Cookie Monster

1. Cookie’s real name is Sid.
2. Cookie Monster’s dad appeared in a “Monsterpiece Theater” sketch promoting energy conservation, water conservation and environmentalism.
3. The original incarnation of Cookie Monster was created by Jim Henson for a General Foods commercial.
4. An early version of Cookie Monster appeared in a Frito-Lay potato chips ad and was named Arnold, the Munching Monster.
5. On a 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, Cookie Monster tried to eat Stephen Colbert’s Peabody Award.