Interplanet Janet - Schoolhouse Rock
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Science Rock
Episode Title - "Interplanet Janet"
Subject: The solar system
Music by: Lynn Ahrens
Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens
Performed by: Lynn Ahrens
First aired: 1978
Lyrics for "Interplanet Janet";
They say our solar system is centered around the sun
Nine planets, large and small, parading by
But somewhere out in space
There's another shining face
That you might see some night up in the sky
Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl
A solar system Miss from a future world
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
She's been to the Sun, it's a lot of fun
It's a hot-spot, it's a gas!
Hydrogen and helium in a big, bright, glowing mass
It's a star, it's a star!
So Janet got an autograph!
Mercury was near the Sun so Janet stopped by
But the mercury on Mercury was much too high
So Janet split for Venus but on Venus she found
She couldn't see a thing for all the clouds around
Earth looked exciting, kind of green and inviting
So Janet thought she'd give it a go
But the creatures on that planet looked so very weird to Janet
She didn't even dare to say hello
It's a bird, it's a plane!
Why, it must be a UFO, but it was:
Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl
A solar system Miss from a future world
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
Mars is red and Jupiter's big
And Saturn shows off its rings
Uranus is built on a funny tilt
And Neptune is its twin
And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the Sun
They say our solar system is not alone in space
The Universe has endless mystery
Some future astronaut
May find out that what he'd thought
Was a shooting star instead turned out to be...
Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl
A solar system Miss from a future world
She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen
Interplantet Janet calls Pluto a planet.
Therefore it is.
It’s not a planet anymore as of 2006
That was the 1970s, and Pluto was considered a planet then. But as Keanu said, it's not a planet anymore.
Ricky M wrong
Sorry but it always will be in the hearts and minds of humans everywhere, just saying something doesn't make it so.
if ya can't trust Interplanet Janet than who can you trust?
Pluto, little Pluto. Rip. You will always be a planet to me.
Damn right! This is a hill I will die on.
@@oddcrafter1270 If you want to include dwarf planets, go right ahead. Just remember that that that means there are dozens of them.
(Also, Pluto was only ever counted because its high albedo resulted in early size estimates being completely wrong.)
@@chakatfirepaw Fine by me!
@@oddcrafter1270 OK, just remember that Jupiter is now at least the 5th planet from the sun.
@@chakatfirepaw What's so bad about that? It already was.
To me, this song is the definition of euphoria. It’s just pure, unadulterated joy.
Also, it slaps, and Janet’s hair is goals.
Spiritual.
LOL
College student here. I was stressing out over an upcoming astronomy exam and I randomly thought of this song. Now I feel a little better. Sometimes nostalgia is the best medicine.
Schoolhouse Rock got me through life.... A lot of my education came from Schoolhouse Rock! And, my love of classical music and the arts came from Bugs Bunny! Who says TV rots the brain?!
I tried to use this song to help me in my own college general astronomy class. But my teacher was such a tyrant that it didn't help me one bit.
@@RumbleFish69The mindless garbage that’s on nowadays does. Not educational stuff like this?
Janet: Mercury is too hot.
Also Janet: (has a dance party in the sun)
😂
Sounds like your typical double standard.
heat vs humidity
😂
I think about this a lot
When she sings “Some future astronaut may find out that what he thought a shooting star instead turned out to be” I always get goosebumps
The irony of the Sun wearing sunglasses. What's he protecting HIS eyes from???
Janet’s hotness
@@henrygerecke5376 So True
Maybe He's blind
Supernovae and other cosmic events
It could be a fashion thing. Looking cool and all.
The lady sang this so beautifully and I love it.
Me too, the lady singing this song is Lynn Ahrens.
@@zacharycalgher6001 her voice is so beautiful still love schoolhouse rock.
@@zacharycalgher6001well I just wanna thank her for the memories, her voice carried me places a poor child wasn't born into , but deserved to be
❤
She was the secretary for the marketing firm that did School House rocks. Pretty cool.
