words to this song-ong-ong, you'll find that a staple is just about a centimeter long-ong-ong. Meter Man: EVERYBODY SING!!! *** Chorus again***
I have always been curious who owns this series, and if it survives full, especially since it went into obscurity for many years. I remember it being the exact format as "Schoolhouse Rock," but appearing on NBC instead, and only singing about The Metric System.
This is educational--but I really hope the US never switches to the Metric system. It's too hard to change in my mind. I can mathematically understand what a kilometer is, but I can't mentally tell if I've gone a kilometer, and I can tell if I've gone a mile.
Thanks to Reagan and his gang for cutting it short! The Metric Conversion Act set a goal of 10 years for the switchover to SI, beginning in 1975, but the Reagan Administration killed the Act in 1982, only 7 years since American metrication efforts started.
Hey looked great checkin in post trip. Stopped tv stations and radio and wls and the wgn and addition the and , with Wttw. Good to see. Go Fuji , KIDAJS and RCA abd POLAROIDS. Abd go tdk and Betanax abd go PANASONICS. Go Phillips abd go Sony Sanyo. Go good things abd library's abd go safety. Go Scotch and go topp things.
It doesn't even show or tell the distances in miles for comparison, it only shows 60 MI = 100 KM in the visuals and mentions that a meter is a little more than a yard. This is useless unless you've memorized the distances between US cities but also don't know basic metric conversion, which doesn't seem like their target audience. At least the other found episode, Super Celsius, actually teaches you the basic concept and gives examples, all while being very catchy. Here's the link to Super Celsius (cw: 70s quality): ua-cam.com/video/RLsUIjZn97c/v-deo.html
25.4 is the correct conversion ratio, but the idea here is to get used to the metric natively, that's why they say it is only a bit longer than a yard, then show 1000 of them end to end. Metric is way easier if you just understand by "feel" what a kg, meter, etc is rather than trying to convert. Buy 100g of meat because you want 100g and know what that looks like, rather than trying to figure out what it is in pounds.
@@microbusss That's a bit of a silly reason to not like the metric system. You only prefer the size of gallons because you're used to them. A gallon is only about 4 liters, not that much of a difference in size to a liter and close to half of a decaliter. - A gallon is 4 quarts, 8 pints, 16 cups, 128 fluid ounces, 256 tablespoons, or 768 teaspoons. That's such a herky-jerky system. A liter is simply 10 deciliters, 100 centiliters, or 1000 milliliters. It's more simple and efficient to have things set up this way. A liter of water is also about the weight of a kilogram, which would simply lead to 1000 liters (1 kiloliter) being a metric ton. The customary equivalent would be the fluid ounce, 1fl.oz. of water equal to about one ounce-mass-but good luck being easily able to tell how many pounds a gallon is based on that. You'd have to remember that 1gal. = 128fl.oz., then divide 128 normal ounces by 16 to get the weight of that in pounds (128oz. ÷ 16 = 8lbs); it's madness. - Six gallons of liquid would be 6gal. × 128 = 768fl.oz., 768oz. ÷ 16 = 48lbs; you _could_ instead rememeber that every gallon is about 8 pounds like we found out earlier, but that's still annoying to have to calculate and you'd need to have done the earlier calculation of "gallons to fluid onces to ounces to pounds" to even know that on your own. The equivalent caluclation in metric would simply be 24L = 24kg. Dead simple.
Conversion to metric upped the economies of the UK Australia and New Zealand. When Ford switched to metric they saw a 12+% increase in profit due to less errors. The Imperial system is archaic and should be forgotten to our grandparents.
@@caleb1413 If you know the system that is. Although i have to admit some units like the teaspoon or inch can be better to work with. But even then, they learn you in school to compare metric units with real examples in your life. Metric can be pretty intuitive.
