Cookie Monster is Not Blue Elmo

[The Newswire]

Carny: We have a WINNER! Choose your prize.

Little Girl: I want the blue Elmo!

Carny: Here ya go! One blue Elmo for the young lady!

Jeff Schuetze: Blue Elmo? Did you hear that? Cookie Monster is

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[Mr Karl]

cookie monster the blue elmo?...........Not fucking likely!!!!

where the hell did that elmo come from anyway?

[Morning Glory]

wouldn't gonzo be the blue elmo?

[ForrestBlack]

I have a perverse desire to see Grover sing I want to be your dog

[Rockwulf]

I thought Elmo was a red Grover.

[VoltaireBlue]

elmo sucks. he wasn't on sesame st when I was a kid. fuck him. fuch him with a catus. I liked grover. he was quirky, and somewhat eccentric. he was my fave as a kid.

seeing grover sing I wanna be your dog would be fifty kinds of awesome.

[Head Wreck]

+1 on grover singing.

maybe we should start a petition

[mystoo]

I'm pretty pissed at the Sesame Street people these days.It's now called Sesame Park because apparently, it's not safe to play in the street!?! And everyone can see Snuffelupagus now because it's not healthy to have imaginary friends?!? Who the hell makes up these rules? Anyway...http://www.bertisevil.tv/index2.htm

[Senior_Diablo]

gitmo is the best sesame street character..lol..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHV7moFd0Q

[Rockwulf]

I gave up on the muppet phenomenon when they brought on the one that had AIDS. Not even as a joke, they were for real!

[Amelia G]

I gave up on the muppet phenomenon when they brought on the one that had AIDS. Not even as a joke, they were for real!

Was it AIDS? I thought it was leukemia, but I avoided that whole stretch of the show like the plague just like you. I think it is over and done now though.

At this point, Elmo's House is deeply the best part of Sesame Street, but I miss Cookie Monster's rampages and Oscar's permanent surliness (Oscar Trump was okay) and Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuer Grover!

[Mr Karl]

what? oscars not surly anymore?

[J. Babington]

...Idiot children, im not that old but i remember the good old days when cookie monster would snarf a cookie, You know his shoving cookies in his face,but now days hes goes "dieting" and he eats the ONE cookie like a panzy. I mean that bother me when thry push that "go green and healthy" on little kids who just wanna watch cartoons...ok done ranting now

[Lilly]

There was recently a trend here in t-shirts where they had Sesame St characters on them - I retaliated with a plain white t-shirt that had a picture of cookie monster on it

The front of his head was shaved and had stitches going across it, his eyes were all swirly and he was saying

"Cooking are a sometimes food"

On the back it had

"Cookie monster Lobotomy does not equal childrens television"

[J. Babington]

oohh i want t-shirt

[Wickedanima]

Grover was a nut. I remember when I was a kid I had mom's old yoga book, and grover doing the ABC's, and somehow in my mind, I thought that the ABC book was kid Yoga. I never could do the G.

I heard they made cookie monster eat more veggies. Veggie monster. That makes me... so sad. COOKIES GODDAMIT. Cookies.

Oscar is amazing. I love the grumpy jerk, and srsly...

No love for the Count? Psh. I thought you guys were Goffc. ^_^

[mystoo]

Who doesn't love the count???? I work with a dude that sounds just like him. Everytime he says number we all crack up laughing. I work with a bunch of muppet look alikes though. So far we have 2 Beakers, 1 Bunsun, 1 Count, 1 Janice, and 1 Red Fraggle ah ah ah.....

[Lilly]

I do adore the Count - I still when counting something do his counting - gets me strange looks at work specially since with my arm still healing I do alot of paperwork and checking the storage counts

"one syringe mwahaha, two syringe mwahaha etc etc"

[OrganizedKhaos]

Who doesn't love the count???? I work with a dude that sounds just like him. Everytime he says number we all crack up laughing. I work with a bunch of muppet look alikes though. So far we have 2 Beakers, 1 Bunsun, 1 Count, 1 Janice, and 1 Red Fraggle ah ah ah.....

I LOVE THE COUNT... he was always my favorite.

[Senior_Diablo]

dave chappelle has an interesting interpretation of sesame street..http://youtube.com/watch?v=aUmYGLIubho

[Rockwulf]

dave chappelle has an interesting interpretation of sesame street..http://youtube.com/watch?v=aUmYGLIubho

That's okay. But it doesn't hold a candle to "Wondershowzin"

[Bikerpunk]

As I've said before, the Count is based on the Eastern European myth that if you're being chased by a vampire, you toss rice over your shoulder and the vampire will be forced and compelled to count every grain, in an OCD type manner. With enough grains scattered over a wide enough area closest to dawn, he will be compelled to keep counting even as the sun rises and he bursts into flames.

[J. Babington]

wow BP where'd you find that! I would have never guess a kids show would go that deep?

[Wickedanima]

wow BP where'd you find that! I would have never guess a kids show would go that deep?

O.o I figured most people knew about that! ^_^

[Rockwulf]

I had no idea about the origin of the Count.

Learn somethin' everyday.

[J. Babington]

*shrugs* I guess

[Black Spiral Dancer]

I had heard that about vampires. Hadn't made the connection. The Count was always good. I almost bought a Count cuddly toy for a 38 year-old friend, as she collects vampire things. I very occasionally do the Count when counting stuff.

I don't know why, but I always liked Beaker. He'd have mad a good Igor to an evil Prof Bunsen.

[Head Wreck]

the count features on one of my spoof posters i put up in the archive when i managed it as people cant seem to put cassettes back in the correct order.

[Amelia G]

As I've said before, the Count is based on the Eastern European myth that if you're being chased by a vampire, you toss rice over your shoulder and the vampire will be forced and compelled to count every grain, in an OCD type manner. With enough grains scattered over a wide enough area closest to dawn, he will be compelled to keep counting even as the sun rises and he bursts into flames.

Best factoid of the week!

[mystoo]

Question: Who is the character from Sesame Street that was always looking for a black crayon?

[Bikerpunk]

Best factoid of the week!

And iffen ya don't believe me: Wikipedia's entry for "Vampire"

Other methods commonly practised in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains.[29] Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.[30]

[Morning Glory]

That's okay. But it doesn't hold a candle to "Wondershowzin"

haha. I love that show. so deranged.

when the little girl goes around and asks the businessmen "Who did you exploit today?" and when they dress the kid up like Hitler. also when people freak out on the blue puppet. oh man.