Cookie Monster the cannibal ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

Gasp!

How could Muppet-on-Muppet cannibalism have ever been permitted on public television?

Or is it really cannibalism? You be the judge...



Whether this is cannibalism hinges on one question: Are Cookie Monster and Guy Smiley of the same species? Many believe they are, as they are both Muppets. But Muppets might be more like a phylum or a genus, not a species. Many biology textbooks state that Guy Smiley evolved from the microphone, while Cookie Monster is the secret love child of Miss Piggy and Sherlock Hemlock. If this text is accurate, Guy and the Cookster must clearly be of different species.

It is suggested from other sketches that Cookie Monster suffers from illiteracy, but he appears in this segment to have rudimentary reading skills. The main theme of this skit is his poor grasp of rhyme.

Notice also that the baker in this segment strongly resembles the dour customer who frequents Grover's restaurant or the guy who sings the long-forgotten "bawm bawm bawm" song.

I also find it rather amusing that this segment appears to start out with the baker singing, "420 blackbirds baked in a pie..." Yes, 420! Speaking of which, there's something baked in that pie, and it ain't blackbirds or lemon harangue!

Conspiracy mongers like WorldNutDaily would be bound to find some significance in the fact that the YouPube copy of this clip is 6.66 megabytes. Maybe Cookie Monster is the Devil! Nah. That's ridiculous. Prairie Dawn might be, but not ol' Cooks.