Head - Meet Desk

[mynewplace]

No wonder I hated watching Sesame Street with Scarlett.  Elmo always made me wanna puke, but I thought it was just because I was grown up. Now I know the truth - I was jaded and hardened by my years on the Street.  The ORIGINAL Street. 

Caution - this article discusses the original Sesame Street episodes, which are deemed unfit for today's toddlers.  

Pablum, anyone?

Comments

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

But do you remember the uproar that certain factions had about Sesame Street (well, maybe you don't; this might have been when you-all were toddlers) - the right-wing nutso faction hated that Spanish was being taught; that the cast was multi-cultural; that children talked to puppets instead of to God... Sesame Street was very radical in its time.

But you're right: the old Sesame Street was MUCH better than the sanitized version. It's still better than most of the other children's programming, though.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I really DON'T remember that. But I LOVED the fact that I got some Spanish that way. I've always had an ear for languages even if I don't speak them, and I have a fantastic accent when I speak what little I know. (Not to brag, just that I've had a lot of Spanish-speaking people tell me so when I worked at the phone company.)

Hearing it so early on Sesame Street could very well be the reason.