Canadian electro house producer Deadmau5 has today confirmed that he is to make a guest appearance on the world famous children’s TV show Sesame Street.
The announcement has been met with opposition from parents’ groups who have voiced their concern over the numeracy and literacy skills of a DJ who shows little respect to conventional spelling.
Michael Smith, of the Parents Against Morons group had this to say, “This is ridiculous, how can a guy who spells mouse, m-a-u-5, be expected to feature in an educational TV show that prides itself on encouraging numeracy and literacy skills. I can handle spelling mistakes, but he’s using a number as a letter. He must be a total moron.”
“Don’t our children have enough obstacles growing up in America these days with guns, obesity, creationism, EDM, Paris Hilton and terrorism. The last thing they need is to be picking up bad spelling habits from douchebags like this guy,” claimed the clearly angry father.
Alice Milkowitz, a spokesperson for PBS was quick to defend the network’s decision, “We’d like to assure parents that all due dilligance was taken when selecting Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) as a guest for Sesame Street.”
“All guests go through a very significant screening process which Joel has passed with flying colours. We would also like to assure you that we have tested Mr. Zimmerman’s spelling skills and, despite the obvious mistakes in his stage name Deadmau5, we are confident that he spells at at least an eleven year old’s standard and is a better speller than most of your five year old children.”
The decision to use Deadmau5 as a guest on Sesame Street is seen as a way to improve ratings in Canada, where he has been considered the most influential role model for children ever since Justin Beiber made the transition from clean cut teen to “total cunt” ater his balls droped in early 2012.
