Plot

Today on The Electric Company, the football player says "kick".

What better way to kick off the episode with the letter K at both ends of the word "kick"? The male cast (Morgan Freeman, Luis Avalos, Skip Hinnant, and Jimmy Boyd) participate in a football game to show the cheering audience a different kind of kick - a kick line! Rita Moreno, in her Pandora the Brat persona, sings "I Get a Kick out of K", after which the big white K on the stage kicks her. Then, the cast sneaks out from behind a lamppost to place letters on the ground and form K words like "kid" and "kit". The next topic is the EA vowel combination making the long E sound. Judy Graubart stars as Mean Betty Jean in a car advertisement, and Paul the Gorilla (Jimmy Boyd) holds up two fingers to read the onscreen word "peace". Next it's the sight word "it's" - with an apostrophe, as in, "It's the plumber. I've come to fix the sink". Jennifer of the Jungle interrupts her simian friend Paul from his reading to show him how to turn the sentence "it is a coconut" into "it's a coconut" with an apostrophe. Afterward, she rewards him with a coconut, but he panics at the sight of a banana! Apparently, he's a little wary of bananas ever since he read "The Beastly Banana", a comic book in which the Mad Scientist (Freeman) tries to lure Paul into his lab with that particular fruit, but Spider-Man (Danny Seagren) rescues him. Paul makes one last appearance to assist Hinnant in demonstrating the effects of silent E and the difference between the words "rip" and "ripe". Scanimate words include "pin/pine" and "quit/quite".

Tune in next time when the girl says "wrinkle".