Here’s some nostalgia for you, twentysomethings and thirtysomethings:

Are you having horrible flashbacks now of everything Sesame Street did to corrupt you as a child? If you’re not, apparently you should be according to this article marking the release of two volumes of old-skool Sesame Street episodes:

What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

The clip above is supposed to have introduced us all to our first addict, Cookie Monster. Not to mention it encouraged smoking as he always held and then ate his pipe during Monsterpiece Theatre clips. Holy smokes, stop the presses! The kids might start smoking or, God forbid, even eating cigarettes. Later versions of Monsterpiece Theatre didn’t include CM’s pipe and the Monsterpiece Theatre franchise was eventually done away with altogether.

P.S. Grover is obviously high on something if he thinks the hills are grooving to the tune of “The Hills Are Alive.”