Cookie Monster eats World Trade towers in 1976

Cookie Monster devours a pair of buildings that resemble the the Twin Towers. From the cover of the October 1976 issue of Sesame Street magazine.

[#1 posted by a_user , January 6, 2009 11:36 AM]

dang I bet they're regretting it now, especially since later Bert joined al Qaeda

http://www.bertisevil.tv/pages/bert038.htm

[#2 posted by Jack , January 6, 2009 11:37 AM]

That was the same year the Dino De Laurentiis King Kong came out.

This cover is 1000% better than that whole film.

[#3 posted by jathomas , January 6, 2009 11:42 AM]

The worst part is that after the Cookie Monster struck, our government went to war with the Fraggles, following a strong propoganda campaign.

[#4 posted by winkingskunk , January 6, 2009 11:47 AM]

And people say there is no conspiracy behind 9/11.

[#5 posted by InsertFingerHere , January 6, 2009 11:55 AM]

You just KNOW that J. J. Abrams had this book as a kid.

[#6 posted by businessclass , January 6, 2009 11:58 AM]

This is why my kids will never watch Seasame Street. We can't let them win!

[#7 posted by xopl , January 6, 2009 12:08 PM]

Come on, Cookie Monster! You know better...

The World Trade Center is a "sometimes food."

[#8 posted by palindromic , January 6, 2009 12:25 PM]

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB IF YOU DONT BELIEVE HOW COULD SESAME STREET KNOW ABOUT THIS IN 1976???? SHEEPEN YOUR EYES OPAL!

[#9 posted by mightymouse1584 , January 6, 2009 12:28 PM]

does that moon have a second moon in front of it? also, is it in front of the clouds?

[#10 posted by phlavor , January 6, 2009 12:30 PM]

@ #3

Spoken like a true liberal. We LIBERATED the Fraggles from the tyranny of the Gorgs. King and Queen of the Universe, indeed! Now the Fraggles are free to eat all the radishes they want and eventually doozer sticks as soon as Halliburton rebuilds Fraggle Cave.

[#11 posted by urshrew , January 6, 2009 12:51 PM]

Is it just me or are the Towers actually hollow? How does this fit into the 9/11 Demolition theory?

[#12 posted by bruhinb , January 6, 2009 12:51 PM]

@InsertFingerHere: Are confusing this cover with the movie Groverfield?

[#13 posted by StRevAlex , January 6, 2009 12:56 PM]

Oh, that Cookie Monster!

[#14 posted by eagleapex , January 6, 2009 12:56 PM]

too soon....

[#15 posted by Adam Gurri , January 6, 2009 12:57 PM]

Google Trends was right!

[#16 posted by Stewart Haddock , January 6, 2009 1:00 PM]

Just throw a star in that moon, and what do you have?

http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Islam29.jpg

[#17 posted by bruhinb , January 6, 2009 1:11 PM]

...or this Groverfield version.

[#18 posted by UglyDeafMuslimPunkGurl , January 6, 2009 1:16 PM]

TERRORIST!!!

Now can I have some of those cookies?

[#19 posted by JJR1971 , January 6, 2009 1:27 PM]

So THAT's why the towers collapsed! Invisible cookie monster damage...now I get it. I'll sleep easier now.

[#20 posted by Ned613 , January 6, 2009 1:30 PM]

It looks like there are three sky lobbies in the buildings cookie monster is munching on. Each real WTC tower only had only two.

[#21 posted by whistlejacket , January 6, 2009 1:33 PM]

never forget

[#22 posted by jimh , January 6, 2009 1:38 PM]

This issue was brought to you by the letters OMG and the numbers 9 and 11.

[#23 posted by DMcK , January 6, 2009 2:06 PM]

This is still the best ripoff of the '76 Kong poster.

[#24 posted by Anonymous , January 6, 2009 2:42 PM]

JimH wins the Internets for the day...

[#25 posted by Tim , January 6, 2009 2:48 PM]

that's no moon...

[#26 posted by Aneurysm , January 6, 2009 3:04 PM]

...it's a space station. Vader deployed him. Word.

Cookie Monster is one of those no good pinko commie hippie liberal TERRORISTS!! OH NOES!!1! WHAT WYLL WII DEW DUDERZ!?

@24 - Henson always wins ^_^

[#27 posted by katsujinken , January 6, 2009 3:04 PM]

Shouldn't he be eating a building that looks more like a cookie? The Pentagon, for example, looks kind of like those little European shortbread cookies that come in a tin. This totally breaks my willing suspension of disbelief in a Cookie Monster. What's next? A magazine cover of The Count eating Alphabet Soup?

[#28 posted by 1 Canuck , January 6, 2009 5:13 PM]

No problem!!
That bad boy was slain at Dragon*Con'08 (see 09/23/08 archives)

[#29 posted by pinehead , January 6, 2009 5:18 PM]

C is for catastrophe, that's good enough for me.

[#30 posted by Clayton Hove , January 6, 2009 5:30 PM]

Well, they do sorta resemble Twix...

[#31 posted by lesbianjesus , January 6, 2009 6:46 PM]

GIS for

saga images at twilight

It's the only album I own, cause of the cover :)

[#32 posted by tonixtonix , January 6, 2009 7:40 PM]

Sesame Street is filmed in Queens at the same studio they filmed Carlitos Way. Coincidence? I think not – Cookie is obviously gang or mafia affiliated and this is clearly inter-borough turf war propaganda.

[#33 posted by darth_schmoo , January 6, 2009 7:48 PM]

I can't find it now, but the cover of the DirecTV magazine that was sent out immediately prior to 9/11 showed an NFL linebacker standing tall and Godzilla-like between two Twin-like towers. Lightning flared in the background, and he seemed to be bellowing with rage.

DTV had to send out a massive spampology to subscribers, and everyone at their call centers was trained on how to handle outraged callers.

Google has failed me, but if anyone can link to that cover, there's a cookie in it for you.

Mmmmm.... cookies.

[#34 posted by misterdna , January 6, 2009 10:53 PM]

Very interesting image, all considered. It also reminds me of this sticker for the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing atop the twin towers.

http://graphics101.com/logo_gallery_images/rhcp_krock_logo.gif

[#35 posted by Fred Rated , January 7, 2009 9:35 AM]

Famous Amos shot JFK.

[#36 posted by Fred Rated , January 7, 2009 9:38 AM]

Of course...

Then he was just Amos.

[#37 posted by pinteresque , January 8, 2009 11:35 PM]

That's adorable. And eerie. And adorable. And...yeah. The innocence is overwhelming.

I miss it.