eab said:
Brings up and interesting phenomenon. Kids under 10 love sesame street and teens over 18 think it’s pretty cool too because it’s old school. Yet teens aged 13-15 hate kids shows. This is true for lots of things, my friend has an old “Clifford the Big Red Dog” baseball hat and everyone we talk to (we’re 20) are like “Oh man, that hat is awesome!” I find it amusing that there is this little gap in our lives, around the age of 14, during which everything “cartoony” is considered lame or gay. Younger kids love it and older kids think its cool in an amusing way… but those 13 years olds in the middle, watch out for them. |
But Sesame Street is cool. A lot of kids TV shows really do suck, but older people like them for nostalgic reasons. For me it's stuff like Transformers or He-Man. Even though I am now old enough to realise that they are just 30 minute toy adverts, I still have a place in my heart for them. Sesame Street, on the other hand, is a genuinely worthy show. It is one of the few programmes in history that can claim to be both educational and entertaining for kids.
Jim Henson was a true visionary and pretty much everything he ever did is pure gold.
@ Grey Acumen
Nail on head. Adulthood sux!!!
