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The company behind Sesame Street is suing the makers of Melissa McCarthy's upcoming raunchy comedy, The Happytime Murders, for referencing the popular kids show in its marketing campaign.
The R-rated film follows two clashing detectives - Melissa McCarthy and her partner, a puppet named Phil Phillips - in Los Angeles as they work together to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.
But it's not the film's use of profane puppets that Sesame Street is upset about - it's the tagline used in the film's marketing campaign - "No Sesame. All Street."
In the lawsuit the company argues that STX Entertainment does not have the right to use Sesame Street in its tagline.
The lawsuit describes the just released trailer as explicit, profane with drug-using, misogynistic, violent, copulating, and even ejaculating puppets.
The Happytime Murders is set to hit US theaters on August 17.
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