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Subscribe to RSSLooks like Katy Perry isn't quite over that “Sesame Street” snub she received in September, when the PBS staple caved to parental complaints and gave the singer’s cleavage-filled song and dance routine the boot.
On Sunday night’s episode of “The Simpsons,” the singer shot back at the children’s show in a live-action dream sequence called “A Fluppet Christmas Special.”
Surrounded by “Simpsons” characters, Perry played her part in the muppet mockery by pressing Mr. Burns to her latex-clad bosom and sharing in a ridiculous holiday song with the rest of the gang.
Viewers who watched all the way through the closing credits caught an extra scene featuring Perry and Springfield’s resident barkeep Moe. The quick exchange made Perry’s allegedly inappropriate Elmo clip seem undeniably tame for any age by comparison.
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Katy just proved the point of all the parents that felt she wouldn't be a good role model to their kids. Instead of respectfully acknowledging their decision to not air her Sesame Street segment, she decides to immaturely rub it in their faces, and this time in an obviously crude way.
In no way was it humorous nor clever. Both Katy Perry and the struggling Simpsons lost points.
The Simpsons Christmas episode was great, particularly the Katy Perry segment. It is humorous yet most kids will not have a clue what it is about. Get a life.
Exactly, kids won't get a clue, but very likely think it is a funny gesture because they saw it on a show like The Simpsons. I bet you a few kids will go up to some aunt or grandmother at holiday gatherings this year and "kiss" them in that spot, just to mimic something "funny" they saw on TV.
I love the Simpsons, however it is not really a show for small children. To me it's Adult cartoons, not unlike Family Guy or Futurama. I have two kids, 9 and 11 and we just now started to let them watch Simpsons( they are still not allowed to watch Family Guy or Futurama). They still don't get all the jokes and thats just fine with me. I do kind of find it funny that you hear very young kids jamming out to the music the Katy puts on the market, but then again it's the same problem, they don't understand what they are hearing. When her song "I kissed a girl" first came out, my son was sitting in the back seat singing away. I asked him, do you know what that song is about, and he thought it was a guy singing the song. I asked him why he thought it was a guy, and he told me that it sounded kinda like a boy(to be fair I thought Justin Bieber was a girl) singing and guys like to kiss girls. How surprized he was find out that sometimes girls like to kiss other girls. In typical 10 year old fashion he informed me that any kissing of girls was gross and stopped singing the song. I know I cannot shelter them from every song or show I find inappropriate, and I also know they both need to be able to navigate in a world where people have different views and values.
Humorous and clever...especially since a kid looking at it wouldn't have gotten the joke. Love Sesame Street and respect their decision. Love The Simpsons and this gag. And kudos to Katy Perry for not taking herself so seriously.
Perhaps she was a bit much for Sesame Street (though I don't think so)...but this was spot on target for The Simpsons.
I thought she had no place on Sesame Street but on the Simpsons she worked out fine. However, the act did prove exactly why so many folks didn't think she was an appropriate role model for kids.
Seriously, she should stop trying to court the kiddie audience and stick to entertaining adults with her pinup approach to music. There's a layer of adult kids out there who'll buy her stuff.
Its a cartoon...the holier than thou crowd should take care of their own business and stay out of everyone elses...nothing worse than a moralistic buttinski.
I agree w/ K- man! Ron, you obviously do NOT have children and Middle Class Dad, I'm a little worried you do! It is a children's show for goodness sake! 2 and 3 year olds watch! It is bad enough that gum commercials are all about sex, kudos to Sesame Street for NOT airing it! I think we can all agree who should get the life here! Have a great day!
Michelle, the Simpsons is NOT a children's show. If 2 and 3 year olds are watching it, take it up with their parents.
loyalsubject,
I'm sure she was referring to Sesame Street.
katy perry sucks lol. bad.
I am sure she does..
I am sure she sucks alot and sucks well.....all for just $20.
The whole thing does kind of make you wonder where the line in the sand should be.
I obviously agree that cartoons shouldn't be "sexy," but she wasn't attempting to be sexy on Sesame Street and one would be hard-pressed to find a household where the parents don't have plenty of magazines (How to lose weight! Look Skinnier Now!) or commercials (Loreal Makeup! Victoria's Secret!) playing around the house that show women way less dressed than Katy Perry.
Point being, if they didn't want her on there, they shouldn't have invited her on there. It wasn't like she was doing a line of coke off of Oscar the Grouch's trashcan lid, she was wearing a dress.
