I’ll link it when I get off work today if somebody doesn’t beat me to it, but have you guys seen the video with the Count where the words “count” and “counting” are bleeped. It’s hysterical. At least as good as anything Cookie Monster has done.
Also, Dave Chappelle on Oscar; “Oscar, you’re a grouch!” “Bitch, I live in a fucking garbage can!”
Gonzo for president. He’s not afraid to try anything.
Whoa whoa, Animal is just a ‘drug fiend’, but it’s ok for Cookie Monster to be a cookie fiend? Please. Cookie Monster is so one dimensional. Oh gosh, Cookie Monster is on the screen, I wonder what he’s going to do? Animal is a very enthusiastic multi-facetted individual. He plays drums , meditates , and is into violent women . What’s Cookie Monster into? Cookies. Meh.
Besides, everyone knows that Rolf was the coolest muppet.
Agreed. But it’s Rowlf, not Rolf.
“I was with Jimmy Dean… Nobody remembers me anymore.”
Way back in November 2000, during the Florida recount fiasco, Jon Stewart had a segment where he said “We’re going to our counting expert now” and they threw it to the Count. “One, one vote for Gore. Two, two votes for Gore. Mwah, hah, hah!” I laughed so hard I fell off the couch.
Kermit’s still my favorite, because he is everything. He’s the leader of the pack, but he still sometimes gets frustrated and shouts and flails his arms. As a “soft” Muppet, he can really express himself with big smiles, deep frowns, and even smirks and grimaces. But somehow, he holds it all together; he’s sort of the sole point of sanity in a whirlwind of craziness.
Cookie Monster and Oscar are great choices, though, and they’re a great example of the genius of Jim Henson. Seriously, if you tried to create a show like Sesame Street today, and you wanted to include a puppet who hates everything and yells at people to go away, you’d never get it on the air. Today everything’s too safe and sanitized. (I’ve heard of people today who denounce reruns of old Sesame Street episodes, because kids are shown riding bikes without safety gear! The horror!) Bleah. Praise be to Oscar and Cookie, the cute fuzzy parts of our darker nature!
Beleive it or not my thread was not at all inspired by the Colbert bit, which I didn’t see until after you’d mentioned it.
I just get to see a lot of the big blue guy because my daughter’s two and a half, and he’s consistently hysterically funny. On both Sesame Street and its offshoot, Play With Me Sesame, Cookie gets all the little jabs that are aimed at amusing the parents. His absolute, resolute obsession with eating cookies gives the writers the ability to give him a lot of deadpan lines that subtly make fun of their own eagerness and educational feel. They’re often quick little asides said while another character is explaining something. When Prairie Dawn is trying to explain to him how the computer works and says, cheerily, that look, you can print a picture of a cookie, there’s a beat and Cookie says “So what?”
Then I had a long drive with the Small One coming up and grabbed a Sesame Street CD at Wal Mart. “C is for Cookie” is an absolute scream. “Lots of other things start with C… ahhh, who cares about the other things!”
So I did load up the Colbert gig, and that was hilarious, too:
COLBERT: (When Cookie Monster says Elmo drove him there) Isn’t he like three and a half?
COOKIE MONSTER: He play younger on TV.
What’s sad is that you were 26 that year.
Cookie is good. Count is good.
But Beeker and the Mad Bomber are better.
You mean Crazy Harry right?
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/5/5bryan.html
An article of Cookie Monster wondering if he really is a monster.
You can just casually dismiss Miss. Piggy because she is a “bimbo”?
Listen, hater, we are all bimbo’s sometimes. A piggy has to do what she has to do in order to not end up living in a trash can with Oscar.
Miss Piggy easily held her own against all the male Muppets. Miss piggy taught us that it’s OK to love someone to the point of craziness. She says to the little girls in us, if you want something, don’t let anything stand in your way.
Cookie monster always wants cookies. So? We all want cookies, it’s EASY to want cookies, they don’t even fight back. But Miss Piggy wants Kermit and she is going to get him even though he runs.
You can run Kermit, but you can’t hide.
Do we really need another mistake-prone weirdo in the White House?
(Hey, someone was going to say it sooner or later.)
Cool??!?! You want a cool assed Muppet you have to go to the now shelved Rosevelt Franklin
No one is cooler than he.
Right on!
Yeah,
I identify with Gonzo. There was a Muppet Babies episode where each of them spun a story about some event in history. When it came Gonzo’s turn, at the end, his was on the moon.
Piggy: But this isn’t history.
Gonzo: Science fiction is history for us weirdos.
Whoever wrote that is a person after my own heart.
This thread demonstrates what a brilliant job they’ve done of character development.
I always loved Snuffy and Cookie Monster, but the Count tickles my fancy because he’s based on actual vampire folklore. (link goes to a Hellsing webcomic.) Somebody on the Hellsing community LJ has a icon with him saying ‘Vhy can’t I stop?!’
Here’s two of my favorite muppets: Sweetums and Robin. As a bonus, you actually get to see Kermit hop around like, well, a frog.
Look, I like Cookie Monster too, but the guy needs to check himself into rehab. When your life revolves around one thing over four decades and you freak out just thinking about it, it’s time to take the first step. There’s a cell in an Arizona airport in this guy’s future.
My favorite Muppets are Oscar, Waldorf, and Statler, if only because they’re the ones most likely to turn out to be SDMB Charter Members.
Besides Statler and Waldorf, Sam the Eagle has always been my favorite.
Oh, I know what he’s all about.
