The chorus of the song uses the melody from George Frideric Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from the oratorio Messiah, which is also played at the end.
Producer Radford Stone voices the first irate football fan who yells, "Aw! You threw the wrong way!" He recorded it in six takes. Designer and producer Tom Yohe's son, Tom Yohe Jr., voiced Reginald, songwriter Lynn Ahrens played the teen girl who gets an A+ on her report card, and Yohe's daughter, Lauren Yohe, plays the famous cheerleader at the finale who says, "Darn! That's the end!"
Voted #5 on the top 25 all-time favorite "Schoolhouse Rock!" songs.