Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GLASGOW, Scotland, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A British politician is criticizing the BBC for a children's show that changed traditional nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" to give it a happy ending. Tom Harris, a Labor party member of Parliament representing Glasgow, Scotland, said he was shocked to see the altered rhyme on "Something Special," a program on the BBC's CBeebies kids' network he watched with his sons, ages 3 and 5, The Sun reported Monday. Advertisement Harris said the program changed the ending of the rhyme, which traditionally holds "All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again," to say the group instead "Made Humpty Dumpty happy again." "For goodness sake. Kids should be exposed to real life a bit, not cosseted away," Harris said. "We need to stop this moronic activity. Let them see colorful and violent cartoons, and let them be children." The politician said the program also featured a version of "Little Miss Muffet" that ended with the titular character befriending, rather than being frightened by, a spider. A BBC spokeswoman said the changes were not meant to sanitize the nursery rhymes. "The small change to Humpty Dumpty was for no other reason than being creative and entertaining," she said. Advertisement