@@belgiantheorizer2145 "Better to work with" in what way? Every teaspoon is around 5mL, and fives are easy to add up. Having to keep track of tsp., tbsp., fl. oz., cups, pints, quarts, half-gallons and gallons with all these different conversion factors just overcomplicates things regardless of teaspoons on their own not being bad. Just needing to know the size of ones, fives, tens, hundreds of mL, with a thousand mL then equaling one liter, just makes things way easier to understand. Inches are only slightly bigger than cm and so aren't really any better on their own, but are additionally more annoying to divide and group because inches are usually divided by powers of two and grouped into twelves, those twelves sometimes even grouped into threes. Metric is always simpler to work with no matter how you look at it. In customary I could be described as either 1yd.2ft.4¼in., ungroup the feet (multiplying the yards by three and adding the rest of the feet) for 5ft.4¼in., ungroup the inches (multiply those feet by twelve and add the rest of the inches) for a total of 64¼in. In metric it's way simpler - I'm 1.63m, 16.3dm, or 163cm.
Things I learned from the other Meter Man segment:
1 meter = distance from doorknob to floor
1 decimeter = length of popsicle stick
1 centimeter = length of staple
1 millimeter = thickness of dime
I remember Saturday Mornings of 1 NBC. Not only were the Metric Marvels great, so were Yogi's Space Race, The Godzilla Power Hour, The New Fantastic Four, The Fabulous Funnies, and The Bay City Rollers Show. It was called Saturday Morning Fever then.
Yeah, IMHO, looking back, one of the WORST Saturday Morning lineups at the time!
@@disneyfan8178 NBC's Saturday Morning lineups were garbage until the 80s.
@@saj8 Back in the 1970's, NBC had what is perhaps my biggest childhood favorite cartoon, The Pink Panther. I watched the 90-minute edition of The Pink Panther back in 1976 and 1977 as well, and was very surprised to find out that the longer format did not get high ratings. Huh? How is that possible?
Saturday morning fever is on the rise on NBC.
They stopped in Paris for a Royale w/ Cheese.
Lol!!!
I’ve been looking for the litre leader forever.
Me too! - I hope I can find it somewhere!
Not before Captain Celsius
@@ImRandomDude Your wish is my command: ua-cam.com/video/RLsUIjZn97c/v-deo.html
@@ImRandomDude Super Celsius
This is a great find
So far I liked what I’ve seen of the metric marvels
It definitely reminds me of school house rock quite a bit
Hopefully more episodes gets uploaded because this show is definitely lost media
Same creators
Thank you for finding this
I really thought I'd seen every single one of these 70s SHR-ish PSAs. I was wrong.
You can definitely see Tom Yohe had done more than just SHR. This is quite a catchy treat to see!
The style is definitely unmistakable.
It's a shame that most of these seem to be non-existent in the ABC vaults. Not the first time it has happened, though - the introductory episode of "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips" would have been gone for good if voice actor Darrell Stern hadn't uploaded his personal copy.
They always showed an edited version of this on NBC. There was a cut of the portion from 0:20 to 0:35 in every version I ever saw.
I'm still looking for my favorite, Eeny, Meeny, Miney Milliliters.
Where in heaven's name did you find this gold? I have been searching for YEARS!! Do you have any others? If so, PLEASE post!!!
A guy named Mark A. Yurkiw uploaded it on Facebook. He didn't have any others though.
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I remember this episode The Metric Marvels it's from the producers of Schoolhouse Rock created by Tom Yohe and George Newall in 1978 on Saturday morning!!!! I haven't seen it for years do you have anymore episodes of The Metric Marvels!!!! This takes me back to my childhood!!! 1978 was a very good year!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!! I love it!!! I love the 70s!!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!
I don't have any more yet. I'm still looking, though :)
Oh ok cool!!!!!
I've been waiting for this one!
There's a mara-mara-marathon that's just about to start
Running on and on and on will take a lot of heart
Meter Man is racing to show off his metric stuff
Against the famous Miler who he knows is tough, mighty rough
Now a Miler run in miles, you know, that's hardly any news
But Meter Man runs meters, which the odds are certain used
So watch them very closely as they run their hard foot race
You'll learn some metric distances by following their face
A meter is just a little longer than a yard
That's not very hard
Lay a thousand meters, and then at the end
Then you got what's called a kilometer, one kilometer
Now they're on, across the diameter
New York to Chicago is a pretty heavy run
1140 since they heard the starter's gun
If they head to Florida to get a little sun
Miami in kilometers will be 1901
If they run to Boston to get themselves some beans
"That's 2008 kilometers!"
