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

Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community (http://www.fosters-home.com/forum/index.php)

- Other Entertainment (http://www.fosters-home.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=23)

- - DVD of Early "Sesame Street" Comes With Warning: (http://www.fosters-home.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2762)

Quote:

I asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of ?Sesame Street,? how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody ?Monsterpiece Theater.? Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, ?That modeled the wrong behavior? ? smoking, eating pipes ? ?so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.?

Some one please tell me I'm not the only person who finds the idea of them dropping this scene because of it giving the bad idea of PIPE EATING as being inherently hilarious. That is one heck of a stretch of the imagination to find fault with its supposed "politically incorrectness".

As for the current, dumb-downed iteration of Sesame Street, I honestly feel bad for today's kids, because they don't know what they're missing. But there are a lot of reasons I feel bad for today's kids, mainly due to the fact that they're given only a few shreds of quality entertainment.

I don't know of any child who would actually eat a pipe. Firstly, it would be physically very diffucult, if not impossible. Secondly, if it's been used, the taste of the tobacco will turn him off immediately. And thirdly, if the kid does manage to somehow eat the pipe, he's got problems that aren't related to what he's watching on TV. :P

These idiots need a serious reality check. >:(

*sighs* Even on Sesame Street, the PC police invades there.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Excuse my language but seriously... That is BS!

Henson was smoking some serious crack back in the day. 0.o

If something sounds too ridiculous to be true, then the odds are that it probably is.

I don't know much about this Virginia Heffernan lady myself, or what type of reporting she's generally renowned for, but in my opinion that whole article smacks of a satire.

It might be the case that the "Sesame Street: Old School" DVDs come with a disclaimer at the start, which may in itself constitute something of an overreaction, but I suspect that it has nothing to do with "cows eating common grass, not grain improved with hormones", or "two brothers risk[ing] concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows". At least I sure hope not.

People need to really try to realize how to separate reality and from fiction. They need to see it is a show, that is all it is. People are idiots sometimes.

What a bunch of crap. Well at least we can say (if any-one watches this stuff)

"We're not watching kid's stuff" ::) This was SARCASM, by the way.

Bunch of wimps,,,,, people these days.......

The only thing I saw wrong was the going home with the old man part.

the pipe eating thing kills me 8D