Sunday, September 28, 2014

Me, Cookie Monster

(Based upon the movie: I, Frankenstein)

We see the Cookie Monster in a barren, future hellscape, and he relates to us what he has been through, beginning: “Me brought into world loving cookies, but obesity epidemic made mankind crazy, banning cookies. They called me a monster because me love cookies. Without cookies, mankind was doomed. But me learn how to make cookies: that how me became strong.” (Cookies for the Cookie Monster are like spinach is to Popeye.)

The Cookie Monster finds himself in a war between two opposing factions: demons who want everyone to eat devil’s food cake, and government health nuts who want everyone to eat tofu and veggies. Both sides try to win him over, but Cookie Monster wants only to eat cookies, so they seek to destroy him. But, with his stash of cookies, whenever any group tries to defeat him, Cookie Monster gets his burst of cookie energy and wipes them all out.

Then, the demons decide that if only they could get the Cookie Monster to show them how to make cookies out of devil’s food cake, perhaps they could conquer the world with their savory goodness, especially with a children’s TV show character to act as an emissary to the children, and through their nagging, lead the world into junk food addiction once again. But our heroic Cookie Monster wants none of it, wanting only his own homemade cookie recipe. And so the demons attack Cookie Monster, but with his arsenal of delicious cookies to give him energy and strength, he defeats the demons and their devil’s food agenda.

Finally, having defeated everyone, Cookie Monster muses about how the devil’s food cake wasn’t all that bad, but it would have been better as a cookie. Also, he wonders why oatmeal and raisin cookies are not acceptable to the health bullies, seeing as how they are made of healthy ingredients. But oh well, they would not be flexible enough to permit our hero to have his cookies, not even only sometimes, and so now they are destroyed by their own fascist dietary stance, and, of course, by our hero, the Cookie Monster, and his loyalty to cookies.