DVD of Early "Sesame Street" Comes With Warning: - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

pitbulllady · 11-21-2007, 10:51 AM

NOT FOR CHILDREN! No, I'm not making that up-it's real. Apparently, it was decided by some powers-that-be that the older "Sesame Stree" episodes, from 1969(the year it debuted on PBS)through the seventies, modeled "inappropriate behavior" for young children, like Cookie Monster's cookie addiction, Oscar the Grouch's, well, grouchiness and sarcasm, as well as Bert's, a little girl named Sally going home with an old man named Gordon for "milk and cookies", Big Bird "hallucinating" his Imaginary Friend, Mr. Snuffalupagus, and the New York inner city ghetto being depicted as a clean, safe wonderland full of happy people and monsters, instead of drug dealers and gang members. One of the scenes, in which Cookie Monster parodies PBS's "Masterpiece Theater", smoking a pipe and later eating it, was dropped because it promoted smoking and pipe-eating. Didn't make THAT up, either.

You can read the full article-a sad commentary on today if ever there was one- here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...in&oref=slogin .

pitbulllady

11-21-2007, 10:51 AM	#1
pitbulllady Co-Administrator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,276	DVD of Early "Sesame Street" Comes With Warning: NOT FOR CHILDREN! No, I'm not making that up-it's real. Apparently, it was decided by some powers-that-be that the older "Sesame Stree" episodes, from 1969(the year it debuted on PBS)through the seventies, modeled "inappropriate behavior" for young children, like Cookie Monster's cookie addiction, Oscar the Grouch's, well, grouchiness and sarcasm, as well as Bert's, a little girl named Sally going home with an old man named Gordon for "milk and cookies", Big Bird "hallucinating" his Imaginary Friend, Mr. Snuffalupagus, and the New York inner city ghetto being depicted as a clean, safe wonderland full of happy people and monsters, instead of drug dealers and gang members. One of the scenes, in which Cookie Monster parodies PBS's "Masterpiece Theater", smoking a pipe and later eating it, was dropped because it promoted smoking and pipe-eating. Didn't make THAT up, either. You can read the full article-a sad commentary on today if ever there was one- here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...in&oref=slogin . pitbulllady