The problem is that Sesame Street used to be aimed at 4-8 year olds, but now its audience has changed and it’s mostly 2-4 year olds, so they have to alter their approach to cater for that.
Yeah, you don’t want kids eating pipe.
This is the most absurd thread, I have ever seen. (If it’s real.)
I think I might go read some Kafka, it feels more comfortable than this alternate reality.
Your cultural bias is showing.
It is?! ::adjusts shirt::
Next, they’ll be saying that Mr. Green Jeans made you gay.
No, I think that was Mr. Leather Chaps.
Pussies. The fall of Rome. And all that.
I liked it when they could see Snuffy, because then he got more air-time.
Didn’t they have Cookie become the “vegetable monster” awhile ago, or try to? For godsakes, the dude once ate an entire christmas tree-of course he’d eat veggies.
This episode was recently on YouTube, and was removed for inappropriate material. :rolleyes: X a million.
We have the first season SS Old School DVDs, and my husband loves watching them with our 15 month old because we both detest how the new SS has basically become Elmo’s World. The toddler is also getting the second season DVDs for Christmas from his grandparents.
Cookie Monster, despite his first name, will eat anything. In 2005, rumors abounded that Mr. Monster was going to be changed to the “vegetable monster” and had changed his signature tune to A Cookie is a Sometime Food. In actuality, it was Hoots the Owl who sang the song, informing Cookie Monster of this fact. Cookie, of course, didn’t pay attention, asking at the end of the song: “Is now sometime?” In a 2006 episode of Sesame Street, this was satirized with a sketch in which Matt Lauer interviewed Cookie Monster, where he had this to say: “You members of the media blow story way out of proportion. Me still like cookies…[but fruit] delicious. It healthy. Me still eat cookies, like me world-famous for doing, but now me eat other things, too.” Cookie also told Martha Stewart on her talk show that just because he likes to eat things other than cookies doesn’t mean he’s changing his name to Brussels Sprouts Monster. I recall very much Cookie’s 1988 Run-DMC spoof Healthy Food, but as this Muppet Wiki page shows, he’s eaten other foods earlier than that: the page shows a 1976 Milton Bradley puzzle depicting Cookie atop a pile of fruit, and also makes mention of a reference by Jim Henson to this Ad Council PSA. Dating back to 1974, this may be the first instance of Cookie Monster giving a nutrition message. He states, “Monster no can eat only cookies and be healthy.” As we can clearly see, Cookie Monster likes to eat a balanced diet- and a truckload of cookies. Mr. Monster was unable for comment on this story, but his press office gave the following cryptic statement: “Me not able to talk now. Me eating COOKIES! Om nom nom nom nom. Om nom nom nom nom. Nom nom. Nom. Ahh.”
Note on that article for the language geeks among us.
Jesus…in 40 years our society is going to be run by a generation of the most humorless, stick-in-their-ass adults we’ve seen in a long time.
[cheap, obvious joke about current administation unavailable due to writers’ strike- please try again later]
Now that’s actually a good point.
wow i never new ss has been running for 40+ years. I used to watch it in the early 90’s. Now i feel ripped off that it wasn’t as out there as earlyer eps.
No, that was Cowboy Curtis!
(Sesame Street was way before my time. I’m belong to the *Howdy Doody * generation.)
Might I remind everyone that they took away Don Music because he bashed his head on the piano when he couldn’t remember lyrics to common nursery rhymes and songs? That was considered bad behavior and apparently sparked wild rage in parents (and children alike – they started bashing their heads on pianos when practicing…) and the segments were pulled. Sadness.
Look him up on You Tube. Lots of his segments are up there. Hero to all composers out there.
Nah, for some reason kids today are subjected to the blandest crap. I can’t beileve anyone would think Cookie Monster with a pipe is a no no. What they should be against is Barney the dinosaur. It was years ago, but I sat and watched that with my friend’s kid once…listen, kids may like it because they don’t have the life experience to realize its crap, but as an adult Barney almost sent me into a homicidal rage demanding the heads of my enemies on poles while i chainsawed my way through the local mall. AAARGHH!!!
I can’t remember where i heard it, but I once heard the character of Roosevelt Franklin was dropped because he was I guess an insult to minorities…and that they don’t do the 'People in your neighborhood" song anymore because of pedophiles.
Holy crap, Lawrence Fishburne is openly gay! I think if I see him, I’m taking the blue pill- I don’t want to know how far the rabbit hole goes.