If they head for L.A. to make a movie scene
"4153!"
...In kilometers
Onto Honolulu is about a thousand more
But it's not exactly easy running across the ocean floor
Meter after meter, they run on and on and on
Helping us see distance in kilometers, on and on and on
Metrically, in their marathon
Mara-mara-marathon!
Great memories!
Was this the same as the Meter Man superhero, who hung out with Wonder Gram and Super Celsius?
Yes - and Liter Leader. I'd like to upload all of them if I can find them!
Toonamp talked about The Metric Marvels in one of his videos.
Anybody find the one that goes ...
***Chorus***
Divide a meter into centimeters, you'll find that there are ten.
Divide a meter by a hundred, you'll have a hundred centimeters then.
Divide a meter by a thousand, you see this tiny little line?
Well, it's called a millimeter, and it's as thick as one thin dime.
***Bridge***
A doorknob sits about a meter off the floor-or-or-or.
And an ice cream sticks about a decimeter, a little bit less, a little bit more.
And if if you're using a staple to fasten the words to this song-ong-ong,
you'll find that a staple is just about a centimeter long-ong-ong.
Meter Man: EVERYBODY SING!!!
*** Chorus again***
Does anyone know who did the voice of Meter Man? He kind of sounds like Dudley Do-Right.
I have always been curious who owns this series, and if it survives full, especially since it went into obscurity for many years. I remember it being the exact format as "Schoolhouse Rock," but appearing on NBC instead, and only singing about The Metric System.
Do you think Lionel will measure Slyboots' jump in meters?
I don't remember this Schoolhouse Rock episode.
1:25 Los Angeles to Honolulu is actually only 4000 km, not 5000.
why does this song slap? its so catchy and good!
This is educational--but I really hope the US never switches to the Metric system. It's too hard to change in my mind. I can mathematically understand what a kilometer is, but I can't mentally tell if I've gone a kilometer, and I can tell if I've gone a mile.
But...who won the mara-mara-marathon? Smiler or Meter Man?
0:50 I'd say catching a ride in the middle of the race disqualified The Smiler
He reminds me of Doodieman
Does anyone have Metric Man and the Inchworm?
Some find it an eerie coincidence that the ratio between miles and kilometers is so close to the golden mean.
It allows you to use a trick for conversion: a Fibonacci number of miles is the next Fibonacci number of kilometers (to a pretty good approximation).
Scary, eh?
To add some anagram humor, it would be funnier to add George and Harold mess with the signs to spell funny messages.
This is ONLY surviving Metric Marvels cartoon...!
No
@@Michael-lm2yg Does "Wonder Gram" still exist?
@@l.salisbury1253 Don't know. But someone posted the temperature one.
This is how you spell metres and kilometres. Not ers, it's res. It's Not only metric you have to teach Americans, it's how to spell as well.
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Wonder why Schoolhouse Rock didn't do this? I guess because America uses miles instead of Kilometers. Lol
Well, Schoolhouse Rock comes from that same era.
The Metric Conversion Act didn't really work. RIP
Thank goodness.
No. It didn't.
Thanks to Reagan and his gang for cutting it short! The Metric Conversion Act set a goal of 10 years for the switchover to SI, beginning in 1975, but the Reagan Administration killed the Act in 1982, only 7 years since American metrication efforts started.
The face (in the still) looks a bit phallic
20203.
Didn't work.
No matter the "distance" it's awesome to reconnect with the meter teaching race of races.🎯🏃🏾♂️📏🌅 Stay safe everyone!
Hey looked great checkin in post trip. Stopped tv stations and radio and wls and the wgn and addition the and , with Wttw. Good to see. Go Fuji , KIDAJS and RCA abd POLAROIDS. Abd go tdk and Betanax abd go PANASONICS. Go Phillips abd go Sony Sanyo. Go good things abd library's abd go safety. Go Scotch and go topp things.
I do not remember this at all!
Whats lame about this is that the conversion, 25.4 is never mentioned, nor is how to convert inches to mm or miles to KM.
