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To use this cookie monster craft as a puppet, put your fingers in back of the eyes and your thumb on the bottom of the paper plate.
Moss wrote a skit for Episode 0011 that introduced the monster's passion for cookies, in which his only spoken lines were "milk" and "cookie. The very first instance of Cookie Monster's lower body being shown is the Universal Studios Japan attraction Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic, which did not get an American release until 2008.
In a sketch in Episode 4115 (2006), Matt Lauer confronts Cookie Monster about the rumors that he's giving up cookies and becoming a "Fruit Monster.
This includes items that pre-date sanctions, since we have no way to verify when they were actually removed from the restricted location. In a live-hand puppet, like Cookie Monster, one of the performer’s hands is in the puppet’s head while the other is in one of the puppet’s arms, which has gloves for hands.
The monster gained his signature blue fur when he first appeared in the premiere season of Sesame Street, as one of a group of ancillary monsters. In A Muppet Family Christmas, Animal observes Cookie Monster eating Janice's cookies in his signature manner, and comments, "That my kinda fella!