Sesame Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJlkplvYdgA
One of my favorite bits. The show was brilliant in its heyday.
Not everyone agrees, though:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
I don't care much for the "new" Sesame Street or its safe, toothless segments. The gentrified (there's a goddamn coffee shop now!) street - once a wonderfully quirky avenue of irreverent diversity - has become a parody of itself, a touchy-feely world where characters and conflict are innocuous and dull. The most complex and entertaining muppets have become more generically cute, and now suffer from a stifling sameness that robs the show of all the youthful energy that made it so great.
I miss when skits would end in pandemonium for no apparent reason. I miss when Oscar was truly grouchy, bordering on misanthropic. I miss when Snuffleupagus was merely a figment of Big Bird's imagination. I miss Kermit's disenchanted smirk, and his slightly condescending attitude towards the other muppets. But most of all, I miss the old Cookie Monster: a loud, boisterous cookie junkie whose one-track mind could think of nothing but eating. Child's First Addict, indeed. His very existence reflected the nature of the show back then; Sesame Street taught kids plenty, but every skit didn't have to be a "lesson", or even make any sense at all.
It's still a clever show, but it's not the eccentric bunch of weirdos it once was.
One of my favorite bits. The show was brilliant in its heyday.
Not everyone agrees, though:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
I don't care much for the "new" Sesame Street or its safe, toothless segments. The gentrified (there's a goddamn coffee shop now!) street - once a wonderfully quirky avenue of irreverent diversity - has become a parody of itself, a touchy-feely world where characters and conflict are innocuous and dull. The most complex and entertaining muppets have become more generically cute, and now suffer from a stifling sameness that robs the show of all the youthful energy that made it so great.
I miss when skits would end in pandemonium for no apparent reason. I miss when Oscar was truly grouchy, bordering on misanthropic. I miss when Snuffleupagus was merely a figment of Big Bird's imagination. I miss Kermit's disenchanted smirk, and his slightly condescending attitude towards the other muppets. But most of all, I miss the old Cookie Monster: a loud, boisterous cookie junkie whose one-track mind could think of nothing but eating. Child's First Addict, indeed. His very existence reflected the nature of the show back then; Sesame Street taught kids plenty, but every skit didn't have to be a "lesson", or even make any sense at all.
It's still a clever show, but it's not the eccentric bunch of weirdos it once was.
posted by Pj at 10:55 AM
6 Comments:
I miss when 'Watership Down' was just a story about a bunch of bunnies...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/18/180249&from=rss
I guess it was okay to mess us up, but not the kids of today.
don't get upset, don't get upset - i not fussy.
I think the pressing issue here is why is a middle-aged man still watching Sesame Street for its entertainment value when he doesn't even have children?
Anon4 - I can only assume you're talking about someone else, since I'm not middle-aged...yet.
It's true that I don't have (or want) kids, but the muppets have always amused me.
I was sick, home from work...hell, it beats the View...
One of these things (is not like the others) - and you don't have to justify anything to that one... ;)
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