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ok fictional narrative tv, maybe. i was talking more of news shows, "news" shows, talk shows, non-fiction kind of programs. but i guess you're right. house had a couple of good episodes on religion, but that was a few seasons ago already...i'm only up to the beginning of season six (but i was...

sigh. yes it did. the more sesame street i watch, the more it feels like the recent seasons have returned to very basic curriculum content with nothing about characters and personalities, the way the first two or three seasons were when they were worried about funding and their image, and before...

Well I agree with that. But how do you teach that to a mass audience of young kids through tv? Sesame Street has always done such a great job with teaching kids to respect other people even if they choose to like or do different things. That's exactly what the special does--it asks kids how they...

i think you're missing my point. my point isn't that the particular stories are incompatible. my point is that you have two options if you present jesus in the role of savior. either, you say he was, or you say christians believe he was. the first implies your belief system is the "right" one...

It may be simple to you, but you've spent a lot of time reading, listening, and thinking about it. The statements you make here are quite foreign and complicated to anyone who has not spent a lot of time reading, listening, and thinking about it--i.e. to people who were raised in different...

I see what you're saying--that presenting aspects of a religion without explaining that it's a whole belief system doesn't really explain anything. But how could they have said that Jesus came to be the savior, and then done the Jewish part of the show where they'd have to say, no, actually he's...

good point--block formatting was originally for international tv, and the workshop is focusing so much on bringing Sesame Street to the third world even in their publicity and funding campaigns, that they're beginning to ignore their original u.s. audience. of course, the u.s. audience is...

i agree with those who dislike the repetition of long and/or useless segments. but i don't think they do it for a budget thing--it's not like they don't have 40 years of stuff they could run...they just choose repeating new segments ad nauseum because they think new equals hip. they're wrong...

yes, the audio of the medley has been on youtube for months. i'm not sure why you take offense at Pink Martini wanting to spotlight the cast--the humans are beloved characters too, and it's kind of insulting to them to insinuate that they would only be asked as a second choice if a muppeteer...

wow. that's scary. i find that most people who are health food extremists like that and preach about it aren't in it for the health at all. their real interests are usually moral (becoming vegetarian for animal rights) or political (eating locally grown produce to defeat capitalism), and once...

yay! i'm not the only one! i never had it growing up, had it in the college dorm but only ever watched things on networks like law & order & snl, and now i don't even have a tv. my boyfriend, a food network & travel channel addict, just got rid of his cable because of the expense, so we went to...

...instead of being grossed out by a dinner roll you should have tossed days ago, you imagine it sprouting eyes and a mouth and joining Grover, Cookie and Herry on a rousing chorus of "Fuzzy and Blue"...

does anyone have Bob, Telly & Rosita singing I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, from episode 4031 (but not released on the Sesame Street Sings Karaoke dvd)?

sigh. my two cents: they shouldn't ban it, but they shouldn't have made it like that either. SW is spineless and pandering to the most shallow adults to ban a video because of some youtube comments...but they made the darned video in the first place because they are spineless and pandering to...

yeah, i don't think that episode was written very well. it's probably hard because all the grownups are so nice that they often have to write some of them out of character when there's a conflict. but bob does the least believable stubborn/dismissive of all the grownups. he's just too...

those work too, just in a different context. in the 2006 sesame street live show elmo makes music, bert sings the bee gees song "you should be dancing". it works quite well, with bert's familiar lines like "we're groovin' now." while in the 70s bert's attempt at disco were funny because he was a...

yeah, that's a rare one. it pops up occasionally on ebay if you're looking for an actual physical copy. but if you just want the music, i can send it to you in mp3s, i just need your e-mail.

i'm with you on the preference for old stuff, but i don't think there's been a decline. i think the perceived change is due to technology and the fragmentation of the entertainment market. there have always been way more bad tv shows, movies, and songs than good ones. we just remember better...

i remember mr. hooper from christmas eve on sesame street, too. i don't think i ever wondered who he was, or ever wondered why i never saw him in an episode. so despite growing up post-hooper, i knew him, and when i started watching stuff on youtube, he counted as someone i knew from childhood...

they just didn't need to make one. the point of those things, from a production standpoint, isn't *really* to reminisce, it's to generate publicity which generates money. and they got a TON of publicity this year without one--i didn't even notice the lack of a special until you mentioned it, b/c...