Cookie Monster

[Mike Taylor]

*nudge-nudge* i've got coooookies baking if you do.[/creepygrandmasweetvoice]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/anastasthetraveler/cookie_monster.jpg

Did someone say... COOKIES?

[Plunder Down-Under]

Run! He'll Devour Us All!!!

[Leffy]

mike or cookie monster?

[Plunder Down-Under]

Yes.

[Leffy]

both thoughts went squiggy in my head... and i suddenly pictured mike with the googlie eyes and scratchy voice. yep i need to lay back down.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Im scared.

[Mike Taylor]

both thoughts went squiggy in my head... and i suddenly pictured mike with the googlie eyes and scratchy voice. yep i need to lay back down.

*nibbles*

[Maz]

The real horror is in that the Cookie Monster is no longer the Cookie Monster. He has discovered vegetables!

[Plunder Down-Under]

The real horror is in that the Cookie Monster is no longer the Cookie Monster. He has discovered vegetables!
:cry:

[Seolta]

:cry:

'zactly. When cookies are one's primary dietary staple, they are NOT "a sometimes food":mad:

[Mike Taylor]

'zactly. When cookies are one's primary dietary staple, they are NOT "a sometimes food":mad:

He's been eating healthy since the 1980's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfluek-1qk). I don't know why anybody thinks that's new or shocking. He's a walking appetite. Cookies are just his trademark, sort of like Indiana Jones' hat & whip.

[Plunder Down-Under]

But imagine if Indiana started wearing different hats all the time and only wore his hat sometimes, Im sure he has plenty hats in his wardrobe, but we know him for that one and whe he forsakes that hat we get sad even if he still occasionally wears it and has always had several hats

[Mike Taylor]

*sighs*

You're missing the point. Cookie Monster hasn't STOPPED eating cookies. Cookie Monster HAS been presented as eating healthy food for nearly twenty years. When the "Healthy Food" segment first aired, nobody so much as batted an eyelid. Years later, in response to the very real problem of childhood obesity, Sesame Workshop introduces "A Cookie is a Sometimes Food" and people get all bent out of shape. It's silly.

EDIT: I've made a request to Raps to have this particular line of discussion removed to "Off Topic". My apologies for derailing the thread.

[Plunder Down-Under]

You missed my point, Indiana, in my metaphore, didnt stop using his hat but swapped with other hats. Peope wouldnt like that cause that is Indy's hat, they know and love him in the hat, same with he Cookie Monster is the Cookie monster not the Veggie Monster.

The main annoyance is the name change to me, as long as he smashes cookies into his mouth and is called the cookie monster he can preach healthy eating all he wants in my eyes.

[Maz]

I don't remember cookie monster going on about healthy eating before, in my childhood, and that includes in the last 20 years.

[Big Otis Landfish]

I remember Ernie trading him carrots for cookies and thinking he pulled a fast one - and then Cookie ate both!

I love sesame street, since they show all walks of life including homeless and raging stoners like Cookie Monster.


I'd shoot that little *%^ Elmo on sight, though.

[UberFische]

I'd shoot that little *%^ Elmo on sight, though.

You're not a fan of that giggly little bastard either?

[Big Otis Landfish]

No sir... but Sesame Street has shifted to a younger demographic since my day, and I guess they need to include a babytalking developmentally-challenged ADHD case in the cast. He's still better than those %#$ Teletubbies...

(no offence intended to other developmentally-challenged ADHD cases)

[Maz]

Should bring back Oscar and Wormy!!

[Plunder Down-Under]

Back? They got rid of Oscar? He was m favorite...

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Elmo is a little ADHD Grover wannabe.

And still wait for blacklash, Cookie monster as a stick with blue fur and googly eyes, laying on a hospital bed:
'In this very special eposode, A is for Annorexia, B is for Bulumia.....'

[Mike Taylor]

Should bring back Oscar and Wormy!!

Oscar and Slimey are still around, but here's a short list of Sesame Street Muppets that have disappeared.

Roosevelt Franklin (the only obvious "black" Muppet)
Sammy the Snake (created for a bit in the show about the letter "S")
Herbert Birdsfoot (purple Muppet with glasses)
Little Bird (Big Bird's opposite and best buddy until Mr. Snuffleupagus came along).

Can anybody, without looking at a search engine, name the original grown-ups on Sesame Street?

I can. :)

[Ruestir]

Nope, I just remember Bob and Maria, a hispanic (Luis) guy, the black couple (Gordon and Susan) and the old man (Mr. Hooper) who ran the store. I put the names in parenthesis of the people I had to look up.

[Mike Taylor]

Linda, the deaf lady, joined a few years later. After that, I sort of lost track of the new faces (was too old to watch the show). I do remember Gabi's birth making the news, though (but I somehow missed Mr. Hooper's death in 1983).

[Ruestir]

I found an interesting tidbit about the original hispanic male was actually a guy by the name of Miguel, but he didn't last past the first year before Luis joined.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Can't name them, but sorta remember the cast.

