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Early Sesame Street episodes are "UNSAFE"?

Here we have another case of unbelievable political correctness. DVDs of early Sesame Street episodes are being released with a warning that they are for adults only. Why?

I asked Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of “Sesame Street,” how exactly the first episodes were unsuitable for toddlers in 2007. She told me about Alistair Cookie and the parody “Monsterpiece Theater.” Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.”

Are parents really unable to explain to kids that smoking is NOT okay? I must say that as a toddler I watched Sesame Street religiously, and I never once interpreted these spots as promoting tobacco. I was not once tempted to try to eat a pipe myself.

Can we PLEASE get a grip?

If you wondered if people can be TOO paranoid...

...look no farther. Australia has just bypassed the USA for stupid politically correct policies.

Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday....One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.

This is beyond words. Let simply suggest if a child knows in Australia what "ho" means and that is American slang for a member of the oldest profession and somehow associates Santa's laugh with that word... well... either he is a normal 8-year-old boy who is also taking great joy in using the word "poopie" in public, or the child has larger problems.