Classic Sesame Street - Roosevelt Franklin Elementary Poison

Hear, hear - lets start a bring back RF campaign for the King of Sesame Street!

I feel so bad for Matt that his creation got banned because of the protests of a bunch of upper-middle class Uncle Tom's who were afraid of their children not blending in properly with white society. They should bring back Roosevelt Franklin in honor of Matt's memory!!!

Holy crap. They just sang "Hail to thee, our alma MAMA, Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School."

Hey, mater - mama - same thing.

spoofing presidnet Franklin Roosevelt because he like him teachs us about the dangers of poison becasue during WW2 poisonus divises are acivacted on the battlefild

I want to hear Roosevelt Franklin say, "I'd like some Chinese spareribs". LOL

I don't get why the dropped Roosevelt Franklin. Those Roosevelt segments were my favorites! He was cool and intellegent--how does that set a bad example?

His classmates were loud and disruptive (calling names and throwing paper planes in the classroom, for instance); and the teacher never seemed to be there at the same time.

I guess it's true what they say: you're only a reflection of the people you hang around with. Roosevelt Franklin may have been able to settle a crowd down, but his classmates were rowdy and unsupervised. People linked him with the negative behavior rather than his positive leadership, so he was dropped. Funny how the world works, right?

I think someone has already answered, but let me chime in: it's for the same reason they dropped Lefty -- the producers feared that these segments would reinforce bad behaviour among the kids./ I dunno: I'm from one of these bad places (apparently my public school had the worst reputation in town) and I'm doing a doctorate./Go figure./Cheers