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Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?

>> ^artician:

Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vftf8TTve4s

There's tons, I think your answer is yes they have!

>> ^artician:

Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?


I think it was in the past few years.

I recall pop-culture references during the 70s, so parody is one of their mainstays. I find it odder when they parody of stuff the kids most likely never saw or know:

True Blood (True Mud):

I read this in a book somewhere: the Sesame Street staff are constantly doing focus studies with real kids, measuring things like how long they watch before getting distracted, what they focus on when watching, what they remember after watching, etc. and one of the things that came out of their studies was that kids pay more attention and learn more if an adult is watching the show with them. But in order for an adult to sit through an entire show with a child, the adult also has to be entertained as well. Hence the pop-culture references (including stuff kids most likely have never seen).

Pixar does a great job with their movies along these lines as well by providing jokes only adults are likely to get mixed in with the more slap-stick stuff for the kids.

>> ^RFlagg:

I recall pop-culture references during the 70s, so parody is one of their mainstays. I find it odder when they parody of stuff the kids most likely never saw or know:
True Blood (True Mud):
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Mad Men (they left the title Mad Men for that one)
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