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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I, for one, applaud your early descent into curmudgeonry - we'll sit around a $5 Pai Gow table, drink whiskey and water, and bitch about the rain and traffic . . . all by age 30(ish)!
Seriously though, Sesame Street sucks for kids, and kind of always has - Blue's Clues, as inane and tottering as it seems, is like 30x better for kids' learning and parents' eyes glazing over on Vicodin.
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Yeah, I've read The Tipping Point and all the stuff about how kids learned so much more from Blue's than Sesame Street - at that age, probably true. But the point of the story isn't that they're saying these early episodes are adults only now because of the
format. Sesame Street still has lots of fast action and jumping from thing to thing. It's because OMG OSCAR WAS KIND OF AN ASSHOLE. People forget, that show wasn't created for upper class suburban kids whose parents have a lot of time to spend with them and who would probably learn letters and numbers on their own. It was created for inner city kids in not great circumstances to help them not to be behind when they started school. How effective that was I don't know, but I doubt that any of those kids could have related to a show that was all sunshine and nothing else.
There have always been alternatives...yeah I watched SS & Daffy Duck acting like a maniac, but I also watched Mr. Rogers and Cover to Cover. One didn't dull enjoyment of the other. I think the problem now is that people go overboard...they hear Blue's Clues is great so every show tries to be like it...and with the tons of stations made just for kids and DVDs besides, that's a lot of time to fill up, with things that are usually substandard.
And you're coming to the party late...I've been a curmudgeon since around 27 when people tried to shove Kurt Cobain down my throat as the "voice of our generation."