My friend's kids are enraptured by the original Sesame Street DVDs. And they won't watch the new Elmo Street.

Good for them.

I seriously fear for the future of America what with the rearing of kids in safe insulated little bubbles. Real Life's going to be a fucking shocker.

We need to get copies of the original Sesame Street on a pirate channel beamed into every home with preschoolers, don't we? I knew the show had changed over the years, but I wasn't aware of just how much. After watching through only part of a show recently I was fargin appalled at what PBS is calling Sesame Street these days. I figured it was part of the new policies since 2001.

I'm not surprised kids would rather watch 30 year old tv than the pap they're trying to push now.

Sesame Street was very good right up to the point where they added Elmo's World. I know this because I was taping it before then so Emmett would have something to watch besides Teletubbies.

So even up to 1997-8 it was still the Sesame Street you would recognize.

Yes, I still have my mid Nineties Sesame Street tapes including Patrick Stewart in black doublet and ruff proclaiming "'Tis B, or not a B" and a (no lie) hardcore punk animation for the number 3, cut-up animation James Brown singing about "O", Tully filking Cole Porter and a bunch of kids running around a park while Jonathan Richman sings "I'm a Little Airplane."

Sesame Street was always cool. Stockard Channing in a sou'wester, man. Paul Benedict in a striped shirt and bowler--"I'm going to paint a three!"

I learned so much from Sesame Street back in the day. In conjunction with what my parents taught me I was overly prepared for Kindergarden. Kids were learning about the letter G and I was already reading the original Dick and Jane series of books, probably more if I remember correctly...

I just watched Night of the Comet. That was pretty fun. You can't go wrong with girls with machine guns.

You mean in the "Crispin Glover" photo? I'm pretty sure we all did and were playing along with the joke.

• phew*
• unstaples hand from forehead*

I just watched Night of the Comet. That was pretty fun. You can't go wrong with girls with machine guns.

When I hear the Joss quote,

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of "Buffy: The Movie" was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of "Buffy" was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim.

I always wonder if he got the idea of Buffy from NotC, because NotC has that alley scene.

I just watched Night of the Comet. That was pretty fun. You can't go wrong with girls with machine guns.

That was a fun movie. I love the scene where the sisters are practising with their machine guns, and one of them says, with perfect petulance:

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."