I watched the clip of Elmo giving Cookie Monster a dollar to buy cookies, and does anybody feel Cookie Mosnter's crying came off as fake? To me, when he cried in the original "Up and Down" segment, that sounded real, but here it sounds fake, as if he's trying to scam Elmo out of his money.
I wonder if that would have been the first time he ate the money he was saving to buy cookies. Or if he ended up eating that dollar as well.