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There are 2 issues. The many changes that have been made on Sesame Street through the years are debatable and there are arguments on each side. However, betraying veteran members who have been loyal to the show for years and years is quite another issue. Prejudice and hatred of seniors is a...

The Wooden Bowl: http://littlepeoplemeetmrpotatohead.com/woodenbowl.html

People are capable of deciding for themselves when they need to relax and stop working. That's the difference between voluntary retirement and forced retirement. The elderly don't need to be told what's good for them. As long as one can do a job, age, race, gender, religion, sexual...

Maybe not, but the Fisher Price Sesame Street Apartment set, with Little People figures of Gordon, Susan, and Mr. Hooper, was sure successful and could probably have been expanded on.

Never worked for me. The mother was horrid. Give me June Cleaver and Carol Brady any day.

Worst shows: All reality shows; Malcom In The Middle; Seinfeld; South Park; Beavis and Butthead; I-40 Paradise. More to come.

If you took that to its logical conclusion, no one should be praised for anything they accomplish because someone else might have been able to do it instead. The point is that there were not others people doing it; they were the ones and they deserve more respect than they're getting now...

Always been a messed up world, but there was a time when CTW (Sesame Workshop) set a good example.

Again, I must disagree. Bob McGrath basically used his own personality to develop his character. Roscoe Orman and Emilio Delgado also put a lot of themselves into the parts. It's not like they were just random roles that anyone could have done. If actors got the roles who did not have the...

Appropriate. It's only half the show it once was.

Oscar The Grouch would not have been nearly as funny if he didn't have human characters to annoy. Big Bird's childlike curiosity would have meant nothing without human adults to teach him.

Have to disagree. Those roles were special because the actors made them special.

Ironically, Sesame Street was inspired by Captain Kangaroo, who made a point of always playing an older man, even when he was young, to promote the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren.

Why should people be fired over their age under any circumstances, as long as they are able to do their jobs? If it wasn't for McGrath, Orman, and Delgado keeping the show going all these years, the current producers wouldn't even have a job themselves with Sesame Workshop today.

Or we could put it another way: If CTW had a throw away ageist mentality in the 70's, Will Lee would have gotten fired long before he died. Sesame Street has been a great trend setter throughout the decades, but I never thought they'd be setting the trend for reinstating forced retirement.

And another point is missed...

There was no reason for the actors to leave at all. They were doing their jobs just fine. I guess if Will Lee was still alive, they'd be firing Mr. Hooper right now too. Ageism, disloyalty, and arrogance are sickening.

Disgusting!

The final nails in the coffin of a once great children's show: http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/sesame-street-axes-one-two-three-favorite-human-characters/ar-BBuZkDS?ocid=DELLDHP

Those are the points that I've been trying to make on here for some time now. Why can't old episodes of Sesame Street simply be available like any other TV show? Of course, vintage episodes of any children's TV show seem to be difficult to find. Captain Kangaroo is extremely elusive, along...