Sesame Street

Gask said:

Thank you for that.

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it worries me sometimes how much fucking horrible TV i watched as a kid. i liked that Zoom shit too. some shows i refuse to revisit because i dont want my childhood memories to get poisoned.

Chukzombi said:

it worries me sometimes how much fucking horrible TV i watched as a kid.

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There was some twilight zone shit out there. Like "Today's Special," where store workers were trapped inside their job as mannequins.

Obviously dated as hell, but always struck me as very clever animation.

How fucked up are todays kids if Sesame Street has a parental warning

OU Ariakas said:

Let's be clear; it is not the kids that are fucked up, it is the puritanical parents/companies that are driving this shit.

My twins are almost 6 and have figured out how to use the voice command on Xfinity to get to YouTube videos. They usually watch benign shit but I have walked in on them cracking up to a Peppa Pig rip off where the mom is punching the kids or there are zombie George's overrunning the town. I tell them they are not allowed but secretly I am glad they are pushing some boundaries and don't have nightmares about minor cartoon violence.

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Just wait until they 'accidentally' find Peppa Pig rule 34.

chthonic-anemos said:

There was some twilight zone shit out there. Like "Today's Special," where store workers were trapped inside their job as mannequins.

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Ha, I remember Today's Special. It was basically the movie 'Mannequin', except made for kids and they swapped the sexes of the worker and the mannequin.

My twins are almost 2 and have loved Elmo since before they were 1. They are just getting to the stage where they can understand an amount that would allow them to really "watch" the show, instead of just enjoying all the songs and I guess its Elmo's voice that gets them. We have HBO Max and they have like the most recent 15 years or so that we will play for them (they love the Elmo's world skits).

My own personal favorite memory was the Batty Bat song linked above, the Count was always awesome. Somehow there were still original cast members (humans and puppeteers) still with the show at almost 50 years up until a couple of years ago. The last of them were booted or retired after HBO got involved and changed the show up (now a half hour instead of an hour, less rambling, more structured). The original VO for Big Bird/Oscar was actually still there until a couple of years ago, fucking bananas. Also, Frank Oz of course, but even he has stepped back now too.

Chukzombi said:

it also had the theme to the Bloodhound Gang, which was pretty damned catchy too. "wherever there's trouble, we're there on the double. We're The Bloodhound Gang. if you got the crime, we got the time, we're The Bloodhound Gang". i wasnt allowed to watch Mr Rogers. my dad said he talked like a faggot and i guess he didnt want him trying to promote faggotry to me or something. which i respected, but i also watched it anyway when he wasnt around.

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Tsar Bomba said:

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if he had seen that, it probably wouldnt have helped. my parents tried to raise me to be a good christian boy. i sort of was.