COOOOKIIIEEEES! (a-rum-rum! a-rum-rum-rum-rum!)

April 14, 2024 9:27 PM

Muptown Funk (previously) keeps rolling along, recently with two longer videos concerning Sesame Street: ranking every Waiter Grover sketch (50 minutes), and a deep dive into the stomach history of ^the Cookie Monster (20 minutes)!
posted by JHarris (8 comments total)

Cookies!
posted by sammyo at 11:55 PM on April 14

I love the Waiter Grover sketches. I'm going to have to watch that video tonight.
posted by briank at 5:11 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]

Thanks for this! I miss the pure, gleeful chaos of original Cookie Monster and Grover. I was really little but vividly remember what a big deal it was when Cookie Monster ate Mr. Hooper’s store. It was the talk of the dinner table!

My favorite Cookie Monster sketches are Sesame Street News: The Princess and the Cookie and the Ballad of Casey McPhee.
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 8:33 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]

After watching the Grover Chicken Castle sketch, YouTube's algorithm recommended to me this video from Double Toasted Bites of two Black guys having a ridiculously intricate bean-plating discussion of the Grover Chicken Castle sketch, with the two of them staking out opposing pro-Grover and pro-Mr. Johnson positions. Eventually, they come to argue that the entire series of waiter Grover sketches is like a thriller with Grover as the antagonist against Mr. Johnson, which they compared to the Netflix show Beef.
posted by jonp72 at 8:36 AM on April 15 [5 favorites]

It has been brought to my attention that the Waiter Grover video goes to a timestamp a way in. I didn't mean to do that in this case. Mods, is it possible to remove the ampersand and the text after it in that link URL?
posted by JHarris at 10:29 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]

I was some what excited to see the Christmas Eve on Sesame Street reference. We have a toddler at work who is a Sesame Street fan. I'm going to have to send the Cookie Monster link to mom.
posted by kathrynm at 11:30 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]

"Is Cookie Monster still on Sesame Street? Me have rent controlled apartment, me not going anywhere!"
posted by JHarris at 12:37 PM on April 15 [3 favorites]

raise your hand if "The Monster at the End of this Book" was your introduction to avant-garde literature
posted by elkevelvet at 4:22 PM on April 15 [4 favorites]