Elmo’s Been Arrested!
Presumably, he’s being charged with having a mind-bendingly annoying voice. Now, if they can just teach him how to use a first person pronoun…
Although while we’re on the subject of muppets (or while I’m on the subject — you might be eating doughnuts or breaking the laws of physics or something useful), did you notice that Cookie Monster is apparently going healthy? Does no one understand anything anymore? The whole point of Cookie Monster was that he was a pure expression of a child’s unleashed id, their desire to eat all the cookies in the world and through Cookie Monster, they could experience that (in a classically cathartic way, thank you, Aristotle) without actually having to eat all the cookies in the world. What child in the world has a suppressed desire to eat all the salad in the world? I’ll tell you for nothing — no child. There is not one child in the world who has to be restrained from eating themselves sick on arugula and cucumber slices. Cookie Monster evolving into the Lettuce Monster is really the triumph of political correctness over common sense. And over fun.
One of the hardest lesson any child (that is, everyone) has to learn is self-control: not hitting the boy who takes your toy, not biting Mommy because she said no, not running into the street, not peeing on the beds in Ikea, not eating all the cookies. Stopping at just one (or maybe two) cookies. Cookie Monster allows them a moment of release from all that control, when he eats not just the cookies but the plate the cookies were on, the child laughs because really, it’s what she wants to do. But she knows better. She can stop herself. Cookie cannot, so he is funny. He is not a role model. He’s what a child knows she can be better than.
Give Cookie back his cookies. And someone post bail for Elmo. Poor thing. He’s not made for prison life.
Once again, another wonderful post. I have often had an issue with this up-with-people crap that gets bantered about on Sesame Street. C’mon! What, next the aliens are going to sound intelligent? Or they’re going to teach where babies come from?
I personally think it is a crime, a dastardly horror that Cookie Monster has now become No Cookie in Excess Muppet.
And Elmo? Well, that little guy is just, um, unbalanced.