Sesame Street Not Suitable for Children

[MRM]

What can you say? Sesame Street is no longer considered suitable for children.

I was always bored by it - I strongly preferred Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers, until I graduated to The Big Valley and Gunsmoke. But I hardly thought it was dangerous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I grew up watching it.

But then again, that's probably evidence that it'll mentally destabilize kids.

Kinda' feel like killing someone right now.

And eating cookies.

[livi]

Tonight´s threads are getting more outstanding by the hour.

Sex goes to court, guns be banned and now this!!

What is happening across the Atlantic ?

[frogger]

TV is not suitable for children. Shove chubby little Billy out the door and make him run around and play with others.

[The Gaijin]

Originally Posted by frogger

TV is not suitable for children. Shove chubby little Billy out the door and make him run around and play with others.

That is when the trouble starts:

Up town, down town
Little Billy, Billy drives them wild with his run-around style
Inside, outside
Billy sends them silly with his star-shine shimmy shuffle smile
Mama done chase Billy down through the hall
But laugh, Billy laugh, he don't care at all
Hey down, stay down, stay down, down

'Cause little Billy, Billy won't go home
But you can't push Billy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Billy, Billy won't go home...

[frogger]

Lol!

[berettafan]

asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of “Sesame Street,” how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody “Monsterpiece Theater.” Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.”


oh, but it's okay to have Margaret Cho host. no Sesame Street in our house for some time now.

[red-beard]

I was 4 years old when episode 1 came out, and we watched it, until we graduated to "The Electric Company", about 2nd grade. We also watched Mr. Rogers.

I wonder if it is around on U-Tube yet, but there was a cut scene on Mr. Rogers where he opens the closet and finds a blow up doll. He is supposed to keep the whole routine going for about 30 seconds to a minute as he explains the uses to the "boys and girls".

[Zeke]

Well, I guess I am OK since my gen grew up with Howdy Dowdy and Sheriff John. Of course that "green light...red light" propaganda was probably a Republican, Herbert Hoover scheme.

[stealthn]

The guys writing is a bit over the top, I'm still trying to figure out if he is saying it's too old, or it's been hacked to make it "proper" in this day and age?

Man just let it go, it's fine the way it was, try to find a decent kids show on now a days?! I was watching some "kids" cartoon with my boys on a kids channel that other day and one character called the other one a "jerkoff" NICE! needless to say that channel was changed.

I don't know of any shows now that do what SS tried to do as far as teaching the kids something....

[dtw]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

I grew up watching it.

But then again, that's probably evidence that it'll mentally destabilize kids.

Kinda' feel like killing someone right now.

And eating cookies.

*****, you think you've got it bad...I feel like killing some cookies and eating someone.

Loved SS! Suuuuunnny dayzz...

[Flatbutt1]

WTF? My kids watched Sesame Street every morning till they started school. I watched Howdy Doody, Capn Kangaroo Sonny Fox all that stuff. Sheesh.

[the]

I don't know, we tend to "nostalgia-ize" things from our childhood. If you really look back on Sesame Street, it was a bit rough at times.