Here’s a website called Junkee with a story called “ If Cookie Monster’s Real Name Isn’t Actually Cookie Monster Then Who On Earth Am I?” CBR.com went with the headline “ Sesame Street Fans Are Shocked by Cookie Monster Sharing His Real Name.” I won’t do it again, I promise.Īnyway, after the recent tweet, the content-aggregating websites picked up the story. I’m sorry, I should really stop comparing to Cookie Monster to Richard Nixon. Before that, he seemed to have some gaps in his memory, kind of like the gaps in Richard Nixon’s White House tapes.

It’s quite interesting that something seems to have happened recently to increase Cookie Monster’s confidence on the topic of his original name. Me don’t remember me real name… maybe it was Sidney?- Sesame Street August 10, 2010 Not long after the TikTok moment, Cookie Monster posted a tweet confirming the name:Ĭookie Monster: Me wasn’t born with name “Cookie Monster”. So yeah, that’s a lot of ALL CAPS, and isn’t it a lot of question marks? The “revelation” of Cookie Monster apparently disclosing that he was born with a name other than “Cookie Monster” took a lot of TikTok viewers by surprise.īut does this really count as a revelation? The song “The First Time Me Eat Cookie” first aired on Sesame Street in 2004 - that’s 18 years ago! The information has been out there for almost two decades! As Muppet Wiki points out, the song was released on a 2016 DVD called Monster Magic, and it’s been on Sesame‘s official YouTube channel since 2016 as well. “you’re telling me….cookie monster’s name….is S I D?” Comments on the original TikTok included the following:

In the clip, he said something about how when he was that age, he thinks his name was “Sid!” That’s the part that grabbed most people’s attention. Is that cute or what? There’s adorable baby Cookie Monster with his little bonnet - and there he is, trying a cookie for the first time ever! ? #CookieMonster #SesameStreet ? Cookie Dough – Egozi Here’s what happened: The official Sesame Street TikTok account posted a clip of a song from the show called “The First Time Me Eat Cookie.” It went a little something like this: Every great hero needs an origin story.

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