OK. So I was mid blog about symbolism... maybe we'll get back to that next Tuesday...when PengBlue, wielding her mega bubble wand as she fed BabyBoy, announced, "Cookie monster is not Cookie Monster any more. Now he's Veggie Monster."
Of course the deafening silence that followed would have made a dropped pin sound like a bomb going off. What black magic f***ery is this?! Pardon my language, but really??? REALLY???
I was incensed at the mere mention of this. How? How! How could Sesame Street do this unthinkable deed?!
But wait! BabyBoyBlue had been watching a new episode of the new season just this morning. Now granted, I trust Sesame Street's content and feel I know the show well, what with having been a child myself once. Not to mention I sat in a four year time vacuum incubating the first three of my chicks, which was an endless loop of Teletubbies, Barney, whiny - @$$ - Caillou, and of course, copious hours of Sesame Street. (TrueRaleyBlue Fun Fact: KatBlue's first words were, "Sesame Street." And then she growled like a bear....) So, if the truth be known, I only spot check BabyBoy's viewing. But I do check in, and earlier this morning, I saw Cookie Monster on screen with a *collective GASP, I guess is order for this day in age?* COOKIE. And he ATE it.
So defiantly, I turned from my blogging, whipping my hair in a fashion that would defy the gravity of little Willow Smith.
Me: What? No! I saw him eat a cookie just this morning.
BabyBoy: Mmmhmm. *big smile*
Peng: *catching a huge bubble on her mega wand and slobbering, blowing it bigger, releasing it and replying in a super-dreamy-la,la,la-whatever-ish-tone* Well you must have seen a rerun. They do that, you know? Sometimes I see old segments from when you were a little child. *She ends with a pointed look that says, "which was before the dark ages and your T.V. was still running on dinosaur poop." And then pops the huge bubble sending soap all over the dinner table, the unpaid electric bill and my freshly shined punch bowl.*
Me: *in short frustrated annoyed bursts* Well. Maybe. Not today. New season. Started. Last week. *finally just letting it fly* And I'm telling you, I saw him eat a cookie!
Peng: *looking extremely bored, popping yet another giant bubble. BabyBoy screeches in delight* Come on, Mom, he never really eats it, he just crumbles it up in his puppety mouth.
Me: Well there you have it. No need for him to eat veggies. He like a puparexic or something.
(*RaleyBlueNote: Eating disorders are not funny in real life. Aunty Raley has gone through them with a dear friend and a close family member. There is hope. If you need help, please reach out. <3 I love you and I'm not the only one. I promise.)
Peng: I'm telling you, everybody at school knows this. Cookie Monster is becoming Veggie Monster because of the Obesity Epidemic.
Me: *Sighing. Because of the Obesity Epidemic. Just a note: I hate the word: obese. I'm a big lady, and I'm fine, with big, large, full-figured, and fat. But there's just something about that word.* OK, let's google.
BabyBoy: Google. Yay. Peng. Cookie? *holds out hand for frosted mini-wheat*
So we did.
And here's what we found. A link to a video with C.M. and some bird-thing singing to the tune of Porgy and Bess's A Woman Is a Sometimes Thing (gota love S.S.'s little nods to culture), his own little ditty, A Cookie Is a Sometimes Thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH9IO6iMO78
*insert PengBlue and Me exchanging extreme looks of horror. BabyBoyBlue has one eyebrow raised. Axl walks in and mutters, "what the h*** is this sh**...)
And a link to Snopes which assures us that Cookie Monster is just cleaning up his eating habits a little bit.
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/veggie.asp
An then there's this, which I'm hesitant to even link here because it's yet another article about how the author believes we need better parents in this world. (yeah, real original, dude. I so, so, sooooooo hate these people who generalize parents. First we're self absorbed me-me'ers, then helicopters, now we just don't care and feed our kids lard right from a spoon... I digress ;) ) But I am posting it because the pic that accompanies it is priceless. You really should take a peek. (For I shall not borrow pictures and get my @$$ sued. I am a responsible blogger... and parent... dammit.)
http://www.businesspundit.com/cookie-monster-hasnt-turned-into-veggie-monster-but-he-does-eat-a-balanced-diet/
Well, now, I think I speak for all of us when I say, Thank God, this insanity isn't true! I mean this kind of crap could knock the world off its axis. You can hate media and advertising all you want, but at the end of the day, this is our world. Why my very first trip to WalMart, when I was four-years-old, I bought a Cookie Monster place mat. True story! *say that last bit in a Gingy voice. ;) suck that, marketers, oh wait,.. what?*
(Big shout out to my MomMom who took me to the brand new WalMart that finally came to our town in 1979. Love to you and the Fabs! (esp. Clieah, who I know is up early waiting for this blog to go live.) X <3 X <3 X <3 Raley)
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