The Crown-Grabber was used in an Ed Sullivan Show sketch, in which he ruins a girl's beautiful day. ”Īs it turns out, the commercial was never aired - but all three monsters had a future in the Muppet cast. Frustrated and peckish, the narrator warns viewers that these pesky monsters could be disguised as someone in your own home, at which point the monsters briefly turn into people and then dissolve back to monsters again. One by one, the monsters sneak in and zoom away with the snacks. Each time the Muppet narrator, a human-looking fellow, fixes himself a tray of Wheels, Flutes and Crowns, they disappear before he can eat them. These monsters had insatiable appetites for the snack foods they were named after. The Crown-Grabber was a hulk of a monster with a Boris Karloff accent and teeth that resembled giant knitting needles. The Flute-Snatcher was a speed demon with a long, sharp nose and windblown hair. The Wheel-Stealer was a short, fuzzy monster with wonky eyes and sharply pointed teeth. Each snack was represented by a different monster. “In 1966, Henson drew three monsters who appeared in a General Foods commercial that featured three crunchy snack foods: Wheels, Crowns and Flutes. When Cookie Monster eats something, he makes a very distinct, loud munching sound that is often interpreted as " OMM-nom-nom-nom."Ĭookie Monster has a deep, growly voice, and generally speaks with simplistic diction - for instance, saying "Me want cookie!" as opposed to "I want a cookie!" Cookie occasionally displays an unexpectedly complex vocabulary, however, and is at his most gentrified when in his Alistair Cookie persona, hosting Monsterpiece Theater. As his name implies, his primary craving is cookies, but he can (and often does) consume anything and everything, from apples and pie to letters, flatware, and hubcaps. Covered with blue fur and possessing a pair of googly eyes, Cookie Monster has an insatiable appetite. The Cookie Monster puppet with mouth hole for eating.Ĭookie Monster and Gonger in "Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck."Ĭookie Monster is a voracious monster and one of the main characters on Sesame Street. Hoots the Owl helps Cookie learn, in song, that " A Cookie is a Sometime Food."Ī closeup of Cookie Monster's eyes, showing his googly mechanism. Proto-Cookie from The Coffee Break Machine (1967).Īnother proto-Cookie (Arnold) with Munchos spokesman Fred (1969).Īn early Cookie Monster, as seen in a Sesame Street season 1 segment.Ĭookie imagines a sea of cookies in Episode 1011.Ĭookie Monster consumes his last means of contact with Santa Claus in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
The Wheel Stealer (1966), sketch from Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles.
C is for Cookie, that's good enough for him.
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