Favorite Cookie Monster Moments

[mikebennidict]

there was 1 were Cookie and Big Bird be the King Miinis cartoon and cookie comes up with the idea that he's touches everything and it turns into a pile of cookies.he turns 2 things into cookies, 1 of them a tree near Hooper's store. and when Bob and Susan come by he tells them about his magic touch and then accidently turns them into cookies. would of been funny if somebody came by and started eating them.

 

[mikebennidict]

CM song about cookies what was it called?

he was standing in a hole wich was surrounded by cookies and 1 part of it goes like nobody loves cookie as much as me,oh please give cookie to me.

 

[SesameMike]

...Cookie comes up with the idea that he touches everything and it turns into a pile of cookies.

I seem to recall the first item that "King Cookie" turned into a pile of cookies was the newsstand. He later did turn Bob and Susan into cookies, and then David was talking to and pointing to him, and CM said in a panicked voice "don't touch me!", as CM was expressing regret about losing two of the adults to cookiedom. Like the real King Midas story, CM regretted having that power, and it was all just a dream/imagination sequence anyways.

 

[SesameMike]

I liked the skit where he is about to eat a cookie, then a sad violin plays and poor, shawl-covered, sad-eyed girl muppet shows up. She looked so pathetic, of course he shrugged, and decided to share.

That was a long violin solo we heard while CM was contemplating what to do. There were only two spoken (English) words in that whole skit: when CM cracked the cookie in half he said "Share" and the lady muppet said the same thing. The music stopped, then CM ate his cookie in the familiar "ah-rum-rum" fashion. Immediately after that, the lady ate her cookie the same way, albeit with a higher voice. CM, and most of the viewers probably, were like, huh?

My favorites are probably were "I do anything for cookie," including shrinking, smashing a safe, and ringing a bell with a hammer.

That was the ring-the-bell-with-the-hammer game at the carnival. The carni quietly told us that he had the thing rigged to be impossibly difficult. Still, CM tried it twice and didn't get the weight up high enough to ring the bell. When he asked the barker what the prize was and he said a cookie, CM said "I do anything for cookie! Cowabunga!" and hit the hammer so hard that not only did he ring the bell, he caused the whole contraption to collapse. "Maybe, I shouldn't have told him about the cookie" conceded the carni.

But one obscure skit, probably before he was the Cookie Monster, was were Little Bird was next to a radiator, then a window, then a boy muppet.

Little bird stood beside an open window with a snowstorm outside. Getting too cold, he moved over to the radiator. Getting too warm, he moved over to "a special friend" who was just right.

 

[SesameMike]

I loved "Up and Down" with Cookie and Herry. Two versions were made.

The first (the best) version of the early 70's had Cookie and Herry in their early forms, singing behind a wall and a blank background. At the end, Cookie reveals that he is looking up for his cookie because "a birdie picked it up and flew away with it up in the sky." As Cookie goes away, pleading for the bird to come back, it flies over Herry and drops the cookie in his hands and he casually eats it.

The chorus went (not sure who said what):
HERRY MONSTER: I look up and see the sky
COOKIE MONSTER: I look down and see the ground
BOTH: I look at you and sing a song about up and down.

One line went:
HM: I look down and see the rug, and then I see my shoe

A spoken exchange between verses of the song went:
CM: When I look up, I no see my cookie.
HM: That's because you're looking in the wrong direction!

 

[Soul H]

In "Cookie Disco", do you know what the announcer said?

Some of his jewelry around his neck, some speakers, microphone, whatever was handy.

I have a fondness for the skit where a woman in a clothing shop (Fran) thought Cookie Monster was a furry blue coat, put him on and walked away. It was an interesting skit because
- he was not the victor in the skit
- this time, he didn't do anything do deserve it.
Poor Cookie.

I also liked Jerry as the snooty store clerk.

 

[ssetta]

He said,

And now, here he is, the one, the only, the incomparable... COOKIE MONSTER!!!!!

 

[Teankun]

Thanks for explaining things SesameMike .

I really liked it when the carnie is talking to "us", Cookie asks who he is talking to. And, you actually do hear the bell ring on cue when it is destroyed

 

[Ziffel]

Thought of a really short Cookie Monster one from the 70's. About 10 seconds long. He is holding an egg and says, "E. Egg." And then he swallows it whole, shell and all. Then he moans loudly and falls backwards.

 

[Ziffel]

Remember the one with Cookie Monster and Ernie where Ernie had some cookies in some kind of container (maybe a brown paper bag). And I think Ernie has a device that he says can count cookies. He demonstrates to Cookie Monster how if he points it at the cookies it will make a ringing sound like a bell for each cookie there is. I think there were five cookies so we heard 5 bell sounds. At one point while Ernie is looking at the viewers and talking, Cookie Monster eats all the cookies while Ernie's back is turned. Then Ernie points at the bag and no sound comes. He asks CM why there is no bells. CM says because there are no cookies. Ernie is puzzled so CM tells him to point that thing at his stomach. And it dings five times. Ernie then realizes what happened.
One question: The part where Ernie asks CM why there are no bell sounds, it sounded to me like Ernie says, "Hey Sam, how come there are no bells?" Did he really call CM Sam? Or was it some other word he said? Actually, maybe he said "Shirley." Just kidding. That was in reference to another skit when we were wondering if a muppet said, "Shirley" or "sharing."