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We're late to learn this horrifying news, but the Children's Television Workshop has deemed the "Sesame Street" you grew up knowing and loving unsuitable for the modern toddler. The producers cite an array of reasons including but not nearly limited to Cookie Monster, who was not only a pathological binge eater but also the Muppet who played the character Alistair Cookie, who, explains the New York Times Magazine "used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, 'That modeled the wrong behavior' — smoking, eating pipes — 'so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.'" Seriously, as fun as it is to reminisce, stream-of-consciousness style, about the brilliant variety show targeted at black inner-city four-year-olds that won its way into 80% of American households — Urban llamas...crayon factories...how I was totally convinced that David sang The Cornelius Brothers' "Too Late To Turn Back Now," one two three FOUR FIVE, six seven eight NINE ten... — this is serious shit. More »
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