Editing The Electric Company (section)

==Selected recurring characters==
* The Blond-Haired Cartoon Man ([[Mel Brooks]]): a character who would read words appearing on screen. However, they often showed up in the wrong order or made no sense. Thus, the character would resort to correcting the words.
* The Blue Beetle (Jim Boyd): a bungling superhero who often made matters worse instead of better when he tried to help; he often challenged Spider-Man.
* Clayton: a [[claymation]] character, animated by [[Will Vinton]], who commented on the previous skit or introduced a new concept.
* The Corsican Twins (Skip Hinnant and Jim Boyd): twin swashbuckler brothers who taught phonics. Whenever either brother hurt himself, the other one felt the pain and reacted accordingly.
* Dr. Doolots (Luis Ávalos): a parody of [[Doctor Dolittle]] and [[Groucho Marx]] who used words to cure his patients.
* Easy Reader ([[Morgan Freeman]]): a smooth hipster who loves reading and is associated with Valerie the Librarian ([[Hattie Winston]]) and Vi (Lee Chamberlin) in her diner. The character's name was a pun on the movie ''[[Easy Rider]]''.
* Fargo North, Decoder ([[Skip Hinnant]]): an [[Inspector Clouseau]]-type detective who decoded scrambled word messages and phrases for clients. His name was a pun based on [[Fargo, North Dakota]].
* J. Arthur Crank (Jim Boyd): a plaid-wearing grouchy character, who interrupted sketches to complain when spellings or pronunciations confused him.
* Lorelei the Chicken (Jim Boyd): an animated chicken who appeared in live-action scenes. She was a caricature of actress [[Carol Channing]].
* Mel Mounds ([[Morgan Freeman]]): a disc jockey who introduced songs, usually by the Short Circus.
* The Monsters: Werewolf (Jim Boyd), Frankenstein (Skip Hinnant), and Dracula (Morgan Freeman).
* Millie the Helper ([[Rita Moreno]]): an eager-beaver trainee working at various jobs. She was the first to shout, ''"Hey, you '''GUYS!"'''''—a phrase that was eventually incorporated into the opening credits. The character's name is likely a reference to a character on [[The Dick Van Dyke Show#Characters|''The Dick van Dyke Show'']].
* Otto the Director (Rita Moreno): a short-tempered film director, a take off of [[Otto Preminger]] who tried in vain to get her actors to say their lines correctly, with the help of a cue card to highlight the word they kept missing.
* Pandora the Brat (Rita Moreno): Bratty-but-lovable blonde girl who tried to outwit the adults around her.
* Paul the Gorilla (Jim Boyd): the sidekick of Jennifer of the Jungle; named after head writer [[Paul Dooley]].
* Vincent the Vegetable Vampire (Morgan Freeman): a send-up of [[Dracula]] who was obsessed with eating vegetables.

The adult cast also had recurring roles as [[Spider-Man]] (Danny Seagren) (seasons 4–6 (1974–1977)), J.J. (Skip Hinnant), Carmela (Rita Moreno), Brenda (Lee Chamberlin) (seasons 1–2 (1971–1973)), Mark (Morgan Freeman), Hank (Bill Cosby) (seasons 1–2 (1971–1973)), Roberto (Luis Ávalos) (seasons 2–6 (1972–1977)), Winnie (Judy Graubart), Andy (Jim Boyd), and Sylvia (Hattie Winston) (seasons 3–6 (1973–1977)).