# Katy Perry on Sesame Street **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920 "2010-09-24T19:16:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/41 "2010-09-25T18:41:12Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Sesame Street stopped being a kids show when one of the muppets got the AIDS. When and where did this happen? The only HIV positive muppets I know of are on in various African countries where AIDS is an epidemic and one out of five kids have it- in which case it certainly is a children’s issue and needs to be addressed. RE Katy Perry I’m on dial up and can’t see the video on YouTube. I did see bits of it on some infotainment show. I thought Perry looked fine. I loved her response to the whole thing. She sent out a public e-mail saying she hoped to be on Sesame Street again and ending with “Tag, Elmo, you’re it!” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/42 "2010-09-25T18:58:48Z")
The most offensive part of the video is at the end when she pulls some red hairs out of her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/43 "2010-09-25T20:15:34Z")
What the…? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/44 "2010-09-25T20:31:36Z")
j/k ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/45 "2010-09-25T23:04:33Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > Are you fucking kidding me? My _classmates_ wore racier stuff than that. > > Um, that dress is **rubber**. What school did you go to?!?! A ghetto one in central Phoenix. I saw short skirts, plenty of cleavage and got an eyeful of thong from the girl who sat in front of me every day during Social Studies my freshman year I miss that class. 😃 Edit: No, I don’t want to look at 14-year old girls. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/46 "2010-09-26T02:38:15Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > Are you fucking kidding me? My _classmates_ wore racier stuff than that. > > Um, that dress is **rubber**. What school did you go to?!?! Is it? It doesn’t look like rubber. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/47 "2010-09-26T02:44:11Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Sesame Street stopped being a kids show when one of the muppets got the AIDS. The muppet was HIV-positive and was only introduced in South Africa, where, as somebody has already mentioned, HIV is most certainly an issue directly affecting children. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/48 "2010-09-26T08:17:43Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > [@DWMarch](#): > > > > Um, that dress is **rubber**. What school did you go to?!?! > > Is it? It doesn’t look like rubber. Ultra HQ picture. It’s definitely latex. > **[ImageVenue.com - 75307\_14\_122\_172lo.jpg](https://www.imagevenue.com/view/o/?i=75307_14_122_172lo.jpg&h=img37)** > > Image Hosting, Image Upload, Picture Hosting ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/49 "2010-09-26T08:27:26Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > > Is it? It doesn’t look like rubber. > > Ultra HQ picture. It’s definitely latex. > > [ImageVenue.com - 75307\_14\_122\_172lo.jpg](http://img37.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=75307_14_122_172lo.jpg) Thank you for providing that photograph for, uh, study. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/50 "2010-09-26T15:11:33Z")
I think it was brilliant. Katy Perry, whose real skill is self-promotion through sightly risque behavior (her first 2 popular songs were “I kissed a girl” and “UR so gay”, gets some publicity. Think about it, name another guest star on Sesame Street in the last 7-10 years, especially one whose appearance made the nightly news and the internet light up. Sesame Street, which is now in its 40s, dealing with competition from 24 hour children’s cable channels and has been losing ratings to newer programs and parents defecting due to the “elmo-ization” of the show. Leak a video to youtube and all of the sudden you are news again on the eve of the new season. Very calculated and very smart, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/51 "2010-09-26T15:22:29Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > > Is it? It doesn’t look like rubber. > > Ultra HQ picture. It’s definitely latex. > > [ImageVenue.com - 75307\_14\_122\_172lo.jpg](http://img37.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=75307_14_122_172lo.jpg) Mmmm. So it is. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/52 "2010-09-26T16:27:59Z")
Cleavage aside, as soon as I saw it I knew it was just too much skin for Sesame Street. Google image search of Sesame Street’s Gina. She occasionally wears a conservatively cut V neck - and that’s about as much skin that has ever been on Sesame. I’m not a parent that would complain or even care, but this clearly wasn’t in line with their standards. For some reason, that’s not a popular opinion. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/53 "2010-09-27T02:39:17Z")
It’s a little racy for Sesame Street, but this is really not that important. It’s a gray area, not a blatant violation. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/54 "2010-09-27T05:00:44Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > > [@Drum\_God](#): > > > > More like a temptress in a C cup. > > This episode was brought to you by the letter C. " ‘C’ is for ‘cookie’, that’s good enough for me!" Now I am visualizing Cookie monster performing an extremely inappropriate act with Ms. Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/55 "2010-09-27T05:18:30Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > > [@joebuck20](#): > > > > This episode was brought to you by the letter C. > > " ‘C’ is for ‘cookie’, that’s good enough for me!" > > Now I am visualizing Cookie monster performing an extremely inappropriate act with Ms. Perry. “N” is for nookie, that good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/56 "2010-09-28T16:40:45Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > > [@joebuck20](#): > > > > This episode was brought to you by the letter C. > > " ‘C’ is for ‘cookie’, that’s good enough for me!" > > Now I am visualizing Cookie monster performing an extremely inappropriate act with Ms. Perry. “M” is for motorboating, and that’s sure as hell good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/57 "2010-09-28T16:52:56Z")
Isn’t Sesame Street a descendent/spinoff of The Muppet Show? I know it’s meant for younger kids, but perhaps it’s worth remembering that the Muppets _frequently_ had racy/suggestive stuff on their show. Michelle Pfieffer on “The Muppet Show Tonight,” and a number of guests on the original program (who was the model who tried to get Fozzie Bear to go back to her green room for “tea”?) ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/58 "2010-09-28T17:30:48Z")
I think it’s cute that someone in this thread actually thought she was a b cup (or even a c). Katy Perry’s tits are probably more famous than she is and certainly at least a D, maybe a DD. [Her on the cover of Esquire](http://www.pickmeupnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Katy-Perry-Boobs-4.jpg) (sfw since it’s a magazine cover and she’s covering all the relevant bits, but just be aware she has no shirt on). [One with a shirt from the same shoot.](http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13500000/Katy-Perry-Esquire-UK-katy-perry-13525003-1163-1560.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/59 "2010-09-28T17:52:04Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Isn’t Sesame Street a descendent/spinoff of The Muppet Show? I know it’s meant for younger kids, but perhaps it’s worth remembering that the Muppets _frequently_ had racy/suggestive stuff on their show. Michelle Pfieffer on “The Muppet Show Tonight,” and a number of guests on the original program (who was the model who tried to get Fozzie Bear to go back to her green room for “tea”?) _Sesame Street_ predates _The Muppet Show_ by seven years, and the two were created by different people. In fact, Henson got on board well after _Sesame Street_ was in development, and had to be convinced to even do a kid’s show. ([More info](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sesame_Street)) ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920/60 "2010-09-28T18:09:52Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I think it’s cute that someone in this thread actually thought she was a b cup (or even a c). Katy Perry’s tits are probably more famous than she is and certainly at least a D, maybe a DD. > > [Her on the cover of Esquire](http://www.pickmeupnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Katy-Perry-Boobs-4.jpg) (sfw since it’s a magazine cover and she’s covering all the relevant bits, but just be aware she has no shirt on). > > [One with a shirt from the same shoot.](http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13500000/Katy-Perry-Esquire-UK-katy-perry-13525003-1163-1560.jpg) D is for cookie, that’s good enough for me. Yow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perry-on-sesame-street/554920.md?page=4)