Comments on: Remember When Sesame Street Kept It Real? http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/ Marketing for Businesses Without Marketing Departments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-800 Naomi Dunford Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:41:08 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-800 Matt - thank you for saying that. Also, thank you for bringing the word "typotacular" into my life. Matt – thank you for saying that. Also, thank you for bringing the word “typotacular” into my life.

]]> By: MattT http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-797 MattT Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:47:28 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-797 (My, that last post is typotacular. Nice work, mister freelance copyWRITER man!.) (My, that last post is typotacular. Nice work, mister freelance copyWRITER man!.)

]]> By: MattT http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-796 MattT Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:46:13 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-796 @erin: It's not abou offense, I don't think. It's about old scenes that were fine looking bad in a modern context. Consider my Gordon example before. They don't want kids to get the idea that it's okay to go off with some man to his house for "milk and cookies." Now I haven't seen the clip, so I don't know if the girl already knows Gordon. And all that. I think they're just erring onthe side of caution. Actually, parents who watch it with their kids could use it as a teachable moment. @Naomi: Crap blogs draw crap traffic. You're getting obviously brilliant traffic, so you've got an obviously brilliant blog. Rejoice! @erin: It’s not abou offense, I don’t think. It’s about old scenes that were fine looking bad in a modern context. Consider my Gordon example before. They don’t want kids to get the idea that it’s okay to go off with some man to his house for “milk and cookies.” Now I haven’t seen the clip, so I don’t know if the girl already knows Gordon. And all that. I think they’re just erring onthe side of caution. Actually, parents who watch it with their kids could use it as a teachable moment.

@Naomi: Crap blogs draw crap traffic. You’re getting obviously brilliant traffic, so you’ve got an obviously brilliant blog. Rejoice!

]]> By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-780 Naomi Dunford Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:00:03 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-780 You know what I hate? When I go into the comments section of <em>my own blog</em> and the comments are so good, I don't have anything intelligent to contribute. Assholes. You know what I hate? When I go into the comments section of my own blog and the comments are so good, I don’t have anything intelligent to contribute.

Assholes.

]]> By: erin http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-776 erin Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:28:57 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-776 i couldn't agree more with lornadoone. if old skool sesame street gets a warning label...what does present day britney spears need? besides a muzzle, birth control, a diet, and apparently about 10 handlers. there is no way that anything on the old sesame street could ever offend kids today. have the ratings people heard of halloween? i saw more disturbing outfits this year on younger girls than ever. and i live in scottsdale, where you get a boob job as a high school graduation present. besides, old sesame is like real life: someone living in a garbage can, who is bitter and friends with an imaginary person. two guys who live together and dress similarly. and people who break out in song every so often. it's like new york, but with puppets. i couldn’t agree more with lornadoone. if old skool sesame street gets a warning label…what does present day britney spears need? besides a muzzle, birth control, a diet, and apparently about 10 handlers.

there is no way that anything on the old sesame street could ever offend kids today. have the ratings people heard of halloween? i saw more disturbing outfits this year on younger girls than ever. and i live in scottsdale, where you get a boob job as a high school graduation present.

besides, old sesame is like real life:
someone living in a garbage can, who is bitter and friends with an imaginary person.
two guys who live together and dress similarly.
and people who break out in song every so often.
it’s like new york, but with puppets.

]]> By: lornadoone http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-771 lornadoone Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:38:56 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-771 Cookie Monster smoking a pipe is far less offensive to me than that "Sweet 16" show they had/have on MTV. Or about 90% of the other crap people let their kids watch these days. I didn't let my 10-year-old foster daughter watch <i>Desperate Housewives</i> or <i>Law and Order</i>, so imagine my surprise when she came home from a weekend with her mom and was all caught up on the shows! I think there's a difference between being overprotective and not being protective enough. The SS thing strikes me as being in the first category. Cookie Monster smoking a pipe is far less offensive to me than that “Sweet 16″ show they had/have on MTV. Or about 90% of the other crap people let their kids watch these days. I didn’t let my 10-year-old foster daughter watch Desperate Housewives or Law and Order, so imagine my surprise when she came home from a weekend with her mom and was all caught up on the shows! I think there’s a difference between being overprotective and not being protective enough. The SS thing strikes me as being in the first category.

]]> By: MattT http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-766 MattT Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:35:37 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-766 (@lornadoone: Sorry for misspelling your name the first time around.) (@lornadoone: Sorry for misspelling your name the first time around.)

]]> By: MattT http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-765 MattT Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:34:23 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-765 @lornadoon: The warning sticker is due to changing times. There's a Masterpiece Theater spoof called Monsterpiece Theater, starring Cookie Monster, who smokes (!) a pipe. And, apparently, another scene features Gordon inviting a little girl over to his house for milk and cookies. And she goes with him. By herself. Maybe it's a different age. Maybe we just wised up. Probably it's a bit of both. @lornadoon: The warning sticker is due to changing times. There’s a Masterpiece Theater spoof called Monsterpiece Theater, starring Cookie Monster, who smokes (!) a pipe.

And, apparently, another scene features Gordon inviting a little girl over to his house for milk and cookies. And she goes with him. By herself.

Maybe it’s a different age. Maybe we just wised up. Probably it’s a bit of both.

]]> By: Adrian Keys http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-753 Adrian Keys Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:21:01 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-753 "Really think about them. Envision them as real, breathing individuals. What do they eat for breakfast? How old are they? Are they Democrats or Republicans? Do they like their jobs? Do they like their spouses? How many bedrooms are in their homes?" I hear you and business sch. said as much but then you see so-called successful companies and wonder how much they really know or if it's just a matter of plain luck! “Really think about them. Envision them as real, breathing individuals. What do they eat for breakfast? How old are they? Are they Democrats or Republicans? Do they like their jobs? Do they like their spouses? How many bedrooms are in their homes?”

I hear you and business sch. said as much but then you see so-called successful companies and wonder how much they really know or if it’s just a matter of plain luck!

]]> By: James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-752 James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:08:47 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/remember-when-sesame-street-kept-it-real/#comment-752 Bert and Ernie live together, too. (which I personally think is just fine, thank you.) Hm. Do they still, now that Gen Xrs are too old for Sesame Street? Or have they been "separated" from that living arrangement? (No, I don't subscribe to satellite. We watch a lot of movies instead. None of them Sesame Street... but it's comin'... soon. MUAHAHAH!) Bert and Ernie live together, too. (which I personally think is just fine, thank you.)

Hm. Do they still, now that Gen Xrs are too old for Sesame Street? Or have they been “separated” from that living arrangement? (No, I don’t subscribe to satellite. We watch a lot of movies instead. None of them Sesame Street… but it’s comin’… soon. MUAHAHAH!)

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