No more anatomy lessons on Sesame Street.
The Sesame Street segment with Katy Perry in a skimpy bustier regaling toddlers with one of her signature raunchy numbers is history, and good riddance.
It seems that a number of parents disagreed with the idea of a few inches of green cloth and some strategically-placed double-sided tape being the only things keeping Johnny’s “education” from going to a completely new level.
For commentary, I defer to a bit of burlesque from Jarett Wieselman at the New York Post: “Today we’re going to learn the letters S, T and D.”
And what’s all this about adapting vulgar and profane pop songs for our three year olds? Is there some severe shortage of age-appropriate preschool music that I didn’t know about? And if so, what does PBS have planned next for your three-year-old? Perry singing “I tricked a girl and I liked it?”
Good grief! Whatever happened to “Old MacDonald Had a Farm?”
All I can say is hurray to the parents who complained. It gives me hope that there are still sane moms and dads who would not approve pole-dancing lessons for their five-year-old daughter or insult and malign a fellow parent who doesn’t allow her six-year-old cheer-leader to “shake” her “booty.”
PBS believes this is age-appropriate educational TV for preschoolers:
Sesame Street started going downhill in the 80's, and this is a new low. Not sure when Jim Henson died, but I'm pretty sure he would have not approved this crap. There's so many other good kids shows out there. It might be time for BIg Bird to fly the coop. Boo for Sesame Street AND PBS for airing this.
I agree. Whatever happened to the concept of a good role model? It used to be people would refer to "bad influences" on children. You never hear that phrase anymore.
It would be a sad, scary world if Katy Perry was considered a good role model. What annoys me is there are plenty of famous people who would be MUCH better role models than Katy Perry! Why would SS choose her? Who's next, Lindsay Lohan, Brittany Spears, and Paris Hilton?
The corruption of youth became an "institutional" goal with the intoduction of multiculturalism within academia in the 60's. Of course that was just the chosen vehicle for promotion of their sexual freedom. That promotion of freedom has gradually enslaved our youth to a societal quagmire of uncertain moral behavior, not knowing right from wrong. Like todays math and language arts, there are no wrong answers, unless one wants to be counted among the bigoted or narrow minded.