Cookie Monster was always the perfect example of psychotic over-indulgence. If my memory serves, he'd eat a lot of cookies but usually get sick afterwards. And while every kid I knew wished he could eat cookies like that, none of us ever tried. Even in preschool we knew we'd get sick doing that.
Cookie Monster... it's all in the name! He's a monster, that eats cookies... that's his schtick! What next? Oscar The Grouch gets anger counceling?
Bit by bit my childhood is being destroyed.