No kidding,@@cynthiafentress6138.
I like how the song goes into some detail about the first three planets and just half-asses the rest of the planets beyond Earth.
@Will N the magic school bus lmao
@@ThisisRaP44 I also hate it when Uranus was pronounced "Ur-O-nus"
@@henrygerecke5376 They can’t invite any “Your Anus” jokes.
If they wanted more attention they should've been closer to the Sun!
Lol 😂 they only had 3 minutes 😂😂 plus prob couldn’t find anything creative or fun for the others
This unlocked a memory from before I had consciousness
Same
Before you had consciousness?.
I don’t know what that means but it sounds pretty cool. Yay!
@@sharongonzales2495in the stage of life where you’re living mostly on auto pilot, this is usually ages 1-3
@@biofvzz my mom would put the schoolhouse rock dvds in the car with the little tv thing in our van, and this went until i was 9(the tv thing broke), and now i cant count by three without the song. BUT SOMEBODY BROKE INTO tHE VAN AND STOLE ALL THE DVDS?!! what a jerk
nostalgia
Meme: Me too while I was watching my first iPad! 😃💡
*sobs quietly for pluto*
Liliputian07 I am Pluto for our school play 😂
There is hope! According to recent science news, Pluto, as well as over 100 other objects in our solar system, may become planets! :D
Pluto is one of 5 Dwarf Planets in the Solar System. So don't only cry for Pluto, also cry for Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake. There are currently 13 planets in our Solar System, not 8 or 9
Metagrossfreak It will be 12 when earth dies.
Metagrossfreak well as it stands out the only way Pluto could be a planet is to include places like Ceres, Eric, and Makemake as planets and the eight or nine planet system we've long been using is no longer viable.
Chord progression go crazy
Haven’t heard this song in like a decade until I randomly had it stuck in my head during a dream I had so here I am in 2022
I am a senior. I did a play in the second grade singing these songs. I woke up and THIS was stuck in my head and I hadn't heard it in 10 years?
+Brittany Whitter Conjunction Junction and a Bill on Capital Hill are two that will never leave my head. I haven't watched them since around 4th grade probably.
***** But shitty networks made the very last Saturday Morning Cartoons end in 2014. I miss those ones, and wish I could have experienced other ones.
Don't use bad language please!
+Stephen Treadwell Sticks and stones..
SlimJimGames @ ii
You've got the right idea, Janet. Get as far away from Earth as you can get. Quick.
ya because of Donald Trump
Douche.....
Amy Mayer I agree
Vera Evans U don't think she is from earth because if she really was then they would have probably recognized her when she went to earth
Even if Trump wasn't in the White House. if I was an alien I'd steer clear of a planet where the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Robert Mugabe and Rodrigo Duterte were in charge of anything.
I feel sorry for the kids who werent graced by this amazing show growing up. Pure class and swift teaching with catchy toon and song. Friggin a i miss this show.
Tra Gik Me too
We learned so much from school house rock.
This song goes so hard I could listen to it on a loop and never get bored
Honestly, when I think of euphoria, this song comes to my mind. Just pure, unadulterated joy.
Angeles Lennon-Dameron same it's so happy
Hey It's Charlie -Just Another Soulless Ginger same! it just sounds so joyful and exciting
Why does this comment make me tear up? Because it's TRUE! ❤
Some were spiritual, like this one. I loved them all, and they really did help in my learning.
I'm not even mad that this song randomly came up in my head, it's very nostalgic.
I love the planet that says "Hi Janet" to Janet as she passes by
I love how she sings "Some future astronaut/ may find out that what he thought..." Her voice got chesty and the vibrato rocked. And the backup singers really rocked out at the end. I love this song!
Reminds me of Janet from Rocky Horror Picture Show singing .....
I was just thinking this very same thing, how her voice went from airy to forceful was amazing! Lynne Ahrens - an absolute legend.
