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

[insanity-speaks.livejournal.com]

I just read that article. When did America become so pussified? Seriously? Cookie Monster can't gorge on cookies anymore? Showing an innocent scenario of a grown up helping a child is wrong? Are we that afraid of every person that we can't show kids what its like to be innocent? Oh no, Oscar the grouch is *gasp* grouchy....we can't show that negativity. Fuck off, seriously. They did nothing to me. I never once thought twice about what I saw when I was a kid. It was innocent....and fun. Parents just need to be fucking parents again. /rant

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

- shoot me now.

Fucking brilliant. - pardon my language; fuckingly brilliant...

[warkitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is why our generation looks at the Gen Y parents and fights the urge to slap them silly. I mean, this level of coddling is just idiotic. This is what causes little girls to get suspended for giving a couple friends a hug.

[gymorama.livejournal.com]

It really is sad where the country has gone in the last 30 years. I don't care if kids might die from head trauma, you need to play in abandoned lots and fall off bikes and get a skinned elbow. I see kids wearing bicycle helmets now and think of them as targets. I see their parents showing them they can do it too and want to help them test the effectiveness. if this is the future, I don't want to live this long. Sure glad it makes more room on the airwaves for reality tv... Fuckin' A! (..is for assholes, that's good enough for me)

[el-jefe59.livejournal.com]

I read that earlier. How ridiculous!

[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.