This is an accepted version of this page Cookie Monster is a blue Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street.

In a song in 2004, and later in an interview in 2017, Cookie Monster revealed his real name as "Sid",[3][4][5][6] though in the first season he was referred to as both "tiny" and "Harry".

The book Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles explains Cookie Monster's origin as follows: "In 1966, Henson drew three monsters that ate cookies and appeared in a Canadian General Foods commercial[8] that featured three crunchy snack foods: Wheels, Crowns and Flutes.

The Crown-Grabber was a hulk of a monster with a Boris Karloff accent and teeth that resembled giant knitting needles.

Each time the Muppet narrator, a human-looking fellow, fixes himself a tray of Wheels, Flutes and Crowns, they disappear before he can eat them.

Known from then on as the Beautiful Day Monster, he made a number of appearances on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.

The "Flute-Snatcher" turned into Snake Frackle, a background monster from The Great Santa Claus Switch and The Muppet Show.

[citation needed] In 1967, Henson used the "Wheel-Stealer" puppet for an IBM training film, Coffee Break Machine.

In the sketch, "The Computer Dinner", the monster (with frightening eyes and fangs) devours a complex coffee-making machine as it describes its different parts.

It was also later performed on the George Burns episode of The Muppet Show using the Luncheon Counter Monster.

[citation needed] Two years later, Henson used a similarly-designed and equally hungry monster for three commercials selling Munchos, a Frito-Lay potato snack.

He chose not to, because at that point he was working on Sesame Street — and that monster puppet was moving on to the next stage in his career.

[citation needed] According to Frank Oz, in a later routine the then unnamed monster won a quiz show and for winning was "given the choice of $10,000 cash, a new car, a trip to Hawaii, or a cookie."

[11] The ones made of rice crackers crumbled well, but the crumbs tended to stick to Cookie Monster's fur.

[11]In 2005, in response to growing concerns about record levels of childhood obesity in the United States, Sesame Street began airing segments titled Healthy Habits for Life.

In these segments, the Muppet characters of Sesame Street talk about healthy habits, such as eating properly and exercising.

"[14] On February 10, 2008, NPR host Elizabeth Blair interviewed Cookie Monster for the All Things Considered segment In Character.

[16] On November 24, 2010, Cookie Monster started a Facebook page as part of a campaign to host Saturday Night Live.

In the Family Guy episode "Back to the Pilot", due to alterations in the past, Stewie thinks Cookie Monster could have invented Facebook; in this timeline, he would have called it "Cookiebook".

[27] In The Empire Strikes Back spoof "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", Cookie Monster is cast as the Wampa.

[32] A popular internet parody of The Great Wave off Kanagawa, titled "Sea is for Cookie", was created for an Adobe Photoshop competition on Reddit.