To be honest. The background singers rocked out the entire song
Not to nitpick but Janet went to the Sun but was okay then she went to Mercury and it was too hot?
Lmao
+hanoc101 Not to mention she actually went INSIDE the sun too.
+hanoc101 Not to mention Venus is hotter than Mercury, having a hellish atmosphere and all.
+hanoc101 I guess the writers just wanted to say, "But the mercury on Mercury was much to high." The repetition there. But I definitely see your point.
Why are we all making it this deep?
I hate to say I'm getting old but... when this song was released Pluto was still a planet, and the reason the lyrics gloss over the details of the outer planets is because they hadn't really been well-visited by probes yet. Um... that's my lawn you're standing on.
+Kevin Frushour - Saturn hadn't been visited at all in 1978, and of course not Uranus or Neptune or Pluto. Pioneer 11 was the first probe to reach Saturn (Aug 1979). I remember a big picture of Saturn on the front page of the newspaper in 1980 when Voyager first reached the planet. It's funny to think back to this cartoon that I grew up watching, and how it came before we really knew a lot of information about the outer solar system. (I think they weren't certain of the conditions on Venus, either)
@Kevin Frushour Sorry, should I turn down my music and get a haircut too? :D
Kevin Frushour 😂
Kevin Frushour By the one I was a kid, we at least knew that Pluto was cold, and...that’s about it. You have a very nice lawn.
For the 50th anniversary, ABC should’ve launched a drone that looks like Interplanet Janet 😂
I have an aunt named Janet, and this girl definitely reminds me of her. Even though she’s not an astronomer. 🌎😊
Okay, but can we take a moment to note just how clever "the mercury on Mercury was much too high" is?
This is pure nostalgia but the songs are also so well constructed.
I had always loved this song and I recently found out that it is written after my grandmother (her name is Janet)! My grandfather was a rocket scientist and a guy who worked for School House Rock came to stay with them. He decided it made for a good song! 😄
That's so cool!
It was written by Lynn Ahrens.
@Gracie J Ummm, some evidence please? Else, they should restrict internet at the nursing home...
This has to be my favorite SHR song, it just goes so inexplicably hard.
Been stuck in my head, on and off, for about 35 years... Hats off to Schoolhouse Rock for being indelibly memorable.
Hydrogen and Helium love that part and of course the verse about earth. We creatures on this planet are pretty weird. I too wouldn’t dare to say “hello”.
Honestly, I think if I were an alien, I wouldn’t want to say hi to anyone on earth either. We are freaking weird.
Some things are so nostalgic that it makes you tear up. Parents, let your kids be kids for as long as they can.
"the mercury on mercury was much too high"
OH MY GOD I GET IT NOW
Higher than Mario
There hasn't been a planet Janet seen, so Pluto is a planet. I don't care what they say.
Pluto *was* considered a planet at the time this song was written, but just not anymore.
Pipe Picasso hell yeah! Pluto said to nasa... AT KEAST YOUR MOM THOUGHT IM BIG ENOUGH HAHAHA
It's not a planet. It's a Dwarf Planet. Which is an important distinction to make. See, a planet can orbit freely without any danger to it. A Dwarf Planet is at risk of a major collision with other objects of its size due to lacking a clear orbit. This is a part of planetary formation, which means that Pluto is in fact a baby planet that hasn't been "born" yet.
@@MeepChangeling so... what you're saying is... Pluto still has a chance?
Same here
“There’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen”
How old is she and just how fast can she travel?!
Janet Thotiana😂
its a cartoon for children it aint that deep lol
She’s clearly not human and thus likely has a different if not much greater life span. Similarly, she has some form of built in rocket or engine, so she could likely move much more quickly than humans would be able to simply due to the fact that she has the power of a rocket with only the weight of a single person.
Back then there was still a lot of question as to how many other planets there were.
@@Statalyzer yup, and we were still decades till we discovered the first planet around another star.
