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post #1 of 18
11/18/07 at 11:08am
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This is a warning to those of you who are intending on buying Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the recent Sesame Street DVD releases. Apparently the content on these DVD's, which contain episodes from earlier seasons of Sesame Street are being labeled as containing mature content and that the DVD's might not be suitable for children.

The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

Check out the following link for the whole article at the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...ne&oref=slogin
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post #2 of 18
11/18/07 at 11:22am

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If I had kids, they would be watching this and not the current incarnation which is harmful to their imaginary minds. I believe Electric Company has a similar warning. I wonder if Mister Rogers has one.
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post #3 of 18
11/18/07 at 12:21pm

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This article's idea of "adult themes" is that early episodes of Sesame Street showed that "Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes" (i.e., he - wait for it! - eats COOKIES!), that "Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment" that the article describes as "deteriorating" (okay, the wallpaper was peeling, big deal), that adult Gordon took young Sally home to "meet his wife and have milk and cookies" in a world prior to the entire "stranger danger" thing, and that the milk might've been whole milk instead of skim! And "two brothers risk concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows".

Oh my God!!! We better put out the red alert right away!!! No one better buy this!

While we're at it, let's get rid of Family Affair, since Uncle Bill obviously isn't a good caregiver going all over the world on the job and leaving the kids home with the butler. Did that butler even have a green card?

The NY Times review was obviously done tongue in cheek. If they were serious, then I think they need to get a clue.
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post #4 of 18
11/18/07 at 1:43pm

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LOL, neo cons have been complaining about sesame street liberal over tones for years (producers openly demo bias) for years, but I dont remember any janie has two momies eposides yet? I mean they slap the woodpecker dvd with (adult audience sticker too) wow the PC crack head police are really out of control
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post #5 of 18
11/18/07 at 1:45pm

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Come to think of it, as I recall, Gordon was not a stranger, he was her school teacher and this was the neighborhood she was moving into, I believe she lived in the building. He was a friendly neighbor that was already trusted with the neighborhood kids.

The thing with Woody Woodpecker is those were made for adults and that was so they would be more free to put in material that would otherwise be censored and also to remind the public that these were not made for children although I do not think there is anything wrong with showing them to kids.
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post #6 of 18
11/18/07 at 2:18pm

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The horrible truth about what happened to Buddy and Jim.
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post #7 of 18
11/18/07 at 2:27pm

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Originally Posted by Tory
If I had kids, they would be watching this and not the current incarnation which is harmful to their imaginary minds.

I hope you do not mind me asking, but in what way is the current version more harmful?
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post #8 of 18
11/18/07 at 2:52pm

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Originally Posted by Corey3rd
The horrible truth about what happened to Buddy and Jim.

Oh good I though it was oscar and the cookie monster who shacked up LOL
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post #9 of 18
11/18/07 at 4:30pm

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Adults only, as in the same adults who watched these Sesame Street episodes as children and turned out okay?
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post #10 of 18
11/18/07 at 4:34pm

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He was a friendly neighbor that was already trusted with the neighborhood kids.
Yeah, that's what the neighbors always say.
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post #11 of 18
11/18/07 at 5:11pm

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WTF!!!!! is going on in our sicko twisted world?
You can lose your career for even thinking the "N" word. GOD do I hate that sickness. UNLESS your a Gangstah Rapper then you use it FREELY! and not be a slave to a fucking word anymore. THEY will not lose their jobs, careers or whatever stigma is now attached.

So, it's OK for the Children to dress like pigs with their pants below the waist directly above their balls with their stinkin undies hanging out, listen to Gangsta rap, play with Gangstah Bratz Dolls, talk trash Ebonics (just go to your local MALL or school playground) but hey, Sesame Street is bad?!

Life is good for some.
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post #12 of 18
11/18/07 at 6:06pm

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Originally Posted by DavidJ
I hope you do not mind me asking, but in what way is the current version more harmful?

Elmo

Truly, I was offended by the small appearance of Elmo on the 2nd volume boxset and the forced ad at the start of the DVD.

I would not really say the new version is much more harmful, well the old was not harmful at all. Sesame Street is now lesser in quality although it seemed better the last time I caught an episode in comparison to seeing one a few years ago. It is less sharp and dumbed down yet still better than most other things offered in this age, although Between the Lions was shockingly better and more inventive than its 2000 Sesame Street counterpart. I do not believe it to be nostalgia speaking, Old Sesame Street, Electric Company, 321 Contact, and Square One among others were better made, they had a soul, a driving force behind them that did not talk down but with the viewer, creating a fun way of learning that sticks. Sesame Street has lost some of its humor and that is what made it effective. I believe it is the PC that has made Sesame Street harmful, that and Elmo. It is a shame, looking at Sesame Street original, one could say sane PC, an ideal environment of mixed races and creatures of distinct individual personalities living a peaceful life of coexistence and learning but now we have insane pc destroy all of the fun in the world for evil men and women's agenda of destroying our cultural history and ability to be an individual within society.
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post #13 of 18
11/18/07 at 6:36pm

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Originally Posted by Tory
Elmo

Truly, I was offended by the small appearance of Elmo on the 2nd volume boxset and the forced ad at the start of the DVD.

Elmo - The only 'blight' in this show's almost 40 year old history!

Elmo is the poster-"child" for Hyperactivity and ADD!

Give him some Rittlian or Straterra!
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post #14 of 18
11/18/07 at 7:49pm

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Originally Posted by Chas_Michael
WTF!!!!! is going on in our sicko twisted world?
You can lose your career for even thinking the "N" word. GOD do I hate that sickness. UNLESS your a Gangstah Rapper then you use it FREELY! and not be a slave to a fucking word anymore. THEY will not lose their jobs, careers or whatever stigma is now attached.

So, it's OK for the Children to dress like pigs with their pants below the waist directly above their balls with their stinkin undies hanging out, listen to Gangsta rap, play with Gangstah Bratz Dolls, talk trash Ebonics (just go to your local MALL or school playground) but hey, Sesame Street is bad?!

Life is good for some.
What does a tirade on the 'n' word have to do with this topic?
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post #15 of 18
11/18/07 at 7:56pm

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Originally Posted by TravisR
What does a tirade on the 'n' word have to do with this topic?

EVERYTHING.

TIRADE?

Don't think so.

Just an EXAMPLE on how twisted our society has become when some have so much control over others. When PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS can now be used against us. Dog days of reality.
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post #16 of 18
11/18/07 at 8:01pm

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Originally Posted by Chas_Michael
EVERYTHING.
The article was written as a joke.

If dumb suburban kids want to talk funny and emulate black people, it isn't going to ruin society (and that still has nothing to do with this topic).
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post #17 of 18
11/19/07 at 8:26am

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Originally Posted by David Lambert
The NY Times review was obviously done tongue in cheek.

Of course it was. The fact that anyone would even question that is a little scary.
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post #18 of 18
11/19/07 at 8:33am

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But has the world really changed over the last 3-4 decades that 'classic' Sesame Street is not not suitable for today's pre-schoolers or youngsters?

Atleast it wasn't as bad as this....

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...Conniption.jpg
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