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Chasing The Clouds Away: Loving Sesame Street

January 19, 2007

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The answer is yes, and I’ve known what it was all along, but time let me forget: there is no better, smarter, funnier, more genuine or creative show on television than "Sesame Street".

I remember watching Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, and Oscar when I was her age (I won’t divulge exactly how long ago that was… this is “anonymous”, after all), and loving every minute of it. I can still recall some of the songs that are now etched into my brain (in a good way, which is rarely the case with children’s music, as any parent knows), and feeling like I was watching something magical-- a puppet show or a play-- just for me.


And, I’m happy to report to all parents, and those without children that are looking for something smarter than the average prime time procedural, the show still holds up, and is better than ever. My daughter and I have only started watching it recently, and my one regret is that I didn’t start her on it sooner.

We laugh, we sing, and best of all, she asks me questions as the show goes on. She doesn’t sit there with that glazed look some children’s programming elicits. “Sesame Street” has her thinking, processing, questioning, but having a wonderful time doing it.

But here’s my confession: I think I enjoy it more than she does. It’s a rare thing to find something genuine and honest on television these days. Smart characters—stuffed, human, or otherwise—trying to understand and negotiate their way through life.

Never deterred, never negative, and always hopeful, the citizens of “Sesame Street” offer an oasis of positive energy in a largely cruel medium. My daughter is lucky to have it, and I am, too. We all are.

Comments

katie wrote:

no foolin. My brothers got me the first season on dvd. it makes you remember that you're allowed to be just about anything. even a bus driver. And you can watch Bob and Susan sing "I've Got Two Eyes, and They're Both the Same Size." It's awesome. (Susan is a lot groovier than I remembered her being.) Anyway, the amazing part is that my kids watch the first season just as much as they watch the current one with Elmo (who, God help me, I just don't care for...) Thanks for this post.

posted at January 19, 2007 05:29 PM

Ale wrote:

I kno!!! My friends and I were talking about his just the other day..we were saying how complecated life seemed when you watch all these teen dramas and reality shows and that all the news and primetimes shows were all sad and all stories were basicly the same...and how life seems so simple when you watch shows that you used to watch when you were little, it takes you back to when boys just had cooties and that was the end of it or when your siblings and you got along in complete silence for 30 mins or when you learned new things, so we started listing shows and of course Sesame Street came up as being the most watched one- I even got to watch it twice a day, in two different languages!!! (its been duplecated in many countries- the characters and their names are altered at times to fit the culture...I watched it in english then Spanish)We also stated Arther, Clifford, the Power Rangers along with Pork Chop, Zoom, and this other show that we had forgotten the name of..it took place at like a news studio run by kids 'for kids and by kids' was like the tag line and they showed music videos of nursery rhymes and kids songs. Well, we listed all these shows that were on PBS or on Fox after school and noticed that only few of us had cable and even then, only a couple watched or remembered Things they watched on cable since they showed the best of the Disney Channel shows on sturday mornings on ABC and Sunday mornings on the WB like the Pinky and the Brain and the Animaniacs...both which went on dvd last year and were on my birthday and christmas lists...

So now, I watch shows like Aurther and such a couple times a week and I watch old reruns of Sesame street when I babysit..Even late at night when the kids I babysit for are asleep and I am able to watch anything I like, i watch sesame street...some are new and others are from like the 80's!!!!
I can still name them; oh!! and They are all different races..I saw that on VH1...lol ;)

posted at February 18, 2007 10:15 PM

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