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Classic kids shows the are now considers inappropriate for kids

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nomadcowatbk

The producers of Sesame Street don't recommend older episodes for todays kids.
CBS wouldn't let Weird Al show the entire public domain short "Soap the germ fighter" on his Saturday morning program
 
How about the first two seasons of Ren and Stimpie, Pee Wee's playhouse? No matter what anyone else says, when they originally aired, they really weren't aimed at kids, not with all of the innuendos and subdued semi-risque' subject matter.
 
Because the older ones don't have Elmo, and the whole point of "SS" these days is to shove Elmo down kids' throats, apparently. SESAME stands for Sole Endeavor: Selling And Marketing Elmo.
 
If you talk to PC pundits, they would probably say the theatrical shorts like Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, etc. would be inappropriate for today's kids. You have the violence aspect, as well as some of the racial overtones in the earlier shorts.
 
Some of the older Sesame Street episodes don't fit todays PC climate.

For instance, some of the monsters actaully ACTED like monsters and not all cuddley freindly "things." One of my favourites "Roosevelt Franklin" is considered unacceptable but I think even today he was cool. I mean the kid has a school named after him how cool is that. (OK perhaps he was named after the school but still)

They said, he was a stereotype and unruley but he was COOL.
 
I remember Roosevelt Franklin. It didn't occur to me until a few years later that reversing the names gave you a former U.S. President.

Mark said:
Some of the older Sesame Street episodes don't fit todays PC climate.

For instance, some of the monsters actaully ACTED like monsters and not all cuddley freindly "things." One of my favourites "Roosevelt Franklin" is considered unacceptable but I think even today he was cool. I mean the kid has a school named after him how cool is that. (OK perhaps he was named after the school but still)

They said, he was a stereotype and unruley but he was COOL.
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Mark said:
Some of the older Sesame Street episodes don't fit todays PC climate.

For instance, some of the monsters actaully ACTED like monsters and not all cuddley freindly "things." One of my favourites "Roosevelt Franklin" is considered unacceptable but I think even today he was cool. I mean the kid has a school named after him how cool is that. (OK perhaps he was named after the school but still)

They said, he was a stereotype and unruley but he was COOL.
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Another aspect of classic Sesame Street that can only be enjoyed on YouTube now: the "Don Music" sketches (Don was voiced by Richard Hunt, who died in 1992), usually accompanied with Kermit the Frog (one follows below where Don rewrites the Sesasme Street theme). The reruns of the Don Music spots were later pulled due to the belief that kids were imitating Don's "bashing" his head in frustration over not coming up with the right words to his songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxWvn53n35g&feature=related
 
ShawnHill1 said:
If you talk to PC pundits, they would probably say the theatrical shorts like Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, etc. would be inappropriate for today's kids. You have the violence aspect, as well as some of the racial overtones in the earlier shorts.
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Same with the Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts; some PC types would say that Stymie and Buckwheat are racial stereotypes. And no doubt some of those same people think the Three Stooges are too violent.
 
Howdy Doody would probably not go over. Clarabell (the bad kid) shooting Buffalo Bob (the parental figure) with a seltzer bottle. Kids watch that and they might go out in a few years and start staging anti-war and civil rights demonstrations. Oh, wait! They did. Add to that all the scary store lines in which Howdy and other characters were put in physical danger would get kiddie shrinks in an uproar. And all the hard sell and often deceptive advertising to kids.

Captain Kangaroo would probably have problems with Bunny Rabbit stealing or tricking Captain out of his carrots and Mister Moose dropping ping pong balls on him.

I'm surprised there weren't more objections to Xuxa (a former centerfold) acting overtly sexy around kids and doing all those Stanley Spadowski (from the film UHF) stunts with little kids.
 
In the 80's Richard Pryor had a kid's show called Pryor's Place. I'd guess there were objections to that. And later George Carlin became Mr. Conductor on Thomas The Tank Engine.
 
anotherguy said:
In the 80's Richard Pryor had a kid's show called Pryor's Place. I'd guess there were objections to that. And later George Carlin became Mr. Conductor on Thomas The Tank Engine.
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Mr. Conductor has been played by Ringo Starr, George Carlin and Alec Baldwin. I'm sure some people can come up with reasons to object to any of them.
 
anotherguy said:
In the 80's Richard Pryor had a kid's show called Pryor's Place. I'd guess there were objections to that. And later George Carlin became Mr. Conductor on Thomas The Tank Engine.
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Didn't Cheech Marin do a lot of kids shows and movies as well?
 
MattParker said:
I'm surprised there weren't more objections to Xuxa (a former centerfold) acting overtly sexy around kids and doing all those Stanley Spadowski (from the film UHF) stunts with little kids.
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The first time I saw Xuxa was 2004...the games were fun,the songs she sang were fun but her translucent blouses and related attire along with the young girl dance troupe in hotpants was indeed inapporpriate.
 
bpatrick said:
Same with the Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts; some PC types would say that Stymie and Buckwheat are racial stereotypes. And no doubt some of those same people think the Three Stooges are too violent.
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I always get a kick out of this, because what people fail to realize is that ALL the characters were stereotypes. Darla was a 6 year old vamp.They had the rich snotty kid, the bully, Alfalfa was a delusional megalomaniac and so forth.

True the kids were all stereotypes, but they all got on well. Buckwheat might have been stereotypical black but he was accepted by all the gang for what he was. Same for the Butch and Woim, the bullies. Darla would drop Alfalfa for Butch or the rich kid in a moment, thus completing the stereotype that women were fickle and only interested in money.

That's what made the Little Rascals so good, the kids were stereotypes but they all did their best to get along with each other despite their flaws.
 
Jeez, how did I ever survive my childhood without all these fussing old nannies monitoring my viewing habits and arbitrarily deciding what would and wouldn't be appropriate for me?

It's possible too that some of the educational content on the early episodes of Sesame Street or other PBS shows is no longer accurate or the method of teaching the information is outmoded. I was evaluating our library of "3-2-1 Contact" episodes and noticed a couple of errors based on an old understanding of certain concepts.
 
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