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I want the complete episode with Stevie Wonder. Check out YouTube to see what I mean. You'll be blown away.
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This video was refreshing. "Seseme Street - Old School" was educational and entertaining with a lot of the pre-computerized charisma. It does a great job keeping the attention of my toddler.
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I got this for myself, I use to and still love sesame street. I did like it, however, I was under the impression that it would have more episodes. I guess I didn't read the description well enough before I purchased it. I was really hoping for something more like a complete season type of thing instead of one episode per year. Ok review, wish there was more to it.
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I just watched the first Sesame Street ever with my toddler and we both LOVED it! It's so funny and so real. I probably started watching Sesame Street myself in... 1974 or so. Somewhere along the way I think Sesame Street lost a lot of the things that made it so great. It seems like over the years many classic bits that I loved as a kid were removed from the show because a nutcase in some backwater of America complained about it. Don Music was always a favorite of mine. Where is he? Gone. Why? Because parents think it makes kids bang their heads on furniture. As an educated and reasonable adult I know that my influence dwarfs that of any TV show. My son is allowed to watch TV sparingly and mostly with an adult. At three years old he knows that if you hit your head on the furtniture it hurts and that one shouldn't partake in that activity no matter what the frustrated puppet on TV does.
So, with this DVD release, and (dare I hope) more in the future, I can share something from my childhood with my own child. The first show is so funny. It's clear that no one knew what the show was supposed to be. There's lots of adlibs and improv (from the adults, the kids AND the puppets). It was hilarious. When the little girl is offered a glass of milk by Gordon #1 she tells him that she likes coffee, a quip which totally breaks Gordon up and causes him to struggle to find some response.
I don't know if the people at CTW remember the point of Sesame Street, but the idea was to provide inner city kids with educational material that they might not have access to otherwise. The idea was to make the characters accessible by putting the characters in an inner city environment. Sesame Street looked a little dirty and a little run down just like most streets in NYC (where I grew up). Sometimes there were some odd characters wandering around Sesame Street just like most streets in NYC. That was the beauty of Sesame Street. There are people on my block who my son should look up to and respect and there are some he would do best to avoid and not emulate. That's life. IMHO, by removing all the characters who are a "bad influence", a very valuable lesson is lost. Sesame Street has become the same as all the other sanitized kids shows where everyone does the right thing all the time and you can trust everyone to help you out. Personally, I find that to be a very dangerous thing to teach your child.
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This is all good stuff, but it's confusing that no one thought it would be worth going back in and adding closed captions to the shows: They've been added for re-released sitcoms from the 1970s; surely it'd be worth adding to an educational DVD set that the whole family might watch together.
That said, it's a lot of fun -- the orange Oscar the Grouch was a shock -- and definitely worth getting.
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