I read with a little dismay that PBS has fired Melanie Martinez from Sprout's The Good Night Show. As a father of three kids, this late night kids show that aims to put them to sleep has been a lifesaver for me on many occasions of nocturnal teething woes. What's more, Melanie was pretty cute in a "I Dream of Jeannie" kind of way, which gave me something to watch too.
PBS let her go after a comedy video skit emerged online that was shot several years ago. My first thought was that this was yet another example of the moral majority crusading over a non-issue, trying to save impressionable ears from something that wouldn't have shocked them anyway.
Then I watched "Anal Sex" and realized they might have a point. But the webmaster who first posted the video online is less than sympathetic. Someone tell Pee Wee Hermann we need him to lend a hand....
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This show is on all the time at my brother's home, helps put my nephew to bed. When I've visited, I've cracked jokes about how "I bet that chirpy girl probably likes it in the ass," which gets my brother in side-splitting hysterics while he says, "Shhh, shhh, not in front of the kid."
On the flipside, I probably first saw the "Anal Sex" clip 3 or 4 years ago.
Never made the connection. Or maybe I did, subliminally. Anyway, when I tell my brother about this, his jaw will hit the floor.
The jobs at PBs are like Politician's jobs in the public's eye I guess. No wonder that kid from Blue's clues quit, he was probably very limited in the outside work he could take