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Sweeping the Clouds Away
New York Times | Submitted by: anonymous
"These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child."
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From: huwatng [Hue]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 15:47
We thought it was wussy back when we were kids. I guess we were hard core, huh? I see the clouds that move across the sky I see the wind that moves the clouds away It moves the clouds over by the building I pick the building that I want to live in I smell the pine trees and the peaches in the woods I see the pinecones that fall by the highway That's the highway that goes to the building I pick the building that I want to live in It's over there, it's over there
From: hateful [Hate forever]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 15:55
From: ohhellno [steve-vo] Date: 20-Nov-2007 15:37 So what they're saying is todays kids are a bunch of pussies. I wouldn't call todays kids pussies. That is not fair to people that are pussies. We need to create a word that fits how pathetically weak and cowardly kids today are and they are light years past being pussies.
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 16:44
We need to create a word that fits how pathetically weak and cowardly kids today are and they are light years past being pussies. ********************************* Mega-pussies? Ultra-cunts? Republicans? Oh, how about Generation fag? (No offense to marty or any of the other sodomites on here)
From: prestonsgirl [Melanie]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 16:47
They think kids of today should be told that Bert and Ernie are gay lovers who cornhole each other at night. Sesame Street is a classic kids show, why do people have to find fault with it?
From: darkwolf [the Wolf with the nasty bite]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 16:54
This show was never the same after Jim Henson died. If Jim was still around, Elmo would NEVER have taken over the way he did. The only original Muppet performer left is Carrol Spinney who plays both Oscar and Big Bird and I don't think he is the best of health. Can you imagine Sesame Street doing another show where they actually address the death of a cast member (Mr Hooper aka Will Lee, RIP)? Oh no, can't tell kids about death since that might destroy their self esteem. Gotta have Elmo running around screaming like he has diarrhea and no dime, that is how to teach the little ones today.
From: phuck [and the horse you rode in on]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:02
This annoys me. I grew up on Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's. They are good, wholesome learning shows that teach you how to read, count, and deal with your feelings and I'll beat the fucking living mother-fucking shit out of any ass-fucker cock-breath that says they're not.
From: sirbutlust
[mike duff]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:12
my grandma used to watch seseme street cause she said she loved the adult humor. She also liked porn and rated r movies and appreciated subtle dick jokes in a kids program. I never understood her till i was 20 or so and i watched seseme street. You need to have a dirty mind but it can be sleazy but so is everything else. kids suck these days and are too coddled. heres a great link ot a reedited bert and ernie show of them doing "casino", its good. http://youtube.com/watch?v=z93Kvl3YMWQ
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:15
We didn't watch "Sesame Street" as kids. My schoolteacher mom didn't allow it. We watched "The Little Rascals" and "The Three Stooges" instead. Apparently, she thought those shows to be more beneficial to our little brains.
From: snatchvondrippy [snatch]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:35
never liked da street- gimme speed racer- or mr ed
From: dennisisevil
[Dennis]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 18:41
Sesame Street is too adult for kids now? O.K. I think it's now safe to declare the next generation of kids pansies. I feel sorry for the little crotch dropplings because they are going to be a bunch of comfortably numb victims standing around with their thumb in their ass waiting for the world to rip them to shreds.
From: mrmonkeybutz [thomasc]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 18:49
I Don't have Kids(yet), But when I do, It'll be nothin but a TV diet of old sesame street, snuff films, and gay porn to prepare em' for the real world.
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 19:36
I have a personal connection with Sesame Street from the very beginning. I saw the first broadcast episode in 1969.. and many, many more as my two youngest sisters grew up. Watching sesame street reruns at 0600 Saturdays "watching" my siblings (while my parents slept in)holds a special place in my most dreadful teenage memories. Later.. it was with my own children ..pretty much a major household presence from 1982 till about 1997..I think it was great for the kids..My favorite was Cookie Monster..ONLY when HE was "Allister Cookie" with his pipe...nothing like it since...what a shame PC killed him. I also must mention the little space aliens...Yep Yep yep yep..Yep yep..Oh OH OH..Yep yep yep yep.. 
From: tricky359
[Patricia]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 19:43
I remember the "special guest stars", I wasn't allowed to stay up past 7pm until I was 14 years old. So Charlies Angels and all those 70's TV shows were off limits. I heard Farah Fawcett would be on Sesame street and I played sick just to be able to stay home and watch it. Ah them were the days. I didn't really see the big deal about the "angel"
From: huwatng [Hue]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 19:44
I always liked Dark Shadows and would run home from school to watch it. Shit - got the whole series on DVD now but it's not the same. Also, Barney Bean and his sidekick Sherwood, the City Slicker. Barney would take a birthday kid's initials and make a cool funny face picture outta them. Also, he did the weather on channel 33, but without the oddball hat and paste-on mustache. It was a kinder, simpler era when child molesting was just something the kids didn't talk about, except to each other. Nowadays you go to Walmart and some kid sees a Tickle-Me-Elmo and bursts out crying "Daddy NO! Daddy NO!" and they come and arrest daddy at work the next day.
