The Cookie Monster

[Hada]

I´ve heard that in Sesame Street hey want to teach kids to eat healthier
but the cookie monster eats cookies!!!
there´s no sence of being the cookie monster if it eats fruits!!!

I copy and paste...
" First PBS announced that “Sesame Street” would kick off its 35th season this week with a multiyear story arc about healthy habits. No problem there; childhood obesity rates are soaring. Then I learned of changes that turned my “Sesame Street” world upside-down.

My beloved blue, furry monster — who sang “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me” — is now advocating eating healthy. There’s even a new song — “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food,” where Cookie Monster learns there are “anytime” foods and “sometimes” foods.

“Sacrilege!” I cried. “That’s akin to Oscar the Grouch being nice and clean.” (Co-workers gave me strange looks. But I didn’t care.)

Health makeover
Being a journalist, I did the only thing I knew how to do. I investigated why “Sesame Street” gave Cookie Monster a health makeover.


The answer would lead me into a world where television producers worked with health experts and politicians, a place where Cookie Monster does care about his health, and by association, the health of children.

The first place I headed was the Internet. On the Sesame Street Web site, little had changed. There was Cookie Monster, in all his blue furriness. He was holding a plate of cookies. He was chomping on a cookie. He still looked the same. But as we all know, looks can be deceiving.

So I searched the site for news on Cookie Monster and up popped a press release about the show’s “Healthy Habits for Life” emphasis. Buried near the bottom was a one-sentence mention about Cookie Monster eating fewer cookies.

But what did that mean? Scarfing one plateful instead of two?

I picked up the telephone. “What’s going on with Cookie Monster?” I asked the “Sesame Street” press office. “Why are you doing this?”

They sent me to Dr. Rosemarie T. Truglio, the show’s vice president of research and education.

She said the show changes every year, focusing not just on teaching numbers and letters but also emotional and physical health. With the rise in childhood obesity, Truglio said “Sesame Street” is concentrating on the need to teach children about healthy foods and physical activity.

Talking eggplants and carrots
This season, each episode opens with a “health tip” about nutrition, exercise, hygiene and rest.

Truglio said “Sesame Street” also will introduce new characters, such as talking eggplants and carrots, and offer parodies, such as “American Fruit Stand.” Even guest stars will address healthy activities, such as Alicia Keys talking and singing about the importance of physical activity.

Even politicians have gotten into the act, filming public service announcements with “Sesame Street” residents. In one taping, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist taught Elmo to exercise — jumping up and down. In another, Sen. Hillary Clinton and the small red monster discuss the various textures and tastes of foods.

[Chlorine]

Hada----Yeah I read about this. It's weird for us, but kids they won't have memories of Cookie Monster stuffing cookies down his throat so it makes no dif.

Just wondering, if you had to choose from Sesame Street and The Muppets, which muppet best represents you? hehh....

[Kiechi]

I don't like the muppets, well the adult ones. I was always into the muppet babies.

[Junket]

Dude...cookie monster was my hero...

[Illusional]

so are those the apple monster and the banana monster with him??

raverboy

[Hada]

I´ve always liked the cookie monster.. and now the has to eat fruits...

oh!! i´d loved him when he smashed them in his mouth

and the dracula.. id like that too

[Illusional]

he would smash all the cookies in his mouth only to have them fall to the floor as crumbles. what a waste of food.

raverboy

[Hada]

that´s because he was a puppet :p

do you imagine him smash some grapes ¿? al wet , dirty and stiky :S

[Illusional]

not grapes, then he would be the grape monster. although it would be funny

raverboy

[Kiechi]

I never really took an intrest in sesame street.

[MaRTiaL RaGe]

as time goes on they're ruining the few things that made kids believe again....

ren and stimpy....

eurika's castle....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....

Rugrats....

hell...even rocko's modern life.


I'm sure tha teveryone here remembers those classic shows. What's to become of the future generations if they don't partake in the honorable viewing of these classic all-time shows!!!

[Kiechi]

as time goes on they're ruining the few things that made kids believe again....

ren and stimpy....

eurika's castle....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....

Rugrats....

hell...even rocko's modern life.


I'm sure tha teveryone here remembers those classic shows. What's to become of the future generations if they don't partake in the honorable viewing of these classic all-time shows!!!

Damn skippy!

Dude, those were good quality shows. The good ole' days...

[MaRTiaL RaGe]

Spongebob is our only hope!

and i really don't even LiKe his show all that much.

[Kiechi]

Spongebob is our only hope!

and i really don't even LiKe his show all that much.

I can't stand that show.