Ricky Gervais Scares Elmo with Screeching Lullaby

I didn't find a thing wrong with it, I thought it was cute and on subject.....

Way over reacting! No I don't agree with you, it was funny and talked about what it was supposed to talk about. Kids will NOT associate that little bit with themselves going to sleep anymore than some of the fictional stuff we watch all the time. The pendulum has swung way too far to the "protect at all costs" (including humor)!

this was a very funny bit and you must not have children or need to create attention for yourself. my 4 year old nephew thought it was
great and understood the humor involved. why can't you?

I agree with you. I watched this show growing up until I was about thirteen or fourteen only because I didn't get cartoon network, nickelodeon, or disney. Sesame Street was on PBS, one of the few channels I caught, so i would turn it on ecspecially when my baby brother was home. Things like this video are actually normal on this show. There is the grouch, who says mean things and can be quite mean. You have singing dancing vegetables and fruit, and there are always guest appearances. No onw said anything against the Muppet Show with their odd guests on every show. Take the Alice Cooper episode for example, he performed Welcome to My Nightmare with puppets and for its time some small children might have been scared from the images, but that is perfectly normal in today's society.
What makes me mad is that these internet writers that are saying that this video is strange, horiible, and blah blah blah, but they let there children watch Chum Chum and Fanboy, a show on nickelodeon, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, cartoon network (by the way this show is really odd, but I watch it cause it is entertaining to a nineteen year old), And let's not forget that some children do stay up until 10 o'clock at night and what does cartoon netork show, King of the Hill, and parents let their kids watch this show. it is wrong!!! So next time people decide to bash a children's educational show, they need to look at some of the pointless stuff on television like THe Hills (which I know a lot of fourth grade girls watch, chew on that)

had a 7 month old baby watch this....he laughed liked crazy at it

How ridiculous to turn a lullaby into a screaming, loud, idiotic song!

I watched this with my 4 year old and he laughed so hard and wanted to watch it again and again--people need to chill out!!

I agree, JJ. We have a 7yr old and a 4yr old. Both thought the skit was hilarious. I can tell you right now that they are far from warped from seeing that skit. As some of the earlier posters said, this can't hold a candle to the other "children's shows" on the air now. I wonder how awesome our world would be for kids if we put half as much energy into the things that really mattered rather than attempting to make mountains out of molehill, trivial, harmless things like this. "sigh"

Oh come on! Let's have a sense of humor about this! Sesame Street has always had segments that appealed to grownups as well as children, and in this case, Ricky Gervais is making us all laugh! There's nothing wrong with that.

Oh, please; the writer of this article needs to lighten up! That skit was great! It's wasn't weird or frightening; it was silly and that's what kids love and always have. My 2 year old nephew and 6 year old niece loved it as they do with anything and everything Elmo does.

HAHA that was great! I called my little nephew in "Come see Elmo!" and he giggled and sang "nanananananana"

The point of the song was not to be a lullaby, it was to help teach children the letter "N". What is wrong with you people?

That's silly. That's something that would make my five and 3 year old laugh their heads off! Either the writer of this article doesn't have kids, or her kids are girls... (because little boys find this kind of thing hilarious)

I haven't seen Sesame Street for years (my 32 year old daughter loved the show when she was very young) but it seems like the same kind of humor I always enjoyed while watching the show. It's really funny.