sesame street moves to HBO saturday....

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there is just something WRONG about a recycling bin anywhere NEAR oscar. I always took sesame street as a parody of a kids show. there was learning there, yes, but it also had a bit of a rebel ness to it with a little bit of adult humor thrown in there.

all that vanished with the reign of elmo. and now it's just a shadow of it's former self.

just kill it off already before it ruins any further.
 
This also shows how far gone PBS is going that one of their flagship shows left them after decades, at this point if not for BBC programming from england there'd be nothing left to watch. Sadly I bet HBO won't get them to stop the political agenda they've been pushing for years on the show thanks to PBS' slant on things.
 
This is no longer Sesame Street.
I'm 49 years old. We moved to Florida when I was 5 from Puert Rico and I didn't speak a word of English.
Within a year I was speaking English with my friends simply by watching Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers and the Electric Company. It was wonderful as two hours of television every day I watched tv and learned while being entertained. Sesame Street was always intended to be a borderline slum in a typical New York City neighborhood with underprivileged children. It was designed so that every child could relate to it at some level.

Now, here we are. You have to pay to watch it.
But what am I watching? A show where all our childhood friends have moved to an upscale neighborhood and the children now wear Ralph Lauren and Ernie and Burt hold hands while walking next door to Starbucks.

Goodbye Sesame Street. We'll miss you.
 
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NeilT said:
they argue too much to be anything but straight ;o). besides, ernie is an ass, bert would never go for that ;o)...
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Is this ;o) a winking clown?
I don't know what that is....
 
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A few thoughts.

1. This is less concerning to me because I already get HBO and plan to continue that indefinitely. Or at least until Game of Thrones goes off the air or I stop liking the rest of their programming.

2. Bert and Ernie are basically Felix and Oscar. In that order.

3. If you really want to watch or show your kids Sesame Street, there are a bunch of DVDs out there, including old school episodes (actually, the DVD sets are called "Sesame Street: Old School"
 
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NeilT said:
thank you. tired of that old bert and ernie joke. not sure how or where it started..but I guess many people don't have close friends or roomates these days ;o).
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To be fair, these days, people would simply assume Oscar and Felix were, in fact, an actual romantic couple (and probably wouldn't bat an eye at it, either), but I think back when Sesame Street first aired, those guys served as the inspiration for the Ernie and Bert characters, perhaps with a dash of Abbot and Costello. One's a fussy, high strung "straight man" (in the comedic sense of the guy who sets up the joke), and the other is a more free-wheeling, mischievous joker.
 
I watched 'In their own words: Jim Henson' on PBS. If I remember correctly, Ernie was Jim's real life character and Bert is Frank Oz's real life character. It's as simple as that.
 
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