Me Want Broccoli!

Cookiemonster
First Scary Monster disappeared because he was too, well, scary – then Elmo came along, and now the writers of the Sesame Street have apparently staged an intervention with Cookie Monster and have helped him to confront his addiction to sweets. He has now learned that cookies are a "sometimes" food. How did they accomplish this, I wonder? Did they force his eyelids open and make him watch movies of obese children? Wait, no! Cookie has no eyelids on his googly eyes. Did they quietly send him off to rehab, like an aging rocker?
I readily confess that I watched Sesame Street well into my teen years because there was a fair amount of semi-brilliant comedy on the show. Attention: Jim Henson has left the building.
The brilliance of the early Sesame Street was that it did not take itself too seriously. Sure, help the kids learn to count and spell and all, but throw in a lot of broad, goofy, stupid humor, too,  along with some pratt falls and pie fights. Well, I never actually saw a pie fight (those muppets would be hard to clean) but you get the idea. In those days Bert and Ernie were like Laurel and Hardy, or Abbot and Costello. A great number of their skits had no point at all, except a few minutes of idiotic fun. Ernie was a consumate pest, and Bert the ultimate straight man… er, straight muppet. Think Sponge Bob and Squidward.
PBS, though, has had to deal with the same changes as the Big 3 networks: Increasing competition leading to growing irrelevance. Hardly anyone is watching anymore, and the median age of the average Sesame Street viewer has been dropping over the years. It is now almost exclusively a pre-kindergarten show.
So, goodbye, Cookie. We’ll always have the "rectangle" sketch.
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11 thoughts on “Me Want Broccoli!”

  2. I thought it was sacrilege how they made Mr. Snufalupagus visible to everybody a while back.
    These writers think they are gods and can do anything they like.
    Some day soon, there will be a reckoning, and then there shall be a recompense for their errors.
    Incidentally, this has to be the funniest cartoon ever:
    http://tinyurl.com/9beak

  3. C is for cookie
    That’s not good enough for me
    C is for cookie
    That’s not good enough for me
    C is for cookie
    That’s not good enough for me
    Oh, cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
    ‘thann

  5. Yes, billhw, that’s wrong. Shouldn’t they be eating a Morning Star an artificially turkey-flavored soy product? Now that we’re too enlightened for cookies and all.
    I was a little disgusted a while back when Kofi Annan made an appearance to settle a quarrel between the Muppets over whose turn it was to sing the ABC song. Finally, Telly announced they’d do it “The United Nations way — together!”
    I thought the United Nations way was to get the U.S. to do it and then complain about the way it was done.

  7. Several million viewers of Cookie Monster and Sesame Street in the Philippines over the years are at risk from all sorts health problems, but they have nothing to do with cookies. We’re not really cookie eaters. We’re mostly afflicted by our love for (a) salty food; (b) fried food; (c) (non-lean) pork; and (d) salty and/or fried pork.
    Hmmm.. I think that’s everything. So.. no, it was never cookies. And no, there aren’t any Salty or Fried Monsters haunting our TVs either. 😉

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