Posted By:
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia Apr 09, 2005
I don't have a link for this as I saw it in my local paper (and I just can't be arsed looking for one) but the gist of it is that the cookie monster has to GIVE UP COOKIES!
The Sesame Workshop is trying to promote healthier eating and is forcing Cookie to tell children that cookies are a 'sometimes food'. This means that his song will be changed from "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me" to "A cookie is a sometimes food". THAT DOESN"T EVEN RHYME!
There are also making other changes to characters like getting Grover to ride a bike so kids want to exercise.
Now, I know some lazy parents have been leaving the parenting up to the tv for some time now, but this is just pushing the limits. If a puppet likes cookies, what is the problem? It should be up to the parents to explain to kids about what you should eat in moderation.
Silent Fish
in an endless forest of wooden chairs Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 05:49 PM
I swear they think that "OH! my child won't eat cookies all the time since the cookie monster doesn't!" even though children are influcened by their favorite characters, they arn't going to stop doing what they like just to be like them it's TOO LATE pbs you can't change the personality of the character to brainwash children!
It's kind of like when they made Snufalupagas real to grownups too, so the kids wouldn't think that if they "told" that they wouldn't be believed.
Or, like the character in the African one who has AIDS so kids can identify...
I really don't have too much of a problem with it, if it helps kids out what they hey. I miss some of the old Sesame stuff, but I can live without it if it means evolving for today's society.
Hairy Houdini
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 07:57 PM
Personally, I'd suggest that Elmo drop the Mo and just be El.
No problem although tonight I hardly qualify as awake. Sat up all night last night watching movies, dozed off for about an hour, and then was right back up. How I'm still up is beyond my comprehension.
I know Elmo can get on your nerves! Our baby girl, Reese, just LOVES the shit out of him though so he's EVERYWHERE I turn!!! Arrrgghhh!!! I can handle him better than our first girls favorite... Barney the Dumbass! Whoops, I mean dinosaur!
Well, thanks to all this Elmo talk, I now have "skip to my lou" going through my head (my niece has the elmo piano, kept here at our place, so every so often, out it comes and "Get down with Elmo" blasts out...scary)
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 05:06 AM
...I've managed to keep my kid off that stuff for now. My mom said that every decade had it's "own" Sesame character. The 70s was Grover, 80s was Big Bird, 90s was Elmo. The 00s haven't spurred forth a HUGE following of any other character yet...maybe b/c of all the other T.V. shows available. I'd like for it to stay the way it is. If I'm gonna let baby girl watch it, I'd rather it be NORMAL. I hear my uncle did a really fabulous Cookie Monster impression back in the day.
Jocelynn's only 15 months, so we'll see how the next year goes. Dad loves Winnie the Shit...Er Pooh. I stay away from "character" items. Her shoes have purple stars on them, not Dora, her clothes have flowers or butterflies, instead of Strawberry Shortcake, Tweety, or Pooh, she doesn't watch T.V. yet, and her toys are pretty much a mishmash of blocks, dolls, cars, animals & books. Although, I have read "The Fluffy Chick" about 800 times just in the last few days...she loves the part about the wobbly calf.
Silent Fish
in an endless forest of wooden chairs Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 05:58 AM
if any childrens show is annoying it's Dora, she reapeats every thing she says and then does it again in spanish! It's like she's trying to give children terrets or something
Dany
in Waco, Texas Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 10:57 AM
Dora is annoying. But Blue's clues is really annoying. The dude is talking to a animated dog for God's sakes.
Sorry, My SS days (not Nazi) were the early 70s so I only know of Elmo through the toys. I had heard about Snufalupagas becoming real to adults, and that just blows. Another sign of the coming apocalypse. Mark my words - we're all DOOMED
Of course, as I grew older I gravitated to The Muppet Show. There was some real class. Except for the Star Wars episode. My God that one was painful.
Boychild is into Blue, Thomas the Tank Engine and all that. He was wayyyyyy into the Wiggles for a while, but Blue took over when I took him to a live Blue's Clues as a suprise. He just shook for the first 10 mins.
I actually like Dora because he is learning Spanish from it - between the tapes in the car & Dora he's getting pretty good at basic Spanish. (He even argues with me in Spanglish occasionally)
I had no idea he was picking it up till one day he starting counting buttons on a suitcoat in perfect Spanish.
SF, I've never come across Dora (but that's not unusual). If you want annoying repetitiveness, go for that evil british show, the Teletubbies. They just burble away using no known language, and encourage children to watch more TV. They repeat the same clip at least 2-3 times in 10 min. I've watched it once. For research purposes, and that was painful enough...
Sat up all night last night watching movies, dozed off for about an hour, and then was right back up. How I'm still up is beyond my comprehension.