"Didn't dare say hello" Smart girl Janet smart girl
I love Lynn Ahrens' voice.
Was she in a group?
@HakTunes I doubt it.
Once won $500 in a trivia contest 20 years after I watched this when it first aired. The question: What planet is considered Uranus' twin? I summoned this song in my head and lo and behold, the answer was right in the song. This concept of learning through song was absolutely under appreciated and equally brilliant for its time. Lots of the subject matter is still applicable today. Timeless. If we had access to this kind of stuff today on classrooms and Saturday mornings I don't think we would have nearly the number of imbeciles our schools are producing these days...
ha. I skimmed this and thought that when you said "lo and behold" you said something about Io, one of Jupiter's moons.
I don't care what some damn scientists say, Pluto will always be a planet to me. ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!
AUEAAAA SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK RAISED ME ITS SO NOSTALGIC
Now I know how I got my lifelong fascination with astronomy - thanks Janet!! ❤
This song is, and always will be, a bop.
This one was always my favorite
Mine, too! I used to sing it as a kid and to this day, I never forgot the chorus. It was a trip back in time.
@@NatYourAverageNerd How abiuout we cover it together sometime?
This song has been stuck in my head for three days.
CERTIFIED BANGER
Lynn Ahern who wrote sang many Schoolhouse Rock songs really had an impact on so many of us!
*Ahrens…..apologies
This song needs an update.
"There hasn't been a planet Janet hasn't seen! So sit down kids, were gonna be a while..."
"Gliese 667Cc has three suns, HD 189733b has storms of glass rain, and 2MASS J08230313-4912012 b is really REALLY big..."
This is my favorite song from Schoolhouse Rock!!!!!!!!!!! I've seen the movie about a million times!! I'm about to be in a Schoolhouse Rock Musical and this is one of the 11 songs we're doing!!! I can't wait! I'm also planning to sing this song as well as many others to my cousins this Summer! I will a famous singer when I'm older for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it! XOXOXO Miss Singer
same hhere re
Aramina Boucher me too! I got a main character but we only doing .... 7 songs?
I'm in it too, but there's 12 songs instead. I don't have a part, but i have a solo as the conductor in conjunction junction.
I wonder if Janet has a cousin named Arnold who has a teacher that always takes the class on unusual field trips.
The DS Guy lol
*insert magic school bus meme here*
He should’ve just stayed home that day
please let this be a normal field trip
Arnold also went across all of the planets of the solar system. Had some trouble on Pluto though
Atomic Betty could never.
Jane Jetson is quaking
Nice pronunciation of Uranus!!
hi
First one I've heard that you can't make an inappropriate joke with!
Uranas
BlackHorseGamer She's actually using the proper Greek pronunciation
No, she isn't. The proper Greek pronunciation is ooh-rah-NOHS.
Petition to name the new 9th planet Janet
I WILL BE THE FIRST TO SIGN
At first i didn't recognize this song. After several listen, my mind finally caught up on the refrain...Wow.!! How wonderful our God-given memory works... Nearly 50 years is a pretty long time...
Oh, what great Saturday mornings I remember: A bowl of fruit loops cold cereal and SHR between cartoons. (then go bike riding with my friends later on.) One of the many hi-lights of my childhood growing up in the 70's / 80's..... Interplanet Janet was one of my favorites, btw. The word-play lyrics and that beautiful voice from Lynn Ahrens was just awesome. Blossom Dearie did other songs. love both their voices! 👍🏼
I've been an astronomy nerd since I was born and going up this was one of my favorite videos on School House Rock.
"Interjection!" is tops with "Interplanet Janet" a nanometre behind, followed by "Figure Eight" for its haunting melody and ending reference to infinity.
