Posted on 11/20/2007 11:01:53 AM PST by drew
November 18, 2007 The Medium Sweeping the Clouds Away By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN 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.
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No, but Jim Henson did. Coincidence? You decide.
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.”
I can’t tell you how many pipes I’ve eaten because of that parody!
I know. And for some reason, today, all that lead would be bad for you. Go figure!
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Sesame Street DVD “Adult rated”
Cookie Monster seen holding a Pipe
...The horrors...
- Stewie Griffin at the doctor’s office
If he was holding a condom, it would probably be okay.
It's true! The episodes of today are so different.
The Cookie Monster, having been ostracized as an overweight, sugar industry tool, has been replaced by the Cocaine Monster. A little blow, a little dough and you're ready for a day of lounging on the couch!
Oscar is now a pimp, running Miss Piggy and Big Bird (who knew?!!) and Bert and Ernie are, well, we ALL always knew what Bert and Earnie were but today's episodes will help you celebrate it!
I heard Burt joined al queda. Something about internet photos.
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I guess I’m old, I remember when Oscar the Grouch was orange.
I was born in 81. Only watched the show a bit, but Oscar was definitely my favorite.
I remembered him when he was a shade of Gray...B&W ;)
Woe, for a minute their I thought it was a Lion! LOL!!!
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