Sesame Street Season 56 Episode 5602 - Cookie Monster's Big Puzzle

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Episode 5602 - Cookie Monster's Big Puzzle
Netflix Premiere: Monday, November 10, 2025
PBS Premiere: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

It's Cookie Time... but Cookie Monster and Tamir can't figure out why Elmo doesn't want one! Abby helps Grover learn that doing puzzles takes patience.

This episode features an all-new street story, a new Tales from 123 ("Elmo Helps Cookie Open His Door"), Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck ("Angel Hair Pasta"), and Elmo's World ("Friends").

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Cookie Monster has cookie time for everyone. He gave one to Elmo but he has to go on a diet. Cookie Monster and Elmo need something that Elmo wants for the cookie. After many times, they made the biggest cookie ever, then rolled and broke it into tiny little pieces. Abby and Grove put together a puzzle of a cookie. Elmo gave Cookie Monster nothing. In Tales from 123, Elmo tries to find the key to the door and it turns out Cookie Monster tries to find a key but a magnet got all the keys and a treasure chest. In Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck, we make angel hair pasta and learn where it came from. In Elmo's world, we learn about Colors.

 

[dwayne1115]

I loved this episode!

It was nice to briefly see The Court, Herry Monster, Telly, Baby Bear and Prairie Dawn in line to get a cookie. I do like how they are trying to incorporate familiar characters in the street stories even if they are just in a crowd scene with no dialogue.

This was my first time seeing Tamir, and I found his character to kinda be a Big Bird substitute but it worked for this particular story.

Cookie and Elmo show a few different types of emotions here, and I absolutely love the lesson of listening and communication, two things that even us grown-ups could learn how to do better. Abby and Grover were a great duo in this, and Grover was simply hilarious. It reminded me of how he was in Follow That Bird when he was trying to open the Big Bird's cage while Maria was fighting with all those keys. It made me remember why I loved Grover.

Tales from 123 was simply fun, and I absolutely love the concept of these cartoons. I love seeing Oscar and think Eric Jackabson is doing a fantastic job with keeping him alive, relevant and funny. I can not wait to see more Tales from 123!

Cookie's Food Truck I'm not completely sure about. I think my issue is I don't understand what they are trying to teach here, and when I don't understand that it throws me off on what the characters are doing. So if someone can explain this segment in general I'd greatly appreciate it.

Elmo's World was a nice surprise to see. Again the animation is simple yet really works, in fact I personally think it's way better than the original animation. My only issue is that it felt rushed. I know it's only a 30 minute show now, but it still just felt too rushed, but maybe I'm just used to the longer Elmo's World.

All in all I loved the episode!