Sesame Street Jumps the Shark

Back when the producers of Sesame Street announced that Cookie Monster would eat healthy food, too, I let other people comment on it. The recent proposal to cut funding for PBS has generated ridiculous cries of "Save Sesame Street" - like one of the most successful children's programs ever needs subsidizing. Well, I have seen over the past two days where Sesame Street is headed. Cut its public funding.

Yesterday I saw the fruits of the "healthy Cookie Monster" idea. Now it wasn't just Cookie Monster eating healthy food - he did do that in a cameo with Elmo. No, instead we had Cookie Monster rapping about healthy food with Wyclef Jean. Three questions for the purveyors of this brilliant idea: 1) Who considers Cookie Monster a role model? 2) If any child did, wouldn't they be the very youngest ones? 3)Do you think that 20-month-olds like rap music? No, they like "Old MacDonald" and "Alphabet Party". Stupid.

However, it was today's episode that showed the need for an end to public funding. Who should appear on Sesame Street but KOFI ANNAN, who helped some SS monsters do things "the United Nations way, together". Clearly, Sesame Street has some politics to push now. How sickening. The free market would likely weed that out, so they can stick to letters, numbers, cultures and street signs.

Then again, Kofi only helped them say the ABC's and have a group hug. Add in supporting tyrannical regimes, allowing genocides, and making anti-Israel resolutions, and you would have what the UN actually accomplishes. Perhaps they weren't so far off after all.