T is for Trauma (it's good enough for me)

As part of a new 'Healthy Habits for life' push of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster will be giving up his chocolate chip habit in favor of advocating vegetables. No, I swear to god I'm not joking. When I stumbled onto this tidbit from the Courtney Knapp blog I assumed it was a prank.

And then I saw cookie monster's new song: “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food”

Now, maybe it's just my old fashioned sense of rhythm, but seeing as how I still occasionally belt out 'C is for cookie' in the shower, I just can't understand how this is supposed to improve national good looks. You know, birds actually never grow more than four or five feet at most- we're ruining our children's bird-identification skills by having a Big Bird character. And Oscar the Grouch promotes bad hygiene and advocates homelessness. /rant

Anyway, new characters will include talking eggplants and carrots- like that will help people with the moral dilemma of what it's alright to eat. At least the cookies never asked to be eaten. This is like some bizarre remake of that scene in Restaurant at the End of the Universe where the cow suggests everyone munch on his thigh.