Sesame Street” is brought to you today by the letters F-I-R-E-D.
 
Three beloved human characters from the 45-year-old children’s show have been given the Sesame Sweep. Bob the music teacher, Gordon the science teacher and Luis the “Mr. Fix-It,” played by Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman and Emilio Delgado respectively, have all been axed.

 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/%e2%80%98sesame-street%e2%80%99-axes-one-two-three-favorite-human-characters/ar-BBuZkDS?ocid=spartanntp
 
 
 

It makes complete sense if you realize that the government (currently of the US, but soon of the world) wants stupid sheep not educated citizens.  Can you think of any other areas that are more of a threat to their goals than those three?

Did they buy Bob, Errrrm Band In The Box to replace the music guy?

I think they hired Bobby.  One guy, multiple personas!

I think Sesame St started going downhill sometime in the 90's. When I was a kid (and even into my teens) I used to watch it primarily because it always had such cool music on it. Check out when Stevie Wonder was on in 1973. Can you even remotely imagine something this cool on kid's TV these days? 
 

 
And one of my all time favorites, Ernie in the awesome "Put Down The Duckie" 
 

 
Ray Charles on Sesame Street with Bert and Ernie was insanely cool
 

 
And singing the alphabet - check out the little girl in yellow on the stairs who really gets into the swing of the groove by clapping on the off beat, but then peer pressure from her less groovy friends eventually has her clapping on the 1 and 3 
 

 
Then of course you have Paul Simon:
 

 
It's a real shame that kids aren't exposed to such cool music these days. 
 
 

sharke
It's a real shame that kids aren't exposed to such cool music these days. 

 
What???  Kanye West and Miley Cirus don't count???! 
 
 
(Answer:  No, they don't.)

Hi,
 
Why the music?
 
In many ways, the folks that "run" the country, are in control of the networks, and they "decide" what is best for you ... and of course, we're not intelligent enough, sometimes, to do something about it.
 
The arts, per se, are not about TV, and never were anyway, so any of them getting cut, I say good riddance, I'm tired of TV dictating what I should like and not like, and then tell me that such and such is a star, when she/he are just plain idiots and publicity hounds (not to mention million hounds!), with the lowest denominator of intelligence and "talent" ever defined. Not all of them, of course, but a sizable group, whose only interest is their own ego, and it has nothing to do with the music itself, and their love for the art!
 
In many ways, this started 50 years ago, when the media concentrated on the drugs and the bad side of things, instead of showing the art and the music for its greatness and its amazing relevance to the moment in time. However, in the end, just like Woodstock, it all became a national anthem, played in front of garbage ... and I think that Jimi knew at that moment that it did not matter anymore, since no one cared and the very same folks that went to Woodstock, went there for the wrong reasons. They became selfish, no longer artistic.
 
I realize I am a bit of a dreamer about this, but I have tremendous respect for a scene that had literature, music, theater, film and other arts ... that are still remembered and it will likely go down in American artistic history as one of the most important and valuable periods of the arts. 
 
The bad side, was that politics and the media, decided that people doing their own thing was wrong, and counter productive to their sadistic ideas of what the world should be. And to this day, we go around dis-respecting the arts, because the only thing we can accept and appreciate is the top ten that the society is telling us to spend our money on ... and we do ... and even defend it, because how dare we not support the "public"?
 
Do you want to know how different this is from the fascist government of 60 years ago in Portugal and Spain?

Sadly, I am in agreement with the comments above. I was hoping to leave a better world behind for my musical son - musically, economically, and more - all that my Father did for me. In the year or so I have left, I suspect it isn't going to change for the better.

Wow I didn't know Bob McGrath was still alive. Looks good for 84.  Part of it is because of age and I doubt Sesame Street has an audience it once had.  Part of that may have been venturing into certain social issues.  In the 70's it was even entertaining for adults. Always loved the Count.

Those electronic babysitters with tiny screens are making it hard for anything else that requires time and attention.  Hopefully, music is making into those little gadgets