Now they will be forced to add gratuitous sex scenes
Oh yeah.
First episode; Bert and Ernie confirm the rumors.
Episode two; Oscar has a sex change.
Episode three; Tickle me Elmo, gets “tickled” by the Count.
They’ll all win Emmy Awards.
Episode Six; Big Bird tells the kids that their Mommies, and Daddies are evil, and killing all the polar bears for supporting the GOP candidate for President.
“Today’s phrase will be ‘weaned from the public teat’, children.”
This can’t be right. The lefties have been telling us for years the Republicans killed Big Bird.
HoBO street.
It will turn into the parody Chapelle did.
How much of the revenue generated by Sesame Street merchandise (e.g., toys, videos) has flowed back into the federal treasury?
After all, US taxpayers have been underwriting the program for decades.
Still getting giant government grants for their “non-profit”?
When do we finally cut government funding?
Is Megan Kelly going to do their news?
Re Big Bird, this means that Michelle Obama is moving to HBO?
“Hey Abbott. I’m a bad boy” tonight.
I’m in Costa Rica now, so CNN is the only news I get (they stopped carrying Fox a few years ago after Obama’s visit) and CNN is talking about this Sesame Street move as another sign of income equality. Poor people now have to wait to see the show.
This is some strange story.
I guess that a. it wasn’t really about education after all, because if it was you’d really want to make this show available to people for free, which Public TV is and HBO is most certainly not.
But I wonder about HBOs motives, they are clearly trying to lure parents in, they must be suffering with the millenials in the audience, those are the people who have children young enough to watch this.
You know what’s a pretty good show for little kids? Curious George, totally tolerable to watch as an adult too.
How will NPR fundraising appeal to/guilt the middle class parents now?