Muppets

[tarotgal]

On the CNN site this morning... Cookie Monster goes healthy! Gah! I heard the new season of Sesame Street was very clever, but this is... gah! He's Cookie Monster! LOL
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/07/tv.cookie.lessmonster.ap/index.html


And that new muppet wizard of oz movie... I cannot WAIT! So clever to air the promo during Lost. Got a big kick out of it. But it looks so cute! :-)

Comments

[brigidmn.livejournal.com]

Gah...I know.
A friend of mine at work told me he was now going to be the fruit monster or something. WTF? It's not like he ate the cookies; mostly he just crumbled them up and made a mess.

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

That's just so wrong! First they mess with Strawberry Shortcake and try and make her all trendy and hip with those low-rise bootcut jeans and silly hat, and now this! *sigh* Never mess with a classic...

And besides, it's not like kids thought Cookie Monster was an outstanding role model anyway...he couldn't speak in complete sentences, and was the poster monster for irrational sugar highs. I think he teaches kids how *not* to eat cookies.

I'll miss you, Mr. Looper

[vatergrrl.livejournal.com]

I can only assume that CTW is feeling pressured to send messages about healthy diet and exercise in the wake of the national childhood overweight/obesity crisis, and keep in mind that Telly Monster, in his original incarnation, had spiraling eyes from watching too much "telly". Some hot shot figured out that would send the wrong message and changed him to merely mildly anxious/neurotic/obsessed.

Still, so much of Cookie's charm was his complete lack of impulse control, as well as the fact that he would eat nearly *anything* in his quest to eat cookies: In the Ballad of Casey Jones, with his train full of cookies stuck in a snowbank, "Me eat the snow instead!"

Maybe it's a good idea to teach imulse control and restraint to the preschool crowd, but it's not half as much fun. I miss the old-school humor of Sesame Street, and just don't have the stomach for the new version, especially "Global Thingy". The writers need to take more risks and have more fun -- it's all way too preachy and safe these days.

End of children's television rant...