Cookie Monster continues his epic streak of awesomeness with an appearance on Colbert.
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“It run on … imagination.” <wiggly fingers>
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31 comments
July 1, 2008 at 10:07 pm
ari
So, so awesome.
July 1, 2008 at 10:22 pm
urbino
Wait. That didn’t look anything like Cookie Monster.
July 1, 2008 at 10:47 pm
grackle
Well, he did look a lot older than Eric.
July 1, 2008 at 11:38 pm
RobinMarie
Ah, Cookie Monster was my favorite as a kid. Dad would always sing C is for Cookie with us.
It is weird to see him consuming fruit. Although, for all who saw the classic “Don’t Eat the Pictures,” Cookie Monster’s obsession with fruit apparently dates back to 1983.
July 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm
RobinMarie
Oh. Nevermind. To my memory Cookie Monster wanted to eat a painting of fruit, but it’s a childhood memory and apparently flawed.
However, he does want to eat Egyptian mummies, and that’s the next best thing.
July 2, 2008 at 12:25 am
andrew
When peak imagination strikes, what will we do?
July 2, 2008 at 12:28 am
andrew
Also, that episode had a cookie monster follow-up. (In case anyone was wondering what happened after Colbert asked him to stick around.)
July 2, 2008 at 5:16 am
kid bitzer
so for decades ,cookies were the favorite snack.
there’s even a children’s character based on kids’ obsession with cookies.
but its creators, a bunch of left-wing politically correct pbs do-gooders, think maybe kids are influenced by what they see, and maybe having the cookie monster reinforcing cookie consumption isn’t instilling good habits.
and then the big c.m. started endorsing fruit, and fruit pulls into the lead?
weird.
maybe the politically correct food nazis were actually right about the effect of advertising, both in its commercial and non-commercial forms?
July 2, 2008 at 5:26 am
ari
I can’t know for sure if you’re kidding or serious (or a little of both), kb, but I think it would be very hard to disaggregate the various influences on childhood diet in such a way that we could know how meaningful Cookie Monster’s embrace of fruit has been in recent years. That said, he looks absolutely great, suggesting that an improved diet and an exercise regime of frenetic hand gestures are the key to aging gracefully.
July 2, 2008 at 9:12 am
eric
That didn’t look anything like Cookie Monster.
FWIW, I don’t think it was Frank Oz doing the voice, so it might not have *sounded* like Cookie Monster to us oldsters.
July 2, 2008 at 9:14 am
eric
Also, that episode had a cookie monster follow-up. (In case anyone was wondering what happened after Colbert asked him to stick around.)
I believe that was the Cookie Monster version of Chekhov’s gun.
July 2, 2008 at 10:15 am
Robert Halford
Agg, just posted this on the older “alistair cookie” thread, but putting it here again to share the funky joy:
I just found out that the Pointer Sisters sang the incredible “pinball” song after an amateur DJ friend put it on a mix tape. I’ve got it on constant repeat on the Itunes. This is just objectively a good funky tune.
July 2, 2008 at 2:31 pm
urbino
FWIW, I don’t think it was Frank Oz doing the voice, so it might not have *sounded* like Cookie Monster to us oldsters.
I was mostly just tweaking you, eric, but yes, they clearly have somebody else doing his voice now.
July 2, 2008 at 2:32 pm
eric
I was mostly just tweaking you, eric
Ah, I forgot that was one of this blog’s primary reasons for being.
July 2, 2008 at 2:35 pm
ari
Thanks be to the gods; there’s activity in another thread. Help me! Please! Say something interesting. Anything will do. Don’t make me go back there to procrastinate.
July 2, 2008 at 2:42 pm
eric
Isn’t someone writing “this day in history”?
July 2, 2008 at 2:43 pm
ari
Yeah, that’s why I’m procrastinating. The Civil Rights Act is complicated. And I’m trying to figure out which direction to take the post: Kennedy’s death, filibusters, the genesis and implications of the EEOC, etc. Okay, back to work.
July 2, 2008 at 3:54 pm
urbino
Ah, I forgot that was one of this blog’s primary reasons for being.
I dunno about the blog, but it does give my own life meaning.
July 2, 2008 at 3:56 pm
urbino
See Greg’s comment, here, ari. Or you could always go with the Jewish cabal angle.
July 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm
bitchphd
an exercise regime of frenetic hand gestures are the key to aging gracefully.
Why have I been going to the goddamn gym, then?
July 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm
urbino
Your fingers are, presumably, less furry, and therefore offer less wind resistance and less of a workout.
July 2, 2008 at 4:34 pm
bitchphd
Hm. So you’re saying that if I wear mittens and gesture wildly….
July 2, 2008 at 4:48 pm
urbino
It’s worth a try. Before an audience, preferably.
July 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm
kid bitzer
b, i am shocked and dismayed that you are joking about burning calories by wiggling your fingers in something furry.
it’s just tasteless, that’s all, and i can assure you that i would never make a joke like that.
July 2, 2008 at 5:11 pm
bitchphd
I should hope not, because if you did I would completely file a sexual harassment lawsuit.
July 2, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Jason B
. . . burning calories by wiggling your fingers in something furry.
Isn’t that essentially how Jim Henson made his fortune?
July 2, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Wrongshore
I recently met someone who works with the man who gave Jim Henson the flu that killed him.
He feels bad.
July 2, 2008 at 6:08 pm
urbino
That’d be a difficult thing to explain to one’s kids.
July 2, 2008 at 6:18 pm
kid bitzer
well, exactly, b; it’s only my long-suffering forbearance that prevented me from pressing charges against you to begin with.
that and my desire to give you the benefit of the doubt.
July 2, 2008 at 6:21 pm
ari
I recently met someone who works with the man who gave Jim Henson the flu that killed him.
How does he know? When there’s flu about, there’s flu about. Right? I mean, I’m just trying to let the guy off the hook here.
July 2, 2008 at 6:36 pm
bitchphd
Keep on keeping on, KB.