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Where did you hear that? If that was their reasoning, they'd have to get rid of skits about Ernie and Bert, Cookie Monster and Prarie Dawn, Grover and Fat Blue, the list goes on and on. I know things are messed up at Sesame Workshop, but I would hope it's not THAT messed up. According to the...

Well, it certainly wasn't my intention to turn this into a political or racial discussion. My position is not really coming from the left or the right, but rather simple common sense that both sides used to have. Everyone ultimately should accept personal responsibility for their actions, and...

Bottom line: Sesame Street was always for kids. The episodes I want to see again were for kids. I was a kid when I saw it; I liked it. Many others here were kids when they saw it; they liked it. It didn't hurt us; it taught us, made us laugh, and entertained us. It's absurd to think that...

Actually, from 1969 throughout the 70's, Ernie and Bert had quite a bit of street time. From the very first season, Ernie and Bert were out on the street discussing "the movie about the number 2" and "the movie about the letter E." Ernie got all choked up over them and Bert explained his...

The golden years of Sesame Street, the golden years.

I did have an Oscar puppet with a cardboard trash can as part of the box he came in.

They probably threw him out with the Fix-It-Shop.

I remember that one. It's one of those good ol' "lost" E & B skits. That one did have a good moral; kind of like "the boy who cried wolf" or "the boy who cried monster." Some other very obscure E & B skits that very few people seem to remember: Bert makes Ernie throw away his R...

Speaking of sentimental, remember the "Things That I Remember" Ernie and Bert skit? I love how they showed scenes from the old skits with Ernie and Bert (and were not afraid of showing the older Bert with a larger nose). I thought the whole thing was a beautiful summation of all the years and...

I wouldn't say their reasons are silly, I'd say their reasons are stupid. People talk like we're asking them to show some dark, horrible thing from the past that would scar children for life. It was ALWAYS a children's show for God's sake. If this generation of adults would stop trying to be...

What's really selfish is that the producers of today won't allow this generation of children to have the same fun that we had because they listen to stuffy "experts" who have their heads stuck in the sand (and sometimes somewhere else), impose all types of subjective values on what's "good" for...

I think I know what you mean. It's like with many comic strip characters; they start out with unique looks that were fresh creations right from the artist's mind. Yet, for some reason, over time, their appearances develop a type of "cutesiness" that undermines their original essence. That's...

No, I think the "experts" need to get out more and see real problems instead of creating them.

Not me, I judge people by their actions, not by their looks. Children should learn those values too. Besides, some people do have friends who are up and down with their weight, have bags under their eyes some days when they don't get enough sleep, cut their hair short, grow their hair long...

Mark, you hit the nail on the head. That's been my position for a long time. Children don't live in a vacuum. They have households with people of previous generations who can share and explain things. No matter what children are watching, parents and grandparents should take notice and...

For that matter, any entertainment mixed with education takes children "out of the moment" to a degree. They focus on a little red monster, instead of the educational lesson. However, the original philosophy of educational television was that getting children's attention was the way to help...

He was wondering if you could actually get old episodes from Sesame Workshop since PBS referred him there, but according to my experience some years ago, you can't. I think PBS was just saying that the decision is up to SW, not them. Still, there would be no harm in writing to SW with the request.

Then we'll ALL be living in "Elmo's WORLD." :eek:

I wrote to CTW (now SW) about ten years ago, asking for old episodes. All I got was a packet with stock responses of why they can't give out individual episodes due to contractual agreements, a list of all of their commercially available Sesame Street tapes, a booklet with general information...

Speaking of "Grover and the Everything In The Whole Wide World Museum," did anyone ever notice that in The Hall Of Very, Very Heavy Things, Roosevelt Franklin seems to be driving a BRITISH trailer truck? The steering wheel is on the right hand side.