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November 20, 2007 3:44 PM | | Comments (352) | TrackBacks (0)

Virginia Heffernan writes up the new DVDs of old school Sesame Street:

The so-called inner city became anywhere that “Sesame Street” played, because the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.

The concept of the “inner city” — or “slums,” as The Times bluntly put it in its first review of “Sesame Street” — was therefore transformed into a kind of Xanadu on the show: a bright, no-clouds, clear-air place where people bopped around with monsters and didn’t worry too much about money, cleanliness or projecting false cheer. The Upper West Side, hardly a burned-out ghetto, was said to be the model.

This is so true as to be embarrassing for me. As an East Side kid, I was pretty sure that Sesame Street was a real place on the Upper West Side. Even after I came to grips with the fact that most of the characters were not real, I still thought that all the action took place on some quiet block off of Amsterdam Avenue.

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