It doesn't even show or tell the distances in miles for comparison, it only shows 60 MI = 100 KM in the visuals and mentions that a meter is a little more than a yard. This is useless unless you've memorized the distances between US cities but also don't know basic metric conversion, which doesn't seem like their target audience. At least the other found episode, Super Celsius, actually teaches you the basic concept and gives examples, all while being very catchy.
Here's the link to Super Celsius (cw: 70s quality): ua-cam.com/video/RLsUIjZn97c/v-deo.html
25.4 is the correct conversion ratio, but the idea here is to get used to the metric natively, that's why they say it is only a bit longer than a yard, then show 1000 of them end to end. Metric is way easier if you just understand by "feel" what a kg, meter, etc is rather than trying to convert. Buy 100g of meat because you want 100g and know what that looks like, rather than trying to figure out what it is in pounds.
Mad Magazine was right; stop Metrics!
boy am I GLAD this Metric System didn't catch on in USA!!
And why is that?.. you hate common sense??
@@HighDutchMan77 & pay for gas in tiny liters? no thanks!
@@microbusss
That's a bit of a silly reason to not like the metric system. You only prefer the size of gallons because you're used to them. A gallon is only about 4 liters, not that much of a difference in size to a liter and close to half of a decaliter.
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A gallon is 4 quarts, 8 pints, 16 cups, 128 fluid ounces, 256 tablespoons, or 768 teaspoons. That's such a herky-jerky system. A liter is simply 10 deciliters, 100 centiliters, or 1000 milliliters. It's more simple and efficient to have things set up this way.
A liter of water is also about the weight of a kilogram, which would simply lead to 1000 liters (1 kiloliter) being a metric ton. The customary equivalent would be the fluid ounce, 1fl.oz. of water equal to about one ounce-mass-but good luck being easily able to tell how many pounds a gallon is based on that. You'd have to remember that 1gal. = 128fl.oz., then divide 128 normal ounces by 16 to get the weight of that in pounds (128oz. ÷ 16 = 8lbs); it's madness.
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Six gallons of liquid would be 6gal. × 128 = 768fl.oz., 768oz. ÷ 16 = 48lbs; you _could_ instead rememeber that every gallon is about 8 pounds like we found out earlier, but that's still annoying to have to calculate and you'd need to have done the earlier calculation of "gallons to fluid onces to ounces to pounds" to even know that on your own. The equivalent caluclation in metric would simply be 24L = 24kg. Dead simple.
@@Persun_McPersonson then YOU pay $4 a tiny LITER of gas & lets see how far you get!
That's because you're an idiot.
Yeah, this explains nothing.
Imperial is better than metric.
Edit: fun fact! There's one last metric sign in the U.S.
Conversion to metric upped the economies of the UK Australia and New Zealand. When Ford switched to metric they saw a 12+% increase in profit due to less errors. The Imperial system is archaic and should be forgotten to our grandparents.
The problem is that no matter what system is better, you can't have two of them without wasting a lot of money. And the U.S is a minority.
Metric is better for science and math. Imperial is better for day-to-day-life.
@@caleb1413 If you know the system that is. Although i have to admit some units like the teaspoon or inch can be better to work with.
But even then, they learn you in school to compare metric units with real examples in your life. Metric can be pretty intuitive.
@@belgiantheorizer2145
"Better to work with" in what way?
Every teaspoon is around 5mL, and fives are easy to add up. Having to keep track of tsp., tbsp., fl. oz., cups, pints, quarts, half-gallons and gallons with all these different conversion factors just overcomplicates things regardless of teaspoons on their own not being bad. Just needing to know the size of ones, fives, tens, hundreds of mL, with a thousand mL then equaling one liter, just makes things way easier to understand.
Inches are only slightly bigger than cm and so aren't really any better on their own, but are additionally more annoying to divide and group because inches are usually divided by powers of two and grouped into twelves, those twelves sometimes even grouped into threes. Metric is always simpler to work with no matter how you look at it. In customary I could be described as either 1yd.2ft.4¼in., ungroup the feet (multiplying the yards by three and adding the rest of the feet) for 5ft.4¼in., ungroup the inches (multiply those feet by twelve and add the rest of the inches) for a total of 64¼in. In metric it's way simpler - I'm 1.63m, 16.3dm, or 163cm.