Cookie monster was the insatiable id, in blue, who wanted what he wanted, and wanted it now. And he would plow through any muppet to get what he wanted, which was always cookies. As a little girl, I could sympathize, I loved cookies too.

No wonder he was my favorite.

Today's Cookie Monster isn't the same. He has a superego. What is up with that?

It just seems like the torture he feels at cookies being a "sometime food" is another way we can give kids a complex about what they eat. It's one thing to empathize with a character you have no hope of being able to emulate (if your parents have their eye on the ball, anyway). You know you don't get to BE that character in real life. But a neurotic cookie monster? He's too human. He's not make-believe enough.

And who wants to emulate a wussy monster?

Jim Henson must be rolling over in his grave. Genius is neither patient nor easily diverted from a goal. Cookies as a "sometime food" is just wrong!

Thank you. Cookie Monster was also my favorite. He was the unbounded cookie-eating maniac that I wanted to be when I was three. The other thing about Cookie Monster was that he was never caught up in drama or bad situations. He had no existential angst. He was all cookies all the time.

Cookie has always been one of my favorites. He's blue. He's a monster. He likes cookies. Pure and simple.

I'll admit it's been more than a decade since I've seen him regularly, but when my oldest was young, she used to call him the "Cookie Mommy." I loved that. Leave it to a two-year-old to have such a simple view of his function (and mommy's). "Stick with me, kid," he seemed to say. "Cookies are imminent!"

Cookie Monster was my favorite as well when I was a kid! What a shame to read that they have messed with his character so much and turned him into such a wuss. I hardly think a fictional monster is to blame for the obesity problem nowadays.