Tuesday, November 28, 2023

A deep dive into the cookies that Cookie Monster eats on Sesame Street



NYT:

“If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”

[The baker] has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” [the puppeteer] said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”