i'm not sure the world isn't coming to an end

[katekat]

They've taken away all of Cookie Monster's cookies (well, except for ONE).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/22/AR2005042201555_pf.html

From the article:

And remember "C Is for Cookie," the Cookie Monster anthem? Well, there's a new song in town, and it's called "A Cookie Is a Sometime Food." And it's sung by Hoots the Owl and a banana, some grapes, a pineapple and an apple. (And, yes, it too is a parody -- this one based on "Porgy and Bess's" "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing").

So Cookie eats his fruit (not the singing ones, of course) enthusiastically. But at the end, he wants his cookies. And gets them.

Well, one.

There is such a thing as going too far. We all watched Cookie Monster eat cookies and didn't end up fat little kids. Childhood obesity is not a problem Sesame Street can take care of.

[from bob]

Comments

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

Holy crap,....really? If I were going through elementary school now, I would have never made it out without seeing a school shrink and having
a couple of prescriptions for mood enhancing drugs.

And dodge ball was the second favorite game I played in school. The first favorite was smear the queer, but even in Iowa the teachers would step in if they saw us playing that one. Possibility was too great someone would get seriously hurt.

[katekat]

well that's the weird thing - i don't think any of us would. And why can't any parents who are medicating their kids see that? UGH.