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> Early seasons of Sesame Street on DVD now come with warnings that they should not be viewed by children Do you have a video or screenshot of the warning?

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Animats 5y ago
"These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” Why? Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it. Oscar the Grouch is too grouchy and mean. And in the first episode, a grown man—Gordon—asks a little girl to come home with him for milk and cookies… and she does! [1] [1] https://consumerist.com/2007/11/19/early-sesame-street-dvds-have-adults-only-warnings/ https://consumerist.com/2007/11/19/early-sesame-street-dvds-...
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  So it's got nothing to do with kids being outside unsupervised, but not wanting to encourage kids to stick random objects in their mouth or follow strangers home. As someone who went to the hospital as a child after sticking a pipe in their mouth, those seem like fair warnings.
  - C19is20 5y ago
    Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued!
    - boomboomsubban 5y ago
      I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In my case, it was the plastic pipes of some toy my sister and I were using to pretend we were snorkeling, cut the roof of my mouth requiring stitches.
      - tablespoon 5y ago
        >>>> Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it. >> Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued! > I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In the context of the warning, I think it was talking specifically about a tobacco pipe (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe), not a generic pipe used for liquid transport. So it seems more of an issue of not wanting to model certain behaviors for young children that are now considered dangerous.
        boomboomsubban 5y ago
        You're probably right. The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe and they just didn't want even the possible miscommunication to be displayed.
        tablespoon 5y ago
        > The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe I think the bit started as a spoof of a character that I assume held a pipe. It doesn't seem too bizarre to me, so they were being true to that. Holding a regular pipe would have been a non sequitur. When I grew up, smoking was definitely presented as bad, but I still got licorice tobacco pipes at a candy store on a couple occasions (e.g. https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/ https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/). It seems like now they don't want kids to even know what smoking is.

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Animats 5y ago

"These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” Why? Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it. Oscar the Grouch is too grouchy and mean. And in the first episode, a grown man—Gordon—asks a little girl to come home with him for milk and cookies… and she does! [1] [1] https://consumerist.com/2007/11/19/early-sesame-street-dvds-have-adults-only-warnings/ https://consumerist.com/2007/11/19/early-sesame-street-dvds-...

boomboomsubban 5y ago
So it's got nothing to do with kids being outside unsupervised, but not wanting to encourage kids to stick random objects in their mouth or follow strangers home. As someone who went to the hospital as a child after sticking a pipe in their mouth, those seem like fair warnings.
- C19is20 5y ago
  Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued!
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In my case, it was the plastic pipes of some toy my sister and I were using to pretend we were snorkeling, cut the roof of my mouth requiring stitches.
    - tablespoon 5y ago
      >>>> Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it. >> Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued! > I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In the context of the warning, I think it was talking specifically about a tobacco pipe (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe), not a generic pipe used for liquid transport. So it seems more of an issue of not wanting to model certain behaviors for young children that are now considered dangerous.
      - boomboomsubban 5y ago
        You're probably right. The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe and they just didn't want even the possible miscommunication to be displayed.
        tablespoon 5y ago
        > The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe I think the bit started as a spoof of a character that I assume held a pipe. It doesn't seem too bizarre to me, so they were being true to that. Holding a regular pipe would have been a non sequitur. When I grew up, smoking was definitely presented as bad, but I still got licorice tobacco pipes at a candy store on a couple occasions (e.g. https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/ https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/). It seems like now they don't want kids to even know what smoking is.