For adults only: Sesame Street

[Dr. Strange]

Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.

Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist...

The rest of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

I think this explains why a lot of you people are so messed up!

[bluestateguy]

1. Sesame Street was fantastic in the 1970's and 1980's

The skits were pure genius and hilarious. And I was learning at the same time too.

I was so sad in that episode when the adults had to explain to Big Bird that Mr. Hooper had died.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Was born the same year as SS, and loved every episode--

it's a shame it ended up so saccharine and PC now.

[tjwash]

3. At first...

...I thought the article was actually a piece of wit and sarcasm that was attempting to expose America for the over-protective, interest group grooming, PC slaughterhouse that it has become.

But then it dawned on me that this author was serious. :wtf: