The "What Seems to Be in Store for Season 43" Thread

[Drtooth]

You know parental groups. Left, right or whatever, they're a menace. Even if they have the best of intentions, it's all about forcing their exact views onto other parents and their children, when we all know every child is different. They don't realize they cause more harm than good. But then, kids also need to learn to make their own decisions, and sometimes what parents are teaching their children actually is wrong. Case in point, these groups are afraid of spreading tolerance. Tolerance can only come when the younger generation discards the hateful rhetoric of the past. That's how society grows (or should).

But the fact of the matter is, taking it out on PBS and censoring media that a group doesn't agree with (especially a megalomaniacal, fear based, Fundamentalistic dogma group like this) flies in the face of the very freedoms we're supposed to have in this country that said groups will defend when they do something offensive and wrong.

 

[CensoredAlso]

"Just say no to Clifford"

I'm sorry, I can't read that without laughing, lol.

What a lot of Americans (on both "sides") seem to forget is that TV's have Off buttons. No one is forcing your kid to watch something you don't like. Parents should spend more time encouraging their kids to play outside and less time attacking cartoon characters.

 

[D'Snowth]

I'm sorry, I can't read that without laughing, lol.

Well, that's just what their "campaign slogan" was... I guess it was supposed to be inspired by the whole "Just say no to drugs" and things like that.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Well, that's just what their "campaign slogan" was... I guess it was supposed to be inspired by the whole "Just say no to drugs" and things like that.

And to try and draw a parallel to drugs and a cartoon puppy (that no one is forcing their kids to watch) is quite funny.

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, it wasn't just Clifford they were singling out, they were going after SST, and Arthur, and they were even going after some non-PBS fixtures as well like SpongeBob and Little Lulu. Apparently that "We Are Family" spot with both the SST Muppets, Classic Muppets, Between the Lions, SpongeBob, other famous kiddy characters really drew outrage from those groups as well... somehow they saw THAT as gay tolerance propaganda for some reason.

 

[Drtooth]

Well, it wasn't just Clifford they were singling out, they were going after SST, and Arthur, and they were even going after some non-PBS fixtures as well like SpongeBob and Little Lulu. Apparently that "We Are Family" spot with both the SST Muppets, Classic Muppets, Between the Lions, SpongeBob, other famous kiddy characters really drew outrage from those groups as well... somehow they saw THAT as gay tolerance propaganda for some reason.

The story goes that some idiot typed in the wrong web address and thought that it was a gay marriage initiative instead of a "Don't be mean to people of other races" initiative. Which only goes to show the importance of differentiating between dot coms, dot nets, and dot orgs. Type in the wrong one, and you could go from a PBS affiliate to a porn site or a virus site (or a porn site that gives you a virus).

But, to save face, they just ran with the whole racial tolerance= tolerance to everything, and that means the big scary gay. I still think that it's their subversive hide knowledge and control the young ones initiative to keep spitting out ignorant little zombie soldiers that do whatever they want. Any group that has the word "Family" in it clearly is using it as a manipulative tool to make it think that everything will put the sacredness of family in jeopardy, when the truth is old fanatical hatred will die out if people smarten up and stop giving a crap about it.

 

[D'Snowth]

Which only goes to show the importance of differentiating between dot coms, dot nets, and dot orgs. Type in the wrong one, and you could go from a PBS affiliate to a porn site or a virus site (or a porn site that gives you a virus).

OT, I know how that is... I once accidentally typed the wrong dot in a web address trying to access the Wayback Machine, but instead, I ended up on a Muslim/Islamic message forum.

 

[FrackleFan2012]

Here's a promo I found on Youtube for the 43rd season of Sesame Street on PBS Kids on TBT.

 

[Drtooth]

OT, I know how that is... I once accidentally typed the wrong dot in a web address trying to access the Wayback Machine, but instead, I ended up on a Muslim/Islamic message forum.

That's why anytime they use a website on a TV show, the network has to buy up the domain name before it airs or someone else will and put either inappropriate or dangerous content on it. People who are web savvy enough know this. You must ALWAYS check the web address and make sure that it ends in the right code. It will save you from viruses.

Too bad they didn't get one, right?

 

[Drtooth]

Okay... enough of that:

Sesame Street FINALLY posted some preview segments.