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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.'"
It seems creators of these shows spend more time shoving commercials and their political agendas down the throats of developing minds than they do teaching any useful skills or information.
When I was a kid, me and all the kids I knew were raised by loving parents. It seems these days parents are too exhausted from the 60 hour weeks just trying to keep up with ever-increasing expenses, and as a result their children are drugged up and raised by soulless marketing companies via the idiot tube.
Just my 2c.
Is this a news report or a trailer for a motion picture?
I think the societal ills (and the changes you dislike in Sesame Street) are a result of attempts to feminize boys and fat, militant women in flannel who think they know what is best for society and are running for president.
What is the "wrong behavior" that it is modeling - that you shouldn't EAT PIPES?? Oh but I guess sitting down and woffing back 30 -40 cookies at one sitting is OK behavior? No wonder America is so obese.
The "religious right" wants to live their lives without having to bow to the totalitarian left's new government rules.
Not quite. They also seek to abuse the power of government to enforce their superstition on others. Right or left, superstitious or secular, the enemy is that which seeks the subjugation of the individual to the collective.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
That was over 80 years ago.
You seem to have missed the recent attempts to bring superstition back into the classrooms. Google for "Intelligent Design".
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
-No teaching of evolution (later scaled back to putting warning stickers that evolution was "only" a theory and trying to give equal time to Intelligent Design, as if it had equal credibility).
Who was "forced" in this example? What were they forced to do?
I understand that you want religious messages censored. I'm wondering why not censoring them is considered force.
-Posting the 10 commandments in schools and courthouses, presumably to give the impression that they have the weight of official government policy behind them.
Who was forced? What were they forced to do?
-School children should be lead by teachers in pledging themselves to a nation "under God", (originally compulsory, after complaints it was scaled back to they must stand respectfully and watch all their all peers pledge themselves).
I actually agree with you there. My solution is school choice. The government schools are outmoded. About 80% of what they do at the government schools is not education and they ought to stop it.
-Marriage can only be between a man and a woman (some compromise and allow calling it Civil Unions, but stating that 1 man/1 woman and having kids is the "gold standard"). Constitutional amendments even proposed to this end.
Who was forced? What were they forced to do?
Why should society have to recognize any given relationship as a marriage? What if we don't agree that it's a marriage?
A marriage is what it has always been throughout history in all societies. It's not a definition created by "the right". There are hundreds of thousands of years of history on this in all societies and all religions throughout the world. No gay marriages in that history -- until about 12 years ago.
. -Teachers and coaches leading students in prayer at school events, designated school "prayer time", ect.
Who was forced? What were they forced to do?
i liked that show when i was, i cant remember, cause i was that little. anyway, that mr rogers, richard simmins and the muppets, i watched em. thier all BAD BAD BAD BAD. but somehow its ok for kids to watch a show called dragonBallz. i jsut thought it was important to mention that the shows we used to watch are not ok cause 1 of em depicts a pipe. but a show named after a mythalogical creatures testicals is ok.
wheres the political correctness? only enforced when it serves a purpose i suppose
i guess bo n duke were gay also, and the a-team was gay too, and so was knight rider, but DragonBallz has nothin to do with sexual orientation.
the shows name always irked me, now i can say how i feel