Believe it or not, a couple of staff members at the nursing home where I live won't let their preschoolers watch Sesame Street--because they believe that infamous rumor about Bert and Ernie.
I'm sorry, but ANYONE who believes that "rumor" is the product of the very same thing I'm always complaining about. It's like, "Oh! We don't want television or anything brainwashing our kids to be tolerant... we want to brainwash our old prejudices that were brainwashed into us... BRAINWASH!"
Brainwash is the most over used word in the English language, I feel.
But denying Sesame Street because of something suggested by certain people who want to control certain people with fear so they can continue to do a-moral things? That's insipid.
Think of it this way, you're at LEAST perpetuating a TV show that promotes love and peace and the wonder of childhood.
It's as I said, it's a harmless idiotic joke when drunk stoner college students read into it for immature jokes, but it's downright dangerous in the hands of dangerous politico-religious manipulators. At least the college kids are wasted... they have that excuse.