CSotD: No More Tickling For Elmo
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There was a time when "Sesame Street" was funny and exciting and as much fun for parents as it was for kids. And then, first, they decided that the exciting part made it too hard for the kids to absorb the lessons, so they slowed it down and ditched all the fast-counting sequences with the baker falling down the steps. And they took out the faux Peter Max color.
And then they decided that funny, creative writing was … well, I don't know why they decided to get rid of that, but at some point it all got bland and good-for-you and Oscar stopped being funny, Kermit pretty much disappeared and then, as if in a parody of their own humorlessness, Cookie Monster stopped eating cookies because, hey, cookies aren't nutritious, and Cookie Monster had always been portrayed as a model of responsible, intelligent behavior.
Now Francesco Marciuliano sends up the latest bit of Sesame Street gossip at Medium Large, a site which is often tasteless but rarely humorless. For those who missed it, Katy Perry appeared with Elmo in a musical sequence that was fun and innocent until someone noticed that you could see her bare shoulders and the upper, but not the exciting, part of her chest.
And they pulled the bit, because kids aren't supposed to be learning desire on Sesame Street.
Except, you know, desire for Elmo dolls and Big Bird t-shirts and Sesame Street books and backpacks and lunchboxes and coloring books and Halloween costumes and …
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