Sesame Street - Early Sesame Street Deemed Unfit For Today's

[Ptarmigan]

I remember early Garfield comics in which Jon smoked a pipe. Also, I remember when I was a kid I had a Mr. Potato Head and he had a pipe. No one does that anymore. I miss the old Cookie Monster. Lot of things back then would be politically incorrect. Hell, Tom and Jerry is violent even by today's standards.

Sesame Street - Early Sesame Street Deemed Unfit For Today's Kid

[Cyclone1]

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[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

It is unfit. Smoking cartoon characters Should Not be shown to kids.

[Opal storm]

Yep...I knew that Cookie Monster was up to no good.

[arkess7]

Gimme a friggin break!!!!!! I grew up watchin Seasme Street and Mr. Rogers......Captain Kangaroo!!!!!! tom and jerry ,,,,the old classics Bugs Bunny and gang! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT! WHAT IS WRONG IS all these nut job cartoons out now a days!!!!! Talking about violent!!!!! All it is now a days is futuristic crap and sponge bob working making crabby patties!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least my daughter will know how to work and make a living one day(making crabby patties who knows) But INMO todays cartoons SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

BTW I was born in 73,,,,,,,,and did ya'll know that Mr. Rogers used to be a NAVY SEAL!!!!!Combat and everything................they say that he used to wear his sweaters and long sleeves to cover up his tatoos and muscles!!!!!!!!!! and captain Kangaroo was in the Korean War......in battle.......!!!!! But when ya think about it.........these kind of men should have been trying to help kids back then.........CAUSE THEY WERE REAL MEN......what the heck is wrong with people and (men) now a days!!!!! uggggggg!!!!!

[Ptarmigan]

Gimme a friggin break!!!!!! I grew up watchin Seasme Street and Mr. Rogers......Captain Kangaroo!!!!!! tom and jerry ,,,,the old classics Bugs Bunny and gang! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT! WHAT IS WRONG IS all these nut job cartoons out now a days!!!!! Talking about violent!!!!! All it is now a days is futuristic crap and sponge bob working making crabby patties!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least my daughter will know how to work and make a living one day(making crabby patties who knows) But INMO todays cartoons SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

BTW I was born in 73,,,,,,,,and did ya'll know that Mr. Rogers used to be a NAVY SEAL!!!!!Combat and everything................they say that he used to wear his sweaters and long sleeves to cover up his tatoos and muscles!!!!!!!!!! and captain Kangaroo was in the Korean War......in battle.......!!!!! But when ya think about it.........these kind of men should have been trying to help kids back then.........CAUSE THEY WERE REAL MEN......what the heck is wrong with people and (men) now a days!!!!! uggggggg!!!!!

Even in the late 1980s to early 1990s, I remember seing a character in Sesame Street smoke a pipe. Who really smokes a pipe today? I don't like smoking, but there are other worse things I've seen on TV. Didn't known Mr. Rogers was a Navy Seal. He was also a reverend. Yes, I agree that today's cartoons are not that great.

[Beam]

It is unfit. Smoking cartoon characters Should Not be shown to kids.

What? I'm sorry, but give me a break. I saw smoking characters all the time as a kid, and I've never smoked. I watched Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes religiously and never wanted to do any of that stuff. Neither did my friends. We knew the difference between fantasy and reality. Kids are going to see people in the real world smoking anyway. We don't need to censor every last thing to ribbons -- in fact, if we always portray a happy world full of happy characters who never do wrong, they're going to get a very unrealistic expectation of the real world, which is a morally gray place at best.

Kids are impressionable, but it's the parents' responsibility to explain that smoking is a bad habit and they shouldn't try to imitate everything they see on television. This kind of censorship and dumbing down of children's programming just makes it easier to sit kids down in front of some sugary, mind-numbing schlock all day instead of actually parenting them and teaching them right from wrong.

[TexasStooge]

They say the classic cartoons are unfit for kids, yet they have no problem with:

- Characters on "South Park" (Bleep)in' this and (Bleep)in' that.
- Characters on "Boondocks" TV show using the 'N' word in almost every sentence.
- Animated Nudity.
- on "Drawn Together".
- Blood and Gore, eventhough they're drawn on paper.

Now tell me: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?!?!

[Beam]

They say the classic cartoons are unfit for kids, yet they have no problem with:

- Characters on "South Park" (Bleep)in' this and (Bleep)in' that.
- Characters on "Boondocks" TV show using the 'N' word in almost every sentence.
- Animated Nudity.
- on "Drawn Together".
- Blood and Gore, eventhough they're drawn on paper.

Now tell me: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?!?!

To be fair, we're talking about children's shows here, and all of the cartoons you mentioned are directed at adults, so it's not really a fair comparison. Children's programming is what's being watered down into mind-rotting BS, and it's a show that was directed at children that's coming under scrutiny here for a silly reason. I'm not saying any of this is okay, just that you're looking at the wrong shows for examples of what's happening to children's TV.

Your point would be better illustrated by looking at all of the lame, cheap-o japanese toy commercial cartoons they import and dub over with english dialogue, most of which are ridiculously inane, or violent, or both

[Category 5]

Nonsense like this just makes me embarassed to be a human being.