Sesame Street True Blood Parody

Posted by Vulnadia on Feb 11, 2011 at 09:46 AM I'm sitting here with my 4yr old who is home sick, watching Sesame Street & just did a HUGE doubletake... They have a True Blood Parody, theme song & all, called "True Mud" with what appears to be Prairie Dawn playing the role of Sookie (with boobs & tight shirt) & a Guy Smiley type in the roll of Bill...it's a rhyming sketch, but it ends with Sookie & Bill & a mud bath...kid you not... So, I have to ask...is this appropriate? How many little kids really know anything about True Blood the series much less the Charlaine Harris Sookie-verse & the books that go with it? Is this appropriate content for our kids? Sure, it's done tongue in cheek, and has it's teaching/educational merits in some ways, but the parody itself seems more SNL caliber not Sesame Street... I personally am a Sookie Stackhouse fan and have read the books & am more than amused with the series (it hits way close to home on more levels than one-an old friend once roomed with Charlaine Harris for one in college & told stories for years about her before the books came out-after knowing who she is, the whole thing became one huge amusement for us not to mention I'm from Shreveport & my favourite house is in the credits as are many local shots found in it) but still- I'm not soo sure this is the right vehicle for teaching my toddler rhyming words... That, and the addition of obvious older girl-parts on a muppet (I dont recall Ms Piggy really being THAT anatomically correct even in her hey-day, not that she is a Sesame Street muppet but just for sake of example) kind of bothered me-she was even wearing the white tight t as described in the book & on the show...& then...the mudbath...& the fang-reference (the Bill character did NOT appear to have fangs or be a vamp unless you just know the references.) It just seemed so...adult... I'm all for the adult content in old cartoons & such, but it wasn't considered primarily for children's education or primarily aimed at little children's demographics, either! So what do you think? Is this appropriate or too much for toddler tv? VIDEO SKETCH FOOTAGE HERE