Cookie Monster's mother and father both share his enormous appetite and craving for cookies. He also has a father, who appeared in a Monsterpiece Theater sketch promoting energy conservation, water conservation and environmentalism. All three share his characteristic blue fur and ' googly eyes'. He is known to have a mother, a younger sister, and a cousin, identical in design, who does not like cookies. Despite his voracious appetite for cookies, Cookie Monster shows awareness of healthy eating habits for young children and also enjoys fruits and vegetables. His speech is often grammatically incorrect he always uses 'Me' to refer to himself in place of 'I', 'My', and 'Mine'. Chocolate chip cookies are his favorite kind. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating catchphrases, such as 'Me want cookie!' As his name suggests, his preferred food is cookies though he eats almost anything, including inedible objects. In a song in 2004, and later in an interview in 2017, Cookie Monster revealed his real name as 'Sid'.
Cookie Monster singing his signature songġ966 57 years ago ( 1966): unaired Wheels, Crowns and Flutes commercials (as the Wheels-stealer)Ĭookie Monster is a blue Muppet character on the PBS/ HBO children's television show Sesame Street.
