Comments on: The Anxiety of Cookie Monster. I mean, Influence.

By: Li'l Innocent

Li'l Innocent — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:00:02 +0000

I perforce watched Sesame St as an adult – but my favorite Cookie Monster moment was the time he was confronted with both an ocarina and (IIRC) a pickle, which kind of resembled each other. CM instantly gobbled up the ocarina. Elmo expressed astonishment: “Wouldn’t you rather eat the pickle?”

“A pickle is not to eat!” remonstrated Cookie, “A pickle is for making Byootiful Music!”, which he proceeded to do.

Loss of Jim Henson=Diminution of Human Culture.

By: bab

bab — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:23 +0000

Oh, sure, tables, chairs, etc. (pica sufferer?), but I don’t recall any other foodstuffs when I was a regular viewer . . . some time ago (nobody was rapping in the singing sense in those days).

By: Spoon

Spoon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:37:51 +0000

@8 -- But as far back as the, er, when-I-was-a-kid, Cookie Monster was rapping about the benefits of healthy food. Plus he's eaten tables, plates, chairs, notes from Susan and Gordon ... Cookies may be his specialty, but the monster has always been an omnivore.

By: bab

bab — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:01:11 +0000

I’ve heard that C. Monster is eating things other than cookies these days (including vegetables). I take this a repudiation of all that I have held sacred and have yet to recover.

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:04:58 +0000

I am proud to have my IP logged as having watched that YouTube clip. In fact, I insist on it.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:51:33 +0000

Did Kermit undergo a background check before being allowed within 10 metres of a child? He seems awfully … fey.

Not that that’s a bad thing, mind, but one can never, ever be too careful with children at risk.

By: Katherine F.

Katherine F. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:49:30 +0000

That might just be the best title of any Crooked Timber post ever.

By: "Q" the Enchanter

"Q" the Enchanter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:30:16 +0000

What Bubba should have said: “I’ve got that beat.”

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:02:52 +0000

hieroglyphics!

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:39:56 +0000

I always liked that one.

But then I really love this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZNBcJTmWs

By: Jacob Christensen

Jacob Christensen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:22:53 +0000

Awww… :-)

But can we really be sure that there isn’t an alphabet somewhere out there which includes the sign cookie monster?