From: skyeyez9
[Marie]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 20:02
I remember watching the old warner brother's Bugs Bunny cartoons in the 80's. In one particular episode Bugs was marooned on an island and a black tribesman was trying to eat Bugs. This tribe guy was: charcoal black, huge cherry red lips, afro, loin cloth, spear, huge white teeth.....and spoke to Bugs in a "ooooggga booga booooga." OMG could you imagine all the people who would bitch if that particular episode aired on tv again? hahahaha
From: snatchvondrippy [snatch]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 20:14
fuck me running! dark shadows~! are you fuggin kidding me? i lived for that show- me mam wouldnt let us watch it-so we'd have it on then flip the channel when she came back in the house-woooo-loved it- and wild, wild west but that wasnt when i was a tot-snaturally- captain kangaroo and mr green jeans topped fucking bozo-hated him romper room was what we were stuck with mostly
From: niebelung [oregonian]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 20:23
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened] Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:15 We didn't watch "Sesame Street" as kids. My schoolteacher mom didn't allow it. We watched "The Little Rascals" and "The Three Stooges" instead. Apparently, she thought those shows to be more beneficial to our little brains. **** That explains a lot, ciao; thanks for sharing.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 20-Nov-2007 20:49
Marie, I loved the Warner cartoons. Wile E. Coyote is the best. Snatch, holy shit, that all brings back some memories. I'm feeling old here, freaking B-day coming up and all.
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 21:07
Yes Ciowbella, and what about Leave it to BEAVER? Wally and Theodore, whose last name was Cleaver Always got in classic trouble Cause they lived in the 50's bubble And if June was unfaithful, Ward would never leave her!
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 21:23
The old Loonie Tunes and Merrie Melodies were hysterical when I was a kid, and they're hysterical now that I'm 33. The only thing today that can come close is Oggy and the Cockroaches. Muggy days, Tokin up A-OK. I'm on my way, To where the drugs are free... Can you tell me where to get, Where to get some LSD? Children's programming takes a special kind of talent. All of the greats were higher than kites on something or another. I'm going to show my kids the world. They need to be ready for it when it swings a sledgehammer in their faces. Bell jars never protected or prepared anyone for anything.
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 20-Nov-2007 21:49
From: niebelung [oregonian] Date: 20-Nov-2007 20:23 From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened] Date: 20-Nov-2007 17:15 We didn't watch "Sesame Street" as kids. My schoolteacher mom didn't allow it. We watched "The Little Rascals" and "The Three Stooges" instead. Apparently, she thought those shows to be more beneficial to our little brains. **** That explains a lot, ciao; thanks for sharing. ----------------------- I know it does.
From: phuck [and the horse you rode in on]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 00:49
From: retardskickass [bon] Date: 20-Nov-2007 19:44 yip yip yip yip yip uh huh uh huh =============== Bbbbbrrrrriinggggg! Bbbbrrrrinnnngg! Nope nope nope nope nope
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 03:57
From: mikeisgreen [Mike] Date: 20-Nov-2007 21:53 Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! ------------------------- Oh....wiseguy, eh? *attempts two-finger eye-jab*
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 05:35
Oh, Mikey, talk dirty to me, you sexy Canuck! Rowr! Seriously though, can we skip the saran wrap this time? I have a wicked plastic burn and it stings like all get out.
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 07:48
It's not that today's kids are wusses, it's that their parents are. When you think Sesame Street is too "street," you've been living in the 'burbs too long, princess. I started watching Sesame Street at 11 (when I came to the US). I was older than the planned target audience, but I liked it. I liked the mix of puppets and people, the casual acceptance of the fact that everything's fucking bizarre, and it never seemed like it was talking down to the audience, the way that the current incarnation does. I want to smack Elmo in his baby-talking bitch mouth. Incidentally, Insinerate, liberals are the ones who started Sesame Street- look at the original cast, and the original skits. Bunch of hippie-dippie stoners with their trippy artwork. That ethos is now under attack by these "won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!" wingnuts, who seem to come equally from the left and right.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 21-Nov-2007 08:41
From: rotteneggs13 [a bakers dozen] Date: 21-Nov-2007 08:04 Oscar the Grouch Rocks! If Gargoyle was a Sesame Street character he would be the Grouch. ================ Why yes, I would. Thanks Eggsy, I love you.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 21-Nov-2007 08:58
I did play the Big Bad Wolf in a skit for my German class in high school. Try saying "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down" in german and keep a straight face.
