In an attempt to encourage healthier eating habits, the folks at Sesame Street decided that the Cookie Monster will eat fewer cookies and will even eat fruit on a regular basis. I understand that this will set a better example for kids, but what the hell? Is he going to be renamed The Fruit and Cookie Monster? (No, best as I can tell.) Will he remain the same obsessive, gruff-voiced maniac that I remember fondly as a child? (Apparently yes, according to the news piece.) Do we really need complexity - shades of personality - in someone called the Cookie Monster, even if it's for the sake of good health? Really, does the Cookie Monster have to worry about bad teeth or a clogged heart? (At best, he has to worry about lint and cookie crumbs.) To further political correctness, will he change his name from Monster to something less offensive and become The Fruit (And Sometimes Cookie) Entity?

I determined a long time ago that if I had kids, I'd keep them away from the politically correct shows and have them watch the old, racist, sexist Warner Brothers cartoon classics. The really funny ones. To me, absurdity and skepticism about authority is more important than the niceties too often handed to children on a cookie-less plate today.

Which is perhaps why I don't have kids.

At October 30, 2006 1:49 PM, Anonymous commented...

LOL this is just wrong :P

He's a monster dammit! XP

 

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