Voltage, current and resistance without the water-pipe analogy, Ohm's law actually worked rather than merely mentioned, and why audio is alternating current riding on nothing at all.
Nearly every explanation of electricity for musicians reaches for water in pipes, and the analogy does more harm than good: it makes current feel like a substance being used up, which leads to a set of wrong intuitions about what happens in a circuit.
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