Blame it all on Sesame Street

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I was addicted to Sesame Street.

Something about the combination of silly characters, music, and rote drilling of letters and numbers worked for me.

My brain really takes to this sort of edutainment. Visuals, pictures and music helps me see patterns and learn better. I knew my numbers and letters at a young age... I think it was mostly because of that show.

Can't really say much about the elmo on steroids Sesame Street of today, despite being on PBS...it looks like just a big toy selling machine.

And they say society is more open today

How sad, but true! Sesame Street was my favorite show growing up. My mom claims it taught me a lot academically and I believe her, but I never looked at it in this social way before...

I'm surprised they didn't mention the movie where big bird ran away from home.

I watched sesame street when I was little, and look at me now, I turned out just fine. Oh, wait, that was the late 1980's, early 1990's.

That show was awesome when i was a kid. I used to watch it 3 times a day!! !

lol. I am thinking about that game found in places like Chuckie Cheese where you hit those things popping up with a mallet. Maybe instead it could be ewoks with a baseball bat.

I LOVED the old Tom and Jerry--- also the Looney Tunes. Did Bugs Bunny wearing drag scar me for life?? NO. Cartoons were a way to laugh at life and escape it. It was REAL life that always seemed problematic. Kids today are shown "good" cartoons ( even though they're secretly watching rated "R" movies in their bedrooms on their cable TV's) and they seem much brattier than we ever were... ok, I WAS a handful, but I also had the HAND to fear ( attached to my mother, of course). So we still weren't like the ones today.

OMG! I read this and LMAO through the entire article. My mom is convinced that I was reading by age 2 because of Sesame Street. How awful to find out that it was really full of mentally ill monsters and pedophiles!

So much more awful than the real world!

The simplistic archetypes with their unbeatable conflict resolution somehow appeal to the 4-10 crowd - hands down. After 10, it's *who're these guys kidding? Pchhhh* Transition made into Transformer/Spideyland commences.

And lol to wanting to stick it to the handpuppet. heheh

Innocence - while I never experienced it consciously I can understand the concept - and how it would appeal. Plus plush is so darn squeezable/huggable/irresistable with a catchy tune

LOL. The writer did do justice and hit it right on - hard-core! But yay - maybe it does do some good with teaching.....reading at 2 you say? WTG dude.

that's the problem with kids entertainment. adults read too much into it now that they're older. Harvey Birdman is a show based on this entire premise. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Anyone remember when Mr. Hooper died? Yes - the old Sesame Street even addressed death! You won't see that on kids' TV anymore! Too hard to sugar-coat!

"Hello, Mr. Looper!"
"That's Hooper, Big Bird - HOOPER!"

Oh give me a break!

See, this is why thew show sucks now. Children are being mollycoddled and PC'd to death. Sesame Street used to be fun for adults as well as kids. Then it became more boring than school.

Although I am glad that Snuffy was finally proven to be real to the adult humans on Sesame Street. It wasn't because I thought adults might think I was lying if I told them the truth about something like being molested, which is what the writers were worried about, but because I wanted the adults to know Snuffy was real, which he definitely was, and it was frustrating to see Big Bird fail again and again. But when they learned Big Bird was telling the truth all along, they even apologized to him!

When Mr. Hooper died, they decided to use that as an opportunity to gently teach children about death. Back then they weren't afraid to occasionally tackle some taboo stuff and help how children to get through a sad or scary situation. They showed it was okay to feel angry or scared or sad about such things. Of course, other actors on the show have died and there's no mention of it at all. But I am glad they decided not to air the episode about divorce after showing it to a test audience of kids.

Yeah anyway, I guess I should have either died a least a decade ago or become serial killer by now.

Human or cat years?