The recent passage of the Healthcare bill has saved the endangered School House Rock video about how a bill becomes a law from revision. The video, officially titled “I’m Just a Bill,” has been used to teach children about the legislative process since it first aired in 1975. Since then the video has come under increased scrutiny and criticism for being wildly inaccurate. School House Rock officials have proposed updating the video to include new characters such as Frank the Filibuster, Rocky Reconciliation, and Carl the Corporate Interest Lobbyist; however, with the recent passage, such ideas have been shelved. One School House Rock official has been quoted as saying, “The passage of Healthcare has been a big boost to us. Now we can justify feeding children this unrealistic crap for at least another decade.”
Critics of the video are unhappy with the plan and plan to protest by drinking caffeinated beverages and being quite civil outside School House Rock offices throughout the country. The group, “Teach the Process,” rumored to be funded by educational strategist and billionaire Some Dude You’ve Never Heard Of, plans to provide jackets and top hats as well as free coaching in British accents. Critics are concerned that, if we continue to teach children such a narrow and simplistic version of legislation, children will become jaded and cynical of the democratic process when they come to realize that good ideas never become law and that we’d be in less debt if we just forced corporations to pay the government directly for the legislation they want. School House Rock officials have responded to the criticism level at them by pointing out that teenage angst and cynicism is a vital part of the entertainment industry and goes hand in hand with such other crushing realizations as being a dateless loser who will complain about legislative process videos and that vampires’ tits don’t actually sparkle.
There is still no word on whether the Computer Rock series will be updated to include pretentious douchebags at Starbucks and people who make way too big of a deal about being able to run every piece of software. Rumors speculate that there is absolutely no intention to mention the Internet or the ability to use computers without punchcards.






