Huh WHAT?? What’s the “logic” behind that?
“Oh, the mailman is a person in your neighborhood,
In your neighborhood . . .
. . .
They’re the people that you meet
When you’re walking down the street
They’re the people that you meet each day!”
I get the Snuffy thing, but unless there’s some part of the song I’m forgetting, I don’t see anything harmful in this song. (Then again, I’m neither a parent nor a pedophile.)
Sheesh.
Stranger Danger, I’m guessing. If you talk to the people in your neighborhood, after all, you’ll end up kidnapped and sold into child sex slavery before you can say “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”.
Wow! I had no idea about Roosevelt Franklin, but he’s a badass.
Ah, so you grew up in reverse! Tell me, how does it feel to be in 1907?
Well, that was the reaction I had to it as a kid in the 90s. I wasn’t the only one; the most popular event at my Cub Scout troop’s pine box derby was the one where we got to shoot at life-sized-cardboard-cutout Barney.
You know what I miss in Sesame Street? (and yeah, I watch it sometimes when I’m getting ready for work in the morning…)
When they would do the number of the day thing and at the end there’d be a chef carrying pies and he’d slip and they’d fall all over him.
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“8 Banana Cream pies!” * **slip splat.
Yeah, its old, but as a kid that cracked me up. Guess I was easy to entertain back then. 
I’m with you. Burn the negatives NOW!
:rolleyes:
See, that one always upset me and made me feel so bad for that nice chef. There he was, all proud of his beautiful creations, and then he fell down and they got ruined. And no one would ever get to enjoy them. All that work for nothing.
Boy, I still feel bad for him . . .
I know someone who was traumatized by that bit. She just felt sorry for him and each time she hoped that he would make it.
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Holy simul-post Batman!
Y’all know the chef in those shorts was actually Jim Henson, right?
No. That’s just silly.
What isn’t silly is to recognize that times change, that children get different messages from tv than sometimes the writers/producers/actors/etc. anticipate, and that the line between quirky and outrageous (or informative and provocative–as with the breastfeeding mentioned upthread) is fluid and often filled with shades of grey. Heck, someone claims that the audience is different–Sesame Street was once aimed at an older crowd than it is today.
All of which means that I agree with the idea that parents/educators/etc. should be warned via warning labels that the show as produced 30+ years ago was produced to different standards than it is today, despite maintaining the same basic goal–to teach and entertain children.
But don’t rewrite history–don’t pretend that there was never a time when Cookie Monster smoked a pipe. Acknowledge it, don’t apologize for it, and move on. And capitalize on that nostalgia market while you are at it.
Ah yes, “modelling good behavior.” Thank goodness I was raised by my parents instead of their TV - our first set died when I was young, so I’d be an orphan!
The funny thing is, I do remember banging my head on my grandparents’ piano a la [del]peanut butter sandwiches[/del] Don Music. I had the good sense never to do it HARD, so nothing ever came of it. I’m sure I was not the only child who was so brilliant.
I didn’t. A cool bit of Trivia.
It’s Jim Henson’s voice, it’s not actually Jim himself. But the kid who is in most of those clips counting the coins that fall out of his piggy bank is Brian Henson.
Having just watched one of those segments on YouTube, I concede that you’re right. I could have sworn the baker had a beard and looked just like Henson, but apparently not.
:smack:
Hey! I have already passed that falsehood along. Now I’m gonna look silly. 
Sorry! 
In my defense, I was absolutely convinced it was true until I looked up some videos of it…it’s funny the things your brain thinks it remembers…
No worries. I look silly often enough no one will even notice this one.
I actually like Elmo, but I like Cookie and Telly better. I also loved Mister Hooper.
As corny and pathetic as it sounds, I think I really understood about death when they explained to Big Bird that he wasn’t coming back.
(Oh, and the SS movies-remember Big Bird in China? Or, Don’t Eat the Pictures?)
Linky pretty please? I tried searching on “sesame street chef” and the only hits were for bork bork bork.
I don’t remember those but I have seen parts of a very bizarre one–“Follow that Bird.” A social worker comes and thinks that Big Bird needs to be among his own kind–other muppet birds, I guess, so she sends him off to live with a, uh, challenging…no, wait, challenged, family. The dodo family.