In September 2010, "Sesame Street" announced that it would not air a music video duet of Elmo and Katy Perry. Then in 2010, Katy Perry's guest appearance was cut due to her semi-revealing dress. For just a small deposit upfront, you’ll receive a smart, healthy three year old, able to care for a goldfish, count up to 40, and organize an international human rights conference.ĭon’t be fooled by the cheap Taiwanese knockoff children! Make sure you look for the official Sesame Workshop brand on each child before you bond with them.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. That’ll be the state of the art until 2020, when you’ll be able to purchase your own farm-raised kid from Reproduce Me Sesame. Elmo will come as the standard default setting, but you can purchase other Muppets separately as plug-in content modules - a Grover Self-Esteem module that teaches your kids how to tie their shoes, a Cookie Monster Healthy Eating module that encourages them to clean their plates. That’ll be followed in 2010 by the Raise Me Sesame parenting appliance, a fully programmed cyberparent that’ll engage your kids in loving, age-appropriate play, from infancy until they graduate from law school. The only logical next step, which I’m expecting will debut in 2005, is No TV Sesame, where you turn on the TV and find Oscar, glowering at you and telling you to go play outside. This is the end of the line, as far as we can go before the whole concept of educating kids en masse through a TV screen just falls to pieces. ![]() So Play With Me Sesame, I think, is pretty much the endpoint of the whole educational TV fad. Any reasonable goal of education - to inspire kids on a personal level, to encourage them to ask questions and actively engage with the world - that’s completely different from the goal of television, which is to keep big groups of them watching long enough to sell them cheese doodles. ![]() This is the weird contradiction of educational TV, really. If Noggin did audience research that found that after watching Play With Me Sesame, kids went off and spent more time playing imagination games with household objects and less time watching Noggin, they’d take it off the air so fast your little blue head would spin. So no matter how much Play With Me Sesame talks about reading or drawing pictures or playing on the computer, the thing they really want you to do is to keep watching Play With Me Sesame. When you think about it, there’s something fishy about the whole concept of an “interactive TV show.” The whole point of television - and this isn’t me being crabby media-crit boy, this is the real actual purpose of everything on television - is for you to keep watching television. Now, call me old-fashioned, but is that really the way to encourage kids to read? It’s fun to wear your book like a hat, it’s fun to dance with your book - but when we tell you to sit down and read your book, we instantly distract you with mooing children. Then there’s a pause of exactly two seconds before they start showing us film clips of kids making animal sounds. Ernie thinks that’s a good idea, and announces: “Ernie Says, read your book!” He sits down and reads Bert’s book. Bert objects, saying that he wants to read his book. “Now, Ernie Says: Make your book talk! Like this! Hi, there - I’m a talking book!” Then it’s on to dancing with your book, wearing your book like a hat, and taking your book for a drive around the room. “Now, Ernie Says: Make your book walk!” He moves the open book back and forth like it’s walking. ![]() “Ernie Says: Put the book in front of your face!” Bert wants his book back. “Ernie Says: Get a book! Uh… scuse me, Bert, would you mind if I borrowed that book?” He grabs Bert’s book, and starts the game. “Hey, we can play Ernie Says with a book,” Ernie says. ![]() In today’s episode, Ernie wants to play Ernie Says, but Bert is busy reading a book.
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