Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment

[RUBICN64]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...l?ref=magazine

oh great, just what we need...Sesame Street porno

[DYRE]

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LOLWUT?

[JPS]

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Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever heard

The only reasons it got an adult-only rating...

Bert and Ernie lived in an apartment that wasnt up to building code
Cookie monster only ate cookies
Some guy took a girl home to meet his wife
Big Bird had an imaginary friend

I guess its a bad influence on kids...but yet Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner, Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny cartoons still get a PG rating when they clearly influence the use of guns, explosives, violence, and occasional drug use(i.e. poison)?

This doesnt make any sense, shows you how messed up the ratings are

[Seraph]

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Mario eats mushrooms and grows bigger. So what?

This is ludicrous.

[Alex]

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The article is mostly editorialized, but I suppose the older sketches on the show may present situations and actions that aren't exactly the most proper things to impose on a child in this post-911 world, such as holding hands with a stranger, Cookie Monster smoking and eating his pipe, ect.

Just show it to your kid or not.

[Seraph]

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Anyone remember the controversy over Mr. Roger's taking off his jacket and stuff , then change into a sweater-vest when he came home at the beginning of every episode. Some religious nut bag mom protested it saying it was sick that he undressed in front of children.

[JPS]

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i forgot we're now in a post 9/11 world, now that you say that, I can see some reason for it

But still, why make sesame street a AO? They should know that parents arent going to buy the video for themselves...

[Alex]

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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.”

An earnest warning. The DVDs themselves are unrated. These are aimed towards nostalgia-hungry adults, not today's child mind.

[Duel]

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This is hilarious

[JPS]

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An earnest warning. The DVDs themselves are unrated. These are aimed towards nostalgia-hungry adults, not today's child mind.

oh ok, I thought they were rated, at least thats what the article seemed to have portrayed. I thought them saying 'earnest warning' was one of their over-descriptive ways to say something.

[Translucid]

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it seems like the entertainment industry has to assume that parents don't, you know, RAISE their children anymore.

[Alex]

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It's a good assumption.

[Dusk Raven]

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Dang, now I actually like Sesame Street. I might get that for when I have kids.

[JPS]

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Dang, now I actually like Sesame Street. I might get that for when I have kids.

Let us know when you decide to so we can give you instructions

[H2SO4]

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I lol'ed when I heard they replaced the cookie monster with the vegetable monster. I mean really, kids are stupid.