The Old Sesame Street is Now Apparently Too Offensive for Today's Children

[ranma8]

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It's amazing what they used to get away with. Everyone knows that cows cause obesity in children!

[Sanji07]

I just got done reading that from a link on Yahoo. O_o

[~darkelfgirl~]

What a coincidence. I just read it a few minutes ago and was like "huh?" Can you believe that? Look how the world has changed, tsk, tsk.

[Kanerou]

*rolls* I think it's hilarious. What more political (and social) correctness do we need? For goodness' sake, it's a TV show. Is it really that bad?

[Peanut]

Who would think that a large blue, googly eyed Cookie monster could encourage such "wrong behavior"? Or that a big yellow bird with schizophrenia could be scarring? No wonder they are inappropriate for young children. I mean clearly children would pick up on all of these things and become as messed up as myself and anyone else who saw Seasme street as a child.

[Stephen]

Moved to the right board.

[AsianBlossom]

I can't tell if that person was sarcastic or serious.

[bakura_fan]

wow...just...wow. o_o I grew up on Sesame Street...and i actually thought when cookie monster ate the pipe that it was HILARIOUS! I don't think I ever picked up on the fact that Snuffles was in Big Bird's imagination...
but yeah...serious, sarcastic...couldn't tell...

[Alexander]

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I wonder if by 2020 Super Mario Bros. will be considered unfriendly towards children.

[Technomancer]

Who would think that a large blue, googly eyed Cookie monster could encourage such "wrong behavior"?

That's pretty stupid. I mean little kids know you don't just eat cookies like that, and they know it's bad. That's why Cookie Monster was great, because he could do all sorts of things you couldn't. Also, Cookiepiece Theatre was just awesome.

[Peanut]

That's pretty stupid. I mean little kids know you don't just eat cookies like that, and they know it's bad. That's why Cookie Monster was great, because he could do all sorts of things you couldn't. Also, Cookiepiece Theatre was just awesome.

It's the way of our country. We enjoy stupid. We enjoy it a lot. Stupid tells us that kids are so naive that they would actually try and eat a smoking pipe like how Cookie Monster did it, or they will try and copy their favorite video game or TV show(which obviously must be incredibly violent) and start beating up the neighborhood kids. Stupid makes us ignore that stuff like that can be avoided by good parenting and some basic education.

Actually this article makes me wonder if this is just the first of many classic kids TV shows to be listed as inappropriate for children. This could be the first step to some major editing of several older kid's shows such as Mr. Roger's Neighboorhood. Or maybe it will even spread to more recent shows such as Dora the Explorer. That show clearly teaches kids to wander around dangerous places without parental supervision and we all know kids are dying to do that.

[ranma8]

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I wonder if by 2020 Super Mario Bros. will be considered unfriendly towards children.

Totally.
It is obvious that Mario is a drug addict, with all those mysterious mushrooms he eats to "Power-Up".

[Radical Dreamer]

I can't believe they've taken out Monsterpiece Theater. FAIL. XD

Seriously, this article provides more proof of why children's entertainment just sucks today. XD

[Tenshi no Ai]

Wow that was the dumbest thing I've ever read :/

If anything, the only 'bad' Seasame Street are the amusing parody portrayals on Family Guy of Ernie and Bert and Cookie Monster treating cookie dough like crack.

[LadyRushia]

We should also keep our kids away from paper because we don't want them to get paper cuts. This would also prevent them from making paper airplanes and throwing them at each other when they should be paying attention in school.

On that note, children shouldn't play Monopoly either because that game encourages greed.

Honestly, people needs to stop making innuendos out of everything. -_-

[KeybladeWarrior]

I think this writer was being sarcastic on how crazy we are with such content these days.

[Alexander]

Totally.
It is obvious that Mario is a drug addict, with all those mysterious mushrooms he eats to "Power-Up".

Pfft. PETA will complain about Mario abusing turtles first before that. XD

[Nate]

I don't think I ever picked up on the fact that Snuffles was in Big Bird's imagination...

