Cookie Monster's Debut - Neatorama

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Cookie Monster apparently began his life as a creepily toothed puppet in an IBM training video. Whether the technical information being conveyed is at all true, or simply for comic effect, I have no idea, but it's interesting to see the original incarnation of one of Sesame Street's (and Jim Henson's) most famous creations.

The next incarnation, and a step closer to a fully-realized Cookie Monster, can be seen in this video from a 1969 Munchos commercial.

Seeing the evolution of Muppets is strangely fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEKOgOE-0b4&feature=player_embedded

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Do you really think there is such a thing as a "Gandalf Pentometer?"

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It's pure doubletalk.

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Back then they didn't allow cookies.

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ah, back in the days when you could blow up a children's character without catching grief.

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What would there be a laugh-track on a training film? I think this is from a TV show.

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Are you just recycling old Neatorama posts?

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/25/the-computer-monster/

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@LeftyX: Wikipedia says this skit also appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Maybe this really is the TV version.

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anon1, that was not intentional, but three years later there's a lot of people here who haven't seen it.

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