[Wayne]

I miss Super Grover.

[UberFische]

This looks like a job for Sooop-*three second pause*-per Grover!

[Seolta]

I guess they need to include a babytalking developmentally-challenged ADHD case in the cast.

Only one? Don't forget Zoe and Rosita...

[Maz]

Oscar and Slimey are still around

When was off school for a few days in the mid 90s, they had gone. How odd.

[greyloch]

I feel old now. :skull:

I remember when Sesame Street first came on the air & when Mr. Snuffleupagus was thought to be Big Bird's imaginary friend as no one ever saw him. However, I recently saw the original Kermit the Frog muppet at the Smithsonian. That was wicked cool. :)

[Maz]

I think it rather kewl that Kermit has be carried on really well, for a whole nother generation and then some, :)

Plus he has his own profile in IMDB!

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Not sure how much of what I watched was 'normal' episodes, and how much was re-runs...

And yes, is kida cool that Kermit retains is universal appeal.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Muppets have to be one of the greatest things to happen to television ever.

[Big Otis Landfish]

Only one? Don't forget Zoe and Rosita...

I'm too old for that to be culturally relevant. Elmo was never on when I watched, but is too ubiquitous to ignore.

[Mike Taylor]

I'm too old for that to be culturally relevant. Elmo was never on when I watched, but is too ubiquitous to ignore.

Elmo was designed to grab the attention of the littler kids (2 to 5) that watch Sesame Street. Elmo himself is portrayed as being 4. Toddlers aren't really known for having long attention spans. His bright red fur catches their eyes, his name is easy for a two year-old to say, and his hyperactivity keeps them focused so that his segment of the show can do what its supposed to do. It may seem grating and annoying to adults, but the repetition of words or simple ideas in the Elmo segments actually helps toddlers learn.

[kitty!]

I LOVE ELMO!

I had the "There's a Monster at the end of this book" and grover was trying to STOP us from seeing the VERY SCARY MONSTER AT THE END OF THE BOOK and Elmo comes along and ENCOURAGED me to turn the damn pages and I did (but my sister didn't...scardey cat) and it wasn't a big ugly tentacly green monster (like I thought when I was little) but GROVER.

Yay Grover.

And then I read the book to giggle at Grover's silly scardey-ness

[Big Otis Landfish]

Elmo was designed to grab the attention of the littler kids (2 to 5) that watch Sesame Street. Elmo himself is portrayed as being 4. Toddlers aren't really known for having long attention spans. His bright red fur catches their eyes, his name is easy for a two year-old to say, and his hyperactivity keeps them focused so that his segment of the show can do what its supposed to do. It may seem grating and annoying to adults, but the repetition of words or simple ideas in the Elmo segments actually helps toddlers learn.

Ayuh - AISB, the target demographic has shifted. SS was originally intended to provide educational programming for the 4-5-6 y.o. who might not be enrolled in formal schooling yet. Now like many other shows, the target has shifted to the 2-3-4 y.o. kids (presumably education has improved for the original dem.). Or so I've heard.....

[Mike Taylor]

When I was little, there was a company that made a whole line of Sesame Street Muppet hand puppets, even two of the "Anything Muppets". We had Grover and Bert in our house. Grover looked spot-on identical to the one used in the show, but the Bert puppet had a hard rubber head instead of a foam one. I used to take Grover with me all over the place.

I used to be envious of my neighbor across the street. Her name was Jenny (not Breeden and not with an "ie"). She had the Sesame Street Little People playset. If you were a three year-old in 1974, that was the coolest thing on Earth.

[Mike Taylor]

(presumably education has improved for the original dem.). Or so I've heard.....

That part depends on where the school is, unfortunately. :(

[UberFische]

I LOVE ELMO!

I had the "There's a Monster at the end of this book" and grover was trying to STOP us from seeing the VERY SCARY MONSTER AT THE END OF THE BOOK and Elmo comes along and ENCOURAGED me to turn the damn pages and I did (but my sister didn't...scardey cat) and it wasn't a big ugly tentacly green monster (like I thought when I was little) but GROVER.

Yay Grover.

And then I read the book to giggle at Grover's silly scardey-ness

I remember that book, all the stuff he does to prevent you from turning the page, boarding it up, putting a brick wall in from, I will remember to my dieing day.

[kitty!]

The coolest thing to have as a 3 year old in 1993 waaas...I recall the flippy power-rangers head dolls and I was pretty rad for having a roller blading doll

[Mike Taylor]

Wow, that means you were born when I graduated from high school. :eek:

[randombrit]

Man, now you make me feel old too. I was 13 then, had a fine example of a Hoff mullet and had just discovered Iron Maiden for the first time.

[kitty!]

Man, now you make me feel old too. I was 13 then, had a fine example of a Hoff mullet and had just discovered Iron Maiden for the first time.

