WTF: Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are Dangerous?

Posted by Kevin Carr (kevin@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 27, 2007

Last week, IMDb.com broke the news that Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are dangerous role models for kids. This came after Sesame Street executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente justified a parental warning on the DVDs of the first and second seasons.

What the fuck?

Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch were formidable influences on my life. I thought they were the greatest part of Sesame Street, and I looked forward to their antics. Suggest to any child of the 70s if they were harmed by these characters, and you’ll probably get punched in the face.

So what was so terrible that Cookie and Oscar did? Well, in addition to being a shameless glutton, Cookie Monster pretended to smoke a pipe during the Masterpiece Theatre spoof known as Monsterpiece Theatre. And Oscar… well, according to Parente, was just “too grouchy.”

I repeat… What the fuck? This from the show that proudly has a Muppet with AIDS?

Don’t we have better things to worry about than the deleterious effects of smoking Muppets? Next, they’ll be saying that early Sesame Street episodes are inappropriate because of a hallucinating yellow bird, or a grown man who wear saddle shoes and collects paper clips. And let’s not even begin to talk about how most of the Muppets were naked all the time.

And come to think of it… who were all these grown-up who played with kids all day long? Instead of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, we have Bob & Linda & Luis & Maria.


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  • I think the best proof that they are dangerous is that they were formidable influences in your life, Kevin.
  • "Suggest to any child of the 70s if they were harmed by these characters, and you’ll probably get punched in the face." This might be why they are dangerous...talk it out Kevin
  • Om-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom!
  • sMITH
    ummm... punching someone for saying one of your childhood heroes harmed you is necessary. I love Josh Beckett. He is a beast. If someone said he was a fag I would punch them.
    OH NO!!!
    Cookie monster smoked a pipe?
    WHA
  • I'm from Cleveland and I have heard that Josh Beckett pitches from both sides of the mound, if you know what I mean. I have heard that he likes to play be the catcher while the ball boy pitches...Just what I've heard
  • Dale Nimmo
    Kevin, i'm right with ya. The whole idea that puppets from sesame street in any way shape or fashion are dangerous just goes to show how ludicrous society has become. Monsterpiece theater was a spoof MEANT to be directed at the parents that was the whole point. good gawd! I remember seeing children literally RUN to OSCAR and Cookie and hug them to death! there was no fear, there was no anger, and there certainly was no ill effects placed upon their psyche. I remember and admit to laughing and laughing HARD at their antics. I suppose Bert and Ernie are now considered gay because they were roommates. geez why do adults have to go and destroy everything innocent and funny and just plain good humor.
  • Yvonne
    OMG wat the fuck is with the first two ppl that commented you need to shut the fuck up Kev is totally right i watched sesame street my whole child hood kids aint influrenced by that shit yeah cookie monster may make u want a cookie but its the parents fuckin fault if they give the kids the whole box and as for him smokin a pipe let it go kids can see ppl smokin walkin down the street, censor shit is rediculous and as for oscar i loved him when i was little its he's one of the best ones and before ppl comment after me that it may have influenced my "anger", go fuck ur mother :)
  • WHo cares if oscar is grouchy,and the monster gets down with the pipe. The count fucking kills people, then educates them! How cruel and fruitless! Elmo had down syndromE!
  • sporkerino
    has it seriously come to this? really? listen, somebody needs to call the waaaaa-mbulance, because if cookie monster and oscar the grouch are dangerous, then i'm finished with this society. i would tell parente to go cry in a corner, but they're probably dangerous too.
  • Thats it! I'm starting my own country and only people who aren't pussies can be part of the population.
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