The Electric Company: The Director and the Musketeer

[sunnyblonde2118]

Poor Rita Moreno is getting frustrated w/ Bill Cosby as he messes up his lines!  Judy kept it together holding up the cue cards!

[DarkAllureFilms]

Wonderful!!!

[Crispalky]

Fantastic;)

[Charla1606]

Love this 1!! Especially Morgan cracking up at end!

[sha11235]

Should've put her boot up his ass.

[AlanaCicchi]

Judy Graubart reminds me far moreso of Gilda Radner than she did Rita.

[dejahthoris]

KIDS TV WAS TOTALLY ROCKING BACK IN OUR DAY!

[sha11235]

Here's something funny: Notice how the Muskeeteer sometimes enters with the sword wrong? The director doesn't cut the action. Guess that didn't bother her ass.

"All for me and nothing for you." Sounds like George W. Bush.

[DRIVEIN101]

"All for you, and nothing for yourself!" Priceless humor from the Cos!

[sha11235]

@DRIVEIN101 Know what? That doesn't even make sense.

[dejahthoris]

@sha11235 what this was the 70's- not that long ago!

[mcog2006]

I remember these from so long ago, gosh, I feel like a dinosaur.

[travisandlisa1]

Rita Moreno is fantastic as this Director character. Thank God we had such great TV in the 70s!

[pictureisup1]

classic Bill Cosby

[DJ1SCY]

1:35 did she say what I think she said?

[columbusmozart]

@DJ1SCY

No, she said "flubbing that line".

[DLCOrganization]

"ALL FOR YOU... and NOTHING for your-SELF!"

MAJOR CRACK-UP FACTOR!

Even Morgan Freeman couldn't help it anymore

(and that was BEFORE he said the line)!

> Professor DLC

[sha11235]

@DLCOrganization It doesn't even make sense. At least the others had a point. 

[DLCOrganization]

That's the WHOLE IDEA, Sha!

(Even the short duration of the otherwise wacky music makes no sense!)

> Professor DLC

[sha11235]

@DLCOrganization No, the music worked with the idea of a musketeer in my opinion. It sounded like a brave march, which is what the character was supposed to do in his entrance.

[DLCOrganization]

True indeed.

But I'm talking about HOW LONG the music was,

not they style of it (even though I did say it was wacky).

> Professor DLC

[CadillacL]

Is there any more of the "director" sketches?

[coolsweetgroovy]

Judy Graubary looks so much like She could be Rita Moreno's little sister

[coolsweetgroovy]

Sorry I meant Graubart I misspelled her name

[TheCatgirl6]

I LOVED these "angry director" skits--they were always my favorite part of the EC episodes (and that was saying something). If I recall correctly Freeman's character, Marcello, came in for a great deal of ongoing abuse from Rita's director character as time went on. Falling-down funny stuff.

[absoluteabsence]

Hilarious! Cosby & Moreno are great in this one...Cosby as the brain dead musketeer! And watching Morgan crack up is totally a riot as well!

[flowertrue]

Hahahaha! She kicked him! How I miss those golden days of childrens television!

[yogafan6500]

" All for you, and nothing for yourself!!"

[Mrnestorh]

"All for me and nothing for you". Apparently Cosby was studying the philosophy of Ayn Rand at  the time

[odinata]

Now I understand why I'm neurotic.

[cmulwee001]

I have heard that Morgan's sudden breakout in laughter was not scripted.

The Story goes, that they(in real life, not what we see here), were going to do aonther take on the "last take", but Freeman could'nt stop laughing, so it was left as it was. Makes it more funny to watch his character to start laughing hysterically when he had been all serious up to that point.

[stanleypoint8]

HAHAHAHAHAH. RITA IS IT! I miss her so much in this character, which she portrayed with such gusto and conviction! hahahaha- Manila, Philippines

[unitron]

1:30 lol Dir:"Its already past midnight" - cos agrees: "Its late ..."

[UdoShan]

"All for me, and NOTHING for you!"

Sounds good to me!

[thetickler1206]

This was the BEST skit they ever made! I love watching this...it was funny back in the day, but now that we're older and actually know who these ppl are, it's even funnier seeing them when they first started out. Kudos for bringing back a childhood memory that's STILL funny to this day!

