Oh bullshit.  The only one I agree with is the stranger one...other than that being grumpy and eating cookies is hardly a horrible thing.  They're freaking puppets.  I honestly don't think just cookies will lead to a fat kid...other foods must be added(greasey fast food, candy, a whole host of other junk) unless there's someone that keeps literally cabinets and cabinets full of cookies and refuses to limit their kid's diet.  As for being grouchy?  The man lives in a garbage can...I think if anyone is allowed to be pissed at the world it's that guy.

~Zoo

Rolls Eyes...  Nothing but adults thinking like adults when watching a kids' show.  It's right up there with Popeye cartoons having to "eplain" where Swea' Pea came from and Bert & Ernie being gay.

If you ask me, Sesame Street has gone way Down Hill in the last decade or so, not gotten better.

And, and, and, in one episode, it shows a woman breastfeeding! We wouldn't want our kids to see that, right???

Sesame street doesn't hold my son's attention.  It's tired compared to the other vibrant shows aimed at the same audience.

Cookie monster was an obsessive cookie eater when I was a kid.  You know what though?  I never once thought it would be fun to eat that many cookies... watching that I knew it would make me really sick.

Oscar should stay grumpy.  It's his character.

Bert & Ernie don't need to be gay, or straight, or anything either.

Good lord, maybe we're becoming too protective of kids these days.

I grew up watching Sesame Street, plus the whole line up of shows that followed on PBS. Everything from 3-2-1 Contact, Reading Rainbow and Mr Rogers. It didn't make me go into strangers house, be grouchy and eat all the cookies I could in a single bit.

I just love how all these warnings are needed to make up for the lack of parental responsibility. Instead of working towards a future were strangers should not be dangerous people, we bunch together the good people with the bad people and tell our kids trust no one. Innocent till proven guilty? It seems that this country is doing a great job at erasing everything that made this country such a great country.

Good lord, maybe we're becoming too protective of kids these days.

Tell me about it. Keep this up and even a character like Sportacus for the TV show Lazy Town (my 4 year old loves this show) will eventually be considered bad for children. The guy is a super athlete that likes to jump around a lot , do flips and is nearly perfect at any sport. I guess it's a matter of time before someone sees him as dangerous because children will want to jump and do flips like him and could get hurt, and he may make children who are not really good at sports feel bad cause they can't do what he can.

We are definitely spiraling down to a senseless society.

hahaha. When I first saw the show I thought....WHERE are her parents? Why is she running around town with this man? And why does this adult man play with kids? I wouldn't let me daughter run around with some uber goober man like that....hahahahahaha

I do think its a matter of perspective. I don't think it teaches kids to talk to strangers or hang out with adults. They see the fun, the singing and dancing....I saw the other because I have the parent perspective and ya gotta admit...little girls playing with men in tights who lift them in the air and stuff....kinda weird..

Its really amazing. I grew up watching Sesame St. and I think it was a positive influence. None of us shot up schools or went on rampages like some modern kids who watched Barney and other PC crap.

Did things change so fast within a generation in the past, or is it just with us?


I can see the concern about stranger-danger: the sasame street world is a trusting place with no bad people at all. But what are you going to do, teach children that the world is all about people out to get them? Isn't the latter worse?

I always thought Sasame street was at most showing what the world could be rather than what it is.

I always liked Cookie Monster. But even as a child, I noticed that when he gobbled them like he did, all the cookies ended up as crumbs on the floor. Are children that dumb that they will take muppets seriously? They can't blame Cookie Monster for obesity -- they ought to blame MacD's for their ads and those attractive happy meals aimed at children, and parents who give in.

For fark's sake, Oscar isn't a manic depressive -- he's at most just someone who likes to find something to complain about. I sometimes thought of him as a realist who brings balance to the sometimes over-optimistic population of that show.

Maybe in 40 years someone will be complaining about todays kid shows. I just want to know who would want to watch all that old stuff now? I looks so dated. I was facinated by Speed Racer in the 60's when I was a kid. About a year and a half ago I bought all the epps on DVD, still haven't finished them (some are pretty bad). Just goes to show you things change, no matter how much we wish they wouldn't.

I never had them overdose on cookies...hahahah but I can't say they didn't get grouchy on occasion. I'm sure it had nothing to do with Oscar. Hmmmmmm maybe it did and I was a bad mother by letting them watch this?

Maybe if I didn't allow them to watch this bad show twice a day everyday I would never have had grumpy kids. It's all my fault.


Gah!


What about Elmo? Is there anything wrong with him? Because I was thinking of getting little Ethan an Elmo? But do you think Elmo is....welll.....errrrr....too happy?

Just make sure it's a tickle me Elmo, not a tickle me EMO.

That was the best minute and a half of my day.

~Zoo