We have 40 years of Sesame Street in the can, more than enough to teach kids their A B C s and counting numbers for a lifetime. Why do we need new ones, except for new markering opportunities?
Agreed, the Sesame Street “old school” episodes made from about 1969 to about the mid to late 1970s were probably that much more better than what passes off for educational TV today. Maybe this is my own personal bias talking but this can also include “The Electric Company” and “Captain Kangaroo” even, from about that same time.
Because the old ones are politically incorrect and/or do not push the required social agenda.
We need new episodes because times have changed. For example, the old episodes would not have had liberal messages about homosexuality in them. Nothing about the environment or global warming. So they need to produce new episodes to keep current with the latest liberal causes.