Who is veggie monster

Does Hoots look anything like Cookie Monster to you? Not only that, but at the end of the song, Cookie Monster eats cookies.

But it had already started, and the misconception spread across the land like a contagious disease. A few media outlets actually tried to do their freaking job as journalists and investigate further.

Rogers was a drug-dealing sniper in fact, it was the other way around. If anyone had just bothered to check Snopes, they would have learned the truth:. For their part, the Sesame Street people did what they could to clear things up. The following season, they did this segment with Matt Lauer interviewing Cookie Monster about the scandal, and Cookie setting the record straight:.

In a more recent episode, Mario Lopez stumbles upon Cookie Monster right when he happens to be eating carrot sticks, and immediately announces to the TV viewing audience that Cookie Monster is now the Veggie Monster.

Meanwhile, on the internet, I hope whoever came up with this idea got a promotion… If you search the Sesame Street website for Veggie Monster, you get this:. Until this whole healthy habits thing, Cookie Monster never ate fruit or vegetables!

One offender shown is Cookie, who eats piles of cookies instead of a plate of veggies. Chris convinces him to eat them by having him pretend that they're cookies. Afterward, Cookie states, "But remember, me not Veggie Monster. Me still Cookie Monster. Just for record. Me got reputation to think of. In a Season 43 episode , Cookie Monster is offered vegetables to eat while waiting for a batch of cookies to finish baking.

At every instance, Mario Lopez , appearing as a news reporter, claims that Cookie has become the Veggie Monster. They spoke at length about how eating more veggies and fewer cookies helps. In a video for Wired , the Sesame Street Muppets respond to popular Internet questions about them and the show. Cookie Monster is naturally asked if he's become the Veggie Monster and becomes exasperated when the question comes up repeatedly.

Muppet Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages Community. Snuffleupagus Oscar the Grouch More characters Random Muppet. What's New. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Is Cookie Monster now the Veggie Monster? History Talk You know what? Right now is sometime! Thank you again for your email. Yet raw emotion was not to be denied, so a few thousand people signed the petition anyway. Cooler heads might have dismissed the rumor under the premise that it would not make sense for Sesame Street to replace a beloved and extremely marketable character.

Fact Checks. False About this rating. Another co-worker put up a petition to save Cookie Monster from being kicked off Sesame Street for being fat. I had heard that they were just changing his diet to include healthy foods and not just cookies but she is insisting that they are removing him from the show.