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COMMENTS: Sweeping the Clouds Away
Sesame Street is marketing its premiere season of children's programming in an Old School DVD series with the warning that the content is "intended for grown-ups and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child." Apart from the fact that the street seemed "too seedy" to CBS' Richard Schlesinger, what else was age-inappropriate? It encouraged children to explore building sites and to use rusty box springs as trampolines and to ride a bicycle without a helmet. Oh yes, "Gordon takes a little girl's hand, whom he just met on the street. He takes her into his home and gives her ice cream," narrated producer Sherrie Rollins Westin. And Gordon is no muppet.
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