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Did 'The Electric Company' jump the shark in the 3rd/last season?


*Lisa was hardly apart of the show anymore (thus Jessica was left as the only girl on the "Electric Company" team). I'm assuming that Jenni Barber was busy w/ other commitments, hence they explained that she was "away at science camp" (or appeared in occasional vignettes).

*They added Marcus (w/ too much time spent on Marcus "learning the ropes") and Gilda, which to me, boarders on entering "Cousin Oliver syndrome".

*Animated Francine stopped hosting w/ the "Prankster Planet" segments at the end of the episodes.

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I never knew there was a third season... kept coming back to this page and just today noticed a season 3 listing from 2011...did they hold these episodes back until recently?

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Well, there were 52 episodes produced from 2009-2011. Season 1 had 28 episodes spanning from January 2009 to October 2009. Season 2 had 12 episodes spanning from January 2010 to May 2010. And Season 3 also had 12 episodes spanning from February 2011 to April 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Electric_Company_(2009_TV_series)_episodes

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I think that looking back Lisa's absence really hurt to show more than anything because she was kind of the "moral center" of the Electric Company. Her sunny, smart, nice girl character served as a perfect counterbalance to the devious, eccentric Francine.

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