Those three are all great. Also Elementary (the song about the twos), the song about the fives, Conjunction Junction, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, the Constitution (easiest way to remember the preamble by far), and I'm Just a Bill. And a bunch of others I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Oh the nostalgia I drove my mom crazy with schoolhouse rock😂 we were just talking about it I was 7 now I'm 18 time flies
When Janet is at the sun that is the most lit part of this song. "Its a hotspot, its a GAS!!!" JUST SO MANY BARS!!
Okay my mom is 29 and my grandma is 45 and she would always force me before school to watch the videos and DVDs and I memorized almost all the songs by heart 😂
You had to be forced? Man, this stuff was better than the cartoons when I was a kid... still is, I reckon! Considering the state of cartoons in the '70s, that's really not much of an exaggeration, either: they made some really terrible ones on ultra-low budgets at the time, even the few that stood the test of time, like Scooby Doo, the Pink Panther, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, reeked of '70s cheapness, and when '70s cartoons were bad, they were ABYSMAL! :D Anyway, Schoolhouse Rock was usually the highlight of commercial breaks between After School Specials and Saturday Morning Cartoons through the '70s and early '80s....
I remember watching this in elementary school
That means your teacher was either a Boomer who wanted you to know the cool stuff Boomers did, or a GenXer who wanted you to be another GenXer
@@secularmonk5176 I’m glad I did too I was watch this and magic school bus I’m glad I was born before It got washed over
oh really?? get in line
I said the word hydrogen this morning.
That often triggers wanting to say it like Interplanet Janet because.
“Hy-dro-gen and he-li-um”
Which made me launch into the refrain of the song:
“Interplanet Janet she’s a Galaxy Girl!
A solar system whiz from a future wo-orld”
Which made me want to hear the whole thing, which I haven't heard in years.
Thanks, UA-cam!
And hearing it again, I’m reminded of how wicked good the melodies are, especially for the intro verses. It’s a silly song with a Carpenters meet Andrew Lloyd Weber gravitas.
This song will now be stuck in your head. Forever.
Me:”Hand me the AUX cord.”
My friend: “You better not play crap.”
Me:
Just one of the reasons why my childhood was wonderful. :)
40 years old and still Magical
I'm 58 now. This brings back some fond memories growing up. I wanna say I was 11 when I was watching that show.
This song was so fast paced, that I always wet my pants 😆 everytime I listen to this Schoolhouse Rock song back when I was kid, thankfully I was still wearing pull-ups so I was good.
I’m mad i didn’t grow up with this particular one!!
The world was definitely a friendlier place back when Pluto was still a planet. Well, at least you still have this song!
RIP. NEVER FORGET PLUTO
This was my fave when I was little, came back to see if it lived up to my memory, am not disappointed
Back in the 60s when me and my friends were getting high in the desert, I think I saw Interplanet Janet. She was beautiful, man..
But...Janet didn't appear until 1978. Are you sure you weren't seeing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
When I was a kid and saw this one, l would say, "That's impossible. I thought the Universe went on forever, and that only God knows where ever thing is. How
can she know how many planets there are." 🤔
Lol, I got confused by “there’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen” because that would mean she’d have to be on or near every planet the exact second it formed and that seemed very illogical.
@@flowerfaerie8931 yeah and that simply the obversable universe when scientists have hypothesized that the actual universe is like 970 sextillion times bigger than the observable universe
@Will N Yes but if there’s NEVER been a planet Janet hasn’t seen, then she’d have to be everywhere at once, otherwise once a planet formed there would be one she hadn’t seen until she got there to look at it.
I mean the song did say Janet's from the future. We don't know how far in the future she's from; it could very well be a time long after the last planet has died and she already had plenty of time to visit every planet in existence in the meanwhile.
The real answer is that I think some of y'all are looking too deep into Schoolhouse Rock lore lol
@@flowerfaerie8931 if she saw the big bang she would have seen every planet that ever could and ever would exist
These people were brilliant songwriters. Great memories.
