My friend Carolyn pointed me to this:

Sesame Street is now brought to you by the letter P and the letter C — for political correctness, that is.

The fun police have slapped an “adults only” warning on a new DVD of classic episodes, which featured a world in which children played in the street, a monster gorged on cookies and a bad-tempered puppet lived in a bin.

The episodes, made between 1969 and 1974, have been released in the US with the caution: “These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

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N.b.: “Andrew Fuller, a clinical psychologist and consultant on children’s television production, said a sanitised world was far more dangerous than the whacky world of Sesame Street.”