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Watch out for Big Bird and his leftist propaganda... straight from his nest.
Remember when we were young and we turned on Sesame Street to practice our ABCs and see what Big Bird was up to? That show has been a childhood favorite for generations of kids, from the Bert and Ernie from our days to Elmo and Abby Cadabby for today’s kids. My favorite character was Oscar the Grouch. To this day, I can sing his song “I Love Trash” word for word.
PBS remains the one channel I always feel comfortable having young children watch. There is no violence, bad words, over-the-top commercials, or anything that I would consider harmful in any way for even the youngest of children to view.
But a few conservatives are charging this popular kid’s show with everything from encouraging children to become liberals to teaching them to grow up without values.
Super Grover 2.0, one of the many updates Sesame Street has received of late.
The higher-ups at Sesame Street have made no bones about the fact that they are trying to keep their tried-and-true children’s programming fresh by updating it for the new millennium. In the last few years, Sesame Street has added new puppet cast members like the controversial pink fairy Abby Cadabby as well as Murray Monster, who now hosts the show in its new “block format.”
When I was a kid, Sesame Street welcomed a cadre of classically trained artists to interact with the people in its neighborhood (think Lily Tomlin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Denise Graves), as well as genius badass performers like Johnny Cash and Savion Glover. Today, the celebrity guests on Sesame Street are more likely to be found in the pages of Us Weekly than they are on stage at Carnegie Hall.
In recent years, viral hits – and playdate failures – have proven the people at Sesame Street know how to get the public’s attention, but have Elmo et. al. finally jumped the shark in an effort to entertain adults? Continue reading »
A soldier shows his robotic arm to a boy on Sesame Street on one of many episodes dealing with war.
Someone told them how to get to E. Capitol Street and so a handful of Sesame Street actors went to Washington today.
It wasn’t a Super Grover adventure, either. Rather, the real people actors joined union workers and activist groups to protest proposed cuts on public broadcasting funding.
Emilio Delgado, Roscoe Orman, Bob McGrath, Alan Muraoka, and Alison Bartlett O’Reilly — members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists who play recurring characters Luis, Gordon, Bob, Alan and Gina on the longest-running children’s educational television show — joined forces in the nation’s capital to convince the Senate to fully fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Will their faces, so familiar to the lawmakers’ kids or grandkids, be convincing? Continue reading »
Sesame Street can totally take Rick Santorum and the Republican Party
Former Republican senator Rick Santorum, who is gearing up for a possible 2012 Republican presidential run, is taking on Sesame Street.
Santorum feels the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting should be cut. That would gut funding for PBS and NPR, and leave Sesame Street homeless.
Freakish as wanting to cut the funding for Sesame Street might seem, he’s not alone. It’s on the chopping block in the Republican’s proposed budget. The whole party would like to see public broadcasting done away with.
Elmo to help low-income families eat better
Eating well can challenging for any family, but for a family on a limited income, it’s even more difficult. And given our current economic climate, more and more families are having a harder time putting food on the table, much less making sure that food is nutritious. But Elmo and the gang want to help. And the help is right around the corner.
On Monday, the Sesame Workshop announced their newest project: Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget. They’re hoping to make a difference to the one in four children who suffer from “food insecurity,” which means they aren’t consuming food that meets nutritional needs due to financial instability. According to the Sesame Workshop‘s website, 9.6 million of these children are under the age of six.
The plan is to provide such families with free “outreach kits,” which, among other things, will include an educational video that features Sesame Street’s four newest muppets, known simply as “the Superfoods.” The video also features Elmo along with some real-life families who qualify as food insecure. Continue reading »
I love what I got on top!
Controversial adult guest stars aside, Sesame Street has always been about helping young children learn, grow and love themselves for who they are. It’s what Sesame Street has been doing for more than forty years and continues to do with this video.
It’s a love song of sorts, sung by a little Muppet girl rocking an Afro and a pink party dress. The object of her affection? Her awesome hair. Continue reading »
Anthony G. Moore / PR Photos
It is no secret that since Isaiah Mustafa broke onto the scene with his fish tossing and backwards horseback riding America had a love affair with his hysterical Old Spice commercials. This escalated over the summer when Mustada and Old Spice partnered up to make personalized video replies to twitter comments and celebrities. Continue reading »
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