Sweeping the Clouds Away (PBS Barf Alert)

The New York Times ^ | 11/18/2007 | Virginia Heffernan

[dr.zaeus]

Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia. Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist...

[dr.zaeus]

I really feel sorry for today's children. This is a disgraceful example of a sickening need to be politically correct.

[APFel]

This is the most ridiculous article that I have ever read. The writer’s purplish prosey style makes me want to...

Oh, wait. New York Times. Nevermind.

APf

[The Great RJ]

Sesame street is becoming more like that Hammas children’s show ...a propaganda piece.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

As a child I thought I was the odd one, because all the kids on Sesame Street lived in a dirty urban environment and I had a yard and grass.

Now I realize the Children's Television Workshop is but one more cog in the commie machine.