*dances in the middle of the literal Sun*
*complains about the temperature in Mercury*
LOGIC
heat vs humidity
also atmospheric pressure can affect temperature
I remembered all these School House Rock shorts
Kenny Rogers was right: if you want to get your message across to someone, then all you have to do is SING it.
(I don't want to say HOW MANY) decades later, I can still recite the planets in the solar system because of this.
I probably commented this ages ago, but as a kid I really wanted a whole cartoon series about the stylish-but-tomboyish Interplanet Janet and her adventures flying around the universe, meeting funny aliens and playing baseball with her friends. Sort of a cross between the Care Bears in Space episodes and My Life as a Teenage Robot. I still think it would make a good series.
I do not remember this song slapping so hard
This was and is still my favorite from Schoolhouse Rock.
Venus is the name of a song performed by 🍌rama and the brand of women's razor blades. This song is bouncy and energetic at the same time. I love Astronomy so much, because it's my favorite subject in Science. NOT just the human body alone. This song goes through me. *cry Lynn Ahrens nailed it well.
I love this Schoolhouse classic! One of my favorites as a child...
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away....
I think she's a droid
She's not the droid you're looking for.
She sounds like a droid she pretty much a robot look at her body!
DaisyChan792 yep
She a human rocket!
I love this song ... When i was little
My favorite schoolhouse rock!!
*R.I.P. Pluto (1930-2006)*
One of the main hotties of the show, along with Sarah Suffrage and Becky Sue
I'm a 54 year old retired combat veteran who still finds myself singing this at the oddest times...thanks Schoolhouse Rock lol
*(NUMBER 8):* Number 8, that galaxy girl: "Interplanet Janet."
Yes
@@jacobhoney4768that’s why "Interplanet Janet's" voted on the 8th part from "The Best Of Schoolhouse Rock: 30th Anniversary Edition Top 25."
Pluto will never be forgotten "sob, sniff". Our little planet brother! :(
Quit your sobbing, it's a planet fetus so it cant be classed as a planet. Ive it a few million years to finish colliding with the thousands of other rocks that are its size or larger which orbit in its path and it will have formed into a proper planet. You're not weapong for the dead, you're crying for the yet to be born.
this was my favorite one omg
Nostalgia Overload!🥹 Watched this too many times to count on our single household TV.
🎶Hydrogen and Helium in a big bright glowing mass...
It's profoundly descriptive and accurate. Beautifully sang. This was always one of my favorites. Apparently it still is
I love this one
Always been my favorite Schoolhouse rock song
Janet shook her head when the singer said Pluto was the smallest planet. Of course Janet knew. Still love me some Pluto though.
I'm going to show this to my niece to show her it's okay to make mistakes when learning as long as you can correct them and move forward. However Pluto will always be in my heart. It even has a heart on it.
Since the astronomer who coined the term "dwarf planet" meant for it to be a third category of planet (which I agree with, because dwarf planets are spherical and have stable, consistent orbits), it could be said we have a different number of planets the _other_ way. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Orcus, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Quaoar, and Sedna so far make sixteen planets. By time I'm gone, there probably will be at least two dozen discovered (including a possible gas giant far off in the distance). The coolest part is, Orcus is actually a counter-Pluto (shares Pluto's orbit but 180 degrees on the opposite side of the sun from it, the first counter-planet discovered).
My favorite!!!
One of my favorite childhood songs thank you mom for introducing me
You gotta give Schoolhouse Rock credit for finding a pronunciation of Uranus that couldn't be taken as a dumb joke.
to avoid the butt jokes
And a genuinely good one that actually sounds natural rather than the incredibly forced “I’m trying so hard not to make an ass joke” pronunciation I keep hearing. (It’s something like “YUR-in-uhs” and I HATE IT like for God’s sake just say “your anus.”)
We didn't do that back then.
The proper Latin pronouciation!
This is what got me addicted to Nova
Watching these videos takes me back to my childhood back in the early and mid 90s on Saturday mornings. After the Tweety and bugs Bunny show schoolhouse rock would come on