PBS ombudsman criticizes Sesame Street for 'POX News' joke
Posted Nov 6th 2009 7:09PM by Danny Gallagher
Poor Oscar the Grouch. Not even PBS' ombudsman will cut him a break. No wonder he's so grouchy. Well that and he lives in a garbage can. That would make me more than a little perturbed.
A clip of a two-year episode of Sesame Street popped up on YouTube thanks to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's on his Big Hollywood blog in which Grundgetta, Oscar's girlfriend, makes a crack about "POX News" that sounds very close to "FOX News." PBS' ombudsman Michael Getler said while the name could be construed as a "clever and appropriate title" to the "Grouch News Network," the joke about the reference "should have been resisted.
I was shocked when I saw it. Oscar the Grouch has a frigging girlfriend?!?
[via Popeater]
A clip of a two-year episode of Sesame Street popped up on YouTube thanks to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's on his Big Hollywood blog in which Grundgetta, Oscar's girlfriend, makes a crack about "POX News" that sounds very close to "FOX News." PBS' ombudsman Michael Getler said while the name could be construed as a "clever and appropriate title" to the "Grouch News Network," the joke about the reference "should have been resisted.
I was shocked when I saw it. Oscar the Grouch has a frigging girlfriend?!?
[via Popeater]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-06-2009 @ 8:01PM
Red Sox fan said...
He's had a girlfriend for quite awhile...
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11-06-2009 @ 9:22PM
Jen said...
Are we talking about Grungetta? She's been around for ages.
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11-08-2009 @ 1:50PM
Jimmy_MO said...
Perhaps the PBS ombudsman needs to get a life. They're muppets! Not witty political commentators.
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