She was wearing a shirt that was cut down to her navel. If she'd bent over at all, she'd have a "wardrobe malfunction" to outshine Janet Jackson's. However, the crew that filmed her should have had the sense to tell her to put on a different top. Sesame Street's not filmed in Rio (not this version anyway).
Actually there was a layer of mesh at the top of the shirt that would have prevented any "wardrobe malfunction" and as someone else pointed out what she was wearing looked like an ice skating outfit. I guess kids shouldn't watch the olympics now either huh? Please people, grow up and lighten up!!
Oh...don't you worry yourself over me or my kids. We're all happy, healthy, and well adjusted.
Pixar has made a huge success on the same formula as the Muppets...you engage the kids visually and you mix in a bunch of humor the kids just won't get because they have no context. It speaks to the kids on their level and it speaks to the parents on theirs. Take a step back on this joke at face value...how crude is it REALLY? Or is the crudeness present only because of what the adult mind chooses to fill in the blanks between "I'll just kiss your belly button" and "That's not my belly button." and then "I didn't say stop."
What kid will get the joke the same way the adult mind will? Before you shoot back "it's obvious what the writers meant" ask your kids if it's so obvious. I'm guessing they find it funny for a much different reason.
Props to you, Middle Class Dad. I agree with all your points.
Look, Sesame Street wanted Katy Perry on their show. Let's keep in mind that this is the same artist who broke out in mainstream success with a song about a slightly bisexual kissing experience. She has another song about girls in short shorts, halter tops and how hot they are... so PBS, what did you THINK you'd get when you called up Katy Perry's people?
And for the record, my family watches The Simpsons together. The kids think it's funny and like that it's animated - my husband and I laugh about the adult jokes. If you want to fight adult themes in cartoons, you've got much bigger worries than the Simpsons.
Okay - I have watched the Simpsons since they started (I was 5-6 at the time). I've grown up with them, and with Sesame Street. My kids have grown up with both as well.
Katy Perry's outfit on Sesame Street was CHOSEN BY the wardrobe dept of Sesame Street. Some parents got irked before the segment was released and so it got yanked. This is all on Sesame Street, not Katy Perry. She didn't choose the wardrobe for the segment.
The Simpsons is meant to be a satire on our nation and pop culture. It did it's job, and did it well. If parents let their kids watch the show, fine. If they get mad because they have to explain innuendos, that's their problem. I get really tired of parents complaining about tv shows corrupting their kids, when it's the parents' responsibility to ensure that the kids are watching decent programming, not the tv shows responsibility to make it so bland that only children can watch all the shows. Parents - do your f-ing jobs once in a while and say "you can't watch this, go play in your room", or "hey, it's bedtime".
Sheesh.
When a skank wants to be a skank, there is just no stopping her. What a whore.
DAMN! I was collapsed by whore-o-philes!
This was way funny. love it when someone pokes back at the stick-in-the-muds that would kill any idea of fun in America. Oh, the poor children! They don't have clue as to what was going on.
Not a big fan of Perry's but man she looked edible in this clip. Who could blame Moe? And if this had been Family Guy Quagmire would have surely done worse to her. Giggety!
justaflyer-
We were talking about Katy, not Sarah and Bristol.
Katy, grow up and get a clue. There is a time and place for being sexual and Sesame Street isn't one of them. If you don't know the difference then maybe you need to exit the entertainment industry until you figure it out. Better yet, have a child, try to be a responsible adult parent, and then lets talk about what your child should and should not be exposed to as an infant/toddler/pre-schooler. You are embarrassing yourself and annoying us!
You may be missing the point. The producers of Sesame Street invited her and ok'd her wardrobe before filming her for the children's show. As a singer who gained fame with a girl on girl song, she may well be inappropriate to be anywhere near the program, but the producers of the show are at fault - not her.
They could have just as easily invited a drunken Lindsay Lohan or even North Korean Dictator Kim Jung Il (scene: him with Bert and Ernie, ha!) and yanked the show after, even though they knew what / who they were when the casting dept invited them.
Katy Perry is an idiot. Who even listens to that crap? Oh, maybe the other idiot Lady Gaga....WHO?!?!?
So she went ahead and proved all her critics to be correct... brilliant!
Why is it that Venus Williams' mini dress tennis outfit with the nude undies did not raise an outrage?