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Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment
theodp writes "The earliest episodes of Sesame Street are being made available on DVD, but the NYT notes Volumes 1 and 2 carry a rather strange warning: 'These early 'Sesame Street' episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child.' So why are they unsuitable for toddlers in 2007? Well, in the parody 'Monsterpiece Theater,' Alistair Cookie — played by Cookie Monster — used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. 'That modeled the wrong behavior,' explained a Sesame Street executive producer, adding that 'we might not be able to create a character like Oscar [the Grouch] now.'"
can't hide in trash cans, can't eat food? that's a leftists doing. the right only has a problem with bert and ernie being gay.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
The god damn hippies and wierdos who were my teachers in my early years and who kept banging the drum that humanity was going to destroy the planet through pollution and nuclear war and who felt that it was OK to experiment on us kids with every new educational theory that came along did a lot more damage to my young psyche than PBS ever did. Which is why I can now wish that these people would all get cancer of the ass and die a horrible death. Sesame Street would NOT have been OK with me wishing that on someone. So I guess while they were not harmful, their message of peace and learning for the fun of it didn't take very well, either.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
sometimes he looses and If you are the looser,
What is this fetish with rope?
To the barely literate slashdot crowd as a whole: LOSE THE EXTRA 'O' FOR CRISSAKE!
I think the problem was that he (Remus) was a 'happy' slave and in the PC world, there is no such thing as a 'happy' slave.
Slaves were malnourished, beaten, and chained so they could work the fields efficiently for greedy land owners.
Because if there were 'happy' slaves, the bigger piece of pie they want (reparations) doesn't seem as `owed` to them if they were happy with their life as if they were miserable and mistreated.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Maybe it was painted with lead in China? Man, if kids can't figure this shit out themselves, then fuck 'em -- thin the herd. That's a valuable lesson right there.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.