Society has officially lost its mind
Lori just showed me something that was on Yahoo news this evening that I couldn't even believe could be true, until I saw it. American society is now, officially and completely, fucked.
What she showed me was a clip of a Fox news broadcast regarding the recent DVD release of Sesame Street. The anchor who was reading this story could scarecely believe what he was reading, you could tell it in his voice. See, the distributor that is releasing the DVDs has mandated that a label be put on the box stating that the show is FOR ADULTS ONLY! Yes, they have deemed that the earliest of the Sesame Street episodes are NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!
Allow me to provide some examples:
The opening credits of the show feature kids running around and playing with "dirty farm animals" and climing on "rocks and trees that have no padding." Oh, mercy!
The Monsterpiece Theater sketches, where Cookie Monster dishes on the old Masterpiece Theater shows, were completely cut out of the DVDs because it advocates and promotes SMOKING! Why? BECAUSE COOKIE MONSTER IS HOLDING A PIPE, AND AT THE END OF THE SKETCH HE EATS IT! Say it ain't so!
Bert and Ernie are completely inappropriate because you have TWO GUYS LIVING IN THE SAME APARTMENT and parents will HAVE TROUBLE EXPLAINING THIS TO THEIR KIDS! Plus, the apartment is FALLING APART! And Ernie is MENTALLY SLOW! Heavens to Betsy!
Oscar the Grouch IS CLINICALLY DEPRESSED AND NOT GETTING TREATMENT! Lord save us!
Cookie Monster IS DIABETIC BECAUSE HE EATS TOO MANY COOKIES! Goodness gracious!
Oh, and apparently the episodes that are shown on PBS and other networks have to be preceeded by a warning to parents that the show IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!
If you wish to see this for yourself, go to yahoo.com and on the main page you'll see a video feature thing. Now, what you'll see up front is the "shocking ending of The Bachelor" but go ahead and click on it and suffer through the minute and a half clip. You'll then get a little scrolly thing that will appear at the bottom of the video window where you can select the sesame street clip.
Here's a NY Times article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Oh
My
Fucking
GOD!
What she showed me was a clip of a Fox news broadcast regarding the recent DVD release of Sesame Street. The anchor who was reading this story could scarecely believe what he was reading, you could tell it in his voice. See, the distributor that is releasing the DVDs has mandated that a label be put on the box stating that the show is FOR ADULTS ONLY! Yes, they have deemed that the earliest of the Sesame Street episodes are NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!
Allow me to provide some examples:
The opening credits of the show feature kids running around and playing with "dirty farm animals" and climing on "rocks and trees that have no padding." Oh, mercy!
The Monsterpiece Theater sketches, where Cookie Monster dishes on the old Masterpiece Theater shows, were completely cut out of the DVDs because it advocates and promotes SMOKING! Why? BECAUSE COOKIE MONSTER IS HOLDING A PIPE, AND AT THE END OF THE SKETCH HE EATS IT! Say it ain't so!
Bert and Ernie are completely inappropriate because you have TWO GUYS LIVING IN THE SAME APARTMENT and parents will HAVE TROUBLE EXPLAINING THIS TO THEIR KIDS! Plus, the apartment is FALLING APART! And Ernie is MENTALLY SLOW! Heavens to Betsy!
Oscar the Grouch IS CLINICALLY DEPRESSED AND NOT GETTING TREATMENT! Lord save us!
Cookie Monster IS DIABETIC BECAUSE HE EATS TOO MANY COOKIES! Goodness gracious!
Oh, and apparently the episodes that are shown on PBS and other networks have to be preceeded by a warning to parents that the show IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!
If you wish to see this for yourself, go to yahoo.com and on the main page you'll see a video feature thing. Now, what you'll see up front is the "shocking ending of The Bachelor" but go ahead and click on it and suffer through the minute and a half clip. You'll then get a little scrolly thing that will appear at the bottom of the video window where you can select the sesame street clip.
Here's a NY Times article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Oh
My
Fucking
GOD!