Fuck Elmo (1105 hits)
Category: Movies & TVRating: 1.44 on 39 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by FALLEN (View user info) at 2007-11-29 11:19:44 EST
Being born in 1969, I literally grew up with Sesame Street.
I 100% account my reading at an early age to spending hours glued to this show.
Unfortunately this did little for my writing skills.
I recently found that they have released "Sesame Street: old school" DVD sets, which encompass the first few years of the show. The disturbing issue is that there is a disclaimer that these videos "may not be suitable for today's toddlers"
??????????????????????
How is that possible?
Well look here
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
In the interview one of the producers comments about some of the horrors that were Ok for me, but not for today's kids.
Oscar the Grouch and (Bert to a lesser extent)- he's too negative and miserable.
Um, what part of Grouch was not clear?
Cookie monster- overeating, cookies of all things (gasp!), Smoking in an old parody of Masterpiece Theater, called Monsterpiece Theater. Since '05 they changed his eating habits to include healthy snacks.
His omnivorous OM-NOM-NOM is gone.
Along with it part of my childhood.
This save the children from ourselves mentality seems to correspond with the most heinous of all changes on the show.
Less Grover, more Elmo.
Ok, Elmo was cute at first as the little kid monster. Bright red with third person ramblings that were a little Yoda and a little LOLcat.
"Elmo want to help...Elmo want to.." whatever.
But more and more of him meant less and less of the original cute and fuzzy monster, Grover.
Gone would be the adventures of Super-Grover.
Gone would be the Grover as a waiter that kept screwing up the order of that unnamed Muppet guy.
Somewhere along the way, someone decided that being a cookie eating, grouchy, screw up was bad, and our kids now should be hyperactive screeching ass hats.
This is better?
I don't see it.
Kids understand a lot more than modern thinking gives them credit for. If you tell a kid they can't eat cookies like Cookie Monster can because he's a monster and they're a kid; that makes sense to them.
You expect them to accept monsters and people living together in the same neighborhood but not to understand eating cookies all day is bad for them?
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Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2008-04-08 00:52:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
you needed to rant more. "????" isnt enough.
good topic, bad execution
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-07 23:49:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck that red giggling little son of a bitch right in the mouth.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2008-04-07 22:19:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
this was awesome
Submitted by BeforeEmily (user info) at 2008-04-07 21:58:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No, this is the best muppet ever: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Pepe_the_King_Prawn
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-11-30 18:33:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
our futures are doomed to pantywaste over-sensitive pollyannas
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-11-30 09:53:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-11-29 19:13:14 CST (#)
Ranking: 2
I was sad when Jim Henson died. He helped raise my generation.
Pitiful, maladjusted rejects that we are.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-11-30 07:20:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
[sigh] Agreed.
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2007-11-30 04:14:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You earned this +2 the moment I read the title.
I've never liked Elmo. Ever.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-11-30 03:39:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this.
Submitted by Eugene_Luther (user info) at 2007-11-30 03:37:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-11-29 20:13:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I was sad when Jim Henson died. He helped raise my generation.
Pitiful, maladjusted rejects that we are.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-11-29 19:53:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i think we can assume that most people on uber at least (as a social sample) grew up watching sesame street, back in the day.
look at what its produced...
not exactly a stellar bunch of humanity. not exactly a world of over-achievers. i think youre right when you said "Somewhere along the way, someone decided that being a cookie eating, grouchy, screw up was bad."
it appears they were right. theres a whole internets full of them.
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2007-11-29 16:59:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I loved Super Grover, My oldest son use to put a cape on and run around screaming supppppeeeeerrrrr
ggggrrroooovvverrrrr.
Until I put him on the roof and told him he could fly.
thanks for the memory : )
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-11-29 15:59:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hahaha
I'm 23, and as to mum being hot?.....eh, i'd do her.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-11-29 15:55:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-11-29 15:41:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
1969?
You're practically my mums age. How does it feel to be so OLD?
unless you're sean connery. sean connery does not get old.
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Is your mom hot?
I'm not old. I can show you how it feels to be old.
Wait.. how old are you?
That Dateline NBC guy better not be here.
put your mom on the computer.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-11-29 15:41:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
1969?
You're practically my mums age. How does it feel to be so OLD?
unless you're sean connery. sean connery does not get old.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-11-29 15:13:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yes, I remember that dude!
My favorite Muppet was Animal!
"WOOOOOOMAN!"
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:59:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mighty_Favog
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:56:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:48:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Manamana!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM
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ex-actly
that's what I'm talkin' about
oh oh
remember the "Mighty Favog"???
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:48:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Manamana!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM
Submitted by czwij (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:25:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
now my turn
one two three fooour five six seven eight nine teeen eleven twelve
one two three fooour five six seven eight nine teeen eleven twelve
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleeeeeeveee--e--eeeen twelve!
damn straight
Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:08:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2007-11-29 14:02:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
BOOK! Earth book. Check book.....book say.....yup....CHICK-EN. Chick-en? Yup. Chick-en. Yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip....
boooooockbocbocbocbocBAGOCK.......boooooockbocbocbocbocBAGOCK......nope....nopenopenopenopenopenope...
*RING RING*
gmmmmm *hides behind bottom lip*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-11-29 13:55:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2007-11-29 13:52:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by DangerPants (user info) at 2007-11-29 13:17:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
One two three
four five six
seven eight nine
ten eleven twelve
And they all played games
at the ladybug picnic
They played jumprope,
but the rope it broke
so they aqll sat around
telling knock-knock jokes
Ladybugs twelve,
At the ladybug picnic
(doot-doot-dooooo)
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2007-11-29 12:51:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-11-29 12:42:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I love muppets
what about the "counting crows"
Big bird is fruity
The Count.....goth
Jaba the hut
YO-fucking-DA
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-11-29 12:05:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
muddy's gay
and i think that's A-OK
he's on his waaaaaaaaaay to get some on. the. street.
can you tell him how to shit
when his rears been filled with meat
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:55:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:36:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
One, two, three, fourfive,
Six, seven, eight nineten,
Eleven, twelllllllllve.
DOO BE DO BE DO DOO DOO DOO DO BE DOO TWELVE!
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:41:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Please, please send me a link to the asian version so I can watch when I get home.
sicosemen.at.gmail.com
Jager-bomb
Jager-bomb
I'll take a Jager-bomb and a Heineken.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:37:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:36:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
One, two, three, fourfive,
Six, seven, eight nineten,
Eleven, twelllllllllve.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:34:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
lazy parents that don't like to accept responsibility made fat kids
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:34:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/113466#2593180
Is that from the "My New Haircut" video on youtube?
If so, aces on the quote.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:33:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I dont think Cookie Monster made kids fat.
When you were young you picked on the fat kid because he was THE fat kid. Everyone else by definition are the not fat kids.
Everyone watched SS back in the day, we should have all been fat loads waddling around the playground.
the 400lb 8y/o are a whole other story.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:27:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I agree with you about the protecting ourselves from ourselves bit, but at the same time, I would like to stop seeing morbidly obese 9 year olds.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:26:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Somewhere along the way, someone decided that being a cookie eating, grouchy, screw up was bad, and our kids now should be hyperactive screeching ass hats.
i snorted at that.
I heard something about this and think that it's unfortunate that we continue to protect ourselves from ourselves. I think part of the reason we have the problems we have is people are so overprotected and kids particularly that they don't have to make decisions to care for themselves or identify their values so we end up with whiny entitled pieces of shit who want and expect everything to be handed to them.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-11-29 11:24:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
you make good points
now get a godammed life