"The concern really was that there's a point where background becomes foreground," said Wayne Godwin, chief operating officer of PBS. ![]() Like the grownups in most of the episodes, the lesbian mothers in the "Sugartime!" segment are mainly background. Jeanne Hopkins, a spokeswoman for the show's producer, station WGBH in Boston, said the station plans to broadcast the episode in March and offer it to other PBS stations. In some episodes, as in the Vermont one, we are validating children who are seldom validated," he said. "What we are trying to do in the series is connect kids with other kids by reflecting their lives. ![]() Marc Brown, creator of Arthur and Postcards From Buster, said he was disappointed at PBS's decision. He has shown the lives of children who have only one parent and those who live with grandparents. He has dropped in on fundamentalist Christians and Muslims, American Indians and Hmong. In another, Buster visits a Mormon family in Utah. One episode featured a family with five children living in a trailer in Virginia, all sharing one room. In the series, aimed at young elementary schoolchildren, Buster travels to 24 states with his father and sends video postcards home.īuster appears briefly onscreen, but mainly he narrates these live-action segments, which show real children and how they live. Postcards From Buster is a spinoff of Arthur that combines live action and animation. ![]() Buster's offense was appearing in "Sugartime!," the undistributed Postcards From Buster show, in which he visits children living in Vermont whose parents are a lesbian couple. SpongeBob was recently attacked by Christian groups for being pro-homosexual, though SpongeBob's creator said it was all a misinterpretation. Buster joined another cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, as a focus of the nation's culture wars.
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