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:36
12 cartoons that Cartoon Network didn’t show in 2001 due to racist content. 1. "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng (as I. Freleng). http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=541 “Bugs being hunted by a dopey Indian” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 2. "All This and Rabbit Stew" Directed by Fred 'Tex' Avery (uncredited) http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=4329 "Bugs outwits a black hunter by challenging him to a game of craps, eventually winning all of his clothes." http://www.fictionfunhouse.com/wayiam/bugsusedtobemyhero.htm ********************************************** 3. "Bugs Bunny Bond Rally: Any Bonds Today?" Directed by Robert Clampett http://www.jolson.org/stage/voice/bb/bb.html Bugs "does a black-face Al Jolson imitation." http://www.fictionfunhouse.com/wayiam/bugsusedtobemyhero.htm
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:38
********************************************** 4. "What's Cookin' Doc?" Directed by Robert Clampett http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=5287 “This cartoon has a clip from Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, and that's the only reason why it's banned.” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 5. "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=3765 “In it, Bugs is trapped on a deserted island and has to grapple with a ridiculously stereotyped Japanese--short, buck teeth, big round glasses, slanty eyes and all.” http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbannedbugs.html ********************************************** 6. "Herr Meets Hare" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=542 This cartoon offend German people. http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html **********************************************
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:42
4. "What's Cookin' Doc?" Directed by Robert Clampett http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=5287 “This cartoon has a clip from Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, and that's the only reason why it's banned.” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 5. "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=3765 “In it, Bugs is trapped on a deserted island and has to grapple with a ridiculously stereotyped Japanese--short, buck teeth, big round glasses, slanty eyes and all.” http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbannedbugs.html ********************************************** 6. "Herr Meets Hare" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=542 This cartoon offend German people. http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:44
7. "A Feather in His Hare" Directed by Charles M. Jones http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=4497 “This is Bugs being hunted by an Indian. The Indian in this cartoon is a much bigger stereotype than the Indian in "All This and Rabbit Stew," so this cartoon has a lot more potential to be offensive.” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 8. "Mississippi Hare" Directed by Charles M. Jones http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=415 “The controversial parts consist of some black cotton pickers singing I wish I was in Dixie." http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 9. "Frigid Hare" Directed by Charles M. Jones http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=603 A "dim Eskimo is derided as a 'big baboon.'" http://www.fictionfunhouse.com/wayiam/bugsusedtobemyhero.htm **********************************************
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:45
10. "Which Is Witch" Directed by Isadore 'Friz' Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=5292 “This cartoon does NOT make fun of black people. It does make fun of the BEHAVIOR of savages.” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html ********************************************** 11. "Bushy Hare" Directed by Robert McKimson http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=3758 It features a "spear-throwing aborigine as the foil." http://www.fictionfunhouse.com/wayiam/bugsusedtobemyhero.htm ********************************************** 12. "Horse Hare" Directed by Friz Freleng http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=507 “Bugs is fighting Yosemite Sam, and Sam has a group if Indians on his side. This cartoon has many of the usual Indian gags. This cartoon does NOT make fun of ethnicity. It does make fun of BEHAVIOR.” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/aknightstale/16.html
From: bigbuttehead [steve]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 10:54
more PC editing by the network brass, araid someone will be offended.. TS!! Hittin' the Trail to Hallelujah Land" (1931) "Sunday Go to Meetin' Time" (1936) "Clean Pastures" (1937) "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" (1937) "Jungle Jitters" (1938) "The Isle Of Pingo Pongo" (1938) "All This and Rabbit Stew" (1941) "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs" (1943) "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943) "Angel Puss" (1944) "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" (1944) In 2001 the people at Cartoon Network announced a "June Bugs" marathon in which they stated that every single Bugs Bunny short would be shown. They were wrong--they were asked to remove some shorts by Warner Bros. (AOL Time Warner is Cartoon Network's parent company.) The list of shorts you may never see again has been augmented by another 11 that the current owners refuse to show. They are : "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) "All This & Rabbit Stew" (1941) "Any Bonds Today" (1942) "What's Cookin' Doc" (1944) "Herr Meets Hare" (1945) "A Feather in his Hare" (1948) "Mississippi Hare" (1949) "Frigid Hare" (1949) "Which is Witch?" (1949) "Bushy Hare" (1950) "Horse Hare" (1960)
From: inhalien
[Chevy Chase]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 11:37
Can you tell me how to get to Sodomy Street? I hated Sesame street - seemed too ghetto for me but the songs rocked. Confunction Junction y'all. I preferred JP Patches and the freak monster he kept in his basement.
From: ohhellno
[steve-vo]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 11:51
I watched sesame street as a kid. Hated mr rogers,he acted like a pedophile. Scooby doo( first seasons) was a big one with me. and hong kong phooey  speed racer and the three stooges after school.
From: rottenaugratin
[Rotten au Gratin]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 12:39
HA! Whatever you do don't disturb the reality impaired. These are the idiots who expect the rest of the planet to bubble wrap itself because their precious little spermwad might see or hear something unpleasant. Pussies is probably the kindest thing you could call the crop of pantywaist morons they're raising today.
From: useless2society [Useless II Society]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 12:59
  There is a great German spoof of Ernie and Bert. It's called Bernie and Ert. Now THAT'S something kids shouldn't see for any reason. Also, check out popo club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKiAL0UeId4 Sorry. They only exist in German and they're banned from TV for copyright reasons. I wonder why?
From: skyeyez9
[Marie]
Date: 21-Nov-2007 13:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk36qmiVBWw&feature=related This one episode where Bugs Bunny is being chased by a black hunter. Bugs distracts the guy by shaking a pair of dice.
Updated: 26-Nov-2007 14:49
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