[pazzensutra]

Thirty five years since I last saw this, and it is funnier now than it was then. What is with the idiots in television today, and why can they not make funny shows like this anymore? Also, it is said that Morgan hated being on this show, and doesn't like to talk about it. WRONG! All these people were wonderful on this show. Thanks guys, for all that you did. Here we are, 2009, and we're still digging it! What's that tell ya? Hilarious.

[puppyshoes]

Not this skit, but a lot of the skits were straight out of Minsky's

[puppyshoes]

Not this one, but a lot of the skits were right out of Minsky's

[mcog2006]

Oh man, I remember that. Wow, no actor could ever get the lines right.

[lithead]

"All for you and Nothing for yourself!"

We have been quoting that to each other for 30 years! Thank you.

[mikejaysmith]

I do love the director bits a lot. Have me tickled a lot over it!!!

Some of my favorites are the I Do one and the confession one. Are there any more director bits that we can see?

[zacandtaylorrule]

I totally remember this. Morgan Freeman is losing it at the end. I think I would have too. When Bill came in and lifted his foot at the end it was hysterical.

[DLCOrganization]

I remember CRACKING UP to the last line

as a youth... for about 5 minutes AFTER the fact.

> Professor DLC

[sha11235]

@zacandtaylorrule How about his pants? Very stylish for the time.

[artlove94]

Did you see the people in the backround giggling

[cscentrlvideos]

Morgan Freeman giggling in the end is priceless!

[CP359]

I don't remember seeing this one, but I do remember the Green Giant sketch, where the Director can't get the actor to say the famous line, "From the valley of the Jolly (ho ho ho) Green Giant". He keeps saying a different color! Silly stuff, but a great memory! Watching Morgan Freeman lose it here is hysterical! Thanks for posting it.

[puppyshoes]

I remember that on the last season

[hotwriter36]

I'm sorry guys after viewing this a couple of times, it definitely looks like an outtake because first of all Bill Cosby pauses for a few seconds then raises his boots instead of taking out his sword. Morgan's laughter seems a bit spontaneous.

[CygnusRoc]

I forgot all about this one...that was hilarious.

[MondoBeno]

This could have been a Sesame Street skit, and the word of the day could have been "STUPIDITY".

[crispycritterz]

Judy and Morgan both crack-up, but Morgan is worse at hiding it.

[patrickballoonman]

I don't know if this is the first "Director" segment, but I believe it's the only one in which there are four takes, while most or all of the others have only three.

[swarlock]

Morgan was the easiest person to crack up and drip to a puddle on the floor as Skip in a recent DVD I just bought.

[floppy2121]

"All for me and nothing for you!"

"All at the beginning and all at the end!"

"All for you and nothing for yourSELF!!"

Gall-freakin'-darned hilarious.

Thanks so much.

[Crotchrot]

It's interesting how they changed the casting after Bill left.. with Morgan becoming the cue card guy and Judy as the actress...

[flowertrue]

Probably because Rita was beating on the cue card with her pointer and it hurt their hands. She said in an interview that Morgan's hands were all bruised and bandaged from her beating on the cue cards.

[quincyhughes]

CLASSIC!!!

[mediaagent]

I am still cracking up after all these years...it's still funny. Morgan just cannot keep it together!

[nirrad0791]

oh man! i never noticed Morgan cracking up. That made me laugh even more

[testtubeerror]

ROFL! Hilarious!

[AlbieGray]

Rita Moreno always rocked as that director. Poor dear, she never won.

[ISNorden]

The director skits rocked...five stars!

[kll510]

It was great seeing Morgan Freeman cracking up at the end. Very funny

[easynorth]

I was especially fond of the line 'all for me and nothing for you'

[speech2005]

Do you have anymore Bill Cosby's skits from Electric Company's first season?

[DiAnno13]

Each of those *Jello Pudding* commercials must have taken nine months to make.

[Mktryk]

This was fantastic! Bill's flubbing the line and ad libbing pulling his boots was great as was Director Rita's yelling and self-pity at the end and what a great touch to leave in Judy's and Morgan's cutting up over those two geniuses! Thanks, prothwell!

[buglak]

i LOVE THIS TO.

[DiAnno13]

I love these outtakes.

[tncookies]

Actually, this isn't an outtake. This is how it appeared on the show. Cosby was flubbing the line on purpose. It was written that way as a joke. ;D (sorry, I couldn't resist.)

[heyheyheydude]

YES!! I was waitin' for this to appear on YouTube.