Video: Proto-Cookie Monster Eats a Gadget

Watch as this Muppet—surely a precursor to Sesame Street's Cookie Monster—devours a toothsome talking gadget with his mouth full of fangs. Considering the punchline, this could be the origin story that explains why CM didn't have teeth!

[via Core77]

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k , October 3, 2007 10:55 AM]

Fantastic!
I haven't seen that in YEARS!

Wasn't it on Saturday Night Live or something?

[#2 posted by Matthew Miller , October 3, 2007 11:10 AM]

Heh. He said "mome raths".

[#3 posted by Joel Johnson , October 3, 2007 11:56 AM]

Grabe catch!

[#4 posted by Anonymous , October 3, 2007 12:18 PM]

It looks like something from SCTV.

[#5 posted by Hunty , October 3, 2007 3:01 PM]

It's from the second season of the Muppet Show.

[#6 posted by Anonymous , October 3, 2007 5:36 PM]

Back in the late 60's Henson made films that large corporations could show during coffee breaks of lengthy business meetings. The above skit was originally used in a 1967 black & white film that Henson had made for IBM. Later that same year, Henson did a color version for the Ed Sullivan show.

When he used the bit again later on the George Burns episode of the Muppet Show, he switched to a different Muppet Monster, because at that time, Cookie Monster was already an established character on Sesame Street.

[#7 posted by mdhatter , October 3, 2007 10:01 PM]

"Maximum data existentialization." I hear that's going to be in Leopard.

thread winner

[#8 posted by Anonymous , October 5, 2007 3:48 PM]

Fantastic!
I haven't seen that in YEARS!

Huh. New here, then?