"Cookie's Crumby Pictures" (also known as "Crumby Pictures Presents") is a recurring Sesame Street segment starring Cookie Monster that debuted in the 44th season. In Season 46, the segment was superseded by a new Cookie Monster segment, "Smart Cookies."
Each 5-minute segment is done in the style of a coming attractions trailer (with voice-over by Jonathan Cook), showing footage of Cookie in various film parodies where he uses executive functioning skills (such as patience, focusing and memorization) to solve problems.
The segment's opening parodies Universal Pictures' trademark globe logo, while its fanfare is designed to recall that of Columbia Pictures. Seven segments debuted throughout season 44, with additional features debuting in the following season. The format's initial concept was a series of game shows involving Cookie and Prairie Dawn, until Joey Mazzarino came up with the idea of film spoofs.[1][2]
Beginning in 2015, the segments began being dubbed and aired internationally for such co-productions as Sesame Amigos, Sesamstrasse, Sésamo, and Iftah Ya Simsim.
A digital compilation, Cookie's Crumby Pictures: Volume 1, was released on iTunes in 2015.
Segments[]
Season 44 | ||||
Picture | Description | Rating | ||
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The Spy Who Loved Cookies (First: Episode 4401)
Cookie Monster, as "Double Stuffed 7," learns to listen carefully to directions in order to complete a task and successfully save the cookie crown from Ladyfinger.
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LTD: For Listen To Directions | |||
Cookies of the Caribbean (First: Episode 4403)
Cookie as "Captain Snack Sparrow" learns to focus and not give up when trying to reach Davy Jones' cookie jar.
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TP: For Task Persistence | |||
The Biscotti Kid (First: Episode 4405)
Mr. MiCookie teaches "Cookie-san" the art of "Biscotti Karate," though Cookie has a hard time focusing.
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SR: For School Readiness | |||
Les Mousserables (First: Episode 4411)
Cookie, as "Jean Bon-Bon," learns how to identify the feelings of his fellow French friends by the way they look and act.
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ME: For Mixed Emotions | |||
The Hungry Games: Catching Fur (First: Episode 4414)
"Cookie-ness Evereat" must finish food patterns to complete the Hungry Games. Other characters include Pita, Finicky and Wired.
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G: For Games | |||
Lord of the Crumbs (First: Episode 4415)
Cookie plays "Gobble," who must stay patient as he tries to remember the recipe for the "one dessert to rule them all."
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DG: For Delayed Gratification | |||
The Life of Whoopie Pie (First: Episode 4417)
Cookie Monster uses strategies to help control his desire to eat a boat made of cookies.
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ST: For Self Talk | |||
Season 45 | ||||
Picture | Description | Rating | ||
Star S'mores (First: Episode 4504)
Cookie, starring as "Flan Solo," struggles to not eat his partner, a sentient cookie named "Chewie". Grover makes a special featured appearance as "Groda" (a parody of Yoda, who like Grover, was originated by Frank Oz).
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SC: For Self-Control | |||
Twilight: Breaking Cookie (First: Episode 4505)
Cookie, as "Shortbreadward," must keep his "yumpire" urges under control to marry Belly.
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SC: For Self-Control | |||
The Cookie of Oz (First: Episode 4508)
Cookie Monster creates a memory strategy to find his way to the cookie of Oz.
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WM: For Working Memory | |||
Furry Potter and the Goblet of Cookies (First: Episode 4509)
Cookie must complete challenges brought upon by Professor Crumblemore.
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LTD: For Listen To Directions | |||
Nosh of the Titans (First: Episode 4510)
Cookie Monster is going to meet his father Zeus, but must make it past Moo-dusa first.
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MG: For Memory Games | |||
When Cookie Met Sally (First: Episode 4513)
Sally teaches Cookie Monster strategies to help him wait his turn in line.
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WYT: For Waiting Your Turn | |||
The Aveggies (First: Episode 4525)
Cookie Monster, as Dr. Brownie, must focus to destroy Bon Bon's cookie ship.
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F: For Focus | |||
Jurassic Cookie (First: Episode 4526)
Cookie's grandkids give him strategies to relax when they are on the run from a giant prehistoric cookie.
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SC: For Self-Control |
Posters[]
To promote the segments, Sesame Street’s official social media accounts creates posters for the fictional films in the segments.
Credits[]
- Executive Producer: Carol-Lynn Parente
- Supervising Producer: Nadine Zylstra
- Coordinating Producer: April Chadderdon
- Production Manager: Benjamin Lehmann
- Directors: Ken Diego, Joey Mazzarino, Scott Preston, Matt Vogel, Nadine Zylstra
- Head Writer: Joey Mazzarino
- Writers: Molly Boylan, Annie Evans, Christine Ferraro, Michael J. Goldberg, Emily Perl Kingsley, Luis Santeiro, Belinda Ward, John Weidman, Ed Valentine
- Voice of Announcer: Jonathan Cook
- Muppets of Sesame Street: Pam Arciero, Fran Brill, Tyler Bunch, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Bruce Connelly, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Eric Jacobson, John Kennedy, Peter Linz, Joey Mazzarino, Carmen Osbahr, Martin P. Robinson, David Rudman, Matt Vogel
- Puppets, Costumes and Props: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- Music Director: Bill Sherman
- Music Director (Arrangements and Orchestrations): Joe Fiedler
- Music Director (Vocals): Paul Rudolph
- Composers: Eli Bolin, Joe Fiedler, Bill Sherman, Michael Aarons
- Music Copyist: Joe Fiedler
- Sesame Street Band: Randy Cohen, Michael Croiter, Johny Deley, Doug Derryberry, Joe Fielder, Rob Jost, Gary Meyer, Kenny Rampton, Loren Toolajian, Anja Wood, Antoine Silverman
- Vice President of Education and Research: Rosemarie Truglio
- Special Thanks: Definition 6, Magnetic Dreams
- Taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios
Sources[]
- ↑ Sesame Street: Making Learning a Funny Affair, October 17, 2014.
- ↑ Below the Frame EP#20: Joey Mazzarino/"Tall Shoes"/Not Puppets (John Kennedy) (01:07:27)