How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street

Re:How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street by vinceguidry on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @02:38PM (#10698816)

I liked the treatment of Sesame Street as a microcosm of celebrity. Of course the show would find the very first popular chord it hits and then jam on it with all the subtlety of Nickelback. There's way too much money in that, emotional maturity is bound to take a back seat.

I can understand the lamentations, but really, if you were expecting your kids to learn the hard lessons of life from television programs, you deserve all the tantrums you get.

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Re:How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street by krapp on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:37PM (#10699296)

I would expect children to learn to count and spell and, occasionally, how to deal with death, from Sesame Street. Unfortunately, it seems the show has become more about pushing merchandise to parents and pandering to celebrity than education, and this is worth complaining about.

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