Sesame Street season one. Not suitable for children.

[frazzled]

15. Deemed inappropriate by a humorless, non-creative person

trying to do yet another "ten things" piece. At least they didn't make you click ten times through a slide show. I'll give them that.

I looked at each of these clips and found them not just totally acceptable--but endearing, charming, funny, instructive. Certainly a lot better than the pap kids watch today. I used to watch Sesame Street with my kids in the early 80s, and remember watching it with my nephews in the 70s as well. And I totally enjoyed that it worked on two levels at once: for toddlers and for adults. Now, when my grandniece comes to visit I honestly can't sit through the shows. I mean really, Bubble Guppies? You have to leave the room. There's really something positive in getting parents to sit down with their kids to watch TV.

I'll take Sesame Street of the late 60s and 70s, when they were experimenting with truly top-notch animation and people like Lily Tomlin over drab correctness or dumbed down, lifeless "correctness."

And I don't think this author gives enough credit to kids. When Cookie Monster takes the ingredients for the egg salad sandwich and snarfs them whole--including the stick of butter--young kids would laugh their heads off, knowing how "wrong" it is. It plays on their sophistication. Does the author really think children would think they should stuff a stick of butter down their throats? Dumb.