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11-20-2007, 02:58 PM
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Old School Sesame Street Will Warp Your Child!!
And this, my friends, is why the upcoming generation of children will suck more than anything has ever sucked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...-medium-t.html
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11-20-2007, 03:07 PM
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Get out of my head, I was just about to post this!!!
WTF is going on?
TOO Much dayum analysis!!
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11-20-2007, 03:43 PM
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Well, I agree that the cartoons and shows of the 70s and 80s had some things in them that were inappropriate. Didn't notice them as children, but part of maturing is becoming more conscious.
I don't know how entertained many of today's kids would be from these older shows. Instead of parents ruling them out, just *gasp* stop letting TV babysit your kids and watch shows with them. Then you can talk to them about what they're seeing, appropriate or inappropriate.
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11-20-2007, 03:47 PM
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They just go overboard. I certainly never thought that I could eat cookies all day because a blue puppet did.
I think part of the point of early Sesame Street was that a parent COULD watch it with their child and not hate it. Even if the 3 year old didn't understand who "Alistair Cookie" is, they could enjoy it on the level of a big funny blue monster and the parents would be entertained by the pop culture references and the puns.
But SS now....yeech, if I had a child and had to watch that Elmo ridden dreck, I'd throw up. Elmo is almost as loathsome as Scrappy Doo and that's saying a HELL of a lot.
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11-20-2007, 03:56 PM
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I certainly never thought that I could eat cookies all day because a blue puppet did.
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Why not?
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11-20-2007, 04:09 PM
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I remember when they finally let all the SS residents see Snufflelumpagus(sp?). The reasoning: Kids would think that adults wouldn't believe them since the SS adults didn't believe Big Bird.
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11-20-2007, 04:33 PM
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I remember when they finally let all the SS residents see Snufflelumpagus(sp?). The reasoning: Kids would think that adults wouldn't believe them since the SS adults didn't believe Big Bird.
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SS was one big adult acid trip. Just like Scooby Doo and those other shows. 
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11-20-2007, 04:44 PM
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Is it inappropriate or has the culture changed?
I think its the latter. Remember all the hype about Bert and Ernie being gay?
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11-20-2007, 05:22 PM
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Remember all the hype about Bert and Ernie being gay?
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They weren't gay and neither is Richard Simmons.
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11-20-2007, 05:01 PM
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Personally, I was a big fan of School House Rock! Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Oh, and I'm just a Bill. 
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11-20-2007, 05:12 PM
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LOL. Our Cub Scout den is working on the Citizenship achievement for Webelos, and I had the boys watch "I'm Just a Bill" and "The Preamble to the Constitution."
I think the boys spent as much time laughing at the parents as they did watching School House Rock. (And then there was the one kid who said " this is rock?")
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11-20-2007, 05:14 PM
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BWahahaha!!!
I bought SchoolHouse Rock on DVD a few years ago.
Ahh, the memories.
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11-20-2007, 05:28 PM
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Exactly..
I still love Sesame Street...adults mess things up for no reason sometimes..
example: taking off saturday morning cartoons and replacing them with the drivel that's on now. 
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11-20-2007, 06:21 PM
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Well I bought the DVDs and I LOVE them.
A lot of the segments that Sesame Street ran were positively timeless. If I was still a teacher, I would definitely play the DVDs for my kids.
On a related note, I DID play a tape of Vegetable Soup for my first graders a few years ago. (If you don't recall, VS was an even more multicultural version of Sesame Street.)
Well, the ONLY part I thought wasn't so appropriate was when they defined what an OREO was! And I don't mean the cookie!
Yes, that was a very race-aware show.
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11-20-2007, 06:29 PM
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Quote:
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Exactly..
I still love Sesame Street...adults mess things up for no reason sometimes..
example: taking off saturday morning cartoons and replacing them with the drivel that's on now. |
I agree with this 100%. The parents that are screwing up childhood TV are the same ones that grew up watch SS and the likes. I'm still mad that Looney Tunes got taken off the air and put on Boomerang. Kids have no cartoons if they don't have cable.
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