Geeze louise. Kids today can't keep themselves from choking on our Fisher Price Little People, either, now they need Chunkies.

Or is that because we're all so much fatter now?

the cookie-gobbling, smoking Cookie Monster, untreated depression of Oscar the Grouch

OMG........now I know why I am so damaged and deranged!! I was born and raised on Sesame, lol.

I AM SUING!!!!

I will sue too

That New York Times article linked to was great, thanks for clipping!

Antara said:

now I know why I am so damaged and deranged!! I was born and raised on Sesame, lol.

My thoughts exactly.

I have the collection, and watch them with the kiddos. I'll be locked up for sure.
seriously, wtf.

This has got to be the most ludicrous thing I've read in a long time. I love the Muppets and Jim Henson's shows to this day, and you can BET my future kids will be reared on the good stuff. Yes - including the GOOD years of Sesame Street (including the cookie-loving, pipe smoking cookie monster, and the irrevocably grumpy Oscar.) and not the crap they put out today. I weep for the future. Ugh.

Between Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, PBS had a lock on the '70s drug scene (that is, if you were taking drugs and watching these shows, you were truly trippin'!). My favorite was "Trolley" which took viewers to Roger's very own "Neighborhood of Make Believe." Best make believe character? Henrietta Pussycat, who randomly inserted the word "meow" into her sentences.

Skwirl, Antara, Wurdzgurl, ljsdesign, I join you!! Let's call all our friends and have a mass-tort lawsuit.
Nonsense truly is endless.

I claim my love of 70s Sesame Street. I think I turned out okay after hours of watching it

True story; I used to believe that TV just stopped the show when you turned it off. Why? Well, I went to Head Start right after watching the first half, and I got home just as they replayed it and I would generally get to see the second half.

It kind of bugs me they call the old Sesame Street episodes vintage. Gawd, it makes you feel so old!

Children don't see through the same eyes we do. To them Sesame Street was filled with fuzzy,lovable, cuddly characters. I think today we read way too much into things. Kids are still relatively innocent.At least at Sesame Street age.

True story; I used to believe that TV just stopped the show when you turned it off. Why? Well, I went to Head Start right after watching the first half, and I got home just as they replayed it and I would generally get to see the second half.

LOL....in the 70s, we didn't turn the TV on until the show we wanted to watch was on. When my son was little, he thought his favorite shows would be on just by turning on the TV

IMHO I always thought some of the muppets looked like they'd been hitting the bong.