Comments on: Was the Cookie Monster Originally Invented for a Cheese Snack Commercial? http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2013/01/25/was-the-cookie-monster-originally-invented-for-a-cheese-snack-commercial/ For unbelievable true stories about movies, TV and films (and more!) and believable false ones! Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Cronin http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2013/01/25/was-the-cookie-monster-originally-invented-for-a-cheese-snack-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-1267214 Brian Cronin Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:55:28 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/?p=4194#comment-1267214 That sounds very possible. That sounds very possible.

]]> By: ParanoidObsessive http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2013/01/25/was-the-cookie-monster-originally-invented-for-a-cheese-snack-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-1265883 ParanoidObsessive Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:43:58 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/?p=4194#comment-1265883 Looking on the Muppet Wiki at the Crown-Grabber/Beautiful Day Monster, it almost looks like he might have been the early proto-stage of what eventually evolved into Sam the Eagle. Might just be a case of two similar designs and color schemes arrived at by pure coincidence, but it seems like Henson stopped using the Beautiful Day Monster a few years before Sam debuted, so it seems possible that he might have either directly or indirectly gotten the idea for Sam from his earlier work... Looking on the Muppet Wiki at the Crown-Grabber/Beautiful Day Monster, it almost looks like he might have been the early proto-stage of what eventually evolved into Sam the Eagle.

Might just be a case of two similar designs and color schemes arrived at by pure coincidence, but it seems like Henson stopped using the Beautiful Day Monster a few years before Sam debuted, so it seems possible that he might have either directly or indirectly gotten the idea for Sam from his earlier work…

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