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Title: the Sesame Street I grew up with is unsuitable for my children...
Post by: sluggish on November 20, 2007, 12:52:13 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html

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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.

no wonder I'm so screwed up...