Posts with tag "SesameStreet"

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A 2-year-old skit on 'Sesame Street' that referenced a "trashy" news channel called POX News came under fire this week when conservative bloggers accused the long-running PBS series of a liberal bias. In the clip, Oscar the Grouch is a reporter for the Grouch News Network (GNN), but he bored one female viewer, who responds: "From now on, I'm watching Pox News. Now there's a trashy news show!"

Big Hollywood, the celeb blog founded by conservative writer Andrew Breitbart, called out the old skit (re-run this week) as a jab at the mega popular news network. "The message is clear," a blogger named Stage Right noted, "I can't even sit my kids in front of 'Sesame Street' without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority."

Since then, the ombudsman for PBS has weighed in and agrees the parody "should have been resisted" by producers.

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With their whimsical doodles, Google is paying homage to a pair of titans in children's entertainment today. In the U.S., you've got 'Sesame Street,' which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. Big Bird is on "L" duty today.


In Great Britain and other parts of Europe, the bumbling inventor and talking dog known worldwide as 'Wallace and Gromit' are being feted on their 20th birthday. Which one is cooler? Vote after the jump!

'Sesame Street' spoofs (or parodies) of popular TV shows have always been clever and savvy, especially when they emerge at the exact time the inspired program is at its buzziest. This week, the PBS stalwarts brought the awesomeness with their very literal take on AMC's advertising drama, 'Mad Men.' Over the years, 'Sesame Street' has pretty much covered every show style, from game shows to hospital drama.

We've picked our favorite parodies, by genre, after the jump ...

Sesame Street meets Mad Men, but without cigarettes and cocktails. Long-running children's program 'Sesame Street' made a parody out of the very adult, Emmy winning drama series 'Mad Men,' complete with its own Don Draper and two "sycophants" as he calls them.

However, the show has a very different sense of what "mad men" are than the AMC series on which it's based. Watch