When Snuffleupagus first appeared on the show, no one except Big Bird ever saw him. This led the grownups to believe that Big Bird had imagined Snuffy.

After a few years the writers of Sesame Street felt that this may be a bad example for children, and lead them to believe if something happens (such as molestation or whatnot) and they tell an adult, that the adult will not believe them. So they finally had an episode in which the grownups met Snuffy and apologized to Big Bird for doubting him.

[K. Ayato]

Although in the stand-alone movie Don't Eat the Pictures, where the entire cast visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, only Big Bird can see Snuffy, and everyone else writes him off as Big Bird's "imaginary friend".

[Nate]

Yes, that movie happened before Snuffy was revealed to the main cast. :p It aired November 16, 1983. The grownups would not see Snuffy for themselves until November 18, 1985.

[Tereya]

Is nothing sacred? :\ Sesame Street, of all things.

[AsianBlossom]

Pfft. PETA will complain about Mario abusing turtles first before that. XD

Yeah. XD

And then they'll give all the racing games higher ratings, to discourage children from taking their parent's car out for joyrides. So sorry, kiddies...Mario Kart is no longer for you XD.

But I'm getting off-topic...sort of...

[Tenshi no Ai]

At work today I noticed the Loony Toons boxsets say the same thing. A customer asked me about it, but I thought maybe she saw a copy of something actually adult oriented (like our Spawn boxset).

They're going too soft on kids nowadays. Oh noes Bugs Bunny involves guns and cross dressing :O Cartoons still involve that type of thing, for the most part. Heck, even Rattatoille with a G rating involves people getting slapped and even drunk! May be theatrical, but you can't even show that stuff in anime!

[K. Ayato]

The Bugs Bunny thing? That's from long time ago. I knew a father who said it to me.

[AsianBlossom]

Yeah, we have the Looney Tunes discs; it could also be because some of the cartoons are nowadays "politically incorrect", noted by the disclaimer seen in the beginning of the third and fourth sets. I can understand why they'd do that; besides, a little of the content can be seen as adult. I heard the cartoons weren't originally designed for kids anyways. In fact, I can appreciate them more now that I'm older because I can pick up on most of the jokes easier than I could when I was younger and went "Oh, look mommy! The kitty ran away from the skunk! Hahaha!" and such.

But I was thinking earlier: if those people go way too extreme in this sort of thing, they might even ban Veggie Tales. "Oh, it discourages children from eating their vegetables because they see them as friends." Give me a break.

[LadyRushia]

But I was thinking earlier: if those people go way too extreme in this sort of thing, they might even ban Veggie Tales. "Oh, it discourages children from eating their vegetables because they see them as friends." Give me a break.

But vegetables *are* my friends!

Someday, everything will be inappropriate and we'll all have to live inside little bubbles and stare at paint.

[rocklobster]

Yeah, but it better not have lead in it.

[Mave]

Good griefy...these ppl are focusing so much on the few negatives and are ignoring the huge portion of the good Sesame Street can bring to kids.

Growing up watching it, I barely remember all those so-called 'detrimental' things mentioned except that Oscar was grouchy and Cookie Monster really liked cookies (but that was Ok, since he's a monster...so what?). Apart from that, I mostly remember the education/learning stuff in that show...numbers, words etc.etc.

I learnt a lot of good stuff from this old show as a kid and these few 'negatives' (if they exist or not) aren't not enough to penalize the whole thing.

[Tenshi no Ai]

I learned how to say the alphabet in French from it, before I learned it in school^^

Well, ok, I watched it in the late 80s/early 90s, but still the same before "Sesame Park" came out (and didn't they think centering a show in an unfamiliar park is a suspicious place, where many children get picked up by shady people? At least on the street you have neighbors and friends you know! take THAT censorship! )

Anyone else watch Follow That Bird? I owned the VHS when I was little and used to love it. Probably not suitable for today's audience! Cookie Monster ate a WHOLE CAR! Kids might get the wrong impression there! Oh noes!

[mitsuki lover]

Well I grew up with Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo so I wonder if they'll start claiming that riding on stick horses leads to abuse of real ones.