"I Want a Monster" - Banned Sesame Street sketch

I've known this song since I was maybe 5 or 6 when I got the Sesame Street LP "Monsters!" This album has been reissued by Sony on CD in 1996 but WITHOUT this song. The R & B group EnVogue did a cover of this song but with lyrics changed.

Original:

If I make friends with a friendly monster
I'd let him bounce me on his knee
I'd let him do whatever he wants to
'specially if he's bigger than me.

New:

If I make friends with a friendly monster,
I'd be the best that a friend could be.
I'd let him do whatever he wants to
And he'd always belong to me. 

It was taken off rotation on Sesame Street in 1984 after a mom complained. Other classic SS sketches have been removed too due to a complaint, like the Don Music sketches where he bangs his head against his piano when frustrated.

(Interestingly, the person who uploaded this onto Youtube had to combine a Dutch-dubbed version with the original album version. At home I found that I have a Spanish-dubbed version and was considering doing the same thing.)

Homophobic Education Secretary, anyone?

Bush's new Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is on a tirade against PBS (which relies on government funds like Ready-To-Learn) for producing an episode of Postcards from Buster about sugar and where it comes from. Why is this a big deal, you ask? Because Buster (the bunny) encounters two lesbian couples who produce sugar & maple syrup in Vermont (where same-sex unions are legal). Margaret does not want her children watching this lifestyle in the intimate medium of television, and is demanding PBS give back the funds it used.

Margaret, with all due respect, resign from your post. It's not your job to keep kids from seeing an episode about sugar production just because the people interviewed happen to have a lifestyle you don't agree with. The show is about sugar production, not lesbian sex...

Shame on you, PBS, for cowering to her.