I don't think there is humor in any of this. My question is: Are they explaining to the AIDS kids that their mommy or daddy or both did something very bad that caused them to get sick?
And are they using Seasame Street to educate the kids not yet infected to embrace abstinence to avoid getting fatally sick?
Well, the fact that they are using puppets to explain this stuff should tell you someting - these kids are about 3, 4 or 4 years old. That's how old I was when I used to watch "Sesame Street."
Now, suppose some kid's dad dies of lung cancer because he smoked. Or his Mom dies because she was drunk driving. Who's going to volunteer to go sit the kid down and carefully explain to them that they are now alone in the world because their parents did something "bad"?
I mean, I guess for a certain type of person - and I really am imagining a Charles Dickens novel here - it might be satisfying on a certain level to have that opportunity, to wave one's finger in the face of a toddler and moralize about the loose morals of their dead parents.
Most of the five year old I know aren't really on a mental level where they can understand that sort of stuff yet, though, and I suppose I'm not really convinced that it would be really be all that helpful. 5 year olds have a hard enough time even understanding death, let alone the idea that their parents deserved it .