When I was 8 my dad was flipping the radio channels around in the car and we discovered the song "Teenage Dirtbag"

*sung in an irrating squeaky voice*

I'M JUST A TEE-NAGE DIRT-BAG BAY-BEE
I LISTEN TO EYE-URN MAY-DEN BAY-BEE
I'M JUST A TEE-NAGE DIRT-BAG BABY LIKE YOU!
OOOO-OH-OOOO!

I will never, ever forget the chorus to that song.

EDIT:
Okay, so I remembered that wrong....

Cause i'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Yeah i'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
listen to Iron Maiden baby with me
Ooohoooooo

linky goodness-> http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Teenage-Dirtbag-lyrics-Wheatus/00752F40A20C6A5E48256B4F0013A752

[Darlica]

The coolest thing to have as a 3 year old in 1993 waaas...I recall the flippy power-rangers head dolls and I was pretty rad for having a roller blading doll

I was 19, it was, let's just say, an interesting year... :love: :censored: :o

[Leffy]

1993.... i remember changing my first diaper.... talking to a boy in a nonfriend way.... and running away for 4 hours to the public library and hiding in the bathroom everytime i saw my family out the windows.

[Mike Taylor]

I was 19, it was, let's just say, an interesting year... :love: :censored: :o

Just wondering, but are you over on RPG.net by any chance?

[Sehson]

Yep the interporn is full of people young enough to be my children and I lust after them all the same... Cause I'm just a dirty old panda:shhh::flame:

[Crazeyal]

1993??? I was hitting people with foam covered wood and wearing hooves!!

[Seolta]

We initiated my little sister into the Cult of the Fraggle a little while back...She was quite impressed, and the mommy-person and I explained to her that they were from back when kids' shows didn't condescend so much to the kids, and were watched(and enjoyed) by the parents as well.

[Mike Taylor]

We initiated my little sister into the Cult of the Fraggle a little while back...She was quite impressed, and the mommy-person and I explained to her that they were from back when kids' shows didn't condescend so much to the kids, and were watched(and enjoyed) by the parents as well.

I remember watching Gobo, the Doozers, The Great Trash Heap, and the Gorgs on HBO and then later on The Disney Channel.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Iron Maiden are great, and still releasing albums.

[Leffy]

i've been watching my old fraggle rock tapes with harli since she was born. i knew there was a good reason mom recorded anything that kept us occupied when we were little!

[Mike Taylor]

Iron Maiden are great, and still releasing albums.

You know, Eddie kinda looks like one of Jim Henson's scarier Muppets.

[kitty!]

Oh my god, I loved the episodes of Fraggle Rock that I could catch. I watched The Muppet Show when mum would let me stay up and I primarily spent my days watching Muppet Babies, Dinosaurs, My Little Pony, a show involving a family that time traveled to the time of dinosaurs and lived in possibly the BEST TREE HOUSE EVER (don't remember the name, can't you tell?), and hunting down television showings of Fern Gully and Teen Witch.

Then it was disney channels' So Weird and catching Buffy when I was allowed to stay up that late.

This is what shaped my young mind.

I declare that I was the coolest kid ever. Even though I was the biggest geek any of my schools have ever seen.

[UberFische]

a show involving a family that time traveled to the time of dinosaurs and lived in possibly the BEST TREE HOUSE EVER (don't remember the name, can't you tell?)

Land of the Lost. I still remember that show.

[Mike Taylor]

Which Land of the Lost? There were two.

This is the one I grew up with. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6LZzVCpYDY)

I remember Grumpy and Big Alice (the two T-Rexes), the original bug-eyed sleestaks, Dumbo the baby dino, the time travelling pylons...

If you're wondering at the similarities between this and Adult Swim's Saul of the Mole Men, it's because Saul is making fun of Land of the Lost and other TV shows by Syd & Marty Krofft.

[UberFische]

Yeah, I know there were two, I'm talking about the newer one. Sleestaks and Scarface the T-Rex and all that stuff

[Death Dragon2]

Yeah, I know there were two, I'm talking about the newer one. Sleestaks and Scarface the T-Rex and all that stuff
Don't forget the Furniture that eats people.

[UberFische]

uh... what?

[Mike Taylor]

That sounds more like an Old School (as in Ed Sullivan Show era) Jim Henson gag. You think Death Dragon's confusing it for the Dinosaurs sitcom?

[Death Dragon2]

uh... what?
It was in one of the episodes. They jump into a portal or something, think they're back home, and the furniture comes to life and tries to eat them. The only episode I ever watched, too.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Im afraid of the furniture!!

[Plunder Down-Under]

You know, Eddie kinda looks like one of Jim Henson's scarier Muppets.
All Hail Eddie!!

[Mike Taylor]

It was in one of the episodes. They jump into a portal or something, think they're back home, and the furniture comes to life and tries to eat them. The only episode I ever watched, too.

http://i0005.photobucket.com/albums/0005/icanhascheezburger/2007/7/6/6/128282011535625000.jpg

[Death Dragon2]

I can't stop giggling at that picture.