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.'"

Comments

Have you seen a 'modern' kids show recently?

[JewGold]

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.

Re:Try looking to your left

[jcr]

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