Read reports today that Sesame Workshop announced that Cookie Monster, long beloved blue-haired consumer of your favorite bakery treat, will be scaling back his habit. As the obesity level of American Youth reaches record levels, the Sesame Workshop has decided that its depiction of fuzzy puppets jamming snickerdoodles down their simulated pie-holes must be one of the main causes. Sadly, this will result yet another change to Sesame Street, which over the years has morphed into a poor imitation of more successful, less stimulating childrens' programming.
Perhaps this is only Stage One in a series of changes meant to promote health foods. Stage Two could include the actual changing of Cookie Monster's name to something more attuned to the concerns (or, what should be concerns) of American Parents...something like Fuzzy the FishEater. Or perhaps Cauliflower Monster. Wait, we wouldn't want to scare the kids...make that Cauliflower Guy-With-Lots-Of-Blue-Hair-Who's-Really-Not-Scary-Really-He's-Not.
Listen, I'm all for getting kids' faces out of the nearest sack of Lay's Potato Chips as quickly as possible. But for heaven's sake, if Sesame Workshop doesn't stop soon, the slippery slope will lead to parents turning off the show. Oh, wait....they have been doing that already...
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