cookie monster – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Why Don’t You Get Things Started?

We finished watching what’s available on Disney Plus of The Muppet Show, which means all of them except for the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes, the former because of music rights issues (mostly for “Off to See the Wizard,” … Continue reading →

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Douglas Fir Give Me Heartburn

It’s just a few more days until Christmas, so I might as well do a run-down of some of the holiday media I’ve consumed. I’d seen all of these previously, but not that recently, and I don’t think I’d written … Continue reading →

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One True Parody

In a recent NPR interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic, he responds to a question about Cookie Monster‘s parody of “Call Me Maybe” with “Yeah, Cookie Monster is my No. 1 competition right now.” Apparently he’s forgetting that Cookie Monster did … Continue reading →

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The Jazz Owl

Seeing as how I’ve written about owls and Sesame Street this week, I might as well include another post about Hoots the Owl, Sesame Street’s resident jazz musician. This saxophone-playing owl first appeared on the show in 1985, and is … Continue reading →

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We all know about Cookie Monster, that googly-eyed gluttonous gobbler of glutenous treats, originator of the onomotapoeia “om nom nom” (it always sounded more to me like “arum-rum-rum” when I was a kid, but what do I know?), and contrary … Continue reading →