Me love COOOKIES!
(For full effect, read in the deep, gravelly voice of Frank Oz or David Rudman)
Hello there! Me Cookie Monster. Me live on Sesame Street. Me furry blue monster (see picture) that love cookies. Actually, me love all foods. But especially cookies!
And for those wondering, no, me no change name to "Veggie Monster". Me still eat cookies. Me eat veggies too, of course, but me still love cookies. Speaking of which, me have large box of cookies with me right now. Just a sec...
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM! (crushes cookies in his mouth and projects crumbs everywhere)
Me have many tropes that apply to me:
- Anti-Role Model: Me probably not the best guy to look up to.
- Ascended Meme: Me catchphrase, "OM NOM NOM NOM NOM", is now meme. Me wondering why me no receive royalties for it.
- Baby's First Words: Me first word was cookie.
- Big Eater: Me can and will eat just about anything.
- Big Word Shout: Occasionally, me shout "Cowabunga." Me also known to shout name of things me planning to eat.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: As me explain to Ernie, me sometime soft-boil, scramble, juice, or fry me cookies.
- Character Catchphrase: Me often say "COOOOOOOOKIE!" and "OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!" Other times, me say "COWABUNGA!"
- Crazy Consumption: Me eat loudly and crush cookies in me mouth while letting crumbs everywhere.
- Early Personality Signs: When me first try cookie, me immediately gobbled down nineteen more, me first word was "cookie", and me gave meself own nickname.
- Extreme Omnivore: Me not picky, me eat anything. Styrofoam, wood, pick-up truck, pencil, typewriter, telephone, VW Beetle, even moon... but me still prefer cookies!
- Foregone Conclusion: If me in sketch, chances are me going to eat something by end of it, especially if it cookie.
- Hidden Depths: Me might seem like simple-minded glutton, but me can be very clever when me want to be. Me also a big fan of high culture (remember me role as Alistair Cookie in "Monsterpiece Theater" sketches?) and very good artist (if me can resist eating me own paintings).
- Hulk Speak: Me speak like that big green guy. It just the way me talk.
- Jabba Table Manners: Me sorry not to be polite when eating... but me just so happy when eating cookies!
- Large Ham: And now me hungry for ham.
- Lost Food Grievance:
- When cookie me was trying to share with Ernie fell on floor, we both cried.
- When me lost cookie at disco, me sang whole sad song about it.
- Melancholy Musical Number: Me once sang song about how me lost me cookie at disco.
- Nightmare Sequence:
- One time, me have nightmare about flying cookies that no let me eat them.
- Other time, me have nightmare about talking cookie that said it was monster that ate too many cookies.
- Obsessed with Food: Me cannot live without thinking about cookies...
- Ode to Food: Me wrote several songs about food, because me love it:
- "C is for Cookie" is about how "cookie" only word beginning with "C" me know of, but me no mind.
- "Breakfast Time" is about what me and Ernie like for breakfast.
- "It's Raining Cookies" is about me imagining it raining cookies instead of actual rain.
- "Eating Cookie" is about me eating cookies every season.
- "Food, Food, Food" is about how much me love all different kinds of food.
- "Healthy Food" is about getting a balanced diet.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Fun fact - me real name actually "Sidney". "Cookie Monster" just nickname that stuck.
- Out-of-Character Moment:
- During song called "Take a Rest", me took nap from eating cookies, even though normally eating never make me tired.
- In other song, "Me Wait", me tried to teach viewers self control by waiting for cookies, even though me had no reason to.
- After me had nightmare about flying cookies that no let me eat them, me became afraid of cookies... for about three seconds.
- Shared Family Quirks:
- Me mommy like cookies nearly as much as me do, and she messy eater as well.
- Me baby cousin, named Cousin Monster, also known as Baby Monster, also has big appetite like me. However, she pickier eater than me and no eat cookies.
- Sick Episode: One time, me got disease called "cookie flu". It make me sneeze at the thought of cookies, but luckily, it go away moment me not think of them.
- Song Parody:
- One time, me sing parody of "It's Raining Men", called, naturally, "It's Raining Cookies".
- Other cookie-related song parody me sing once, called "Eating Cookie", parodies "Making Whoopie", song that most kids probably no should listen to.
- Sweet Tooth: Me love all kinds of desserts, but especially cookies!
- Trademark Favorite Food: It is pretty obvious what me love to eat.
- Vague Age: What age Cookie Monster? Me no sure.
- You No Take Candle: Me well-known speech pattern is me bad grammar.
There, me done-wait, more cookies for me?!? COOOOOOOKIIIIIIIIIES!!!! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!
