Sesame Street confusion!!

They had twin beds, in the same room, close to each other. Don't think they ever shared...?

I am still pissed with Sesame Street for taming Cookie monster, making it eat healthy stuff and compelling it to sing nonsense like "Cookies are a Sometimes Food." With producers capable of such atrocities, anything is possible.

S'true...

Its not like the cookie monster got fat or anything from eating them!!If he was the one thta lived in the bin/trash can then he couldnt allow himself to get fat.

Bert and Ernie always had twin beds.

One of the earliest skits involved Ernie about to eat cookies in his bed. Bert cautions him that he'd get crumbs all over, and get itchy if he ate cookies in his bed, so to solve the problem Ernie goes over to Bert's bed to eat the cookies.

Oooh, thats a subtle way of getting yourself into someones bed,I may give that a go one day.

I have always been bothered by the fact that Oscar doesn't get more air time after all he has always carried the show. Just goes to show how people are, you live in a trash can and right away people think less of you.

Yes, Burt and Ernie had twin beds

Oh my, I didnt know this about the cookie monster! I cant believe it -- that is so crazy! Couldnt they give him healthy choice cookies? I mean come on!

They shoulda brought in the Swedish Chef . . . he'd a hooked everyone up . . .

It's awful, i know...they might as well go ahead and change his name as well--- what kind of cookie monster can he really be if he only eats cookies once in a while. can no one enjoy a good cookie anymore without being ridiculed?!?!? what is this world coming to?!?!??!

I don't think you guys have kids. There is a disease in this county and it is devasting. Childhood obesity is the fastest growning cause of illness and death.
In this country, there used to be a sense of "wellness"..
The producers of Sesame Street are being responsible leaders.
Don't like it? Go eat at McDonalds. Or hey! Burger King
I am now of my soapbox! (I work with alot of kids)

ok - send me the cookies

Yeah, I digress.

In my opinion, if parents took initiative of actually teaching their children how to eat right and how not to imitate everything they read/see/hear, then I don't think Cookie Monster would be an issue for parents at all.

I grew up watching cookie monster choke down his chocolate chips! I never thought to myself "well, if the C-monster can do it, so can I!" It was a nostalgic thing for me, humor and entertainment. I never looked at Cookie Monster as a guide to my evening meals.

I think that even kids who do see that and crave cookies should be allowed to have some cookies - but after a healthy serving of greenbeans and carrots, perhaps. It's just a matter of balancing your diet, not banning all the sinful pleasures completely.

<giggles>

Frankly, I think Cookie Monster's new "diet" is more a bow to political correctness. Seriously, do you think he's contributed to childhood obesity? The culprit there is TV in general, video games and parental complacency.

As for Big Bird...man, don't get me started...

Not to mention, Cookie Monster existed decades before childhood obesity exploded. I don't know that anyone has ever come up with good evidence that children get fat because they see things on TV shows. (Besides, what's the point in a reasanoble, pedagogically correct monster?) I think SkwerlX is correct. The taming of Cookie Monster was about politically correct petty tyrants on a power trip. And the urban legend about "Ernie & Bert in separate beds" was fueled by weariness of such petty tyrants.

Yep.

If you don't know what it is, Google "Lazy Town" -- every politically correct bromide about health in one almost-campy-enough-to-be-cool(but-still-sets-my-teeth-on-edge) show.

I (and my brother) watched SS and cookie monster ate his cookies all the time but neither of us got fat. Blaming a tv show for fat kids is just naive.

New name: Cookie Nibbler