We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this Sesame Street News Flash! The Sesame Street YouTube channel is currently down after it fell victim on Sunday to a nefarious hacking entity that removed all of its content, then reprogrammed the page with hardcore porn. 
 
 Beneath the familiar Sesame Street logo, the page's banner read, "I'TS [sic] WHERE PORN LIVES." The page featured a 7-minute clip of an adult film, which, according to one knowledgeable Reddit user, is First Anal Quest: Angelica. It stayed up for 20 minutes. 
 
 The channel's profile description, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for the hack on behalf of two YouTube users: 
 
 "WHO DOESN'T LOVE PORN KIDS? RIGHT! EVERYONE LOVES IT! IM MREDXWX AND MY PARTNER MRSUICIDER91 ARE HERE TO BRING YOU MANY NICE CONTENT! PLEASE DON'T LET SESAME STREET TO GET THIS ACCOUNT BACK KIDS :( PLEASE...LET ME AND MRSUICIDER91 HAVE IT AND WE GONNA MAKE ALL THE AMERICA HAPPY!" 
 
 While MrSuicider91 remains silent, the other alleged hacker, MrEdxwx, posted a denial message on his gaming channel. 
 
 "I did not hack Sesame Street. I am an honest YouTuber. I work hard to make quality gameplay videos, and most important I respect the community guidelines." 
 
 So far, neither PBS, YouTube, or YouTube's parent company Google have commented on the attack. Click the image below to see a screengrab of the hacked channel as it looked before it came down. 
 
 
 
 
 
 [Reddit, CNN via The Daily What] ||||| Shameless Sesame Street Hack of the Day: The Sesame Street YouTube channel was apparently hacked earlier this evening, and all its content was either removed or made private. 
 
 Making matters worse still, a 7 minute Bang Bros porn video was uploaded to the channel (sfw link), and the banner was replaced with one that read “Sesame Street — I’ts [sic] where porn lives.” 
 
 In the decription field, credit for the hack was claimed by a YouTube user named MrEdxwx, working in collaboration with another YouTuber user who goes by MrSuicider91. 
 
 On his YouTube channel, MrEdxwx posted a video with the following statement: “I did not hack Sesame Street. I am an honest YouTuber. I work hard to make quality gameplay videos, and most important I respect the community guidelines.” 
 
 The pornographic material was up on the Sesame Street channel for at least 20 minutes before being removed by YouTube. The channel itself was shut down and remains unavailable at this time. Most of the videos, however, appear to be back online. 
 
 [reddit / cnn / youtube.] ||||| Here are a few things that happen in the trailer for The Happytime Murders: A puppet in a bondage collar offers to perform oral sex on Melissa McCarthy for 50 cents. A severed puppet hand is placed in an evidence bag. Two puppets, an octopus and llama, are gunned down at point-blank range. Then there is the money shot in which a puppet is shown ejaculating at the end of a deranged sex scene. 
 
 The Big Bad Wolf is on the lamb. Special Sheep Agent, Nicholas Ba-a-a-a-rody is the agency's only hope for bringing the Big Bad Wolf to justice. But is he a wolf in sheep's clothing? Or just a sheep in wolf's clothing in sheep's clothing? 
 
 As you can imagine, The Happytime Murders, which arrives in theatres on Aug. 17, is brought to you by the letter R. Accurately described by producers as “a filthy comedy,” this not for kids, or even adults who may get squeamish when puppets and humans behave badly in strip clubs and during treacherous poker games. But it is the film’s tagline — “No Sesame. All Street” — that is causing controversy. 
 
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 Sesame Workshop, which produces Sesame Street, is suing STX Entertainment, claiming the tagline may cause viewers to wrongly associate The Happytime Murders with its beloved children’s show. As the non-profit group argues, the trailer portrays “explicit, profane, drug-using, misogynistic, violent, copulating, and even ejaculating puppets” that, when placed in context of the tagline, have “diluted and defiled” a wholesome brand. In other words, this filthy comedy might make some viewers think Sesame Workshop was involved with the film, which it was not. It might lead some to believe Sesame Street has dark alleys where Big Bird turns tricks, the Cookie Monster is a murderous thug and Grover is strung out on purple ecstasy. But if STX is worried about the lawsuit, it is doing a great job of bluffing. The company responded with a statement from Fred Esq., a puppet lawyer. 
 
 A scene from The Happytime Murders, which now faces a lawsuit from the makers of Sesame Street. ( YouTube/STX Entertainment ) 
 
 “STX loved the idea of working closely with (director) Brian Henson and the Jim Henson Company to tell the untold story of the active lives of Henson puppets when they’re not performing in front of children,” said Mr. Esq. “Happytime Murders is the happy result of that collaboration and we’re incredibly pleased with the early reaction to the film and how well the trailer has been received by its intended audience. While we’re disappointed that Sesame Street does not share in the fun, we are confident in our legal position.” The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York must now sort out this puppet imbroglio. Personally, I thought the tagline was clever. Nothing in the trailer that evokes “Sunny Days.” I don’t understand how anyone might confuse The Happytime Murders with Sesame Street, which is like mixing up Ted with Elmo or Chucky with Ernie. 
 
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 This is hardly the first time movie puppets were cast as sociopaths. But there is a larger cultural point, one Sesame Workshop should keep in mind: for years, the show has taken creative liberties with other brands under the banner of parody. From the Hunger Games to the Avengers, from True Blood to Mad Men, other sendups on 123 Sesame Street now include: A’s Anatomy, Birdwalk Empire, Homelamb, Twin Beaks, Orange Is The New Snack, and even a spoof of an Old Spice commercial starring Grover, “Smell Like a Monster.” The show has satirized CNN as GNN, the Grouchy News Network. It has ridiculed Fox News as Pox News. Long before Donald Trump stormed the White House, Sesame Street savaged him as “Ronald Grump,” a shady tycoon with no scruples. “Rotten to meet you,” Grump says to Oscar, in one of three appearances the character made on the show. “Grump’s the name — Ronald Grump. And I’m a Grouch builder. I make places for Grouches to live.” Incredibly, the real Trump did not sue. Sesame Street turns 50 next year, a momentous achievement. I can’t imagine my own childhood without it. But while educating children over a half-century, it has also absorbed some hard lessons and survived controversies bigger than a tagline. There was that time in 2011 when the show’s YouTube channel was hacked and replaced with porn. There was the outfit Katy Perry wore in a duet with Elmo that was deemed so risqué, the music video was spiked from conventional airwaves. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, anti-American protestors in Bangladesh marched with posters of Osama bin Laden and — wait for it — Bert. Yes, an Internet joke led some to believe Bert had joined the Taliban. A decade earlier, Sesame Workshop threatened another lawsuit: this time over a satirical short that depicted Bert and Ernie as lovers. Then there was the incident in 2012, in which Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, resigned amid a sex scandal and allegations he had inappropriate relationships with teenage males. If none of this defiled the brand, it’s doubtful a tagline in filthy comedy will cause any damage to a show that now runs on HBO, home to content that is not always family-friendly. If anything, Sesame Street has just helped The Happytime Murders by giving it a heap of free publicity bigger than Mr. Snuffleupagus. Who’s the puppet now?
– Sesame Street briefly turned into Sex-ame Street yesterday, when hackers apparently took hold of the children’s show’s YouTube channel and filled it with porn. The page was taken offline in the afternoon, CNN reports, but it appears to be back up today. The nonprofit Sesame Workshop apologized yesterday, noting that, "We always strive to provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to resolve this problem quickly." The XXX material was available for at least 20 minutes, The Daily What notes. Gawker and Reddit have NSFW screenshots.