The following commentary is being sponsored by Murine and their ear wax removal kit. Well, actually, it should be.
Anyway, in what is probably an inevitable by-product of Sesame Street now running first-run episodes on HBO before they air on PBS, there is much debate over whether or not Grover had actually used an F bomb on the show recently.
The controversial clip in question isn't available on YouTube without someone posting a commentary to frame the clip, depending on what they believe Grover actually said. You figure, well, even when it airs on PBS, as it eventually will, the network censors would scrub out the offending word anyway. No big deal, you think.
In this writer's opinion, it's just another case of someone making a mountain out of a video molehill. HBO has run family-oriented, family-friendly original programming without controversy for years.
Before I go on, here's a clip of Grover in his heroic guise as Super Grover, from season 34 (2002-03):
Apparently, the controversy stems from how one perceives the scene in question, be it through a cell phone or filtered with headphones while watching online. Some people just have nothing better to do than stir up a whole mess of nothing.
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