Here we have another case of unbelievable political correctness. DVDs of early Sesame Street episodes are being released with a warning that they are for adults only. Why?
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.”Are parents really unable to explain to kids that smoking is NOT okay? I must say that as a toddler I watched Sesame Street religiously, and I never once interpreted these spots as promoting tobacco. I was not once tempted to try to eat a pipe myself.
Can we PLEASE get a grip?
3 comments:
As a parent of toddlers, I've been known to watch my fair share of Sesame Street episodes. The Alistair Cookie ones are great!
Cookie Monster, the bad boy that he is, has been in the paparrazi spotlight before when the pc police were upset that Cookie Monster focuses too much on cookies and not enough on veggies.
It's all silly. It assumes that I do not speak with my children at all.
maybe if they labeled them as adult supervision recommended would be less disappointed by this. then again i think that parents should watch whatever it is their kids watch with them.
ugh, this is pathetic.
Saying that Sesame Street is unsafe because of a pipe is over the top. Having said that I must confess that I have come to the conclusion that Sesame Street, and most other children's programs, are inappropriate for children. Particularly children with learning disabilities and developmental delays.
Kids who have trouble processing information and decoding social cues really don't need to watch gangs of unsupervised youngsters getting themselves into trouble in every episode.
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