Intoning from inside a cavernous stomach, the swallowed-up machine announces it will self-destruct, and the scene reaches its finale in the tradition of so much cartoon slapstick, “KABOOM!”. The beverage dispenser blathers about each shiny feature -imagine if the fussiest Keurig could introduce itself -just as the monster shovels them down his fuzzy maw.
Titled Coffee Break Machine, the 2.5-minute clip introduces a toothier beta version of Cookie Monster, who slavers at the gadgets on a computer-driven, talking coffeemaker voiced by a monotone Henson. In 1967, two years before Sesame Street hit the PBS airwaves, the woolly blue slouch debuted in a corporate film Jim Henson directed for IBM.
Untitled Apple commercial for television (2016)īefore he trained his appetite to edible fare, Cookie Monster devoured computers.
